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Philippe

Film clip from the 1930's. It really does sound a bit like the howl of a banshee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jSqt39vFM The Confederate veterans in this clip are a bit superannuated when they do it one at a time, but when they all let loose together you can begin to understand what it must hav...

Philippe

I am the soul of patience.

After 150 + years, another week will hardly make any difference.

Philippe

The Steam version of the mod has been posted to Steam's Civil War 2 forum under Historical Flag Mod. As soon as I am satisfied that I know the answers to the questions in the previous post, I'll post a non-Steam version here as well. For the moment the flag changes are done manually, but I haven't g...

Philippe

I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to figure out how to trick the program into making the flag changes any time soon. I'm not giving up since it's the best way of going about things, but in the meantime I've started looking at putting together a manual version of the mod. The one minor obstacle ...

Philippe

The text in the bottom left and bottom right corners tell you two useful things. The bottom left tells you where you are in the loading process. I tend to avoid doing or clicking on anything while the game is loading. The bottom right tells you which version of the game is installed. That's really i...

Philippe

No, and that may be the problem. I'll take a look.

Philippe

I've been using early May 1861 as a provisional test date. Added in a MaxDate but nothing changed. Assuming that I'm messing with the right file in the first place (CSA events), I wonder if there isn't some other file I should tinker with to make the game recognize that CSB is a legitimate faction f...

Philippe

Just ran a quick test. This kind of thing never works the first time out, and this was no exception. Now the fun begins while I try to figure out why it didn't work. Either I'm fiddling with the wrong file, or some of the parameters in the event description are wrong.

Philippe

After staring at the two examples from PON, reading the wiki, and looking through the CSA event file, my first stab at writing an event for changing the flags would look something like this: SelectFaction = CSA StartEvent = evt_nam_CSA_BattleFlag|1|2|NULL|NULL|NULL|NULL Conditions MinDate = 1861/12/...

Philippe

My current questions about how to write this thing: Will the event fire or crash if there is no SelectRegion line ? Will the event work if only some of the elements of the StartEvent command are there? (There's an article in the wiki that explains what all of the elements are). Does this event need ...

Philippe

This thread is living in the front section for the moment, but in case anyone needs to read about it in the future, here is the link:

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?49955-Changing-flags

Philippe

The two events from PON that are relevant here are this one: SelectFaction = CMN SelectRegion = $Brandenburg SelectFaction = CMN SelectRegion = $Brandenburg StartEvent = evt_nam_PRU_NorthGermanConfederation1867|1|2|evt_txt_PRU_NorthGermanConfederation1867|Event-img_GER_NorthGermanConfederation1867|$...

Philippe

Essentially it means making the DR behave like Cuba, which was still a Spanish possession.

Philippe

I for one am keen to see how you made the changes for the unit. Do you mean what I did to produce those graphics? I make about half of the mod in Paint, and then finish it off in Photoshop 7. I'm probably going to move completely into Photoshop eventually, because the newer version of Paint has les...

Philippe

Earlier today I received two very helpful e-mails from Philippe Thibaut and Philippe Malacher pointing me at two particular event files in PON and giving a few hints about syntax. I'm currently trying to digest what I've learned, but things are already a lot clearer. Writing events to effect the cha...

Philippe

I think there may have been a comic book treatment of Salammbo, though I may be thinking of a computer game that is available on Steam (and probably other places). I have never summoned up the courage to buy it so I can't comment on how closely it does or does not follow the novel. But the costumes ...

Philippe

Here are some screenshots of the first draft of the mod. The first set of flags (Stars and Bars used everywhere) at start of game: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/447365654005266575/85FE76F908577E0AF8F682E635F434D4D5D7A789/ The second set (CSA Battle flag for units only) December 1861:...

Philippe

I know this game is about the trials and tribulations of the norteamericanos, but I couldn't help wondering if the DR's reversion to Spanish control (unique in the Western Hemisphere) was reflected in the game. From the wiki on the background of the Dominican Restoration War: quote General Pedro San...

Philippe

I suspect that Romans didn't have (or at least use) a lot of the engineering technology that we associate with them at the start of the 3rd century. They had learned quite a bit from the Etruscans (look at a photograph of the Cloaca Maxima and you'll see what I mean), but their big advances probably...

Philippe

I don't think it's a question of an individual's desire. Seniority lists were basic administrative information that anyone in an army would have access to and be aware of, and the game system should do a better job of reflecting that. The game is supposed to be modeling reality, not a game system.

Philippe

A first draft of the mod is pretty much done. If I don't use the Bonnie Blue Flag on the first turn (the flag was briefly used by only a few states though it was a generally understood symbol of secession), the CSA flag/symbol part of the mod fits into five folders. Oddly enough the hardest part was...

Philippe

Since that is the way the game was designed, I would rather not activate it. What I'm more likely to want to do is to come up with some architectural finials to change the appearence of those two sections and find a way to get rid of the zero's. My first reaction would be a pair of inward facting sc...

Philippe

But to really get into the mood for Schiller, you need to see the movie "Beloved Sisters" first.

Here's a link to the movie trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6Su5226Y0

Philippe

This has been asked before, but I'm embarassed to admit that I don't remember the answer. I've been tinkering with Civil War II this week, and I really like having the amount of supply available in a province show up in those two boxes in the lower left-hand corner when you pass your mouse over a re...

Philippe

Is it possible to write a script that changes the flags that get used by a particular side? I really don't care for the flags that were in use with the vanilla version. I've put together several sets of preliminary flag mods for the national flags, but have found that I am even unhappier with the st...

Philippe

I've always assumed that this wasn't possible, but is there a way to do this?

My understanding is that you can only sort generals by stats, but not by rank or seniority.

Philippe

In a next step, I could eventually listen without nausea to French military marches, and discover another part of history I didn't knew. I have my doubts. French military music in Napoleon's day was pretty good, but the best modern French military music that I've managed to force myself to listen t...

Philippe

The little father of all the Russians does not appear to be the little father of all the Poles.

Not surprising.

Philippe

I don't know if they aren't present in the Russian army as a whole, but identifiably Polish formations don't show up in the detailed OOB's of the Russian army in 1914 that I've looked at (pace JTS East Prussia 1914). I'm hardly an authority on the Russian army in this period, but there was this litt...

Philippe

That particular rebellion is the stuff of grade-B movies. For those unfamiliar with the semi-historical novel Michel Strogoff, here is an excerpt from the Wiki: quote While the physical description of Siberia is accurate, the Tartar rebellion described is entirely fictional and rather implausible. W...

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What the Rebel Yell really sounded like

Changing flags during the course of the game

Spain and the Dominican Republic

Stockpiled Supply Indicators

Changing flags

Sorting Generals by Seniority