Queston about making my own scenarios

[Ricky B]

Hi Aragorn

Welcome to the Blitz.

Yes, you can easily create a new OOB in any of the PzC games, and grab unit images, and other stuff from other games. Presumably, you will have new unit types in the later dated game, although maybe not too many. In order to use the new unit types for multiple units, you need to save the unit type after setting up the new type for a unit. The Ok button will simply add the unit to the OOB, using Save, it will save the unit type details and make it available for further use.

If you are starting with essentially no allied units on map, as I would expect, then it is easy to remove all of the German units. To do so, open your source scenario file in an editor like Notepad or Wordpad. Look for the lines near the beginning starting with 1 ….. These will be near the top of the file, after header type information. Here is an example:

France_Holland_Inundations.map
France_Prucha.oob
France_Prucha.pdt
1 2 316 105190 16 16 208 0 0 64 0
1 2 319 105119 16 16 504 0 0 16777280 0 105120 105121 105122 -1
1 3 317 105188 16 16 208 0 0 64 0
1 3 317 105189 16 8 208 0 0 64 0
…..
1 427 385 163408 16 16 546 0 0 16777280 0 163409 163410 -1
1 427 386 123595 32 32 546 0 0 16777280 0 123596 123597 -1
2 1940 5 10 4 100 0 0 1 242 45 1
145138 1 1 95 0 0 0 0
2 1940 5 10 4 100 0 0 1 226 56 1
145135 1 1 190 0 0 0 0

There are a few more lines before the text lines above, but this will get you to the correct point. You want to delete all of the lines that start with the 1 information, and stop at the 2 …. lines. This will delete all of the on map units. Save the file back - be sure the extension doesn't change, or manually rename the file back to end with scn.

Also, be sure to save your scenario with a different name - otherwise you won't be able to share with others without them losing the default version, and also an update to the game could overwrite your version.

Rick