Yet Another Secret Project - Page 3

Jimmywax · August 9, 2001, 17:07

I tried to play the new version yesterday and it makes my game crash. Has anyone else had this problem? Can someone send me a version that works?

P.S. the Game.txt file in the zip won't transfer right when I unzip it.

Jimmywax · August 13, 2001, 02:03

I am guessing by the limited number of responses (0).

That I am the only one to have this problem.

I guess to clarify, the game.txt file will unzip right to any part of my hard drive except for where I need it. When I put it in the scenario folder, the computer tells me that it does not exist. Does anyone have a clue about how to help me.

H Tower · August 13, 2001, 06:31

email scot, he can probably tell you what went wrong, or he can send it to you again

Scott F · August 13, 2001, 17:49

I have never seen anything like that before. The problem might be with your hard drive (a bad sector maybe? I dunno). Try downloading the scenario again and try unzipping it. If that doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you to do. None of the other playtesters have complained about anything like that before.

I'm currently addicted to Case's The Cruel Sea and have been putting off work with The Great War while I play it. I'm going to incorporate the last playtester comments and hopefully convert the scenario into a series of versions, one for each playable side.

Would anyone be interested in attempting a multiplayer game of this some evening?

Jimmywax · August 14, 2001, 02:01

I believe that I am going to have to have you send me the link again. I recently cleaned out my E-mail.

Jimmywax · August 20, 2001, 02:12

Here is my rough A7V. I worked on it all night after I got off of work today. I am not quite happy with the tracks yet though.

Just so you didn't think I forgot.

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:23

*drools*

I see only one problem with that one though. The sides slope too much. Anything else can be fixed with a little minor tweaking.

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:34

Speaking of tweaking and unit drawing, I've done a few Nemo-style ships and a zeppelin, but I'm not sure whether I'll use them in the scenario or not. The playtesters have seen the previous units, so I guess I will do a straw poll and see if they like the new units or the old ones best.

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:38

A zeppelin...

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:39

SS Carmania in Cunard livery...

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:41

HMS Carmania (historically later outfitted as an auxiliary cruiser) decked out in wartime gray...

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:43

USS Cushing, a WWI destroyer...

Turtledove fans might like to know that the USS Ericcson was a real ship, and was one of the Cushing class.

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:45

USS St Louis, a WWI first class cruiser...

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 01:47

And last but not least, the last of the Kaiser's dreadnoughts (and of the only class comparable to the British Queen Elizabeths), SMS Bayern...

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 02:06

Also, Jimmy, I think on more thought (and testing the graphic in the game) that the slope of the sides will be fine after all.

I'm going to be busy the next few days moving into college. When I get settled in, I will have a few days before classes start to recolor the final tanks/barrels to add camouflage and then to see which type of ships you all like better.

Case · August 21, 2001, 02:44

I'm really going to have to find a copy of MGE...

Case · August 21, 2001, 07:21

BTW, here's some WW1 style ships that The ANZAC made me but I didn't end up using in the Cruel Sea.

The ANZAC · August 21, 2001, 09:26

Case: thanks for free publicity for my units, though the USS Oklahoma is only Nemo's

Scott: those ships look great! I especially like the destoyers. As a matter of fact I was having trouble designing the WWI style destroyers and the main mast for the Royal Sovereign class. The way you drew these units might give me help in fixing the Royal Sovereign still.

The ANZAC · August 21, 2001, 09:35

Scott: Have you made any other scenarios? I remember awhile ago you put 'Victoria' up for playtest. When can we expect this Turtledove scenario to be ready for disitribution?

The ANZAC · August 21, 2001, 10:24

Finally I think I have made THE definitive Royal Sovereign class (case if you want to use it or anyone else for that matter, feel free) I always seem to have problems drawing the pole mast type on early battleships. Also does anyone have know how to draw the cage style mast of early US battleships like the Maryland, Arkansas, and New York? Thanks.

Jimmywax · August 21, 2001, 10:38

Bravo gentlemen, Bravo !!!

Scott: I was wondering if you were going to include the Bayern. I was also wondering if you were going to include the (spelling?

) Bluetcher.

Jimmywax · August 21, 2001, 10:42

I see what you mean by the sides being sloped too much. I will see what I can do. Also, do you have any suggestions for the tracks?

Scott F · August 21, 2001, 19:37

I liked the first Royal Sovereign better. I don't like how Nemo did the guns on the Oklahoma, so I used the turrets from the South Dakota and modified them. I think it gives a better overall effect. After playing The Cruel Sea for a while, I messed around and made an alternate Bismark and an alternate Sharnhorst. When I get back to my computer later this week I'll post them.

The Bayern will likely appear as the dreadnought unit, sans the Imperial German War Ensign shield (which I drew in just for the heck of it). I have no plans for the moment of including battlecruisers (or unusually large armored cruisers, which is what Blücher was, if memory serves) in the scenario. I simply don't have enough unit slots or I would. I'll do good to get the Polish Infantry, Quebecois Infantry, and Russian revolutionaries to fit.

I gave up on the Victoria scenario because I couldn't get it to work quite the way that I wanted it to. I may yet work some more on it after this is over, before I move on to secret project #2, the Reemergence of the Vanquished. At the moment though, I am preoccupied with college stuff. With luck I will have time to finish up on the Turtledove one later this week (going to do events and rules files for each nation save the neutrals and Russia). Walt Disney once said something about how when he finished a movie, it was done forever and he couldn't change it, but with Disneyland he could keep tweaking with it and changing things for as long as he wanted. I'm sort of that way with scenarios. Every time I playtest it myself I change something.

On the matter of A7V tracks, I suggest that you check how Nemo did his wonderful Mark IV (which someone posted earlier in this thread, I think).

Jimmywax · August 23, 2001, 00:30

I didn't know if you were still looking for airplanes or not, but here are three that I found and two that I made.

I am not quite happy with the red baron yet though, the wing looks crooked.

Scott F · August 23, 2001, 02:09

Yeah, I am still looking for airplanes. I don't know what kinds exactly though. I have no sources on specific WWI aircraft.

About the only ones I know of have been gleamed from the Turtledove books...

Curtiss Super Hudson pusher biplane
Avro 504 biplane
Wright 17 biplane
Fokker monoplane
Sopwith Pup biplane
German Albatross biplane