H&D Deluxe; the ultimate mod; Mission overhauls

[Myron]

LOL, I just Googled "Geluwedorf", and literally, the only reference it can find is the video game. Otherwise, Google has no idea what it is.

Well, i suspect that the real Abwehr headquarters was located in Berlin.

It does have to be located not far from the northern coast, that's for sure.

[p.jakub88]

Well i mean the main Abwehr headquarters. Maybe there were other smaller ones in various places across the Third Reich.

[Myron]

Well i mean the main Abwehr headquarters. Maybe there were other smaller ones in various places across the Third Reich.

Oh yes, of course, I don't command would deliberately send us on a suicide mission.

Nighty-night.

[p.jakub88]

Sadly, I forgot the mission.
I was distracted recently by a game I thought I lost. I bought an old disc of a game I never played before, and lost it before I could play it, a year or more ago, and I found it again yesterday.

Well, if you manage to finish my "The road to Mandalay" add-on, please let me know and give me some feedback.

There is a company called GOG (Good Old Games), where you could find and buy old PC games online cheaply and those games will work even on the newest OS (like Windows 10 for example): https://www.gog.com/. I played few games "made" by GOG team - like Panzer General 3D and Abey's Odyssey. I highly recommend this website.

[Myron]

Wow, thanks for the link. I just start snooping around. Hopefully, I can find a decent price.
You have used this website before, I hope?

[p.jakub88]

Wow, thanks for the link. I just start snooping around. Hopefully, I can find a decent price.
You have used this website before, I hope?

I will send You a PM about this, wait a second.

[Myron]

Maybe Steiner has an elite SS guard, and the SS had weapon privileges, including first access to advanced weapons, like the Mp43 prototype, and it's famous descendent, the MP44.
The green-backpack uniform, you can see the SS logo on the helmet.

EDIT: Maybe that's the secretary's personal guard. All the secretary would need is the uniform that has the swastika armband.

Will you do this? Replace the secretary uniform, and add the green German with the assault rifle as his personal guard?

Granted, the secretary already has a suitable uniform, but I feel that it must "stick out", given that the instructor mentions him.

As for Danube 4, are you able to spawn corpses, or only disarmed live men about to be executed? I feel that there should be some partisan corpses in some places, given that a big firefight happened in the area only a short while ago. The blood spots are still red, and blood quickly becomes black as it dries out.

[p.jakub88]

Maybe Steiner has an elite SS guard, and the SS had weapon privileges, including first access to advanced weapons, like the Mp43 prototype, and it's famous descendent, the MP44.
The green-backpack uniform, you can see the SS logo on the helmet.

EDIT: Maybe that's the secretary's personal guard. All the secretary would need is the uniform that has the swastika armband.

Will you do this? Replace the secretary uniform, and add the green German with the assault rifle as his personal guard?

Granted, the secretary already has a suitable uniform, but I feel that it must "stick out", given that the instructor mentions him.

As for Danube 4, are you able to spawn corpses, or only disarmed live men about to be executed? I feel that there should be some partisan corpses in some places, given that a big firefight happened in the area only a short while ago. The blood spots are still red, and blood quickly becomes black as it dries out.

The Steiner's secretary is not a key person in the Germany 2 mission. In addition, there is no suitable "secretary uniform" for him.

Why the secretary should have a personal bodyguard?

Hitler had many secretaries in his underground bunker in Berlin during last days of WWII in Europe (at least one of them is still living to this day) and i never heard of any "bodyguard" assigned to protect them.

As for Danube 4 i can't spawn corpses of fallen partisans. There are only dead German corpses in winter uniforms in H&D Deluxe (in the Ardennes campaign in FFF).

[Myron]

If the secretary is wearing the dark blue uniform with the swastika armband, then he is the National Socialist equivalent of a "commissar", and thus would be entitled to his own SS bodyguard.

Ok, so in Danube 4, you could have a few unarmed partisans lined and shot, as they were captured, somewhere in the far side of the map. In one of the rooms of the bunkers, we could find all the captured partisan weapons.

[p.jakub88]

OK, i decided to make a FINAL UPDATE of the Danube 4 mission.

Beside already implemented changes i made few new ones:

- objects static collisions optimized,

- more detailed tactical map,

- changed the spawning point of the SAS team (i moved it backwards, so now the commandos will be covered by hills),

- few additional trees removed,

- enemy MGs rate of fire changed (from 3 bullets at a time to 1 bullet),

- enemy MGs default shooting sound changed,

- enemy MGs ammo quantity increased,

- few sandbags added, to improve the defense of the German soldiers inside trenches and bunkers,

- few sandbags made slightly bigger, to give the MGs operators outside the bunkers protection against sniper fire from the flanks,

- some enemy soldiers are crouched, to be less exposed to snipers,

- few enemy soldiers added in the trenches,

- "captured" partisans weapons placed inside of one of the bunkers in the storage room,

- small bugs fixed.

[Myron]

LOL, "for security reasons".

Do you think the Romanian gendarmes are so nasty that they would force any captured partisans to "run away" through the minefields while having MG shooting at them from behind?

[p.jakub88]

LOL, "for security reasons".

Well, i didn't find better words (i recently replaced the sentence by a more suitable one).

I mean - staying too close to open ground is risky and you will be probably shoot by an enemy MG.

So, i decided to move the mission spawning point more to the back - now the SAS team will be covered by nearest small hills.

[p.jakub88]

Do you think the Romanian gendarmes are so nasty that they would force any captured partisans to "run away" through the minefields while having MG shooting at them from behind?

If those partisans were communist ones (like Tito partisans were) - i wouldn't be surprised, if the Romanian gendarmes dealt with them in the way that you described. Many atrocities have been committed on the Eastern Front during WWII. Slavic people were treated as subhumans (Untermenschen) by Nazis - especially communists. However, that doesn't mean that the communists (Red Army in particular) were saints. They also committed many crimes like raping women during their "liberation" or executing POWs. WWII in general (in Europe and Asia) was full of crimes and bestiality.

[p.jakub88]

So, did you play my newest Danube 4 mission? It took few hours to implement all those changes mentioned by me earlier.

EDIT: It is already after midnight in Poland, so i am going sleep. Good night! See you tomorrow.

[Myron]

Excellent change! No invisible holes to fall through or anything.