Patch?

[Strela]

First of all, I want to thank the developers for their excellent work. It is one of the most enjoyable wargame I ever played. Could developers be so kind to tell us the details about the upcoming patch and, most importantly, the time of its release? Maybe beta version? Thank you!

We have a lot of things to test on the new patch and are loath to rush it out.

There are two primary areas that we are working on;

Armor vs armor actions and multi-player scenarios.

As you can imagine, testing multiplayer scenarios takes a lot longer than via the AI.

That said, we could release some preliminary versions of scenarios here at the Blitz for the wider community to try if there is enough interest.

Here is an example of the changelog for that old chestnut scenario #0704_01 Gertsovka

This is for the multi-player version.

• Additional AI hold orders included
• All Soviet units begin in fixed status.
• +2 turns to 12 turns long
• VP’s dropped by 10 for each victory level
• New supply source in NE corner
• Supply source in (5,4) removed


It may end up that we will pick a date such as end of summer and release what we have.

As far as the armor testing, we are trying quite a few variables and its interesting to gauge the losses over time vs historical rates. What we are finding is that the current in game settings are creating loss results close to reality. Boosting hard attack values and other tweaks such as range attenuation is really increasing the casualties. That said everyone is expecting a few Tigers to be superhuman like and that is proving hard to do without screwing up other values. One area we are finding that makes a big difference is visibility. Unlimited defensive fire results in many more shots from the big guns with a higher chance to knock out or disrupt a unit. Less visibility allows swarm tactics to be much more effective.

Trust me we need time to test the values we are playing with so we don't tip the game in the wrong direction.

David