ATOMIC Efile [see 1st post]

[randowe]

I have a question for the people that play the Weltkrieg campaign. Which of the two options do you like more?

Option A:
- Have an additional winter scenario against the Soviets at the end of 1944.
- Keep the proto choice before Operation Sealion 1945 at 5 different protos.

Or

Option B:
- Get rid of one of the protos at Sealion proto choice and dismiss the winter scenario against the Soviets.
- Add two scenarios at Shanghai and Seoul against Japan at the end of the campaign.

What would you choose?

[Dimitris GR]

B, more scenarios, more fun.

[hoza]

To make it more difficult for you I prefer A.

[randowe]

To make it more difficult for you I prefer A.

Actually it is easier because I don't have to change anything It's just that there is not enough scenario slots to have both options at the same time. Maybe we can get some more opinions in

[Keighleyred]

option B for me

[Puma]

Option B for me also

[randowe]

Thanks everyone for sharing your opinion. Option B it is then That's also what i prefer since I think it is more interesting.
And the maps are prettier

[Bill Yan]

Hi,thanks for good game. Im Ur Efile fans from china.I download installer from www.open-general.com, but the Efile is not new vision.I search long time,finally I get here. But I find that I cant use dropbox in mainland china. Would U please help me for any other way to download Ur Efile and maps?Thank U so much! And I cant download other maps in the game,I can down maps last year. Is that something happened?

[randowe]

Hi,thanks for good game. Im Ur Efile fans from china.I download installer from www.open-general.com, but the Efile is not new vision.I search long time,finally I get here. But I find that I cant use dropbox in mainland china. Would U please help me for any other way to download Ur Efile and maps?Thank U so much! And I cant download other maps in the game,I can down maps last year. Is that something happened?

Hello, welcome to the fourm

Unfortunately the efile from the game installer must be very outdated. It was not possible to update the efile properly at the website, so the only thing I could do, was to upload at dropbox.
I don't know, is there any service I could upload the efile to, that you can use also in China?

[sympatyk]

Maybe put the efile on Google Drive?
Although it's unclear what's blocked for China...

Game maps can be manually downloaded individually --> by entering the map number to download, e.g., 21
https://www.open-general.com/MapJpg/21.jpg

e.g., 12
https://www.open-general.com/MapJpg/12.jpg

The entire set of maps (1593 maps as of November 10, 2024) in a single .exe file --> weighing 1184914119 bytes --> can be downloaded from the Polish server.
Question: is such a large .exe file available for download for Bill Yan?

If the Google Drive experiment is successful, you could create a set (package) of maps for each campaign or for the entire e-file.

[randowe]

The new version of the efile and the final version of Weltkrieg will be available next month and I can take a look into the future now.

I am thinking about deleting my old campaigns because they don't live up to the standard that Weltkrieg set. I will never play my old campaigns again and I don't want to maintain them. In my opinion a designer should play campaigns once a year to check for bugs and I don't want to do that for the old campaigns. Of course I am not planning to delete campaigns from other designers or collaborative campaigns although the same issues apply here as well (like Major Heinz has not played his campaign ever since he released it in 2020!).
So there's Weltkrieg, my new benchmark when it comes do designing campaigns, and then there's the rest.
Btw, does anybody like the name Weltkrieg? When looking for a name for the campaign I thought everybody knews what Blitzkrieg means and Weltkrieg means World War, so I thought it would be a fitting name but it does not sound cool Should I change it?

Here are my future plans:

- relese new version of the efile in July 2025
- release new and hopefully final version of Weltkrieg.
- ATOMIC BLITZKIREG will be renamed BLITZKRIEG PLUS. I will reserve the ATOMIC label for campaigns that reach the same standard as Weltkrieg. I hope there is no such campaign as Blitzkrieg Plus for an other efile

- My next campaign will be ATOMIC BARBAROSSA. I always enjoyed the scenarios against the Soviets in 1941 and 1942 the most. The core is not yet too big and too powerful and you have a nice development of new units. So BARBAROSSA will be a extract of these scenarios from the Weltkrieg campaign. There will also be a new scenario on the unused Perekop map and two new scenarios on the Vyazma and Rostov maps.
And since I have still two map numbers booked I plan to add one new map and scenario the campaign. At the moment I am leaning towards Brest (Brest-Litovsk) because Brest was attacked on the first day of Barbarossa and this would give us a new starting point for the campaign.

- Next year I plan do build a ATOMIC GRAND ALLIED CAMPAIGN, a campaign similar to Weltkrieg for the western allies. The campaign will continue in 1945 with Operation Unthinkable against the Soviets. One new map should be Mareth, Tunisia. (And maybe I will finish my Ruhr Area map which I started years ago and which is roughly 50% finished but untouched for 2 or 3 years.)

[hoza]

lot of work to do

[sympatyk]

I'm thinking about deleting my old campaigns because they don't live up to the standard that Weltkrieg set. I will never play my old campaigns again and I don't want to maintain them.

You brought your toys to the sandbox --> you let others play --> now you want to take them away?
I'll tell my story on this forum (JPs)
A long time ago --> I made a new drawing for map 12 (map 1201) --> there was a story that we were getting rid of SSI elements (the icons were replaced based on this).
The community didn't like this drawing (brightness, colors...). A little later, I made map 1267 and wanted to remove 1201 - and publish a new, larger map (1267) under the number 1201. All these maps are named Ciechanow.
I was told --> no --> We're giving you a new number (1267).
We currently have three Ciechanow maps --> 12 (SSI), 1201 (a map based on 12 - changed graphics, no terrain changes), 1267 (a new, large map based on wartime maps).

In my opinion, a designer should play campaigns once a year to check for bugs, and I don't want to do that. That's for the old campaigns.

What if the author is dead?
What if they're absent?
What if the author has made 70 campaigns? --> how many campaigns do you think the author should make --> to test them --> every year?

In a normal community, players should play campaigns and report if something is wrong.

[randowe]

You brought your toys to the sandbox --> you let others play --> now you want to take them away?

Did you ever play the campaigns?

[Dimitris GR]

ΙΜΗΟ, leave all the old campaigns as it is. Is part of history, we can't delete history. Imagine if in 3 years (and i am still alive) i like to play your Italian campaign, just to remember something..... Leave the old campaigns as it is, with all the respect i have for you

[sympatyk]

I'm a bad example... I haven't played a single full campaign --> from any efile.

On the Polish version of the game, I've played about a dozen campaigns out of 170 available.

I simply can't play well.

[randowe]

ΙΜΗΟ, leave all the old campaigns as it is. Is part of history, we can't delete history. Imagine if in 3 years (and i am still alive) i like to play your Italian campaign, just to remember something..... Leave the old campaigns as it is, with all the respect i have for you

Okay, okay, I surrender I leave the campaigns as they are.

I'm a bad example... I haven't played a single full campaign --> from any efile.

On the Polish version of the game, I've played about a dozen campaigns out of 170 available.

I simply can't play well.

If you play more you will get better. 'Learning by doing' as the saying goes