Playtester wanted for new campaign...

[Shan]

...which should be ready as a beta version in a few days, and for general release maybe even before Christmas, how's that?

Countries involved: Algeria vs. Libya, October 2005; completely fictional story, as well as no realistic google earth-maps involved; minor modifications of OOB for Algeria; (although I might drop this in order to make it playable for everyone, including those who don't wanna install a new OOB as well).

I don't wanna tell much more yet, but I gotta warn you: this is my first campaign project, and therefore, don't expect too much... it won't come close to Mac Gailin's UNIFE campaign or artur's African Abattoir, of course, as I, being a newbie, had a lot of unclear issues to sort out... so, it won't be an award-winning thing, and not too challenging for a pro (I tried to include some surprises though), but I hope you'll like it when it's ready! So far, 6 missions are finished, and as the story should have a nice ending, maybe 2 more should be necessary.

So... I am looking for some tester(s) - please PM me or mail to falang_lao AT yahoo.com

As I am still using the free version of the game (shame on me!), map design is quite hard work, so... does anyone have some large desert maps I could use of modify? (I downloaded what I coul find on the web already...). Maybe a bit late for this one, but I am working on another thing as well, also in a desert setting!

Alright... I hope to find some volunteers, and for everyone else, I'll try to get this ready for release by Christmas!


Shan

[Double_Deuce]

It might be hard to find anyone this time of year but always worth trying. I am pretty busy with my own SP related projects at present but I would be willing to do some playtesting after the 1st of the year. I would prefer the standard OOB's though.

Let me know when it's finished, I'd like to have a copy hosted at XG in our download area. We can always use more campaigns for WinSPMBT/WinSPWW2.

[Shan]

Ok, thanks a lot. I was forced to do some minor modifocations on the OOB though, as the Algerian OOB sucks - they have APCs but no formations that use them, and so on...anyway, I'll tell you when I'm ready.

[nate]

Actualy it's not that hard to change oobs with oob swapper. I have moe than one custom green oob.

I would be down for playtesting. Iam also about to release a campaign. Usmc vrs Iraqi Insurgents and militia set in 2007.

[DRG]

Shan said:
Ok, thanks a lot. I was forced to do some minor modifocations on the OOB though, as the Algerian OOB sucks - they have APCs but no formations that use them, and so on...anyway, I'll tell you when I'm ready.

Really? WHICH APC's don't have a formation ? Wheeled or tracked or both? Every APC I checked has a formation for them. Give me a unit number and I'll give you the formation number that uses them. If you can find one that doesn't I will be glad to fix it

Don

[Shan]

There are of course formations with wheeled APCs in them, but mostly APCs ONLY, as well as some support + scout units... what I meant was that there is no infantry using them, so far there is just truck infantry and mechanized infantry, but none using wheeled APCs- sorry for not being clear. Also, the engineers have no transport, same for the mrotars... it's clear that Algeria is a seldo-played country, so I did the necessary modificatios for my campaign,,, it would have been possible but a bit inconvenient to build the formations I wanted to do it without modifying the OOB, and I'll post all changes made anyway when the thing is released.

[DRG]

You buy the infantry then buy the Wheeled APC formations and put them together.......how hard is that ?

In any event this has been changed in the OOB's being released with the patch so there will be wheeled APC formations with infantry pre-built for Algeria

Don