RUSSO-GERMAN Edition    -  Readme
the ultimate SPWW2 (c)  add-on   

by Oleg Bazhenov and Klaus MB

dedicated to the Shadow Foxx


Of the different No. of SP versions several deal with the WW.II period. So does SPWW2. In addition to this up to now most advanced SP version we present to you a big edition for the Soviet Union and Germany namely. 
Because SPWW2 mainly took over the data files and therefore units and material of  it's predecessor SP2WW2, it offers mainly an improved game engine compared to the latter one. Taking up the many requests for an add on for SPWW2 we decided to do so covering the huge amounts of material, which have been neglected up to now. Starting to work on which we had most detailed information about we decided to concentrate on these fields later on - and the Russo- German add on was born.

Well, today it can be complicated to offer such additions to the wargamers. Although it is hard to believe, we had to pull some huge stones out of our way first. Once again the creators responsible for the great SP2WW2 and SPWW2 expansions and hence for the excellent base of our work, were the biggest hindrances. First no editor and a lot of flaming against offering such an editor, then denying any requests to avoid copyright problems, although we do all the work for the wargamer community and don't want anything for it, cause we think, a lot of people feel the same like us and love to benefit from a greater variety of things. Everyone may make up his own mind upon this. Finally we overcame all problems ourselves so we can proudly present to you an add on which offers a lot of new units and graphics to be directly implemented into your personal version of SPWW2 without touching any copyright!



WHAT YOU GET:

Four data files for Germany and the Soviet Union containing about 750 different units for the two nations, more than 400 new LBM sideviews for these units as well as more than 200 new and additional SHP icons for representation on the battlefield!


This bunch of material covers the period from 1/1930 to 12/1949. This means you can play also hypothetical battles of the early 30s to the late 40s with the war not ended historically. This includes a lot of 'what if' of course, but we know that a lot of wargamers like to try a bit beyond history. Therefore our add on includes a lot of stuff, which never saw any combat (like the late Soviet IS tanks) or even didn't reach beyond prototype stage (like the German E-series). It includes units of the German Reichswehr and early Red Army from the end of the Russian war, dozens of additional aircraft and their versions covering such mostly unknown projects like the Soviet Autogiro helicopter/plane hybrid,  German Drache helicopter or Fw-190 jet. For those preferring authentically used material only, we offer a lot of missing low production models of AFV like German early PzKw-IIIA, PzKw-IID, different early Tiger I & II versions or Soviet KV-8s flame tanks, early BT-models, SMK and T-100 super heavy tanks not to forget all the work we spent on most realistic data. 
For detailed lists see the unit list files included in this package.

Furthermore we drastically changed infantry and the use of support weapons. Cause the US were the only to equip their men with one LMG per squad, we decided to include somewhat historical amounts for Germany and the Soviet Union reflecting e.g. the 1941 losses of the Soviets and their recovery from this in the following. As a result we designed a modified formation system and included a new infantry type not to mix Waffen SS or Soviet Guard with normal infantry.

With the Soviet data prepared by a Russian and the German one by a German you can expect to get a balanced set of units showing the result of a lot of discussion!

Now, just follow the instructions in the 'Setup'-file and you can use all of this add on, too. Have fun !
And tell us what you think about it. We're especially interested in any mistake you find in our work. The more response we get, the better our work will be...!


Credits:

At last, we don't want to miss to give some persons credits. At first we want to thank Don Godbrand and his group, Andy Gaily and the Camo Workshop for giving SPWW2 to the wargamers. Moreover we want to thank Fred Chlanda for his SHPedit the tool we used for preparing new SHP files and for SPILE showing the way to prepare an editor for the SP.exe files. Without Fred's little helpers, it would be much less convenient to establish such add ons. Then thanks to Troy Ritter, his old set of SP1 icons showing what detailed work can be done on SHP icons. Wild Bill Wilder deserves big credits as well. His work is really great and thanks Bill for your morale support within the times of greater drawbacks. For supporting us with scanned photos we want to thank Andre Haendschke, Umberto Comella, Mikhail Svirin and Valery Potapov as well as Mario Doherr for giving us detailed info on heavy AFV, Vadim Smirnov for the help in testing of our work and Conrad Stock for additional info about German HVAP ammo.
Thanks also to all who asked for further add ons giving us the feeling that our work would be not in vain.
In the end we want to dedicate our work to the Shadow Foxx, who could not work with us as we had thought. Tony,  we hope you will be with us again, soon!




Klaus MB								Oleg 



Dr. Klaus Mueller-Buschbaum						Oleg Bazhenov
Uni-Center 509								Zheleznodorozhnaja 8/1
D-50939 COLOGNE							630104 Novosibirsk
GERMANY								RUSSIA
Klaus.Mueller-Buschbaum@rrz.uni-koeln.de				bazhenov@inp.nsk.su





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