Normandy 44

[Plain Ian]

I think N44 might be broken. I last played N44 in 2009. My friend and I just started a new campaign. After a few turns I noticed he was infiltrating my lines with Comandos and Rangers. This was not possible in older versions. It makes it impossible for the Germans to hold a line anywhere. The allied player can infiltrate any gap with his special force units (there are many such units) and then move zoc to zoc with all his other Regular units once he has occupied the hex with the special forces.

I reiterate this was not possible in earlier versions. So I checked the change log/patch notes. Turns out (and I overlooked the ramifications of this change at the time for N44). Here is the change:

Changes for Normandy '44 1.12
    - Change so that Partisans and Commandos can move from one enemy ZOC to another.

I am not sure when patch 1.12 was released for Normandy but is must have been after 2009 when I last played N44. So easy fix is a HR to ban such movements in N44.

But as it stands the campaign game for N44 is pretty much unplayable with rules as written. The German cannot create solid continuous lines in the early days so he has no chance to hold anywhere (not even at Omaha) and if he does try to stand his ground he will be quickly cut off and isolated by the infiltrating special forces.

An alternative option might be to go into the OOB file and change the type flag from commando type to ordinary foot type. A bit tricky as you can't just do a Find and Replace All but will have to manually change each unit. 
If you do this then the units won't be able to do other things that Commando's are allowed to do in the game such as -



and



However the units will not move ZOC to non ZOC. 

How you do this I'm not 100% sure. My guess is you change the parameters in yellow below......



to this 




I'm sure Green will be along shortly to correct things if I've got this all wrong.........