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by randowe
2025-10-28 19:53, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: MAPS: Number reservations
Replies: 116
Views: 92296

Re: MAPS: Number reservations

Hello Doc :howdy

I'd like to book 5 more numbers please. 1603-1607. Thank you :yes
by randowe
2025-10-28 19:11, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Anglo-Soviet Invasion At HQ I upgraded one tank and downgraded two SPAT. My two Dicker Max SPATs are outdated and it is cheaper to downgrade them into better units. Especially the missing armor made them very vulnerable. My Panzerpioniere got fast builder attachments, so they could repair the airfi...
by randowe
2025-10-28 11:32, Tuesday
Forum: Open General
Topic: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.10.27.1 ( 28-Oct-2025)
Replies: 755
Views: 1580280

Re: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.10.27.0 ( 27-Oct-2025)

[*]Recon attachment now makes any unit to move phased I also don't understand what that means :huh Could you elaborate on this please. Going by what is written I understand that the recon attachment that adds +x hex spotting also adds recon movement to any unit on player and AI side now? If this wo...
by randowe
2025-10-26 23:51, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Jassy-Kishinev Operation At HQ I upgraded another tank and another three infantries. The opening turns were challenging. The Soviets field quite some strong tanks and SPAT. Also crossing the rivers in the north was not easy. OpenGen 25.09.06.0 * 6 Sep 2025 * AI version: 2.00 (2014) Efile folder: D:...
by randowe
2025-10-26 21:18, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Operation Konrad At HQ I upgraded one tank and three infantries. Tweaked attachments as always. The scenario started with snowy weather, so my AW bombers could weaken the enemy defenders right in front of my starting positions. After a couple of turns the ground turned to mud. It was muddy for abou...
by randowe
2025-10-24 20:01, Friday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Viipuri '44 At HQ I upgraded one infantry and two recon bombers. Tweaked attachments as always. I really enjoy the opening turns, when the Soviets attack with strong forces. Later it gets easier... BV was possible 7 turns before the limit. But of course I played more turns. OpenGen 25.09....
by randowe
2025-10-23 19:17, Thursday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Hel '44 At HQ I bought attachments only. I deployed my ships, paratroopers, coastal rangers and two ground units at sea, the rest of my army in the southwest. I thought I don't need fast builder because I can capture the nearby airfield quickly. I already forgot if I captured the airfield...
by randowe
2025-10-22 22:32, Wednesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%
Replies: 109
Views: 7590

Re: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%

This battle is tricky but you most of ground units can't fight. My airborn units did most of the job with airforce and navy. Maybe some enemy ground units at mainland could make this battle more challenging. Just a thought. If the campaign would be longer, the player would already have captured the...
by randowe
2025-10-22 19:35, Wednesday
Forum: Open General
Topic: Discussing AI questions, improvements ...
Replies: 26
Views: 759

Re: Discussing AI questions, improvements ...

All changes that will be made will only affect AI 3.0, right? So campaigns using AI 2.0 will be unaffected by any changes?
by randowe
2025-10-22 19:05, Wednesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

The Harz Pocket At HQ I tweaked attachments and upgraded one tank and one fighter. After deployment my units closed in on the enemy from all sides and destroyed the required number of units without problems. I'll increase the limit of units that are required to be destroyed by 5 from 160 to 165/170...
by randowe
2025-10-21 19:16, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Berlin At HQ I upgraded another tank and bought some attachments. After I set up my defensive positions I awaited the enemy attack. The opening turns were not too easy, so that's good :yes The lend-lease flaks can be a pain in the ass, also because they are very fast. Once the big Soviet ...
by randowe
2025-10-20 19:40, Monday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Cherbourg At HQ I upgraded another tank, infantry and recon bomber. Easy peasy. Nothing else to say :lol :lol :evil EDIT: But I see now that the name Küstenjäger and other names are not displayed correctly in the AAR on this new PC. Yesterday it was okay :huh OpenGen 25.09.06.0 * 6 Sep 20...
by randowe
2025-10-19 18:28, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

More enemies with marine ability? :evil :evil :evil The problem is that the naval transports do not sail directly to the shore. Maybe I will set some objective hex. But on the other hand, sinking a number of naval transports is realistic in the scenario setting, so maybe I just leave it as is :lol ...
by randowe
2025-10-18 19:32, Saturday
Forum: Open General
Topic: Discussing AI questions, improvements ...
Replies: 26
Views: 759

Re: Discussing AI questions, improvements ...

Why do they fly towards the VH? Aggressive stance in the game simply means that a unit will move towards the nearest enemy VH. Defensive means that it will move towards the nearest friendly VH. Aggressive/defensive stance has nothing to do with a unit acting more aggressive or less aggressive. (The...
by randowe
2025-10-18 18:52, Saturday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Drive to the Sea At HQ I sold many attachments and upgraded three tanks, three ATs and three infantries. I have to keep some attachments in reserve for next scenario, when the Me 262 will be available. This was easy. My ships and planes massacred the enemy naval transports and my ground units finis...
by randowe
2025-10-17 18:19, Friday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Siege of Moscow Again I bought only attachments at HQ. Nothing special to report here. Grinded my way through the city. Infantry scored the most kills :yes The AI bought one plane and I think I will add another fighter to the scenario as well as two or three more units and a oil depot at the refine...
by randowe
2025-10-16 12:55, Thursday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: hoza plays Weltkrieg again
Replies: 99
Views: 48093

Re: hoza plays Weltkrieg again

hoza wrote: 2025-10-16 08:19, Thursday Up to now all was downloaded :grumpy
Great :cool
by randowe
2025-10-16 12:51, Thursday
Forum: Equipment Files
Topic: ATOMIC Efile [see 1st post]
Replies: 490
Views: 645556

Re: ATOMIC Efile [see 1st post]

Here's the updated path of the planned Barbarossa campaign. For now I'll dismiss the early scenarios in 1939 and will concentrate on the core of the campaign, the Geman-Soviet war. Instead of a new Warsaw map there will be a new winter map for a Operation Wintergewitter (Winter Storm) scenario. A wi...
by randowe
2025-10-15 20:57, Wednesday
Forum: Open General
Topic: Stuck in a Map Loop on Atomic
Replies: 9
Views: 1152

Re: Stuck in a Map Loop on Atomic

LuisGuzman wrote: 2025-10-15 17:39, Wednesday It is fixed!
I don't know why but this map was not uploaded to OG server, my apologizes
Thank you Luis! :howdy
by randowe
2025-10-15 17:15, Wednesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Siege of Leningrad At HQ I bought attachments only. It was snowing in the opening turns and by the time my ground units approached Leningrad from the south, the city was almost cleared of enemy AD and artillery. The Soviets had one aw-fighter, which also got shot down by my aw-fighterbombers. In th...
by randowe
2025-10-15 10:50, Wednesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: hoza plays Weltkrieg again
Replies: 99
Views: 48093

Re: hoza plays Weltkrieg again

Hello :howdy
Just a quick question: You play with picture maps, right? Did the game download all maps correctly when there was a new map, like for the Dnipropetrovsk scenario?
Or did you have to use mapfinder to add the maps?
by randowe
2025-10-15 10:46, Wednesday
Forum: Open General
Topic: Stuck in a Map Loop on Atomic
Replies: 9
Views: 1152

Re: Stuck in a Map Loop on Atomic

I wonder why this happens :huh Other people must have downloaded the map before through the game, or not? :huh If somebody else had the problem, maybe they can write here. In any case, if the game's automatic download fails to work, you can also always check out http://mapfinder.gilestiel.eu/ where ...
by randowe
2025-10-15 10:38, Wednesday
Forum: Open General
Topic: Deleting leaders?
Replies: 4
Views: 468

Re: Deleting leaders?

Most efiles have long been abandonend and new features like the 'deleting leaders' can not be added because the efile designers actively have to add features like this by editing the efile's cfg files. As edmund says, stuff like this can always be edited in Suite if needed. Just load your savegame a...
by randowe
2025-10-14 15:07, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Vyazma Airborne Operation At HQ I bought temporary railroad engineers for testing and put the rest of the prestige into attachments. There's also a aux railroad engineer unit present in the scenario. Playing was very different from last time. With the railroad engineers building stations, transport...
by randowe
2025-10-13 16:03, Monday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

I had to buy a new PC today, to use Windows 11 from tomorrow on (for internet stuff. Will still use my old one for everything else I guess). If I am offline in the next days, you know something didn't work out :lol :lol Battle of Novgorod '43 At HQ I bought the 25th and last bomber. I also upgraded ...
by randowe
2025-10-12 12:22, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Arkhangelsk My plan is two buy two more planes and delay all fighter, tank & AT upgrades until D-Day. The prestige from the upcomming scenarios I will store into attachments to save for D-Day. So in this scenario I bought another bomber. My planes destroyed more than 50% of the enemy ...
by randowe
2025-10-10 22:07, Friday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Units with "no need station" are great. e.g. Motor Flak (and many other units but without transport). I love train transport and i use it when scenario allows it. Hmm, maybe I can add railroad engineers to the German roster for the player to buy them. There were such units historically: h...
by randowe
2025-10-10 19:57, Friday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of the White Sea At HQ I just bought attachments. Since there is a rail road running across the map from north to south I embarked roughly 1/3 of my core units in rail transports using the SH station. After discussing the rail transport movement speed recently with eskuche and Dimitris, the ...
by randowe
2025-10-10 12:34, Friday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Steppe Blitz At HQ I sold some attachments and upgraded three old planes into AW fighterbombers. Also bought another one. I once again noticed there is a large difference in effectivity between the CS fighters and CS leader fighters. The latter ones are much more useful (recon movement leader on CS...
by randowe
2025-10-08 17:55, Wednesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

I added 10 more enemies to the previous scenario. BV 9 turns before the limit is just too much :( Battle of Tanganyika II Bought attachments only at HQ. After the start I gave up all VHs but the ones in the south on the mainland. On Zanzibar I deployed few units that repelled the enemy paratrooper a...
by randowe
2025-10-07 22:17, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%
Replies: 109
Views: 7590

Re: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%

Dimitris GR wrote: 2025-10-07 20:57, Tuesday When you know the campaign and always try some something new!!!!

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But the flags there don't bring any money. You just have too much time (turns) :lol
by randowe
2025-10-07 18:29, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

At my last run at 50%, i reload sometimes. I was playing for monster tank (to make more kills), but I also make reloads when i lost core units. At my current run 75%, with no reloads, is more hard, and i had to restart some scenarios, because i had bad strategy. Maybe 1 day, i could play at 0% but ...
by randowe
2025-10-07 14:46, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC WELTKRIEG (New OG Player)
Replies: 9
Views: 523

Re: ATOMIC WELTKRIEG (New OG Player)

After Albania... PzKpfw IID , , 3 bars , 339 exp , Germany , 9/10 , Fast Speed, Special Munition ,20 kill,339 exp ,240 pp :eek Generally a unit gains most experience when it also takes a lot of damage or weak units fighting strong units. Later in the campaign you will notice that it is much easier ...
by randowe
2025-10-07 13:51, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC WELTKRIEG (New OG Player)
Replies: 9
Views: 523

Re: ATOMIC WELTKRIEG (New OG Player)

After some reading of AARs, I have decided to challenge myself a bit more...I am adding some difficulty :deal mostly so I can experience all the wonderful less expensive units in the efile. https://i.imgur.com/pxwZc3v.png The original settings were 15% experience loss (40% experience gain still at ...
by randowe
2025-10-06 18:24, Monday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Is it worth it to play through at this point if you are already so above the curve? Maybe a 0% run is on the table... :) Hehe, I doubt 0% is possible because there's not so much after-scenario-prestige in this campaign. It allocates for roughly 25% of the overall prestige. Siege of Habbaniya I noti...
by randowe
2025-10-05 19:34, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

The Suez Canal At HQ I bought another cruiser and finally upgraded the cossacks into coastal rangers (not just in my imagination :lol ). In this scenario the last enemy was destroyed in the 5th turn before the BV limit (One recon I did not spot). I realize how powerful it is to minimize upgrades in...
by randowe
2025-10-05 19:24, Sunday
Forum: Open General
Topic: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.10.27.1 ( 28-Oct-2025)
Replies: 755
Views: 1580280

Re: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.09.06.0 ( 7-Sep-2025)

In other words, the content of the work has changed. In this case, the work (e-file with campaigns) was intended for the PG2 engine. Porting the game to a different engine (OG) does not change the content of the work and is not an interference with the work. Converting files from scn to xscn and ca...
by randowe
2025-10-05 17:26, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%
Replies: 109
Views: 7590

Re: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%

The AI bought two fighters. Maybe after BV limit? But they are welcome, so you can shoot down more planes :evil
by randowe
2025-10-05 10:04, Sunday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC WELTKRIEG (New OG Player)
Replies: 9
Views: 523

Re: ATOMIC WELTKRIEG (New OG Player)

Four Five players in the forum playing Weltkrieg :banana And probably thousands more we don't know :lol

Did you build a port at Thermopylae?
by randowe
2025-10-04 19:54, Saturday
Forum: Open General
Topic: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.10.27.1 ( 28-Oct-2025)
Replies: 755
Views: 1580280

Re: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.09.06.0 ( 7-Sep-2025)

Regardless and although I cannot change anything in his original stuff, I could try to check all the OLG* campaigns included in the installer, to check if there is something in the code responsible for those crashes that I could fix easily. Although that would probably take a few time. If I found s...
by randowe
2025-10-04 19:53, Saturday
Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
Topic: Panzer General X news flash
Replies: 69
Views: 52829

Re: Panzer General X news flash

Wow, the gigantic maps look impressive :clap
by randowe
2025-10-04 19:12, Saturday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Alexandria At HQ I upgraded the cossacks and bought attachments. EDIT: I did not upgrade my cossacks :bonk I check the HQ so often before playing that I sometimes forget what I did do :lol This time I tried to cross the canals in the center but the battlegroup was not faster than the othe...
by randowe
2025-10-04 19:06, Saturday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%
Replies: 109
Views: 7590

Re: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%

More enemies are always welcome :evil We keep this proposal in mind for the hardcore version of the campaign :lol
by randowe
2025-10-03 19:24, Friday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%
Replies: 109
Views: 7590

Re: Dimitris Weltrieg, playtest #7, 75%

Maybe this needs 5 more kills, so player can't miss all hexes. Indeed, when the player approaches the last units, they have to be careful and capture the flags before they kill the units. So you mean the player should kill 165 units out of 170. Not 160 like it is now? I set 10 units as difference b...
by randowe
2025-10-03 15:54, Friday
Forum: Open General
Topic: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.10.27.1 ( 28-Oct-2025)
Replies: 755
Views: 1580280

Re: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.09.06.0 ( 7-Sep-2025)

Yes, but it looks very bad. Most players never read the forum or log in and write something. So imagine a random player downloads the game, chooses one of the efiles, in this case OLGWW2 and then starts a campaign. The game crashes to desktop. Then start another campaign and the game crashes again. ...
by randowe
2025-10-03 11:35, Friday
Forum: Open General
Topic: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.10.27.1 ( 28-Oct-2025)
Replies: 755
Views: 1580280

Re: OpenGen Questions & Bugs - Latest exe:25.09.06.0 ( 7-Sep-2025)

So I just tried to start the OLGWW2 campaigns and four out of seven crashed the game right to desktop. Another one crashed after the first scenario (there were also problems with missing names or something) and one had a missing icon in the first scenario. Only one campaign seemed to be okay at firs...
by randowe
2025-10-02 18:18, Thursday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Siwa Oasis At HQ I bought two more bombers. Nothing special to report. The last 4 turns I again just had to klick through because there were no enemies left. OpenGen 25.09.06.0 * 6 Sep 2025 * AI version: 2.00 (2014) Efile folder: D:\Games\OpenGeneral\efile_atomic\ * Efile version: ATOMIC ...
by randowe
2025-09-30 19:44, Tuesday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of El Alamein At HQ I tweaked attachments and upgraded my oldest fighter for 1500pp into a CS fighter. First I had to repell the enemy attacks. That was not too easy without AD and basically without artillery. The second half of the scenario was very easy though and the final four turns ther...
by randowe
2025-09-29 18:40, Monday
Forum: Designers’ Corner
Topic: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!
Replies: 92
Views: 6750

Re: ATOMIC Weltkrieg again!

Battle of Rhodes At HQ I bought only attachments. Deployed my paratroopers, ships and some ground units in naval transports. Also deployed the carrier-born planes. In the south my para engineers repaired the southern airfield after landing, in the north one of my other pioneers repaired the main ai...
by randowe
2025-09-28 21:05, Sunday
Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
Topic: Sports Thread
Replies: 381
Views: 268916

Re: Sports Thread

Today Tadej Pogačar won the road race WC. His second title after last year's. He's truely the goat of cycling.
I just hope he has a long career and does not loose motivation :ihope