All Slitherine have done is help them build it in to an installer and make it compatible with as many versions of the game as possible. The real work was all done by the fans.
The expansion will offer a whole new set of features. It adds new ways to play and offers hours of replay value in single player and some great new features for multiplayer.
NOTE: Grand Strategy requires v 1.12 of Commander Europe at War, but it supports the original game and the MILITARY HISTORY version.
Here are some key features of "Commander Europe at War 1.12 Grand Strategy Expansion Pack":
· Country specific unit graphics and NATO counters, so all major and minor nations have a full set of unit images!
· Transport and sea invasion models, which are a function of technology. Allies limited by technology as to how many units they can have on transport ship at a time.
· New submarine warfare model that much more realistically models the Battle of the Atlantic
· New weather feature. Weather is random yet realistic and effects combat and movement encouraging warfare in good weather. Also effects storms at sea so naval invasions & combat in winter are much harder.
· New partisan model. Partisans now spawn in all conquered countries and force the axis player to garrison cities and resources as they did historically, which radically changes the strategies that work,
· Added a Blitzkrieg effect where invaded countries suffer a temporary efficiency loss, due to surprise.
· Added Russian Siberian reserves which are released when the USA enters the war
· More cities, ports, revised political boarders, updated/new terrain features (e.g., Persian Gulf), more forts (e.g., Gustav, Ostwell & Siegfried) and five naval transport loops (e.g., Kiel)
· Added an air base feature. They allow aircraft to refuel mid Atlantic in Greenland etc.
· Vichy France and Free France are both added as separate countries
· New victory conditions based on historical surrender date of May 8th 1945
· Historical Italian surrender, where Italy can surrender without Rome falling
· Updated rail model including the ability to degrade rail capacity through bombing.
· New African supply model that limits the number of units the Axis can maintain in North Africa
· Added traded oil (Germany & Russia) and iron ore (Germany & Sweden)
· Added Lend Lease to Russia through Persia
· Carrier air wings and fighters can be grounded to avoid unnecessary combat
· Limited the air attacks you can use per turn on a single target which means air power can weaken but not destroy ground units, making it far more realistic.
· Specially created 173-page highly polished Grand Strategy Expansion players manual
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Airborne divisions and para-drops
· Allows PC players to play PBEM versus Mac players.
· German SS and Soviet Guards Elite Units
· Amphibious landings against defended coastal hexes
· Geo-political elements, which include
· French armistice (which the axis may accept or reject)
· Early Italian entry if insufficient allied naval presence in the Med
· Tension in the Balkans
· Spanish activation as axis or allied minor ally
· Turkey activation as axis or allied minor ally
· Finnish armistice
· Romanian and Bulgaria surrender and activation as allied minor ally
· Consequences for allied aggression (e.g., UK invasion of Ireland).
· Canadian, Australian, Polish and Indian Commonwealth units and leaders
· Headquarter units
· More and greater variability of leadership ranging from Army Groups (Fronts), Armies and Corps
· Ferry crossings
· Ability to swap positions of two units of the same service type (i.e., ground, air or naval).
· Reinforcement of sub groups at sea
· Leased air bases (Azores, Iceland, Greenland)
· Malta naval and air bases factor into the interdiction and counter-interdiction of axis supply of North Africa
· Allied Interdiction of Swedish Iron Ore to German
· Scripted construction of Atlantic Wall Fortresses
· Many many more improvement - too many to list to here!
· The GS expansion is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish & Russian.
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