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Old March 25th, 2012, 11:33 PM
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Press Release Teaser: A Total Onslaught Of New Content And Changes!   

Refit WinSPWW2 And WinSPMBT With Shiny New Upgrades!
A Total Onslaught Of New Content And Changes!


Cary, NC, 26 March 2012

Tactical gamers, grognards, and those who love classic turn based hex wargaming! You are about to embark upon great new upgrades to your beloved WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT, toward which Camo Workshop have striven these many months.

It’s that time of year! Camo Workshop, working throughout the long, dark, but not-really-cold winter is ready to once again unleash a hurricane barrage of new content and changes to both WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT. As expected, not only do the patches include completely new content, but there are a host of revisions along with bug zapping, which is why these are much more than mere patches.

Before popping the lid off what these upgrades feature we’d like to take a moment to remind players that, as with every past upgrade, if you are involved in an ongoing secure PBEM game the game will FAIL if the upgrade is applied during the game. Please complete the game and then upgrade.

WinSPWW2 is being upgraded to version 5.0 and highlights of the upgrade include:
  • 10 New Scenarios
  • 58 Revised Scenarios
  • 2 New Campaigns
  • 6 Revised Campaigns
  • 22 Revised Campaign files
  • 5 New Maps
  • 2 New Sound files
  • 88 New or revised Photos
  • 9 New or Revised Icons
  • 36 Updated OOB files
  • 2 Revised Icon Graphic files
  • 2 New or Revised Text files
  • Upgraded SHPEdit, Upgraded Cost Calculator, Upgraded MOBHack and MOBHack Help file
  • All 150-155mm standard artillery now have the same ROF. All towed artillery, both on and off map, has had ammo loads standardized by caliber.
  • OOB issues have been addressed, including corrections to German Shurtzen HEAT turret rear ratings, PzKw IV F Vorpanzer has been added, Bren Carriers were starting too early, and more.
  • Boyes ATR has been renamed to the more correct Boys. ATRs have been modified to be more of the properly harassing weapons than tank killers.
  • A number of anti-tank weapons had HE ammo instead of the more correct AP ammo.
  • And more.
WinSPMBT is now version 6.0 with the upgrade and includes the following highlights:
  • 21 New Scenarios
  • 49 Revised Scenarios
  • 7 Revised Campaigns
  • 20 Revised Campaign files
  • 1 New Map
  • 701 New or revised Photos
  • 194 New or Revised Icons
  • 92 Updated OOB Files
  • 22 New or Revised Icon Graphic files
  • 3 New or Revised Text files
  • 2 New Sound files
  • 16 Revised picklists
  • Upgraded SHPEdit, Upgraded MOBHack, Upgraded Cost Calculator
  • AI controlled helicopters will now occasionally pop up to high altitude to look around and then drop down again.
  • A bug has been fixed where switching between armor descriptions would change helicopter altitude.
  • Libyan flag reverts to the correct national flag after the fall of Ghadafi.
  • All on map TOWED artillery over 155mm has been removed from the game, leaving only off map and self-propelled in that caliber now.
  • Huge number of OOB changes made to the OOBs, estimated at 25,000 individual data changes.
  • And yes, more.
Finally, here is a sampling of changes that affect both games.
  • Snipers can now target and destroy IEDs.
  • Code routine that calculates the number of turns in a game has been re-worked and now takes better account of wide and high maps.
  • A bug in the main code for regular and campaign games that affected defend battles for players with very large cores has been corrected. In the past if the core was near the maximum there would not be enough points available to assault a force that size. Now, if the core is too large to allow the proper ratio of attacker/ defender in a defend battle defend battles will be rejected and the game will select a different battle type.
  • Both games OOBs have been checked and standardized for the following items for ALL units in ALL OOBs in BOTH games:
Infantry size. ALL infantry units that are NOT scouts are now size zero if they are 4 men or under and scout units are size zero at 6 men and under. The rest are size 1.

Hand grenades have been standardized at 2 grenades per man for regular line infantry, 3 grenades per man for elite or specialist infantry like Paratroops and 1 grenade per man for second rate units like militia or partisans.

Infantry rifle and LMG ammo has been standardized to a scheme mechanically determined by code, not whim, and has been applied to all applicable units. If, for example, Nation A has a section with 9 men it , every other 9 man section will have the same rifle and LMG ammo. Elite or second-rate classes may have a few more or less than a regular.

Infantry speed checks were made for cavalry =speed 12 , bicycles=speed 9 and infantry limited to 6 movement points max. if not a scout. Swim speed checks were done for infantry with all reset to 0 except for a very few specialist frogmen which are now swimspeed =1. Cavalry was standardized at swimspeed=1.

Survivability- This field has been zeroed for any Infantry , off-map artillery, or aircraft and helicopter classes that may have had a rating applied over the years for units in these classes do not use this rating.

Heat armor- If HEAT armor was less than steel for any facing the error was corrected.
  • Problems with close range Z fire scattering too far have been resolved. Firing at 3 hexes or less, even blind fire with no LOS, will not scatter onto the firing unit or stray wildly from the target hex .
  • Destroyed or damaged core units now do not add back their full cost if their core formation is deleted. They will only return their cost minus the damage inflicted. Previously, if your core unit was worth 250 points for example and it was totally destroyed (0) or damaged (-110 damage points for example) then deleting the formation gave you back the full undamaged value of 250. This gave you "Free money" for destroyed or damaged units. With the current code, you will get 0 points returned if your formation is completely destroyed and any damage points will be deducted if it is just damaged.

For a full list of changes please check the Release History in your game manual after applying the upgrade. Both upgrades can be applied to both the free downloadable versions and the Enhanced Editions.

Download the version 5.0 Upgrade for WinSPWW2 here:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_Wo.../WW2_page.html

Download the version 6.0 Upgrade for WinSPMBT here:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_Wo.../MBT_page.html

WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT are tactical wargames focusing on combined arms warfare representing conflict from the thirties until the near future. Using a classic turn and hex based approach, both games have their roots in SSI’s Steel Panthers series. Featuring literally hundreds of scenarios, many campaigns, easy editing capabilities, and multiplayer support, WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT are the real deal and are available only through Shrapnel Games. As one forum user, Kenny from Westminster, says, “To me this is the greatest simulation of small units tactics ever devised for wargaming. It is the standard by which I judge all other wargames.” Accept no imposters!

For more great games, including the recently released tabletop PnP RPG experience Total Eclipse, please visit us at www.shrapnelgames.com. Check out our complete catalog of award-winning games, download demos, or grab a free game or three.
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Default Re: Refit WinSPWW2 And WinSPMBT With Shiny New Upgrades!

I just noticed that there is a campaign hack utility to convert dos-based campaigns. Would this allow playing some of the mega campaigns that are produced for the other version of sp? If so is it a tricky/complex process to get them running?
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Default Re: Refit WinSPWW2 And WinSPMBT With Shiny New Upgrades!

No. It will NOT work at all with those. It only works with campaigns designed with SPWW2.

The "other" version of SP, that was produced after we had started to release versions of our mod, is an entirely different game with entirely different code that just happens to look similar.

The DOS conversion utility was added when we set the game up for windows and was only added so third party designers could convert any campaigns they may have made that were not already included with the game.


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Default Re: Refit WinSPWW2 And WinSPMBT With Shiny New Upgrades!

I have installed the new upgrade of 5.0 for WinSPWW2 but it still will not work (GRAPHICS wise) with windows 7 when I tried to run it in the full screen version. It will work if you want to run it in a small box but the graphics are not as good. Now that Windows 8 is about to come out this will probably make running both programs even more difficult.
Do you know when the programs will be updated to correct the full screen versions?
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Default Re: Refit WinSPWW2 And WinSPMBT With Shiny New Upgrades!

The preliminarey reports we get from people testing Win8 indicate it will get better not worse.

If you want advise on getting the game to run go to our forums. The subject is off topic here

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Default Re: Refit WinSPWW2 And WinSPMBT With Shiny New Upgrades!

Just to tell the patch is to be fixed with the Missing campaign text files:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=48587
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