Jaycee
22.01.05, 00:33
Mal wieder etwas aus dem Paradoxforum:
New Battle Scenario: The Balkan Wars 1912-13
It was the first war fought in Europe in the 20th century - and it set the trend for all the others: horrific, violent and bloody. During the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, vast armies of conscripts fought each other with artillery, machine guns and bayonets - and over 200,000 soldiers would be killed in just ten weeks of fighting. It was a total war, with whole societies mobilised for the conflict and atrocities against civilians commonplace on all sides. But how did it begin?
For over three centuries the Ottoman Empire had ruled South-Eastern Europe. However, this once-mighty state was now in terminal decline. Many of her former subject peoples in the Balkans had gained independence during the 19th century, including Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria. However, the Ottomans still governed millions of Christian subjects in their remaining European provinces. Although the Serbs, Greeks and Bulgarians were all highly suspicious and jealous of each other, they could at least agree on one common interest: the liberation of these people from the Turks. While the Great Powers of Europe were content to watch complacently as the Ottoman Empire declined, the young, upstart nations of the Balkan League laid secret plans to take matters into their own hands...
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
1. You must first apply the No Time Limit patch to HoI2.exe
2. Unzip all files into the Hearts of Iron 2 folder. (z-balkanwars.csv goes into db\leaders, balkanwars.eug goes into \scenarios, the two picture files into \scenarios\data and all other files into a new \scenarios\balkanwars folder.)
3. When you next start the game, the new scenario will be listed withthe others.
DOWNLOAD V 0.1 BETA (http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars.zip)
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars2.jpg
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars1.jpg
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars3.jpg
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars4.jpg
1. No leader pictures are currently available. Once the 1914: The First World War mod is completed, this battle scenario will be updated to use the pictures distributed with that mod.
2. Although they are not visible in the game, countries in this scenario currently use the 1936 government ministers, not the correct 1912 ones. Again, this will be corrected once 1914 is available.
3. Flags used are those of 1941, not 1912. Again (you guessed it) this will be corrected once 1914 is available.
4. The capital of the Ottoman Empire has been moved a few hundred metres eastwards from its historical location, and is now on the Asian bank of the Bosporus. This was done for both play balance - to give Turkey a buffer between its capital and the Bulgarian army - and history. During the real-life 1st Balkan War Bulgaria annexed almost all of the territory represented in HoI2 by the Istanbul province, but not the actual city of Constantinople. For what it's worth, you should consider the name of this province in this scenario to be Adrianople instead.
5. The original plan was to include a series of events for the Treaty of London and the Second Balkan War, when Bulgaria turned on its former allies and was also attacked by Romania and a revitalised Turkey. Unfortunately, there were too many possible variations to make it practical to encode this. However, I've left the Romanian order of battle in the download in case anybody else wants to give it a try.
6. The southern Dobrudja is shown in the screenshots as belonging to Romania. In fact, it was part of Bulgaria at this time, and the download files show this correctly.
Scheint ganz interessant zu sein. :prost:
New Battle Scenario: The Balkan Wars 1912-13
It was the first war fought in Europe in the 20th century - and it set the trend for all the others: horrific, violent and bloody. During the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, vast armies of conscripts fought each other with artillery, machine guns and bayonets - and over 200,000 soldiers would be killed in just ten weeks of fighting. It was a total war, with whole societies mobilised for the conflict and atrocities against civilians commonplace on all sides. But how did it begin?
For over three centuries the Ottoman Empire had ruled South-Eastern Europe. However, this once-mighty state was now in terminal decline. Many of her former subject peoples in the Balkans had gained independence during the 19th century, including Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria. However, the Ottomans still governed millions of Christian subjects in their remaining European provinces. Although the Serbs, Greeks and Bulgarians were all highly suspicious and jealous of each other, they could at least agree on one common interest: the liberation of these people from the Turks. While the Great Powers of Europe were content to watch complacently as the Ottoman Empire declined, the young, upstart nations of the Balkan League laid secret plans to take matters into their own hands...
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
1. You must first apply the No Time Limit patch to HoI2.exe
2. Unzip all files into the Hearts of Iron 2 folder. (z-balkanwars.csv goes into db\leaders, balkanwars.eug goes into \scenarios, the two picture files into \scenarios\data and all other files into a new \scenarios\balkanwars folder.)
3. When you next start the game, the new scenario will be listed withthe others.
DOWNLOAD V 0.1 BETA (http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars.zip)
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars2.jpg
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars1.jpg
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars3.jpg
http://www.mdd.demon.co.uk/pics/balkanwars4.jpg
1. No leader pictures are currently available. Once the 1914: The First World War mod is completed, this battle scenario will be updated to use the pictures distributed with that mod.
2. Although they are not visible in the game, countries in this scenario currently use the 1936 government ministers, not the correct 1912 ones. Again, this will be corrected once 1914 is available.
3. Flags used are those of 1941, not 1912. Again (you guessed it) this will be corrected once 1914 is available.
4. The capital of the Ottoman Empire has been moved a few hundred metres eastwards from its historical location, and is now on the Asian bank of the Bosporus. This was done for both play balance - to give Turkey a buffer between its capital and the Bulgarian army - and history. During the real-life 1st Balkan War Bulgaria annexed almost all of the territory represented in HoI2 by the Istanbul province, but not the actual city of Constantinople. For what it's worth, you should consider the name of this province in this scenario to be Adrianople instead.
5. The original plan was to include a series of events for the Treaty of London and the Second Balkan War, when Bulgaria turned on its former allies and was also attacked by Romania and a revitalised Turkey. Unfortunately, there were too many possible variations to make it practical to encode this. However, I've left the Romanian order of battle in the download in case anybody else wants to give it a try.
6. The southern Dobrudja is shown in the screenshots as belonging to Romania. In fact, it was part of Bulgaria at this time, and the download files show this correctly.
Scheint ganz interessant zu sein. :prost: