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Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:28 am

I have been misguided by the tooltip :)

Is it a game started after the tweaks to the rails?
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:56 am

Another thing I saw, (I have played only 4 turns mind you) in the 1862 campaign is that maybe the AI doesn't know how to organise its troops correctly, but I saw a massive force in Virginia, made up of many divisions, not integrated in a corps structure (it was something like 48 cps out of 15 allowed).. Since the Division command thing seemed broken and I had other things to do I did not play on, but I was itching to Crush it with my ANV...

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:27 am

this would mean that there is no nearby army, or that the stack had not rank 2 generals... To be improved sure, but perhaps in 1-2 turns the stack would had transformed itself into a corps (and then the corps would eject too numerous units). That is a recurring problem with AIs, they can do things, but often are slower in sequential processes, whereas we can plan in advances how to hasten complex things.

Anyway, the main bug is cleared (divisions reverting to brigades). Now I would need a saved game showing a unit without the right portrait.

About the Berverly region, I checked in game and there is a railroad in the tooltip, so the problem is there.
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:37 pm

Pocus, per your request.

1.045 current saves and one backup.

Ft. Henry.Donelson
--you will find G. Thomas Corps - all subordinate formations are brigades but are supposed to be divisions; Prentiss, French and Ricketts. Also, all portraits are wrong. The symbol is the HQ symbol, not the leader.

Bowling Green provides another fine set of examples under the Western Command. More examples abound map wide.

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Railroad errors:

Somers, PA. No RR Graphic, but the region is tool-tipped as railroad.

Hendon, WV. Has RR graphic and region is tool tipped as RR.
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:35 pm

I see.

The divisions reverting to brigades bug is fixed, I will post an update to this special 1.045 version in a couple of hour.

RR problems will be reported to the database master :)

As for the leaders portraits, we believed it looked cooler to show an officer image (the HQ portrait) and not black faces... What do you guys believe? This was done on purpose, really !
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:42 pm

I like it, I was surprised at first, but I like it.. Keep it if there isn't a portrait available.

So I should be able to download a modified bet tonight ? great !!

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:45 pm

yes, the update will only be to fix the bug on divisions reverting to brigades though, and now all scenarios and campaigns are on the new format.

As for the leader faces, they are at last coming! But until they are done we believed it was better to use this picture, now that divisions HQ are gone. Perhaps it is confusing with Army HQ though.
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:56 pm

The nice think about the brigade commands is that they do not cost ANY CPs to operate.

Look at the tooltip for a brigade formation with a leader - CP cost is zero in all cases.

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:03 pm

Hope it won't appears again, this is an unwanted side effect of divisions reverting to 'special' brigades, but if you get some like that in 1.046, please report.

Here is the link to the new update, for whose willing to test the new rules (and again many thanks for your zeal!).

http://ageoddl.telechargement.fr/patch_AACW_v1.046_beta.zip

Fixed the bug on divisions reverting to brigades

All scenarios exported to the new format.

A new setting to try, for whose with a game underway with the old HQ format. Open the ACW\Settings\General.opt file, and add this entry at the end of the file

DivHQ = 0

Then you should be able to continue playing with older games. This would be rather neat so that the Grand Campaign (6 players PBEM) can continue while being able to stay patched.
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:04 pm

great I'll check that tonight.. (Wife permitting of course...).

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:05 pm

The image issue isn't a big one to me, though I'd have preferred to keep the old blackened leader faces. Maybe we can find a new use for the old Division HQ graphics, a new unit that's helpfull but not game winning (meaning not going to be a problem if the ai fails to learn how to use it).
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:28 pm

Pocus wrote:Hope it won't appears again, this is an unwanted side effect of divisions reverting to 'special' brigades, but if you get some like that in 1.046, please report.

Here is the link to the new update, for whose willing to test the new rules (and again many thanks for your zeal!).

http://ageoddl.telechargement.fr/patch_AACW_v1.046_beta.zip

Fixed the bug on divisions reverting to brigades

All scenarios exported to the new format.

A new setting to try, for whose with a game underway with the old HQ format. Open the ACW\Settings\General.opt file, and add this entry at the end of the file

DivHQ = 0

Then you should be able to continue playing with older games. This would be rather neat so that the Grand Campaign (6 players PBEM) can continue while being able to stay patched.


Ah very nice! :cwboy:

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:50 pm

Pocus,

I am getting a critical error message at startup of 1.046. Log file attached.[ATTACH]658[/ATTACH]
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April 1981 campaign; CSA; Version 1.46

2nd turn: 1861 Generals arrive in Richmond; 2 Union Generals (Grant & Scott) also arrive in Richmond for the CSA

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oldspec4 wrote:Pocus,

I am getting a critical error message at startup of 1.046. Log file attached.[ATTACH]658[/ATTACH]


The game runs correctly after the patch, just tried it... but I see that the errors you get are from files which are not up to date. The best and safer thing would be to delete your working copy of AACW 0.146 and create a new one (if you have duplicated the standard 1.04 to test 0.145 as recommanded?).

If no, uninstall and reinstall the game as usual, then patch it.
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:18 pm

JB Hood wrote:April 1981 campaign; CSA; Version 1.46

2nd turn: 1861 Generals arrive in Richmond; 2 Union Generals (Grant & Scott) also arrive in Richmond for the CSA


A last minute error with some general references, this is corrected now, you were supposed to get Ruggles and Whiting.

To all: download again 1.046, this issue is fixed in this version.

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:24 pm

In both 1.045 and 1,046, newly started 1862 scenario, I receive Confederate generals while playing the Union. Just fire up the scenario and check Pope's wing command, Burnside's command, and Franklin's corps.

I have also noticed that the division graphic does not display with the division on the map, nor does a division with a portrait. Same scenario, move any non portrait division into a separate stack - the graphic shown is not the division graphic, but one of the more generic uniforms. Same thing with a portrait division. You can easily see it with Heintzelmans's corps.

Hope this helps.
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Pocus wrote: A last minute error with some general references, this is corrected now, you were supposed to get Ruggles and Whiting.


Ah, I was thinking of mentioning that these generals, while present in some of the other scenarios, do not appear in the April '61 campaign.

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JB Hood wrote:April 1981 campaign; CSA; Version 1.46

2nd turn: 1861 Generals arrive in Richmond; 2 Union Generals (Grant & Scott) also arrive in Richmond for the CSA


bug not solved

i´m still receiving union generals as csa

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1.046 thread

Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:24 pm

You might want to sticky a new thread for the 1.046 patch so we will all know where to go to redownload the patch.

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playing April 61 as CSA, early turns. I give price a Division, my first under the new system. The tooltip says I have 1 division in the field with maximum of 3 yet my roster shows no division. After creating Prices' division the tooltip says 2 in the field with a maximum of 3. The roster now shows only the one division under Price. Where is my invisible division? :8o:

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:35 pm

I received Grant and Winfield Scott, both 4 star, with my 61 CSA generals in the 4/61 scenario. After a short and just trial, they were shot.

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blackbellamy wrote:I received Grant and Winfield Scott, both 4 star, with my 61 CSA generals in the 4/61 scenario. After a short and just trial, they were shot.


Fine for Scott but i want to send Grant to Nashville to take command of the Army of Tennessee. :niark:

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did you download again the 1.046 patch, there was an error in the first build.
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Do we download at the same place as the first 1.046 patch? The one located above in this thread?

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yes, but wait I'm uploading again it, in case I made an error.
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ok done, the patch is now up and you should get the 2 CSA Leaders from the start (2nd turn april 61 campaign)

For the 62 problem, I see that, this will be corrected later (tomorrow at most).
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Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:20 pm

Korrigan wrote:I think he is speaking of Beverly, where no railroads appear, not Sumner. Something to do with the Database I guess.
My bet would be a game began before 1.04, and a database not edited.


Sorry about the confusion with the screen shot, it was Beverly I was trying to point out. :bonk:

Korrigan:The error occured in game that I started after installing 1.045

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:27 pm

Pocus wrote:The game runs correctly after the patch, just tried it... but I see that the errors you get are from files which are not up to date. The best and safer thing would be to delete your working copy of AACW 0.146 and create a new one (if you have duplicated the standard 1.04 to test 0.145 as recommanded?).

If no, uninstall and reinstall the game as usual, then patch it.


Have made a new Beta copy and everything now seems ok (i.e., game loading)...Thank you sir.

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Seems there is a new problem in 1.046. I just started a new game as the Union and received a bunch of 2* Generals in Late April 1861 at Washington DC, here's a screenshot.

P.S.: I actually backed up a save from a previous version, will rapidly start a fresh one to see whether the same will happen.
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