WinSPWW2 v4.5 -- NOW AVAILABLE

[glaude1955]

Downloaded, thank you!

Glaude1955

[Mobhack]

The patches are now up

They can be found at:
WinSPWW2
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_Wo.../WW2_page.html

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

[Sgt_Walrus]

Thanks guys...great work.
I shall spread the word.

[Griefbringer]

Thanks for the patch!

However, I think I found a minor consistency problem:

Originally Posted by DRG

2/ All Anti Tank gun unit classes have had their cost reduced by
approximately 25%

Unfortunately, in the German OOB there are a number of ATGs that are of the class "Infantry support gun" (used for the OrPo PAK units), and these have not been reduced in price, making them rather pricy compared to the other German ATG units.

That said, I don't think I have ever used those OrPo PAK units anyway.

[Roman]

Thanks guys. I'm moved by the news.

[gila]

Originally Posted by Griefbringer

Thanks for the patch!

However, I think I found a minor consistency problem:

Unfortunately, in the German OOB there are a number of ATGs that are of the class "Infantry support gun" (used for the OrPo PAK units), and these have not been reduced in price, making them rather pricy compared to the other German ATG units.

That said, I don't think I have ever used those OrPo PAK units anyway.

Re; "Infrantry support gun"

What year,are you talking about?
In the early years, some atg's had higher HE due to WWI mindset at that time.
Thus were not dedicated atg's more like infrantry support arty.

[Griefbringer]

Originally Posted by gila

Re; "Infrantry support gun"

What year,are you talking about?

I am referring to the formation "OrPo PaK Grp" (formation 404 on Germany OOB) which consist of four ATGs classed as "Infantry support guns". The majority of the ammunition for these guns seems to be AP.

This formation is available from September 1940 to September 1944.

(I have no idea why the OrPo units historically had ATGs in the first place, or how those ATGs were employed.)

[DRG]

Couldn't be helped and not likely to be changed from what I can see. "Infantry support gun" is not normally an ATG class but was used in the German OOB as such for third rate units. If all you do is play the game from MOBHack a 4.7cm PaK 36(t) costs 8 points more for the OrPo units but if you play it in the actual game that same gun used by regular troops in a PaK Gruppe cost 28 points per gun and when used by OrPo it's 33 points per gun so "only" 5 points difference.

I'll put this on the list for next year. There may be ways to work around this without screwing up legitimate infantry support gun units in other OOB's but it may be possible to utilize an existing AT gun class already used by other units for these OrPo units as well and there is also an unused unitclass that might be used with code changes OR we could just leave it alone and live with the difference

Don

[Cross]

Some cool additions in this release. The new desert buildings look excellent, as do the new anti-aircraft truck icons (with 20mm guns).

I see the RAF/RN now have the Corsair and Thunderbolt available.

Thanks,
Cross

[gabeeg]

I swear that the only way to find out what unit was loaded on a transport (HT, tank, truck, etc.) was to go to the Unit Menu. Now I notice that if you right click on the loaded transport you can see what unit is loaded in the information screen! ...so I go back to 4.26 (4.25 with the widescreen beta) and it is in there also...I swear it used to not be available in the transports information screen...but maybe I just never noticed... Is this something relatively new or was always doing it the hard way?