James, everybody!

I've got some sparetime in the second half of october coming up and would be interested in contributing scenarios for the vassal module.

Is somebody already planing on doing the Cloudburst scenario from CL #28 (though its pretty old) or the alternate Romulan setups Eastern Sunrise from TO or The Klingon eastern marches from CL #44?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Sunday, October 08, 2023 - 08:13 am: Edit

Spotted a minor error for future correction:

The counter for the Federation BCP (Battlecruiser PFT) is missing the customary note about its fighters/PFs (should read "P4").


Guess it is some copy and paste error as the BCP counter is nearly identical to the BC1 from the Extra extension.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Sunday, October 08, 2023 - 06:16 pm: Edit

Hmm. Double-checking, yes, the BCP is the PF version... I probably got confused with the SFB designation.

And as a PF version... it should be in the Fed PF extension I seem to have accidentally left out of the 2.1 package.

At the moment, I have no outstanding offers of scenario files, so please go ahead and work those up.

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Monday, October 09, 2023 - 12:39 am: Edit

James,
To be sure about my report, the fed Battlecruiser PFT (BCP) is included in the PF extension with all properties necessary.
It is just an error on the counter itself that I noticed.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 12:02 pm: Edit

James,

I dropped you a mail to the address in your profile with the first scenario setup.
Yet to be double checked but to confirm some questions of format.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Soeren Klein

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 04:13 am: Edit

James Lowry,

I finished the setup for nine (9) Federation and Empire scenarios and sent you the vsav-files in seperate mails to the mail adress in your profile.
My mail adress is ogdrklein at web dot de in case it went into the spam folder.

If they work alright as preset scenario files be free to share and include them into your vassal module.

The scenarios sent include:

F&E 2.1 627.0 Vortex of Vengeance Y180S Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 628.0 Static Fog Y186F Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 629.0 Freak Storm Y186S Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 630.0 Electric Storm Y185F Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 631.0 The War That Almost Was Y157S Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 659.0 Eastern Marches Setup Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 660.0 Eastern Sunrise Setup Y168F Small and Large Map

F&E 2.1 673.0 Cloudburst Y177S Large and Small Map

F&E 2.1 625.0 Driving Wind Y186S Large Map
(It came half along the way while setting up Freak Storm and I noticed that there is no setup included for the large map,
so I simply went the last mile.)

I noticed that the setups for Maelstrom and Winds of Fire are only included for the Small Map.
Is there an issue with memory size of the vassal module or is it simply due to the size of the scenarios and the workload to set them up (and updating them)?
If the latter I would voluntere to also setup them up for the large map including the updates from the lates version of SO and Ao.
I would just need a little longer compared to the other nine scenarios as autumn break is up and school work resumes next week.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 10:05 pm: Edit

All lack of scenario files, including the occasional found in one, but not the other size are down to workload, including that of occasionally updating all the files for new features.

Thank you very much for all the work.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 10:08 pm: Edit

Soeren,

Make sure if you do the Maelstrom, Winds of Fire, or Gale Force to use the latest updates that have been done in the last couple of years.

Ryan

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 02:13 am: Edit

Ryan,

thanks for the hint. I've already printed those scenarios from the latest versions of AO, SO and FO.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Soeren Klein

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Sunday, November 05, 2023 - 11:27 am: Edit

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By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Sunday, November 12, 2023 - 07:49 am: Edit

Advice requested

Hi, there!
I finished setting up the maps (barring the open questions in the Q&A) for Gale Force, Maelstrom and Winds of Fire and finished the fleet deployments for Gale Force. At least for the main empires.

How about the Minor Empires?

Tholian 312th: obvious for Gale Force and part of the Tholian OOB later on.
Seltorian: obivious for Winds of Fire. How about the two other scenarios?

Vudar and LDR? Vudar obvious for Winds of Fire as they took over their first provinces.

How do you feel about WYN and ISC? Driving Winds and the ISC entry on the stage is close by time-wise and the invasion of the WYN cluster is part of sector B in Winds of Fire.

Shall I include them in the setup of the vassal scenarios?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Sunday, November 12, 2023 - 12:02 pm: Edit

Sectarianism no, unless they are just on the fleet chart.

LDR AND WYN. no since WYN are still abstracted in Winds.


ISC no, to separate of a scenario.

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 02:28 pm: Edit

Ryan,

thanks for the answer.

I came to ask because the scenario variantions put up the option to add LDR and Vudar to either side of the war.

I#ll add the Seltorians to Winds of Fire in their fleet chart, as they enter the scene during the scenario time line but leave them out of the two earlier scenarios.

By the way, Gale Force is ready to go in large and small map scale. I finished Maelstrom on the small map and have to copy the fleet trays over to the large scale map. Then the fleets for Winds of Fire are due.

Some ship counters from Tactical Ops are missing in the Vassal module (like the Gorn BDY). If it is allright, I'll post a list after I finish the scenarios.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

[edit: strike the note about the BDY. I remembered to look in the PFT tray and not in the carrier menue. But Joern and I missed some of the Hydran DD or CW leaders when we set up our new game of CLoud Burst)

By Paul Shutter (Cusimanse) on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 10:06 pm: Edit

James, is there any way for PDUs to increase their fighters when increasing through the various iterations? Even when increasing to BDE size, they are still showing only 6 fighters and the properties only show a max of 6.

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 01:48 am: Edit

Right click on the properties once it's up, and you can get a text box where you can set the full properties, including a new maximum value. Sadly, it can't be done automatically (at least while using the properties for tracking).

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Friday, November 17, 2023 - 10:44 am: Edit

James, I cannot find any counters or markers for the HDW-COG and HDW-POG. I guess they are not included in the module or am I missing something?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Friday, November 17, 2023 - 10:54 pm: Edit

I don't have separate counters for the COG and POG for groups not currently in use. I also don't have counters for currently unused Romulan ship modules. In both cases I largely assume you'll keep track of that on paper (/econ spreadsheet) if it should come up.

Basically, I assume they're nearly always in use, unlike tug pods. If you need to mark some unused ones, I'd probably just take a fighter counter, lower it to 5, and label it a COG, and put it in the PF slot on the empire chart. (And maybe label an extra CPF counter set to 0 for a POG.)

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Saturday, November 18, 2023 - 01:12 am: Edit

Thanks, James!

I thought as much and allready improvised the COGs and POGs on the scenario OOBs by using a 6xfighter or 6xPF counter with an HDW-xxx note, like you advised. You have a point regarding the settings of the two and I need to change the settings as I did not kept in mind that a COG added 5 fighters to the one already witrh the HDW.

I concurs on the romulan modules that most of it would be subsumed in the eco forms or other charts. But sometimes Joern and I muse about what visual playaids might be nice to avoid cluttering the map or as a quick way of keeping track of certain things (B10 construction, offmap colonies, construction limits, etc.) But we realise that these are mostly for our own personal preferences and not necessarily a real benefit for other players or the game itself.

For example: Before you added this awesome new transport summary button, we kept the counters for pods on the record chart with a note "operational" and added the corresponding tug counter to the map. That way we easily kept track of the pod construction limits without searching the fleet summaries or the map.

Mit freundlichen

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Sunday, December 03, 2023 - 05:42 am: Edit

Hi, there!

I finished the setup of Gale Force, Maelstrom and Winds of Fire. Except for some last minute doublechecks and some open questions over in F&E Q&A I'm ready to submit the setups for large and small map scales soon

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By Kevin Howard (Jarawara) on Wednesday, December 06, 2023 - 06:57 pm: Edit

Hello and Good Day to you all!

I have got my new computer running, have set up Vassal, and I'm ready to start transferring files over from 2.0 to 2.1

I have some ships in fleet Kosnet, and I know I need to put them into another fleet box before transferring the file over and then moving them back to fleet Kosnett. Things seem to be going well.

But then I re-read the notes on how to update, and it talks about going into edit mode and unchecking "Hidden", something, something, and, uh... what's that all about? Especially since those directions were in between the Kosnet to Kosnett conversion, but I don't even see how it's related.

So..., two questions: One, can someone explain to me what the Hidden-thingie is all about and what I'm actually supposed to be doing there?

And two, or rather, seventy-two, is the number of save files I'm transferring over. Do I have to do the uncheck Hidden thingie to each and every one of those files, or do I do it just once and then only worry about the Kosnet to Kosnett transfer part?

Thanks for any help to a very computer illiterate but thankful guy!

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Sunday, December 10, 2023 - 05:25 pm: Edit

The directions in the appendix are about getting all the features of 2.1 to work. If all you want is to not lose the counters in the Kosnett boxes, then just do that.

But if you want the control panels that were added in 2.1 to work, you want to do the rest. Step 2 is to gain access to an extra set of pieces. Step 3 is about populating those pieces into the control panels. Steps 4 and 5 are about putting everything away after that's done.

I suggest you open a scenario file in 2.1 and look over the window the 'Controls' button brings up, so you can see what it's like when fully working.

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Tuesday, January 02, 2024 - 03:15 am: Edit

James Lowry,

I submitted the updated scenario setups for

608.0 Gale Force Y175F Large and Small Map

617.0 Winds of Fire Y181S Large and Small Map

675.0 Maelstrom Y178S Large and Small Map

this morning via mail to you.

Unfortunately, my questions about the contratications Benjamin and I foound remained unanswered in the FnE Q&A thread. So I decided to make an educated guess.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen and a Happy New Year everyone.
Soeren Klein

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Tuesday, January 02, 2024 - 03:32 am: Edit

James,

for future module updates:

Here are three things I spotted while working on the scenarios and a new game with a friend:

a) Fed BCP (the Federation Battlecruiser PFT) counter lacks the notation for its attrition units: "4P". (already reported above)

b) The Hydrans are missing the counter for the CNT, a the third destroyer leader next to the WAR and ERL.

c) The Seltorians have two NSU chits labeled CPF. One of them (the second one in the tab) should be labeled CPX.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Wednesday, January 03, 2024 - 02:15 pm: Edit

A) Where do you see the BCP? I don't see it in the main module (where it shouldn't be), and the version in the Fed PF extension shows 4P for me.

B) Added to my working copy of the module.

C) Updated (Even labeled CPX in the module, I just didn't update the graphics.)

Thank you for all the work!

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Thursday, January 04, 2024 - 01:56 am: Edit

A) Ship Menue: Federation -> Ships -> PFT
There is the SDA , the SCA and the NPF, all with the right note for their attrition units.
But the fourth one, the BCP counter only shows the name and the combat factors on the counter, while the properties show 4 fighter factors and 6 PFs.

Maybe I caused some confusion here. I have already reported this in a post on october 8th above and you checked and confirmed it. Totally possible that I reported an old finding again that you already fixed back then.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein