Hex of Steel News

- Added : Messerschmitt 163, Sukhoi, CANT Z.1007, 20mm Breda, 75mm M15, 105mm Mle 1919, 65mm Mle 1906, Blenheim Mk. IV.

- Added : Fedor von Bock, Gunther von Kluge, Tadeusz Kutrzeta,Hermann Hoth, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Waclaw Stachiewicz, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Nikolai Vatutin, Draza Mihailovic, Semyon Timoshenko, Alexander Novikov, Friedrich Paulus, Albert Kesselring, Edward Rydz-Smigly, Douglas MacArthur, Chester W. Nimitz.

- Change : Generals can now be bought during a NON campaign scenario/map, but only ONCE. Meaning if they die, they die, you can't buy them again. Same for the AI of course.

- Change : Made good improvements to the map of Europe.

- Removed : Europe BLANK map. You can always just make a copy of Europe 1939 or edit it directly, no need for twice the same map.

- Added : Operation Overlord remade scenario. It's now bigger, and more focused on the d-day itself than freeing the whole country in 1 go.
- Added : new generals : Miles Dempsey, Bertram Ramsay, Arthur Tedder, Erich Raeder, Hans von Salmuth, Friedrich Dollmann, Hugo Sperrle.

- Added : Battle of the Bulge map.
- Added : In the unit editor, a commander filter so only commanders appear in the list of units.
- Added : Adolf Hitler, Gerd von Rundstedt, Sepp Dietrich, Hasso von Manteuffel, Walter Model, Omar Bradley, Alexander Patch, William Hood Simpson, Courtney Hodges (All generals that took part of the battle of the Bulge basically).
- Added : Panzergrenadier(42), Volkssturm(44), Marines(41).
- Added : 1 new achievement : Desperate war (Buy 1 volkssturm unit in the campaign).
- Added : Possibility to edit the victory and defeat text in the map editor.

- Fix : Intro next not being saved in the map editor.

Cheers

- Added : Generals ! You've been asking for this (HQ kind of thing), well here it is. They are units just like others, but their mechanics is different. They can't attack / retaliate / surrender. They are only giving bonuses to friendlies around them. Their range as stat is not the range they can attack but the range they will give the bonuses. Their stats (Armour, Air, hard and soft attack values also are their bonuses).
Now this all means, let's say you have a general on the board that has 10 hard attack, 5 armour and a range of 5, your general will give a +5 defense armour, and a +10 hard attack to ALL friendly units within a radius of 5 tiles. That simple.
- Added : Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel, Erich von Manstein, Hermann Goring, George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eiseinhower, Bernard Montgomery, Georgy Zhukov.
- Added : Rename any unit in the map editor. Left click on the unit on the board, and an input field will appear on the left. This allow you to edit the unit's name and rename it by "14th panzer division" or whatever you need it to be called for your scenario !
- Added : 3 new achievements. Kill a general, subscribe to a mod, and upload a mod.

- Change : UI tweaks.
- Change : Remade all USSR infantry helmets.

- Fix : Loading a save wasn't working.
- Fix : City names were getting super small when zooming in close, now they have a minimum size.
- Fix : Retaliation not working in some cases.
- Fix : You could rename a save a give it no name at all, which would render the save infindable later on because it has no name.

- Removed : Kubelwagen, Jeep MB units (As they are needed for the generals units, I don't want you to get confused by which is a general and which is a recon unit, I just removed them as recon units).

- Added : Tiles support for the workshop. You can now upload your custom tiles just like you upload your units. Graphics and data alike.

- Added : Customization of the main menu wallpaper. When creating your mod directory you will see a "wallpapers" folder, just drop your images there (1920 x 1080) and they will be randomly changed every time you open the game !

- Added : Generate tile / unit template for every single tile / unit in the game. This is a life saver for modders. Don't thank me. As you know, to replace a unit or a tile's texture in the game you need to create a PNG that is of a special tile and has a special name. Well no need for this anymore my friends. In the mod manager, there are 2 new buttons that will allow you to create a template for every single tile or every single units INSTANTLY. The only thing left to do actually is to open the template, place your new graphics and save. THATS IT. IMO this is going to save hundred of hours of work ...

- Added : A hide UI button in the map editor. F10 is the shortcut.

- Fix : Some minor UI tweaks.

Enjoy !