Wars Across The World News

We have released on June 1st the Koenigsberg 1945 DLC, an expanded scenario covering the Soviet offensive in early 1945 against East Prussia. It's an unusual scenario where the goal of the German defender is to evacuate as many refugees as possible and his Soviet opponent wins by preventing this...amidst the usual chaos of military operations.

In the meanwhile we keep on progressing on improving the game engine and its past and present content. Within 10 days a few updates will take place on existing scenarios and some minor bugs will also be fixed.

Stay tune

This month, while moving forward on the mobile version, we also brought a few fixes, in particular to the Beta version of the PBEM system.

It is operational, but the 'Summary' phase is still in the works, so you won't have report of your opponent's previous turn for now. Feel free to contact us by mail for more information or the PBEM short instruction's guideline.

** FIXES **

- (Movement) Fixed bug that allowed to send units to regions they are not allowed to enter using drag and drop from the Stack Viewer

- (Breakthrough) Fixed bug that allowed to send units to regions they are not allowed to enter

- (Battle) Fixed bug where double click on a unit to assign hits would cause the battle to be stuck in death phase. It is now impossible to assign a hit while the unit in performing its « wounded » animation.

- (PBEM) Fixed a bug that made it impossible to open a match save sent by the opponent
- (PBEM) Fixed a bug that allowed to play in the opponent's place during battles
- (PBEM) Fixed a bug at the "End Turn" phase, that allowed to play the opponent's turn instead of sending the current state of the match to him/her.

Thanks to players' reports, some scenario errors and unbalanced were fixed recently. Also some language fixes have been added.

Carrhae53: IA update
BullRun61 : cards errors fix
Malaya1941: German language fix
Berlin1945: setup errors fix
Mali2012: IA update

Enjoyːsteamhappyː

This month's release takes you end of 1941 in Malaya. You will be able to re-live the epic campaign in the Malay peninsula, which saw Japanese forces led by general Yamashita (the Tiger of Malaya) smash the Allied defenses and in a swift and short campaign conquer the British stronghold of Singapore, the 'Gibraltar of the East'.

As the Japanese you must take the base or fail...and as the Commonwealth CinC you must play a succesful delaying campaign with British, Malay, Australian, Indian and Dutch forces, and prevent the fall of the crown of the British Empire...and may be change the course of history

Have fun ːsteamhappyː

With this month's release (Malaya 1941) we also added a few engine improvements, as follows:

*** IMPROVEMENTS ***
- (Battle) At the end of a Land or Sea Battle, the defender always loses if its only non-panicked units remaining on board are Air units while the attacker still has Land or Sea units.
- (Board) Added visual effect for situations where a unit stack is destroyed by a card.
- (Board) Unit stack now always have the color of the unit that it is displayed on top of it
- (Dogfight) FIxed message displayed at the end of a dogfight when no unit was hit, the previous one was confusing
- (Entrenchment) The entrenchment level of a stack is now indicated on the stack by repeating the entrechment icon (3 icons for High level, 2 for Medium and 1 for Low)
- (Helicopters) Helicopter units now stay in their current region, unless they are ordered to go back to their base or previous region after their current mission. This order is done using a new button that appears in the Stack Viewer when helicopters are selected. However, helicopters cannot stay in ennemy or sea regions.
- (Leaders) A leader that replaces another one killed in battle now arrives in the structure contained in the capital region, if it exists. Otherwise, it arrives in the region itself.
- (Reinforcements) Reinforcements triggered by cards can no longer be delayed by another card.

*** FIXES ***
- (Aerial back movement) Fixed bug where the game would be stuck in this phase due to helicopters not being able to get back to their base.
- (Aerial Defense Movement) Fixed bug that allowed to drop units in regions were they were not allowed to go during this phase.
- (Battle) Fixed bug where the game was stuck in the battle in some cases where panics had to be inflicted but no opponent could panic.
- (Cards) Fixed bug where a unit destroyed by a card effect would not actually be killed and stay on board (e.g. "Surface to Air Defense" in Mali 2012)
- (Cards) Fixed bug where cards designed to teleport units could not teleport units belonging to opponents of the card's owner
- (Cards) Fixed bug where cards designed to ignore the effect of the terrain on battle's stats had no effect
- (Entrenchment) Fixed bug where entrenchment level was not correctly read from scenario data
- (Movement) Moving into a region that contains enemy units located into a not-fortified structure no longer destroys these units. Instead, they automatically move out of the structure to fight if they can.
- (Movement) Fixed bug where units located in a structure and unable to move could be automatically added to battles.
- (Movement - Battle) Fixed bug where hidden units stayed hidden during battle while they don't have this capacity
- (Options) Fixed AI level option in main Menu and in-game menu : pressing the « Cancel » button would not cancel a modification of this level
- (Siege) Fixed bug where hidden units could besiege a structure (this is not allowed by the game rules)
- (Siege) Fixed terrain effect on sieges surrender value, defender's morale in battle and combat factor during pursuits
- (Six Days) Fixed bug where Arab planes destroyed by « Focus Operation » card would still be considered destroyed in subsequent Purchase phases.
- (Stack Viewer) Fixed some tooltips for action buttons.

*** SCENARIOS ***
- (Changes) Changed some entrenchment levels to work with new Entrenchment code in Berlin1945, Bulge1944, Normandy1944, Estonia1918, Finland1918, Tannenberg1914, Saratoga1777
- (AI): Allied/UN AI improved in Normandy1944, Korea1950
- (Game Balance): changed VP threshold for score victory in Expanded Scenarios.

Thanks for your continued support, and enjoy ːsteamhappyː