06.01.2000 Version 6.2 of the New Campaign for Panzer General

changes to prior versions
- same city names added
- the recon units are now light tanks
- instead of recon units there is a new unit class called assault guns
- same minor changes to the equipment file
- V1 and V2 secreat weapons for the german side
- PzIIIJ grafic error corrected
- same new icons
- adjustment to prestige

Check the installation notes after the scenario overview.
Check also the cdfloppy.txt file for information how to change
the disk version to floppy version to play custom scenes.
PLEASE READ THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION CARFULLY!
I know that you want play nat read long readme.txt files.
If you think you can install it without reading this file, then please
read this file when you encounter trouble!

for problems contact gerold.t@pgv.at if you have ICQ, my number is 9147458

Note:
If you want the MAC version or Windows95 version 
send a mail to Rhinobones@aol.com

new in version 6:
-many new units (much more than in prior versions)
 (check the newunit.txt for an overview about the new units)
-many new icons
-the player can buy up to 80 core units from begining
 (but he must manage his prestige better!,do you want many older or fewer new 
  equiped units?)
-prestige adjustment for good play.
-same minor bugs adjusted
-the ZIP-File is now much smaller!
-grafical error corrected
-same city names added


The scenaries:

1  Polen Westerplatte (new map since version 5)
   -year 1939 the german invade Polen.
   -be fast for sucsess!
   -airforce from the beginning
   -take all objectives (for major 2 turns before end!)

2  Warschau (new map since version 2 , in version 5 greater map)
   -with sowjet auxillary
   -take all objectives and take it fast!

3  Norway (lightly changed)
   -you must go more to the north then in the original game
   -submarines waiting
   -Paratroopers will help you, so use them carefully and 
    on the right places!
   -take all objectives

4  Ardennen 40 (new since version 4)
   -did Mansteins plan work?
   -can you outflank the allies going throug the ardennes?
   -take all objectives as fast as you can

5  Duenkirchen (new Map)
   -now Guderians Tanks move on! 
   -can you catch the englisch armys?
   -Division 'Brandenburg' will help!
   -if you want to invade england in the year 1940 you must get
    all objectives within 8 turns!
   -take all objectives (for a major victory take all objectives
    in no more than 8 turns!)

6  Sealion 40 (lightly changed)
   -powerfull english navy
   -cost guns!
   -a trained airforce will be needed!
   -take all objectives

7  North Africa (lightly changed)
   -go on cairo and go fast!
   -take all objectives
   -if you start your campaign here, then it will be a hard job

8  Middle East (lightly changed)
   -with vichy france auxillary
   -take all objectives
   -be aware of same surprises

9  Al Alamein (new Map)
   -heavy battle near an little railway station
   -many englisch artillery
   -the english navy is very strong
   -take all objectives

10 Kaukasus (lightly changed)
   -many ratas and first land lease troops
   -a little help from italy
   -take all objectives

11 Sealion 43 (lightly changed)
   -heavy coast guns
   -a very strong english navy is waiting
   -an elite air core will help you!
   -take all objectives

12 Tunis (new Map)
   - 2. Stalingrad in North Africa?
   - hold Tunis and at a minimum 2 objectives
   - for a major hold Tunis and 5 objectives or retake all objectives

13 Sizilien (new Map)
   - Hold the Island
   - the italiens will help?!
   - hold 2 objectives for a minor victory
   - hold 5 objectives for a major victory

14 Anzio without Gustav line (new Map)
   - Through the allied into the sea near roma
   - has the italiens changed the sides?
   - for a minor victory hold rom and 2 objectives

15 D-Day (lightly changed)
   -many allied aircrafts
   -new heavy forts
   -be aware of french partisans!
   -the first wave are allied elite troops to destroy
    the fortifications
   -hold 3 objectives for a major victory
   -hold 2 objectives for a minor victory

16 Anvil (lightly changed)
   -many allied aircrafts
   -french troops on each side!
   -hold 2 objectives for a minor victory

17 West Wall (new Map)
   -hold the last line before the 'REICH'
   -take all objectives

18 Cobra (lightly changed)
   -dont let the Allied outbreak from normandy!
   -many french partisans
   -for a minor victory hold 3 objectives

19 Meuse (new Map)
   -hold the netherlands

20 Berlin West (lightly changed)
   -hold back the stong allied force
   -same prototype units will assist you
   -for a minor victory hold berlin and 5 objectives
   -for a major victory take all objectives
   
21 Gibraltar (new Map)
   -take the stategic point
   -many allied ships!
   -Division 'Brandenburg' will help!
   -italy will help
   -take all objectives

22 Malta (new Map)
   -capture the island that eats the german supply to north africa
   -take all objectives

23 Stalins Attack 1941 (new since version5, replaces Balticum 
   of further versions and Barbarossa of the original PG)
   - stalin has attacked the eastern border of germany
   - the few german units were not able to hold
   - so the sowjet armys has surrounded Knigsberg and stands
     before Warschau and Danzig
   - now your core leads the counter offensive!
   - drive the red army back and invade russia
   - take all objectives!

24 Leningrad (new Map)
   - get on Leningrad, the home of the sowjet fleet
   - The Finns help from the north!
   - many sowjet tanks!
   - take all objectives

25 Moskau 41 (new Map)
   - the sowjet fight to the dead!
   - moskau is a heavy fortress
   - some prototypes are under your command
   - but the sowjets have also same prototype
   - same finns will provide help
   - take all objectives

26 Dnjepr 42 (new Map)
   - can you break throuh the sowjet defense based on the dnjepr river
   - many auxilary troops ( are your allied really helpfull?)
   - take all objectives

27 Operation Winterstorm (new Map)
   -liberation of 6.Army at Stalingrad
   -Can you win the battle of Stalingrad and win the war in the east?
   -Take all objectives and be aware, that you hold all objectives before
    your core reaches the 6.army!

28 Rostov 42 (new Map since Version 3)
   -Can your core make the first step to Stalingrad?
   -take all objectives

29 Charkov (new Map)
   -Destroy a large part of the sowjet army and reagain the initiative!
   -take all objectives

30 Kursk (lightly changed)
   - greatest tank battle in history
   - Can YOU change history?
   - for a minor victory hold the objectives you currenlty hold
   - for a major take all objectives (you must be fast!)

31 Moskau 43 (new Map)
   - last change, so go on!
   - Finns and Italiens will help
   - take all objectives

32 Minsk (new Map)
   - sowjet armys launches a heavy attack on army group middle
   - be aware: partisan!
   - for a minor victory hold minsk
   
33 Budapest (lightly changed)
   - last offensive against sowjet armys
   - now the sowjets has more experience!
   - take all objectives

34 Berlin East (new Map)
   - Can you hold against so many units ?

35 Berlin (lighly changed) 
   - twilight of the gods (lightly changed 'The last stand')
   - very experienced allied armys
   - hold berlin for minor victory

36 San Francisco (new Map)
   - showdown!
   - be aware, there are somewhere experienced tanks in the area
   - usa has secreat weapons
   - the world should be lucky that this never happend!
     (and we all too!)
   - take all objectives

37 early Moskau (lightly changed)
   - Guderians plan
   - Division 'Brandenburg' help you!
   - go on your objectives!

38 Sealion plus Italien Navy (lightly changed)
   - the Italiens are a real help!
   - i think you sould spend the prestige for italian help!
   - take all objectives

I found same of the Maps on the Internet.
I hope nobody is angree, of changing it to campaign modes.
Other Maps i converted from Allied General.

Note for Playing:
-Only playable in campaign mode (starting 1939 in Polen and 43 West in sicilia,
  you can also start West 41,but this is a real hard work!)
-Same Units are earlyer available (Me163 Rocket Hunter,...)
-Same Units Values are changed (8.8 ATG, same artillery,same Air defense,
  BE AWARE! 'Stugs' - Storming guns are now very good units)
-try to avoid loss of core units.
-try to overstrenght core units.
-use only elite upgrade for your core.
-the Me 163 Rocket Hunter is a good learning unit because it gains very
 fast experience!
-try to build a good mix of medium tanks (Panther) and heavy tanks (Kingtiger)
 and storming gun (Sturmtiger)
-if you came on the defense, air superity is very importend!
-same level bomber with high naval attack are helpfull in same scenes!
-same anti air guns can be usefull, because they can kill experienced
 enemy fighters without danger
-i tested all scenaries and was able to get a Major Victory
 in all Scenes, but i have only one version of PG for testing
 and i do not know if all versions are exactly the same!
-On same scenes, i get a Major only with heavy loss of core units and
 now time for elite upgrade of a strenght greater 10. But in some
 scenaries you will need overstrenght troops for fast victory!

I think only player with same experience should try the new campain, because
same people on the web, that played older versions of the new campain, told me
that it was very hard with weather on and supply on and hidden units off!
But a real 5 STAR GENERAL gains a victory with weather on, supply on, 
hidden units off and in the hard level!


Installing for the CD-version:

-changing to the disk version: 
 check first the detailed information in the cdfloppy.txt -file!
 if you have changed the cd version to floppy version go on with the
 text behind this:


installation for disk version:
-after unzipping the campv62.zip file you will find 3 more zip files:
 dat.zip, exe.zip, brf.zip and same text-files.
 Copy this files to the Panzer General subdirectorys with the same name.
 (dat.zip to \pg\dat\  exe.zip to \pg\exe\ brf.zip to \pg\scenbrief\)
-now unzip the 3 files in this directorys and overwrite the old files with
 the new ones in the zip files)
-change to the pg\exe directory and call new.bat (simple write new and hit the
 enter key).This will change same hard coded information in the
 panzer.exe file to use the new units and the new unit class.
 IMPORTANT:The new.bat programm only works correct with the disk version of the
           panzer.exe file. The cd-version would hang after start!
-start normally with pg.bat from the \pg\ directory


now you can play the new campain for PG!

Remember, the real war is not a funny game!

same information about secret weapons i included:

GO229: 
flying wing like the modern F117
only one prototype was ready at the end of the war.
I think in the practic it would be unflyable (no computer)
the americans get the prototype. The rest of his fate is unknown.
the main material of this fighter was wood.So i think it has good
stealth characteristic (for radar of 1945!)
I thing in the year 1947 a prototype of an only-wing aircraft
was lost near roswell!

Ba Natter:
point defense fighter like the komet, but with 24 unguided
air to air missles (in his nose)
Only prototype had been build.

Arado 234 'Blitz':
the first jet bomber of the world used during ardennen offensive
(battle of the bulk)


Mouse:
Heavy Tank (180 tons) with 15.5 cm or 12.5 cm Gun and 7.5 cm 'secondary gun'
The prototype has destroyed all streats and could not move over brigdes!

Surface to Air missles Waterfall:
Designed to kill the allied strategic bomber.
After 50 prototypes (they work very good!) was the project canceled
to use the resources for the Aggregat 4 (V2) of von Braun.
(Braun wanted to build a rocket that can bring people to the moon,
 but sometimes his rockets flyes to London and Antwerpen)


a word to the P-80 shooting star:
in the year 1945 the usa has ordered 5000 of this jet fighter!
i think that this had outnumbered the Me262. So i think the german
had lost the war also if they had changed there fighter programm into
Me263 in the year 1943 (Hitler wanted the Me262 as Bomber!, but with bombs
it was not faster than a Mustang!)



IMPORTANT:
When you get a Major Victory in San Franziko please send me a mail,
and as proof the savegame of the last turn before win!
When you came to the defense, please send me also a savegame of your last
battle!
If you send me your savegame, please write down which version of the
new campain you have played and from which page you download it!
I need this feedback, because i want to see how many people playes the
new campain and if i should make more versions of it (i have many
ideas left!).


There are same other projects in planing state:

- italian mini campaign
- polen mini campaign
- french mini (or free french campaign) campaign
- english mini campaign
- mini campaign about the civil war in spain
- world war one campaign (Rhinobones has meanwhile made one!)
- a german campaign where the player can buy battleships (this will work!)
- pacific campaign for japanese forces
- pacific campaign for american forces
- a german mini campaign after a victory on the D-day when the germans
  will through out the allied from italy and try to attack northafrica in
  1944.

My time is limited so i will make same of this projects only when i gain
feetback.
So please send me a mail and write what kind of campaign you want, or if
you have same new idea send it also to me!

Other campaigns i made:

- long german campaign (currently version 6.2) with 38 scenes, many new maps
  and units and up to 80 core units

- finnish mini campaign with 3 scenes. The player can buy finnish units

- german campaign 'Elite Core' with 38 scenes. The player commands only a 
  small core (up to 15 units) and acts as 'front fire brigade' on critical
  lines.

- US campaign where the player commands an US core from
  Torch 1942 to Berlin 1945 (7 scenes)

- Red army campaign 'red storm rising'. The player commands an soviet army 
  core from polen 1939 to Berlin 1945 (9 scenes)

- German mini campaign 'Rommel the dessert fox' with 8 scenes, where the player
  commands german AND italien core units in the dessert of north africa

- German campaign 'Only eastern front' with 18 scenes, where the players core
  fights only on the eastern front against an powerfull Red Army, so prepare
  to die.

errors, featback and comments to:
gerold.t@pgv.at

check out my homepage:
http://spiele.freepage.de/geroldt/
for latest updates,discussion forum and more PG stuff.


And now a little story from the war (I wrote it in german):

Dies ist eine Geschichte von Peter Pechel Jahrgang 1920,deutscher Offizier:

Ende Mai 1943, ich war gerade 23 Jahre alt geworde und Oberleutnant, wurde
ich als Kurier des Oberkommandos des Heeres nach Bukarest geschickt.Ich war
wegen einer Verwundung nicht frontdienstfhig geschrieben, als Ordonanzoffizier
zum OKH in der Berliner Bendlerstrae kommandiert worden und stand kurz davor,
wieder an die Front zu gehen.Im D-Zug Berlin-Bukarest sa ich allein im
Kurierabteil, umgeben von den Scken von Kurierpost, die ich in Bukarest
abzuliefern hatte. Es war schon Abend.Wir hielten in Breslau.Pltzlich ffnet
sich die Tr meines Abteils, im Rahmen der Tr steht ein Oberst der Pioniere,
schon etwas lter,etwa 40 bis 45 Jahre alt, mit einigen Kriegsauszeinungen auf
der Brust, und setzte sich zu mir.
Wir kamen langsam ins Gesprch.In jener Zeit im Dritten Reich war es nach
ungefhr einer Stunde mglich, zu entdecken, wesen Geistes Kind der andere war.
Es war mir nach dieser ersten Stunde klar, da dieser Oberst keineswegs ein
Nazi war.Man konnte das heraushren aus einigen Stzen,einigen Formulierungen,
am Tonfall, mit dem gewisse Worte gesprochen wurden. Das Gesprch wurde offener
Der Zug ratterte durch die Nacht in die Tschechoslowakei hinein auf den Weg
nach Budapest, und wir nherten uns einander jedenfalls soweit, da ich im
erzhlte, mein Vater sei von der Gestapo verhaftet und ins KZ Sachsenhausen
verbracht worden.
Eine lange Weile des Schweigens folgte.Dann holte der Pionieroberst eine 
Flasche Cognac aus seinem Rucksack und sagte:'Wir sollten vielleicht mal ein
bichen auf das Wohl Ihres Vaters trinken'.
Nun,ich nahm das an, und wir redeten weiter.Und dann kam der entscheidende
Moment.Der Oberst sagte:'Wissen Sie Herr Kamerad, Sie haben sehr offen mit mir
geredet. Sie sind im OKH, Sie gehen wieder an die Front. Ich will auch offen
mit Ihnen reden und Ich mu Ihnen etwas erzhlen, was Sie vermutlich nicht
glauben werden,was ich aber loswerden mu. Wir sind vor kurzen eingesetzt
gewesen in Polen, um rckwrtige Stellungen auszubauen'.
Er nahm einen Schluck Cognac und fuhr fort:'Beim Ausbau dieser rckwrtigen
Stellungen-eines dieser Grabensysteme war in der Nhe eines Eisenbahntunnels-
habe ich folgendes erlebt:Eines Tages kam eine Lokomotive mit offenen Gter-
wagen angefahren.Da waren Menschen drin, dicht gepfercht.Es waren anscheinend
- wir waren ziemlich nahe dran- alles Juden. Und die Lokomotive schob die Waggons
in den Tunnel und koppelte sich dann ab.Dann kamen einige schwere Diesel-LKWs,
mit SS besetzt.Die stellten sich an beiden Enden des Tunnels und lieen ihre
Motoren laufen, Auspuffgase in den Tunnel.Alles andere war abgedeckt, so da
die Gase voll wirkten.Und sie lieen ihre Motoren so lange laufen, bis alle
Menschen in diesem Tunnel tot waren.Das hat ber 24 Stunden gedauert.Und die
Menschen da drin, das waren, wie gesagt Juden.Sie mssen einen furchtbar
qualvollen Tod gestorben sein. Das habe ich gesehen,und das haben auch meine
Mnner gesehen'.
Der Oberst hatte, soweit ich das in der Dunkelheit sehen konnte,Trnen in den
Augen.Er hatte die letzten Stze stockend herausgepret. Er setzte hinzu:'ICH
MCHTE SEHR,DASS SIE, HERR KAMERAD, DAS WISSEN, UND DASS SIE DIESES WISSEN
WEITERGEBEN'.

Und nun weit DU es!
Denke beim Spielen des wirklich guten Strategiespieles Panzer General
hie und da an da was sich hinter der Front abgespielt hat.

G.T.