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- 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Optional rules development - first update
The original board game rules supported several 'optional rules' which could be taken to use in any combination in addition to the standard rules. In this update groundwork is laid for implementing such optional rules i…
Announcement - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Usability improvements for scrolling and mini-map zooming
Implement map scrolling via down-held-mouse-wheel-drag. - Implement zoom of mini-map via mouse wheel over it. - Improved scrolling from mini-map click to be smoother.
Announcement1 changeMaps - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed some achievement trigger conditions
Fixed city-capturing achievements to not trigger when watching recording. Fixed achievement on almost-safe odds exchange ("Even Safe Can Be Sorry") to not trigger when attacker did not lose a unit after all due to all a…
Announcement1 changeFix - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed a crash on recording playback + other defects
Recording playback would crash if a combat event included units on the very edge of the map - fixed. The Axis non-rail portion of the supply line was not correctly reduced to one on muddy weather (turn 5) - fixed. Suppl…
Announcement4 changesFixMaps - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed recording airpoints + die roll being covered
Recording showed erroneously separate events for air points usage within combat, which could cause remaining air point amounts to be wrong (even go negative). Swapped recording playback and combat ratio dialog locations…
Announcement1 changeMaps - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fix reinforcements/destroyeds clearing on load game
Fix clearing lists of reinforcements and destroyed pieces on load game. Without this (especially after viewing a record playback) there could appear duplicate units as reinforcements.
Announcement - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed hexside between 1522 and 1622 and achievement triggering on recording
The hexside between 1522 and 1622 did not have a railroad in all cases, now fixed. The achievement "Moving On Rails" could be erroneously triggered when watching a recording playback, where the player who did the record…
Announcement1 changeFix - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed achievement "Against All Odds" not triggering
Fixed achievement "Against All Odds" not triggering even though the conditions were fulfilled.
Announcement1 changeFix - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Playback of recorded events supported!
Major new feature in this update is the recording and playback support. This is especially helpful for players playing by email and thus not directly witnessing the actions of the other player. Now, when the game is sav…
Announcement3 changesFixGameplay - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed rail capacity + added mouse wheel scrolling
Fixed rail capacity calculation. Now it correctly counts Soviet capacity to be 8 units of any type, meaning 8 units in total, not 8 units of every type (24 units in total) as it was before. Also for Axis units it now co…
Announcement2 changesFixMaps - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Improved guidance on video installation issues
To support (die roll) videos, the game may need to install a codec. It tries to do this automatically on initial startup or when the user runs the menu item Options->Video->Test and in resulting dialogs selects to (Re-)…
Store1 change - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed snowy weather supply portion shortening to only affect Axis
Fixed snowy weather non-rail supply portion shortening to only affect Axis. Before it erroneously affected Soviets too.
Announcement1 changeFix - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed reinforcements movement halving by weather + shock unit movement status
Fixed reinforcements and replacements not having movement halved on turn 5 (mud), fixed 'moved' status to not reset on combat phase start (affects shock units - without this fix they erroneously got full attack strength…
Announcement1 changeFixGameplay - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed terrain errors (rough/forest) on hexes 1511, 1512, 1518, 1618 and 1619.
The southern edge of the rough area northwest of Moscow was erroneously handled as if it were forest (hexes 1511 and 1512). The small forest north of Minsk was erroneously handled as if it were rough (hexes 1518, 1618 a…
Announcement1 changeFix - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Improve advance/exchange dialog usability by adding a selected piece preview.
Improved advance/exchange dialog usability by adding a selected piece preview to the bottom left corner. Also made some tweaks to hopefully reduce / remove the cases where the background image is rendered above the text…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa
Fixed unit details view in Combat Ratio Breakdown Dialog to be cleared on close.
In the Combat Ratio Breakdown Dialog the middle section shows a detail graphic from any unit selected in the lists. If a unit was selected and details shown, then the dialog closed, on a subsequent opening of the dialog…
Announcement1 changeFix
