A New Sqaud Battles Mod

[z1812]

Hi All,

Here is something for the holiday season that I hope you will enjoy. I have done a graphic mod for Eagles Strike. Below are some screens and info about the Mod. It is submitted to the wargamer as z1812's Eagles Strike Mod. It will be available after it is reviewed. Sometimes that takes a while. I will post again when it is actually up for download.

Regards John

Here are a few Screenshot Attachments for now and general info is in the following post: Have a close look at the Unit Boxes, and Counters

Attachment 1 shows American AB and Heer in contact. Notice new counter graphics. Yellow cross lower right shows unit in panic.
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Attachment 2 shows a American armour and Reinforments appearing. Notice Anti Tank and Personnel mines. Upper left Sand Bag Improved position.
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Attachment 3 shows SS Armour moving down the road. Notice the gray sqaures denoting a passenger.
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Attachment 4 shows SS and Americans in Contact. Notice burning Jacksons. Also look at the German unit in the center screen and the one top left. You will see the red cross for demoralization and the yellow one for panic. Also the red sqaure in the units bottom middle show them on ground.
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[z1812]

Hi All

About the mod:

I would like to acknowledge juniorgeneral.org where I was able to use a few models they had for armour. Most armour graphics were re-worked from the ES originals. Others were found on the net and in books or magazines. Because of resolution loss when re- ducing the image all had to be worked upon. Some are almost scratch.

The counter soldier graphics are based upon Steel Panthers but when I tried to cut and past them they could not be made to look very good. So they are all from scratch.


List of Changes:

All the 2D vehicles have been redone. Soldier Graphics are redone as below. See next post for more on Soldier Graphics.

-Panic is denoted by a small yellow cross in the upper right hand corner.
-Demoralization is denoted by a small red cross in the upper right hand corner.
-Cover is denoted by a small red square lower middle.
-The leader badge is made smaller as not to interfere with graphics.
-The Wreck Counter shows smoke instead of a Red X.
-Loaded vehicle has Light gray rectangle lower middle.
-New Victory, Defeat, and Draw pictures and sounds.

-Many of the Map symbols have been redone. The gray box has been removed for fortifications and obstacles etc. and replaced. For instance the mine graphic is now 5 smaller mines without the gray box and made easy to see by a red dot in the middle.

-The weapons have been made to be more sharp and clear.


Soldier Graphic Notes.

As each soldier has a facing, and as there are only 15 slots available for each type then choices had to be made. Also in arranging scenarios to conform to the new graphics the soldier pictures have to change as regarding the general direction forces are moving to.
I have re-done the OOB for ASL scenarios 1-10 and they are included for download. I will do more from time to time and post for download.

If you wish to do them yourself. Here is the procedure.

-Open the OOB editor.
-Open the OOB from the scenario you wish to change.
-Reduce the window size.
-In your art program open up the Unit BMP from the info folder.
-Beside it also open up the Modded 2Dunits100 bmp
-Then click on each unit in the OOB window and choose edit.
-You may then scroll through the pictures and choose the one from corresponding to the Unit info bmp that aligns to the Map 2Dunits100 bmp.

It sounds complex but really is not.

For my convenience, and because there a few different mods now for ES now, I have created a separate file in each folder where mods reside so I can change them at my convenience.

For instance inside the Map Folder I have created a new folder called 100 units. I have in it 3 different 2Dunits100 files. I just swap them in and out as I want. I do this for all areas with Mods for the same file.

Regards John

[rahamy]

Very nice, thanks for sharing! Hope they get it posted soon.

[Mike Cox]

Really a good look. Thanks!

Have you ever considered trying to do a top down view vehicle mod?

[z1812]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your comments. In fact I did consider a top down vehicle graphic. One tank model was done and tried in game.

It was,because of facing issues, not very pleasing or suitable. Vehicles would seem to be moving sideways and backwards. To my taste it did not suit as well as the profile graphic.

Regards John

[dje]

The new mod looks great. I figured we were a dying bread(sb players) This has resparked my interest,thank you. Now if I only owned ES! I have PtF, Korea,PW,and Vietnam.

I noticed on your screen shots a US machine gun crew had a Silver Star. What is that for/mean?

I also recall another mod for ES was being made using the icons from the lock and load boardgame. Does anyone know about that?

Any updates on the latest SB release?

Thanks again

[Ozgur Budak]

The new mod looks great. I figured we were a dying bread(sb players) This has resparked my interest,thank you. Now if I only owned ES! I have PtF, Korea,PW,and Vietnam.

I noticed on your screen shots a US machine gun crew had a Silver Star. What is that for/mean?

I also recall another mod for ES was being made using the icons from the lock and load boardgame. Does anyone know about that?

Any updates on the latest SB release?

Thanks again

http://www.xtreme-gamer.com/forums/squad-battles-series/42968-counter-mod-es.html
Check it in this topic

[z1812]

Hi dje,

Thanks for your comments. The silver star is only for decoration.
Unfortunately I have not heard anything about any new SqB titiles.

Regards John

[rahamy]

I can't say much, but I will say that unless something goes very wrong, you'll see a new SB title out in '07 along with updates for the entire series.

Just a little tease for your holiday season. :clown:

[Rifleman95th]

Music to my ears :-) Love this series.