Hex of Steel News

- Change : All AA now have a range of 2.
- Change : Italy 1943 huge map adjustments.
- Change : All scouts planes now do 0 damage.
- Change : All fighters air damage have been increased.
- Change : All fighters damage vs ground units have been reduced.
Change : All units can now capture VPs.

- Fix : AI planes would sometimes not attack anyone even though they could
- Fix : AI planes leaving when they could stay and continue deal damage.
- Fix : AI planes were going to places they didn’t have enough fuel to come back from.
- Fix : British bombers had insane damage values.
- Fix : One instance of AI freeze when using supply ships.
- Fix : Planes even near an allied airfield would lose 1 unit of fuel if they were not moving.

- Added : You can now press ’N’ when you have no units selected to toggle ON/OFF the NATO counters.

- Change : AI speed during its second turn is way faster. So, the issue with before is that there was the same waiting time regardless of a bunch of important conditions (can the unit attack ? Is there a retaliation ? Etc) So now its timed perfectly, there won’t be any more useless waiting time ! OP-TI-MI-ZA-TION ! (For both Slow, and speedy AI).
- Change : AI will now sell captured units if it doesn’t have enough money to maintain them in functioning order (pay for repair for everyone / supply fees etc). This is to generate an additional income, human players will often do that, so why the AI couldn’t ? :)

- Fix : Aachen belonged to Belgium in the Low Countries campaign scenario.
- Fix : Slovakia was with the Allies in the Polish campaign scenario.

- Removed : Message telling you the workshop map have been loaded.

- Change : Increased AI play speed with slow AI OFF. By something around 4 times faster.

- Fix : The camera always followed the AI moves even when the option was OFF.
- Fix : AI would go to bombed airfields thinking it could resupply there.
- Fix : You could resupply planes near a bombed airfield (which defeats the whole purpose).
- Fix : Greece and Denmark didn’t have any colour for the NATO counters.
- Fix : The Pacific map had a 1 day per turn time scale + New Zealand was spelled wrong.

- Change : Updated Japanese tank stats.
- Change : Italian / Romanian / Finnish NATO counters colour.

- Fix : Bombing a tile twice in a row would result in the tile’s graphics turning black.
- Fix : French MG team weren’t properly renamed.

- Added : You can now make peace with other countries. To do so, here’s the logic (temporary, if someone has a better idea, go ahead, you know the drill) : As a weak country, you need to pay 5 times your production / turn money amount to the country you want to make peace with. As a powerful country, you need to have more than twice the number of VPs as the country you want to make peace with.

- Fix : The number of core units never going up in campaign (thanks Doc for that one).
- Fix : Resupply could be done twice. This actually was a bug, I only know understood what it was. So basically, you know that to resupply it is based on a % of supplies coming to your unit from the closest city. Well that thing is, since you can only get a % of the total, so for example 80% and you are out of fuel completely, well you can get 80% back MAX. So when you did it twice, it basically went up a first time to 80%, and the second time, that you shouldn’t have been allowed to do, basically killing the supply mechanics, was going from 80 to 100.
- Fix : On windows, quick saves wouldn’t be saved with time + date because on windows you can’t use “:” in a file name. Lame somehow, buy a Mac !! (So now instead of being written : 01-12-2020 8:30 its gonna be 01-12-2020 8h30. At least it works now.
- Fix : Broken achievement : kill a unit using a V1.

- Removed : Possibility to mod NATO counters. I will strive to obtain the best looking counters myself, please, tell me if you don’t like them, and if so, show me what I should do instead, that would greatly help. If you want to even make them yourself / design them, please do, and I will happily use yours in the game ! You will even get your name in the credits :)