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Originally Posted by JohnHale
Is a list of the OOB changes available?
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No. We rarely keep detailed lists of OOB change lists as stopping to make notes on each change eats into the time we have available and we already have enough to juggle. Turning what should be 5 minutes work into 10 has never appealed to me. I know other games do that and it makes for suitably impressive lists but this patch contains 52 revised scenarios
because of the OOB changes so that should be a good indicator of the changes made
The rough notes on work done to SPWW2 would print out to 36 pages. The changes made to the weapons were generally made to ensure all of weapon X had the same stats as all the others just like it and there were well over 200 items that needed looking into, nothing earth shattering, things like a MG may have had a different accuracy in one OOB than it did in 5 others and that needed to be looked at but I really have no interest in stopping what I'm doing to write down something like " India, weapon 2, accuracy changed from zero to 1" for every change or make notes on the three slightly different sets of data we had for mills bombs in the eight OOB's that use mills bombs. If I stopped and made user friendly notes like that every time I changed something there is no way this patch would have been released when it was and my interest in releasing them would be near zero because there are only a very tiny handful of people who would ever read such a list or remember half of what they read afterwards and I personally have absolutly no need for a list like that.
For the record the SPWW2 v4 OOB's contains
12,143 units
4,626 weapons
6,769 formations
and
at least ( very conservative estimate ) 300 combined weapon, unit and OOB changes were made to them( this does not include the over 4,000 unit end dates that were trimmed back to 12/46 )
I will give a quick example though. Quite a number of guns used the US 105mm M2 photo. I tracked down ( hopefully ) all that were wrong and changed them to the correct photos and in the process discovered quite a lot about pre war Polish artillery. As a result the artillery units available now to the Poles in 1939 and before are much more complete than they had been.
Don