Commander Europe at War Patch

[May 06, 2010, 9:57 pm ET] - Post a Comment

Slitherine Studios now offers a "major update" for Commander Europe at War with a number of new features and changes for the Grand Strategy expansion for the World War II strategy game. The lengthy list of changes in this new version 1.05 follows.

Specially created 228-page highly polished and detailed player’s manual
Victory conditions based on the historical German surrender on May 8th 1945
Historical Italian surrender model, where Italy can surrender without Rome falling
Significantly enhanced map, which includes more cities, ports & forts (e.g., Gustav, Ostwell & Siegfried), revised political boarders, updated/new terrain features (e.g., Persian Gulf), naval transport loops (e.g., Kiel) and airbases
Historical OOBs (order of battles) and unit placements for major & minor countries
Airbase resource hexes (i.e.., Greenland, Iceland, Azores, Malta, Rhodes, Gibraltar, Lerwick, Stornoway, Benbecula, Isle of Man and Kirkwall)
Country specific unit graphics and NATO counters for all major and minor nations
Sea transport and seaborne invasion models
Submarine and ASW models realistically modeling the Battle of the Atlantic
Map wide weather that includes fair, mud/rain, winter and severe winter effects on units on land and clam and rough sea effects for units at sea
Robust partisan model forcing historical commitment to anti-partisan operations
Blitzkrieg effect applied to invaded minor countries, Russia and units in France
Russian Siberian reserves released on USA entry or when axis close on Moscow
Rail model including the ability to degrade capacity through bombing and conquest
North African supply model limiting number of Axis units in North Africa
Traded oil (Germany & Russia), iron ore (Germany & Sweden) and leased air bases (Azores, Portugal & USA)
Lend Lease to Russia through Persia
Ability to ground carrier air wings and fighters in order to save oil and reduced losses
Imposed limits on air attacks now making the use and impact of air far more realistic
Monroe Doctrine where the USA activates if axis units land in Canada or the USA
Western Allies (i.e. Britain, France and USA) and Russia non-cooperation tension where Western Allies fight at reduced supply levels in Russian controlled hexes and cannot use the Russian railway network and vise a versa for Russian units in Western Allied controlled hexes
Finnish, Romania and Hungarian fighter units that spawn at 5-steps on activation
Finland activation for the axis at or before Russian entry into the war
Less random, random research model, which is now the default
Updated convoy routing model that better handles loss of critical convoy cities
Added more information, which is easier to grasp, to the unit description, tooltip and resource menus and mini map
Added more flexibility for players customizing their games by moving more game parameters to the “general.txt” data file
Added more security to PBEM to ensure an opponent cannot retrieve a player’s password or inadvertently, or intentionally, play with different game parameters
Optimized for PBEM and hotseat play and will not support TCP/IP play

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