[buuface]

Agreed about the MMG.

Regarding disbanded groups not returning. I can't confirm yet whether that happens or not. If it does that's a very serious bug.

I believe the mod should be played with Morale off because the allied attack depends on momentum, getting off the beaches and getting as far inland as possible before Gerry stabilizes the front-line with his elite troops. Allies must maintain the strategic initiative.

If morale is on, Gerry can simply sacrifice a portion of his troops and cause the battle to end early. Using this tactic could delay the allies at least once maybe more on each map where a static group exits.

[stiener]

i agree about momentum....im on the wrong end of that stick right now. im playing with morale ON.
you can get delayed a turn or 2 by morale failure easy, and thats not even with your opponent master minding it.  

i dont think disbanding is a bug. see section 15.4... pg 49... morale failure, section 17.7 retreat and 17.8 disbanding.. pg 57 in the LSA game manual.

Cathartes...can you shed some light on this?

[Cathartes]

[stiener]

thanks for the reply Cathartes  

im 99% sure that in LSA you CANNOT reinforce using the reinforce button. i havent seen any reinforce button in the 2 or 3 GC's i have going on in LSA. so unless u actually put the reinforce button in on the allied Ind Arm Bde's in your mod, i think were SOL .....so to speak.
i would recommend you look into it if you have the chance tho i might be wrong, but i dont think so.

i am under the impression that in LSA reinforcments are built into the BG"s time line....if your in supply, you get reinforcements based on a historical time line for the historical GC.
just like the allied BG's that hit the beachs in your mod ...on day 2 they get men and equipment as reinforcements to there force pool.

i know for sure the german BG's got more equipment and men and slots in some cases, as the stock LSA GC progressed.

what about the Vickers MMG Cathartes? would you agree we could have that availible in the infantry slots and not the support slots?  

[MarkM]

Ouch.....need to confirm asap about reinforce button...without it, GC is unplayable.

I agree tanks are having a hard time hitting things, including the proverbial side of a barn.
I hear your response to this as being experience related. But it sure makes life harder for the allies who cannot advance
without their tanks taking out the German Inf.

Making this even worse is the game engine difficulty in spotting the enemy troops. Making life even harder for the allies.

Also, please check the German SPG, I think its the 105 mm. The German MK4 and the Sherman have approximately same Rate of Fire,
it appears to me, but when the 105 shoots it looks to reload much faster than both of those.

Great work and appreciate that  this is a beta and there will be inevitable bugs.

[stiener]

i had a crash tonite when i had my airstrike hit bayeux in a battle. allied air strike. im host. 1st one ive seen.

[Aetius]

[quote="Cathartes";p="70092"]Nikn: please comment, I'm not clear what you're saying with one picture.

Aetius:  don't know about the trench--that's a new one.  I didn't change the order of the terrain file at all.  I wonder if this ever happened in LSA?  The solution here is for me to get rid of this graphic in the terrain file, or it's a mistake in the elements file.

Hi Cathartes,
I did a quick test in stock LSA and the gunpits and trenches both have a white edge, the weird thing is that this only happens on the border of maps, gunpits or trenches anywhere else on the map are OK.

Another ting i've noticed is that even with the "Recycle Disbanded BGs" on 1 and "BGs retreat on rout" on 1 it seems they are not returning the next day.
I would suspect with these 2 parameters on 1 that routed BG's are retreating to the nearest map in frendly hands when in supply.

In the campaign file i found another parameter who also might have something to do with this behaviour:

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# BGs that start on a friendly depot map can only reform on maps linked to starting map by friendly depots
1
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Does this mean if the start map of that BG is in enemy hands it can't reform after being routed?

[KilovskimkIII]

This might have been flagged already. On the Tailleville map, the Humber SC team of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, on the soldier screen for the crew, they have German uniforms!

[Cathartes]

[Aetius]

I am now nearing the end of a singelplayer GC as allies and i had expected to fight the retreated German BG's on the german supply depot maps at the start of each new day, they did't appear. ("Recycle Disbanded BGs" on 1 and "BGs retreat on rout" on 1).
Then i "switched sides" and started playing as the germans on the same GC (using the save game editor tool), on the start of a new day no previously routed german BG's appeared.

Am i the only one who sees this behaviour?

[MarkM]

Hi Aetius,

Can you confirm if the reinforce option becomes available to the allies?

[Aetius]

Hi MarkM,

The reinforce button mentioned earlier doesn't show but i think reinforcements become available in the FP of a BG if certain conditions are met.
But i can't cofirm that with facts.

[Tejszd]

Looked at bgroups.txt and very few BG's have the reinforcement option enabled.

And even for these keep in mind that the button will only appear if reinforcement adds new units or increases the quantity of existing units.

[stiener]

Gents
i am 3 days into the H2H GC as allies. i have not at this point seen the reinforce button on any allied BG's. but i have seen just about all my allied BG's get reinforcments to there forcepools. not the independant arm BDE's and not the special service BDE but all the rest of the BG's i believe.

so if we dont have the reinforce button Cathartes, do the allies get more reinforcements late in the GC as the GC progress's? or is this now, it?

im assuming that the germans dont get any reinforcments for the forcepools except for the some in 21 pz BG's that Cathartes alludes to in the read me file?? can anyone confirm this?

I sure am enjoying this mod Cathartes...very cool. with morale on..the germans are damn tough to push back. i think i would try the GC with morale off next time, but still not sure about what overall effects on the GC Disbanding will have. see earlier post on this.

[Cathartes]

Glad you're enjoying the campaign (H2H I might add, as it was intended).

As the campaign is designed right now, the only Allied BGs that get the reinforce option/button are the Independent Armored Brigades.  Reinforcements trickle in for some Allied BGs, but otherwise, what you get is what you get.  The Germans are outnumbered overall, so thought this might be a bit more balanced approach for both players.  Your campaign could prove me wrong.  Germans get no reinforcements except for a few early BGs whose forces build up over a course of a few days.  I think a few tanks trickle in for the Germans as well (maybe a dozen total for all BGs?--can't remember exactly).

The next version of GJS will have the option for disbanded BGs to return the next day.  Let me know if BGs can't retreat onto a friendly map where they have an existing connection leading to.

[stiener]

hi cathartes
i have seen a couple of german BG's retreat to a friendly map after a morale defeat.

[Granfali]

Argggg!!! 00:00 bug again.  

Two times during the last two days. Too much for us... campaign is over. I thought with LSA that old bug was gone but I see I was wrong!!!

[KilovskimkIII]

Problem with Ranville map in GC.
Hi,
Someone else might have brought this up already..... I'm playing a Grand Campaign as the Allies. Allies at Elite level and Germans at Recruit, Germans always obey orders box ticked. 15 minutes per battle. Fighting a battle on the Ranville map. 10th of June @7am. Fighting with 5th Para BDE/6th AB against II./125 21. Panzerdivison. The Game freezes, can't do anything about it.  

[Cathartes]

[Cathartes]