Atheory's Project: PzB-Normandy Campaign

[Ocito80]

Well, I never see an error pop up until I load a file. That means I already previously saved it. No backups. I chalk it up to impatience. Like I said, I have to review my process. But where there is failure, there is also growth.

[Ocito80]

I managed to trace back to two mistakes that led to the setback. With that said, I'm progressing forward with a renewed perspective. The OOB is already reworked, with even more excess units of no importance trimmed away. How I was handling the WN units has been tweaked a little. I've begun placing the Allied units by reverse engineering the stock beach landing scenarios, and will expand from there.

[Ocito80]

Just a little update - All 5 beaches have the june 6 initial waves scheduled. The allied airborne divisions are placed, as are most relevant German Wn. The Wn have been tweaked in what I hope will add just a pinch more flavor.

I don't really know the time allied units landed ashore after june 6. The date is easy enough, but did they arrive morning, evening, midnight etc.etc. is a bit trickier. So from here on out that will be just guess work. I will use PzC Normandy scenario to help with this process. While I come up with a game plan for the rest of the allied units, I will start placing the Axis Units.

[Ocito80]

Update Time - 99% of axis units that start on the map have been placed. I fell down the rabbit hole of trying to uncover more information about the cherbourg landfront. However, specifics regarding individual positions are difficult to find. Only around 10% of the positions have I been able to find usable information on. One thing I was able to deduce, not all positions included some type of Anti-tank gun.

75% of german reinforcements have been scheduled thus far.

Party on wayne, party on garth!

[Ocito80]

Sadly, it doesn't look like the mega-scenario is possible. As the scenario file size reaches around 267kb, what looks like a memory issue arises, making the ability to navigate around pbedit impossible.

[Strela]

Sadly, it doesn't look like the mega-scenario is possible. As the scenario file size reaches around 267kb, what looks like a memory issue arises, making the ability to navigate around pbedit impossible.

Let me have a look. I have never run into a memory issue to date. I’ll see how large I can go to.

[Ocito80]

Sadly, it doesn't look like the mega-scenario is possible. As the scenario file size reaches around 267kb, what looks like a memory issue arises, making the ability to navigate around pbedit impossible.

Let me have a look. I have never run into a memory issue to date. I’ll see how large I can go to.

I've included my current scenario to assist with troubleshooting

[berto]

When I load your PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob into pboob.exe, I get this error:

  BONAtheoryBug1.JPG (Size: 21.54 KB / Downloads: 2)

Confirmed in the Logs/error.log file:

rober@B10Trto /cygdrive/r/Temp/Logs
$ cat error.log
2020-08-24 20:51:31 pboob.exe: [ERROR ID 1000] (Window.cpp, line 259, XCWindow::ReadFile()) C:\Games\John Tiller Software\Battles of Normandy\Data\PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob file data error, at or before line 1059

This is more or less the identical error I get when I try loading up the scenario in pbedit.exe.  Both errors point to line 1059 in the PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob file.

Inspecting the PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob file:

...
        B 17678 1 Füs-Btl 185
          Begin
          P. 32715 5 Stab Füs-Btl 185, HQ Fusilier Bn (mot)
          C 17679 1 1/Füs-Btl 185
            Begin
            P. 32716 4 1./1/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            P. 32717 4 2./1/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            P. 32718 4 3./1/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            End
          C 17680 1 2/Füs-Btl 185
            Begin
            P. 32720 4 1./2/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            P. 32721 4 2./2/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            P. 32722 4 3./2/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            End
          C 17681 1 3/Füs-Btl 185
            Begin
            P. 32724 4 1./3/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            P. 32725 4 2./3/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            P. 32726 4 3./3/Füs-Btl 185, 44 Gren zug (rad)
            End
          C 17682 3 4/Füs-Btl 185
            Begin
            P. 32728 4 1./4/Füs-Btl 185, 8cm GrW 34 zug (hs)
            P. 32729 4 2./4/Füs-Btl 185, 8cm GrW 34 zug (hs)
            P. 32730 4 1./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)
            P. 52081 4 2./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)  [line 1059]
            P. 52082 4 3./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)
            P. 52083 4 4./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)
            P. 52084 4 5./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)
            P. 52085 4 6./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)
            End
          End
...

For some reason I have been unable to determine, the data reads go bad at the line

P. 32730 4 1./Füs-Btl 185, MG gruppe (RAD)

Quick suggestion:  Should the all-caps 'RAD' perhaps be lower-case 'rad'?  (Maybe it doesn't matter.  I don't know the system, or your data, well enough to say for sure.)  Or?

Are these helpful clues?

[Ocito80]

Berto, did you place the oob file in the data folder? I want to say you didn't, because the 185 fus btl is the first unit to have the MG gruppe unit which is why you got that location error first.

[berto]

Berto, did you place the oob file in the data folder?

Yes, I believe so.

rober@B10Trto /cygdrive/c/Games/John Tiller Software/Battles of Normandy/Data
$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/Temp/Atheory_Scenario/PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob
-rwx------+ 1 rober          rober 1354019 Aug 24 19:47 /cygdrive/c/Temp/Atheory_Scenario/PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob
-rwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators rober 1354019 Aug 24 19:47 PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob

The PBNormandy_Campaign_New.oob file that I placed in the game Data folder I got from the .zip file you posted.