Long campaign "bug"???

cusbut · #1 June 4th, 2006, 04:14 PM

Hi

I have been trying to play a long campaign with the following settings:
AXIS
1939-1945
45 games
easier level
Force cost 1245pts
Preferences normal except no command, and fast artillery on

I played the first 5 battles and noticed that the timeline is still the same for each battle i.e September 1939

In the previous SPWW2 I would have progressed a couple of months by the 5th campaign battle at least.

I restarted the campaign with a smaller force of 300pts and the same thing occured.

I also noticed that in the 3 assault battles I played I never came across any mines which was a sure thing in SPWW2

Has anyone else noticed these incidents or am I doing something wrong?

Mobhack · #2 June 4th, 2006, 06:34 PM

The polish and france 40 battles for some nations are deliberately slowed down, or you would be off to the desert in 41 by battle 3 or so.

You will also notice jumps to a correct date - e.g. after france 40, to the desert skipping intervening months when nobody was fighting. or a 6/43 battle will take you to Sicily as fighting ended in Tunisia in May.

Andy

Charles22 · #3 June 5th, 2006, 04:53 AM

One of the developers said that the AI doesn't always buy mines all the time anymore, however, I have played with the AI in a defend mission, and in that mission too he didn't buy a scrap of mines either. Would someone please bother to tell us of the AI ever buying mines in WinSPWW2?

cusbut · #4 June 5th, 2006, 06:53 AM

Thanks for the quick reply, that puts my mind at ease and I happen to agree that in the earlier SPWW2 game the initial battles in Europe were over to quickly

PatG · #5 June 5th, 2006, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Charles22 said:
One of the developers said that the AI doesn't always buy mines all the time anymore, however, I have played with the AI in a defend mission, and in that mission too he didn't buy a scrap of mines either. Would someone please bother to tell us of the AI ever buying mines in WinSPWW2?

Test scenario - computer generated Japanese AI on defense - AI bought a little of all field engineering, Mines, wire and Dragons teeth.

Charles22 · #6 June 7th, 2006, 02:15 AM

Thanks.

PheasantPlucker · #7 June 26th, 2006, 11:15 AM

Well I don't want to be alarmist but it certainly appears like there is a bug in the Long Campaign to me.

I too started a 1000 point one as Germany in September 1939. I fought three battles in Poland and then the game declared my campaign to be over!

I am 200% sure I had the campaign set to expire in 1945, with 30 battles to be fought.

Has anyone else managed to play a long campaign yet? Can you get past 9/1939 as Germany?

I don't know if it is related but I notice that the end date on the long campaign game does not have scroll arrows to change it too.

Cameronius · #8 June 26th, 2006, 11:58 AM

I have started a long campaign as Germany with about 5000pts and have progressed to May 1940 against the French. 3 battles vs Poland, 1 vs Norway and 1 vs Netherlands prior to this. Only problem so far was the abundance of air power Norway was buying.

DRG · #9 June 26th, 2006, 01:47 PM

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PheasantPlucker said:
Well I don't want to be alarmist but it certainly appears like there is a bug in the Long Campaign to me.

I too started a 1000 point one as Germany in September 1939. I fought three battles in Poland and then the game declared my campaign to be over!

I am 200% sure I had the campaign set to expire in 1945, with 30 battles to be fought.

Has anyone else managed to play a long campaign yet? Can you get past 9/1939 as Germany?

I don't know if it is related but I notice that the end date on the long campaign game does not have scroll arrows to change it too.

Did you notice if your A0 unit was killed ? Once the commander is killed ( that's you...) the campaign ends.

Don

PheasantPlucker · #10 June 26th, 2006, 04:21 PM

Aha! That's it Don. I hadn't realised that if my AO was killed then it's game over. Seeing this 'bug' thread made me leap to the wrong conclusion!

Thanks and also to Cameronius.