War in the Pacific AE

[Butcher]

I have all the addons too date.  They really add a much more immersive campaign.  At higher difficulties, it is an absolute challenge to ensure you do not waste points on units and needlessly take losses.  I am looking forward to the western addons, those should be a tremendous amount of fun.  

Let me know the next tourney you run for Panzer Corps, if I have the time, I will definitely play.

I usually play Colonel or Field Marshall depending on how active I am playing, but for now tournaments haven't had much interest as it did few years back, I had to drop it from 4 categories down to lieutenant and General, basically score is tallied up by how many objectives you capture and units destroy, to give you an overall points - whats fun is generally most won't survive on field marshal, but the idea is to see how far you can go before a decisive loss. Oh we start out at Fall Weiss and play it out to either Win or defeat, if you lose you get ranked, ranking is pretty far simple, great bunch of players I played with, I think i lost every tournament in Field Marshall and only won one in General, few in colonel.

funny - I did lose my first tournament that I started in lieutenant mode, LOL Operation Husky crushed me instead of falling back on the russian front.

[Bodhi]

I bought the War in the Pacific-AE, and for the life of me, the font in the game is simply unreadable because it is blocked out with white blocks where the text should be in battle reports.  Makes it very difficult to play as I can not tell how things are working. 

The game is all the way updated, so not sure what is wrong with it. 

Any suggestions Butcher?

[Grayeagle]

Hearts of Iron III
You can control any country from 1936 onward.

.. I command the Reich.. and do not make Hitler's disastrous mistakes.
Japan is my only ally, just plain waxed Italy my own bad self along with Spain, British Isles, Vichy France ..etc.\

Brigade level, I setup 4 brigades per division, 5 divisions per Corps, 4-5 Corps per Army.
They are pretty tuff

Note the date and what is goin on. -evil grin-
It is my jumpoff date for Barbarossa.
I took Moscow a year later, along with Stalingrad ..Jan 1942..
..Russia surrendered in May 1943 in this campaign.

The challenge is keeping the momentum going,
putting enough boots on the ground, enough Navy in the water, and enough interceptors/tactical bombers/naval bombers
.. I do not pursue heavy tanks at all and not a whole lot of fast ground forces.
..instead I focus on infantry developement heavily.

-GE aka Frank

[Butcher]

I bought the War in the Pacific-AE, and for the life of me, the font in the game is simply unreadable because it is blocked out with white blocks where the text should be in battle reports.  Makes it very difficult to play as I can not tell how things are working. 

The game is all the way updated, so not sure what is wrong with it. 

Any suggestions Butcher?

Ok that is an issue, basically you need to modify your startup file War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe
There is set commands to change that, you can change the size of your screen and font etc

for example! here is mine: "C:\Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -px1680 -py1050 -cpu1 -dd_sw -archive -f

Ok now I will give you the commands for this:

-px -py
To have any effect x must be greater than 1024 and y must be greater than 768.   If values less than or equal to px=1024 and py=768 are used the original values of 1024 and 768 will be substituted.
Examples:
-f -px1920 –py1200 for a 1920x1200 monitor in full screen mode

Other Switches
-colorBlind : Support for color blindness
-deepColor : Enables 32 bit color, intended for Full Screen mode
-altFont : Enables alternate in-game font (Lucida Sans Unicode)
-w : Windowed mode
-wd : Windowed mode, daily autosaves
-ww : Windowed mode, weekly autosaves
-fd : Full screen, daily autosaves
-fw : Full screen, weekly autosaves
-r : Show Roads
-autosave : Daily autosave
-archive : Put data reports in archive directory
-skipVideo : Skip the intro video when starting the game
-fixedArt : Will not use rotating images

Here's what I would add behind your shortcut to your desktop AS An example so you can work off it.
"C:\Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -px1600 -py1280 -cpu1 -dd_sw -archive -f -altFont -skipVideo

This puts the game at 1600x1280 view, with Alt fonts, weekly saves on your combat report, try this and see what happens-

Basically you only need to add "-px1600 -py1280 -cpu1 -dd_sw -archive -f -altFont -skipVideo"

[Butcher]

Oh I strongly recommend using -fd command, Full screen DAILY autosaves - this saves your command after each execution of turn.

I made a huge horrible mistake once of not having this, and did a half a day turn, executed it and it was corrupted when I emailed my opponent, when I came back - he emailed me said I needed to resend it -

except my turn wasn't even saved, it reverted, took 3 days to send 1 turn heh.

[Nefarious]

Great post, I'm still playing the original combat mission series, but now that I have a new pc I'm going to get the new combat mission games.

Any body still playing these games up for a PBEM?