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RoyalBengalTiger

I know, I'm only doing big edits to Poland. And even then I try to limit the scope to a couple days per unit type, a lot of which is replacing icons for vehicles. I have infantry, AT, AA, DP, tanks all done in the first iteration, then I'll revisit and check for mistakes, but that should be quicker....

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UPDATE: I'm mostly done with infantry. No more marine special forces. There was a regular marine infantry battalion though, so regular marines exist. The marine infantry battalion had sapper unit. This unit was added to the efile. National guard renamed (gwardia narodowa -> obrona narodowa). This is...

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Update: Finding bugs such as the 100 mm Canet having the same range as the 100 mm wz 14/19, even though it had 4 km more range in reality... Then the Ur had an HA of 7, while the PIAT had 6, even though the PIAT can drill through much thicker armor. These are important, because Poland got PIATs deli...

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Wow, 50th post, 10 000 views. This one is special. I'll make this one with something cute. Ciągnik PZInż 322 https://dobroni.pl/static/files/gallery/143/565603_23791.jpg Seen here with bridging: https://dobroni.pl/static/files/gallery/143/565603_8497.jpg Seen here with the barrel of the 155 mm wz 40...

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I found a missing a gun in Gustlik's efile that existed in reality. This is very, very rare. I'm working on the 25TP's stats, and it was to use the 75 mm wz. 22 originally. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Dzialo_75_mm_Bateria_plot._Hel.jpg So, I looked over at the AT guns to see ...

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I never thought this would make such a big topic with so many answers, all of which are different, and all of which are correct.... Even if I set the keyboard to Polish, Gustlik's campaign still has the wonky symbols. I'll have the unitpedia and the campaign briefings/debriefings in both languages. ...

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Sins of a Solar Empire - and I much recommend it (open the screenshots in a new tab to see the full glory). https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2483264091729401038/A247B010EC5E37F538A0BDFEBD3F111CDCBD7DF3/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&lett...

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Follow up sort of... Polish letters, such as ąęśćż do not seem to work. Use closest one in the normal alphabet, or is there a way to fix it? I'm at the stage of building the unitpedia and will very soonly need to write descriptions for scenarios in the campaign... Gustlik's file shows a lot of odd c...

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I'm working on EquipIcons. I found Gustlik's file already has a bunch of icons not listed on the OG icon search. I guess it'll just have to be a whole package of the equipment file to go with the campaign. Then all y'all can add the ones I made to the official database, and/or modify them to make th...

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Found it! Thanks.

Time to add a bunch of things to the EquipIcons.

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New question...

The icons have descriptions when viewing in the modding tools.

How do I add these descriptions to icons in the icon tool?

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Greetings all, update. I put about 50 new icons into the EFile. Now I'm getting the unit stats to work. Gustlik's file will get chopped up a bit, as there are some vehicles that did not have an existing chassis, so that's my cutoff in terms of realism. The best that would remain is for example the 2...

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Greetings all, Sorry for not posting much recently, was out traveling and then had to go back to work while sleeping 4 hrs a day due to time zone differences. Anyways... Not much of an icons or anything update, but rather some research that I did. I'm revising the 14TP a bit, Poland used the 37 mm B...

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Alright, so what are the special traits? Is there a list somewhere? And yes, this is how it was done in Gustlik's efile. I'm already done doing some changes, but I'd like to know the reasons why some things are done a certain way before doing more changes... I'll read the Polish forums too when I ge...

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UPDATE: The PZInż Lux Sport: 3,8 liter V8 engine, 96 HP, top speed of 135 km/h (84 MPH for those who prefer freedom units). https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasshan.com%2Fmedia%2Fimage%2F1e%2F38%2Fe3%2Fac06036-autocult-pzinz-403-luxsport-1936-polen_2.jpg&f=1&no...

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Next question - why are machine gun infantry units commonly classified as anti-tank?
They often have just 1 point of hard attack...

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Greetings all! Just a small update to show this project is progressing. I'm busy working through the efile - basing off Gustlik's. There is a lot of equipment that seems to be missing, the 202 and 222 half tracks - along with their variants - do not feature much. There is also a lot of fictional veh...

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Sort of an update... Before the forums crashed, I made a post about PZInz 303. The car had a 45 HP engine, up from the 25 HP on the most modern version of the Wz 34 armored car. There was a project to make the 303 into an armored scout: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvcd...

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Yeah, I'm looking through it and there will be Vilnius and a couple of others that used to be in Poland but are currently not.

This will take a while to write a storyline in detail and put all the maps in sequence, and then set the battles up.

I'll write something if I'm stuck.

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Small little update... The 25TP had a commander's cupola in some renderings. The cast turret version with the 90 and the 105 have been updated to match this. The welded turret and the cast turret with the 75 mm will stay as they were, with periscopes only (although those are less than a pixel, so th...

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OK, thanks.
90 maps for Poland, that is an amazing collection.

I have info to get going without getting stuck probably.
This will be fun.

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Just found out that http://www.open-general.com/mapx.php does not seem to have the map search working...
Can anyone check what's going on?

I got to the point where I need to load a map, but I got stuck because I can't make my map collection for the campaign.

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I also don't have enemy spotted territory marked. I do look how far they can see (especially radar or observation posts) and I try to guesstimate how far to stay away. Having too many icons over the map just takes away from immersion. Contrary to the original game, the various long sight range units...

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Greetings all,

Is there any tutorials out there how to use the editor to make a campaign?
I'm starting from scratch here, so something that shows which buttons to press to load a map, to place units on the map, turns, prestige, events (new units showing up on map, etc).... would be very helpful.

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So here's a high res of the 25TP with the twin 40 Bofors AA tank: https://i.ibb.co/xMfqngX/25-tp-40-render-1.png https://i.ibb.co/VSxJ727/25-tp-40-render-2.png And this is the 25TP 105 mm wz. 30: https://i.ibb.co/pRFG4YQ/25-tp-105-render-1.png https://i.ibb.co/C9wNkpn/25-tp-105-render-2.png https://...

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Feature request - Submarines should be able to go below surface ships, using the same logic as airplanes go above ground units. Currently I can prevent a sub from getting away by surrounding it with landing craft. Bonus points if this capability cannot be used in shallow ocean (shallow sea?) terrain.

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Testing, testing.... Seems like the last few posts are missing, or is it just me? I thought it was 2 pages. Anyways, while the forum was down, I was working a bit. I found out that there were a couple 105 mm guns used to defend Hel (one 'L', not two). This was the Dutch battery, the guns were called...

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I'll do edits and fixes when I get through the last few. These ones are more difficult due to having to touch up each one for radio antennas, AA machine guns, the gun barrel sticks out a lot, so they take more time to complete. Then there's the fact that it's a bit harder to stitch together the fron...

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OK, I checked how it's made in LXF and I see how it works, thanks!

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https://i.ibb.co/4RzL72Z/BT017.png 25TP-D. 100 mm main gun, as I was writing before, this would be a French delivered surplus gun. https://i.ibb.co/xDPgfCg/BT018.png I had to actually shorten the barrel a bit in a couple frames to make it fit, and also it is larger than some big guns, but then the ...

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Howdy all y'all,

How do you get this to work?

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Alright, I figured out a thing or two. Poland purchased 75 mm AA guns from France, these were for coastal defense originally, but then were to be adopted to be the main gun of the 25TP. They then started building their own 75 mm L/50. They purchased a license to produce and made their own modificati...

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Update: https://i.ibb.co/K9pbcX0/BT015.png 25TP, as designed. 75 mm L/50 main gun, armor 40 to 60 mm, 300 HP engine. https://i.ibb.co/98VVvLZ/BT016.png 25TP wzm - hypothetical upgrade using the 7TP to 7TP wzm (aka 9TP) upgrade as precedence. 90 mm L/50 gun, 50 to 80 mm armor and 400 HP engine. Then ...

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And another update. Almost done with the PZInz tracked vehicles... I'll be back with those either later today or maybe tomorrow. Then I'll do the 7TP AA (twin 20 FK-A) and assault gun (Schneider 75). This one will need a hull model, so it will take a bit, or I'll just Frankenstein a couple existing ...

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I now present the 14TP-H (haubica = howitzer). 105mm wz 29 armed SPG, an overgrown TKD on the 14-tonner's chassis. https://i.ibb.co/Gch3Y3G/BT014.png This marks all vehicles on this chassis, except maybe for an artillery tractor (it would be called C14P, there is a need for a 300 HP tractor as the C...

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https://i.ibb.co/tM6pJPM/BT013.png 14TP-DS (działo szturmowe = assault gun). This is the assault gun version armed with an adapted breach loading mortar, 120 mm caliber, to supplement the tank destroyer from the previous post. The chassis did exist, the gun did exist, but I do not know of any plans...

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Update.

The 14TP-D:

Hypothetical tank destroyer, the enlarged version of the PZInz 160, on the 14TP chassis, and armed with the 75mm gun that was planned for the 25TP.
Also, Hetzer.

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https://i.ibb.co/Wtv3PyT/BT009.png Had to do a bit of a touch up, updated twin 20 mm AA. I have a feeling I might revisit a couple icons a bit later when I know what I'm doing better. https://i.ibb.co/rZGVDFf/BT010.png This is the initial version of the 14TP. This was in reality a partially complet...

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And another update. Icons are actually quite inconsistent in size, so I'll just go by the convention that: Vehicles about 2m wide become 18px wide. Vehicles about 2.5m wide = 20px. Vehicles about 3m wide = 22px. This sort of works, and the 4TP family from before just so happened to scale down to 18 ...

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Update! First off, I hope nobody is using the previous icons yet, the 4TP family is about 10% larger on the icon than what it should be. I only found out now when I'm doing the 14TP family, which should come out a bit bigger, but is not by much. I'll have to do a cheap and dirty fix and just scale d...

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Alright, not more icons, but yes more archeology. As I wrote in the previous post, I was looking for how thick Poland could make armor plate in the '30s... Here's the answer: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.polskiekrajobrazy.pl%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fbig%2F87928IMG.jpg&a...

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That's pretty cool, I'll have to look into it at the next step. Anyways, PZInz 160 (oh BTW - since this gun carriage is on the same chassis as the 4TP, should it not be known as the 4TP-D, in analogy to the TKS-D and TKS?) 37 mm gun - this is as designed. https://i.ibb.co/0hQZhHc/BT006.png 65 mm ver...

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https://i.ibb.co/Cv1KJcQ/BT005.png https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F9oTP3bt.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=304150a931fb8562a5b08c12cab0dccac1e981d5a6c668916d813520f64f608f&ipo=images 4TP Doesn't float, but has both a 20 mm and a machine gun. Also this th...

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So, the 20 mm is like less than a pixel wide and I need to do some touch ups so that it's even visible at all.

That's the 20 mm equipped PZInz 130.

Now for the 4TP...

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PZInz 130. Swimming little tonk.
Version armed with a machine gun.

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https://i.ibb.co/Ld86S1L/BT002.png Say hello to the PZInz 152. It's a chassis shared with the 4TP, the swimming PZInz 130 and the PZInz 160 tank destroyer. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F83%2Fff%2Ff3%2F83fff30f0c15f4b74ed2a7bb1b641ab0.jpg&...

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An attempt at making this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bofors_40_mm_wz._36_Blyskawica_MWP_01.jpg/800px-Bofors_40_mm_wz._36_Blyskawica_MWP_01.jpg?20180803152306 ... on the 14TP: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2376280775173152350/065B3E7638DA93A99D55E8DA6850D7...

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https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2376280775157224586/C48487C25566760DA36E4E28C1F142D0EEBDCF92/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2376280775165053025/6CAE676A31D3801B7955381A8BA400A5...

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Howdy all y'all, Revision on the 14TP-H (haubica - howitzer). The 100 mm will be replaced by this 105 mm: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.odkrywca.pl%2Fuploads%2Fmonthly_2019_07%2F66579459_2388357314543288_1890036797107339264_n.jpg.28d9eb707809c81d56361f51419eccaf.j...

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Soon I mean right now. So I looked around again, with the 25TP being designed with the 75 mm AA gun, and then I noted that the 90 mm would fit as well so we have 2 versions - early and late... But what about a gun too big for a turret? Well... Nothing says "take your silly little tanks and go h...

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