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EQUIPMENT FILES



Pistol Ionut´s Equipment Files for Rommel´s Campaign

                                                                                                                 e-mail me:  pic@infoiasi.ro

                 Panzer General I is a great game,but....SSI tryied to make the "perfect" WW2 strategy game, but
                 we all know that's imposible.  The "major" errors of PGI i think are in the equipment file.The
                 original  equipment file had pretty strange values for some units, the only reason i can see for this
                 being that SSI tried to make a more enjoyable game, loosing touch with real  warfare.

                 Before you try my version,please read these explanations:

                - In real war, the pedestrian infantry was extremely slow  compared to any other unit.For example,
                  the slowest tank could still move with20-25 kmph and the infantry with maximum  5 kmph,so at lest
                  4 times slower.To compare with PG data, the infantry moves with 2-3 hexes and the slowest tanks
                  with 3-4 hexes.

                - In PG appear the APC's(Armored Personal Carriers) but they are strangely used(as organic
                  transports).In real war the infantry units witch had APC's used them as a combat weapon (infantry
                  support) - they didn't just used them to the front line and then got out to fight on foot.

               - The engeneers were highly specialized infantry units which wereused mainly for bridging ,destroying
                  forts, building(repairing) airports,etc.  All engeneers units had organic transports,not just trucks but
                  even especially designed APC's.

              - The towed guns had almost all organic transports (mainly trucks).

              - The anti-aircraft and air defense units were not independed.They were not supposed to fight for
                 themselfs or chase enemy aircraft, they were assigned to other fighting units or major objectives
                 (which were targets for enemy air attacks).

                - The aircrafts were almost all better that the ones in PG.  The only way in wich real aircraft were
                 worst  than PG aircraft is the ammo load. For example in PG an aircraft could engage 5-6,even 10
                 targets without returning for a rearming,wich is far from reality.A fighter group,when encountering a
                 enemy aircraft group would engage until almost out  of ammo,so it usually wouldn't have enough
                 ammo for another engagement.The bombers dropped all their payload on the targeted objectives,or
                 even on the field,if engaged by enemy fighters.

                -  No aircrafts were so easy to shoot down.The air war was more balanced , both sides usually had
                 some aircraft to engage the enemy ,not like PG were the germans cleared the skies in 5-6  turns.
                 Also the ground-air attack was only defensive,and not quite so effective(even a heavy defended
                 target could not destroy more than 10% of the enemy planes wich engaged it).

              Forts were usually pretty easy destroyed by a good infantry unit in  PG ,wich was not the case in real
                 war.Any major fortified position with big caliber guns would take quite a few attackers with it,so the
                 forts are,in this equipment file ,more serios targets.
 


Any comments ,suggestions
  would be appreciated,
 

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installation notes

                      - You must copy the file "ionut01.exe" in the root directory for Rommel
                        Campaign for instance C:\PG\ Rommel where you got installed Rommel
                        Campaign  with previous Tortoise Page Rommel Campaign Installation zip

                      -  Run the file and a new subfolder will be automatically created.  For
                         instance  C:\ PG \ ROMMEL\IONUT

                      - Here the important advantage: You CAN SHARE A  SINGLE INSTALLATION
                        of  your PG program...for  Rommel Campaing  and the equipment modified
                        Rommel campaign. When you want to launch the Original Gerold´s Rommel
                        Campaign..just run the PG.bat file :  C:\ PG \ ROMMEL\Rommel.bat
                        but if you want to play the modified one..then  launch the Game from
                        C:\ PG \ROMMEL\Ionut\ionut01.bat

                      - If your System Crash while playing...you will find  the original game
                        files... inside Sub-Folders named "Bak"  (if they exist, it doesnt means that
                        you have lost anything...in fact they exist in order to protect you against
                        game files loses.