WinSP MBT: Das Reich

[Warhero]

Okay thanks about info. Great mod btw!

[RecruitMonty]

Hello Gents,

I'm almost done updating the mod. Just had a question. Someone, I believe it was MarkSheppard, supplied me with some lovely colour pictures of tanks as well as a background / title screen. Only trouble is I don't know what to do with them so that they appear in the game. Any ideas?

The update, when it is ready, will be a straight forward enough job to do.

I've copied all the files that remained the same from version 1.0P (text, ranks, names and a few odds and sods) and have filled in the gaps with all the new ones for 1.1P (which now works with version 10 of the game).

You have two choices. Make a clean copy of version 10 of MBT and then install version 1.1P of the mod over it or update the copy of mbt you installed the mod to with the version 10 patch of MBT and then install the 1.1P Update (April 2016) of the mod over it making sure you overwrite everything you need to overwrite in both cases.

Be sure to save your scenarios etc. Some of them may be broken as of this updapte as the icons were changed around for most of the turret-less units. Although when I fired up one of my scenarios after updating all seemed in order on the icon front at least. Just read the readme for the update and be sure to take a look in the general Readme too for new acknowledgements.

[scorpio_rocks]

Originally Posted by RecruitMonty

Just had a question. Someone, I believe it was MarkSheppard, supplied me with some lovely colour pictures of tanks as well as a background / title screen. Only trouble is I don't know what to do with them so that they appear in the game. Any ideas?

The "Splash" screens are stored in the
...Shrapnel Games/Game Data/Pictures/Interface
folder.
Just replace the MCPPic, MCPPic1, MCPPic2, MCPPic3 files.

Mark's Links seem to be broken... Can get to his site but no longer seem to be able to find the screens or Das Reich files.

[MarkSheppard]

http://alternatewars.com/Games/SP/DA..._SPLASH_V2.zip
Splash v2

http://alternatewars.com/Games/SP/Wi...sReich1-0p.zip
DAS Reich 1.0P

I changed the URL from /Games/SPanthers to /Games/SP/

Sorry about that; but I intend to eventually put up an icon database, and I need to economize on URL length (even in 2016).

[RecruitMonty]

UPDATE:

Version 1.1P (compatible with WinSPMBT 10) is here!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ayh13c8ik...v--6x2ona?dl=0

Now, who would like to help me develop and test some scenarios for the mod?

[MarkSheppard]

I've actually got an idea for a few scenarios.

[RecruitMonty]

I'll keep that in mind. I guess they are moving over to the Iphone business model.

[MarkSheppard]

Originally Posted by RecruitMonty

I'll keep that in mind. I guess they are moving over to the Iphone business model.

It's not the iPhone business model -- it's just that the market is demanding ever smaller, ever lighter laptops and that means user serviceability is no longer a prime concern -- it's a lot easier to design something really lightweight and small if you assume it operates as a (mostly) sealed unit for life.

[IronDuke99]

Sorry, but exactly how many early helicopters does Germany have to make this heliborne invasion of Switzerland possible and how are these troops organised? What heavy weapons do they have?

I ask since I don't think even the USA in the mid-late 1960's (certainly then the leading helicopter army in the world) would have dreamed of using them to invade a first world nation, minus massive other more conventional support.

I'm curious?

[MarkSheppard]

Originally Posted by IronDuke99

Sorry, but exactly how many early helicopters does Germany have to make this heliborne invasion of Switzerland possible and how are these troops organised? What heavy weapons do they have?

I was thinking of using Gebirgsjaegers -- the 1st through 7th Mountain Divisions -- in operations against Switzerland, using a mixture of conventional foot/motorized infantry, and vertical envelopement.

Essentially the Fa 223 Drache in both the conventional and Zwilling form would be used.

The Fa223 could transport 1,000~ kg of cargo up to altitudes of around 2,400~ meters, and heavy experiments were done using the early Fa223 prototypes for mountain war:

In early 1944, a Dornier Do 217 crashed high up on the Vehner moor in Lower Saxony, between Osnabrück and Oldenburg, and it was decided to send the V11 to recover the wreckage. Unfortunately the V11 ended up crashing nearby before it could attempt to lift the Do 217's remains. It was then decided to attempt to recover both using the V14. Flown by Karl Bode and Luftwaffe helicopter pilot Helmut Gerstenhauer, the operation was begun on 11 May 1944. A small team of Focke-Achgelis men and a Luftwaffe recovery company had already dismantled the V11, and the V14 made 10 flights carrying loads beneath it in a cargo net and setting them down where they could be loaded on to road vehicles. All the major parts of the V11 and the Do 217 were retrieved and much useful experience was gained.

Following this, the Air Ministry decided to evaluate the helicopter's potential as a transport in mountainous regions, and the V16 was assigned to the Mountain Warfare School at Mittenwald, near Innsbruck, with the V14 as a backup. The objective of the tests was to see how the Drache would perform as a general-purpose all-weather transport, and numerous landings were made at altitudes of over 1,600 m (5,200 ft) above sea level, plus experimental transportation of artillery guns to mountain troops. When the trials ended in October 1944, a total of 83 flights had been made, with a total flying time of 20 hours.

The highest town in Switzerland -- Juf, is at 2,160 metres.

I've been reading a bit (okay I started months ago, and never finished), on Switzerland's war plans. Essentially, they planned to abandon the majority of the low-lands if Germany invaded, and hold out from high altitude strongholds.

What happens if helicopter envelopment makes that strategy infeasible?