Wc3 Modern Day Mod Work Thread

I agree with Desophaeus , some generals need to be weak, even just filler. Countries like India could have 1 strong general, maybe 1 general which is just for early game, then a couple weak generals that you wouldn't pick unless the mod has loads of medals. Not even then likely. 

(Of course I'm biased against India a little, maybe you guys want to give them several great generals) 


Then countries like Cuba would have only 1 general, and most of these small countries would probably have quite weak generals. A few like Finland in the vanilla game might have actually good generals. 




@thasnaily , what about Ethiopia?  I remember that Addis Ababa is in the vanilla game, so I think it would be a natural choice for a new country. A real improvement on the game IMO.



Eithiopia has an mostly aged military (old communist weapons)  though it has been militarily active, fighting Eritrea, and being a major contributor to peacekeeping. 

Its also had a major contribution to the fighting going on in Somalia, and has thus gained experience there. Not to mention fighting Somali separatists in its own territory. (Ogaden/Somali region) 

It sent troops to Korea but that was long ago, 2 regimes ago. 

The current size of the Eithiopian army is just above Spain (counting only actives) and below Greece, though both countries are much larger counting all troops. 

In fact, several 1 star countries beat it when counting all troops. 

Its peak size, however, was 400,000  and also when under Communism. This is similar to many of the 1 star countries. It has 99 million people and thus could raise a few more eh? 


Overall I'd say its a regional power with probably many flaws. If you give it those 2 cities it would be a sizeable 1 star. Not quite as good as Vanilla Romania though. 


(edit: Eithiopia has 136,000 troops, Romania is just a bit larger with 196,300 counting all forms of troops, not just actives. I'd bet on Romania I guess though) 

You're forgetting... A player only needs maybe 2 good Tank gens, 2 good Art gens, 1 Navy/Air gen, and maybe 1 Inf/Air/ or a 3rd Art or 3rd Tank. That's about it.

You also are forgetting that NOT ALL abilities  are made equal. Ask Erich von Manstein. If you want to build your own generals... He will tell you that the sailor skill is total BS, or the fact that nearly all terrain-based skills are useless except for Plain Fighting (and even Street Fighting is not quite the best to have)

When you only need SIX generals to do the job properly... you throw out over 100 generals out the window for being boring clones.

This isn't my mod, so I don't really care if you want to make this boring, but I wanted you to know the pitfalls when you do make a game out of this mod. There is a good reason WHY so many generals in the Vanilla WC3 was so bad (It's really just so to make it a diverse cast of generals to pick from).

This is true. Many generals even seem good and yet do not make the cut for "maybe use general, is great use general" 


Hmm...Still, all they need to do is be more or almost as interesting than the vanilla game right? (tall order perhaps)   (considering its a mod holding attention for a fraction of the original would be an accomplishment I guess) 


Well I don't know if they can't just go through with it. Considering that the world is IMO smaller today, they will have more generals because more countries and yet potentially considerably less generals because the main countries are weaker. (Germany, UK, Italy, Russia, even USA perhaps, certainly Japan big decrease there) 

And I've already noted that if they can attain enough of an attention span, like the vannila game they would have generals good for beginning. (Auchinleck, Crerar, Badoglio, Ozawa, so on) 


A bit of a conundrum this is, but is it not passable?  Perhaps. 

You are ahead of me. I was just thinking about packing more medals in the game. 


Its a good idea for sure. I think that 200 should be a minimum, or perhaps a bit less. I don't think it should be SUPER low. However the top generals should be no more than 2000 I suppose. 

Okay, I'm putting Egypt on hold for now...

My research for a 2nd Egyptian thus far:
Outdated
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Army_(Egypt)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Army_(Egypt)
Outdated (partially)
www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/infographics/SCAF-Leadership-Feb2015-4.pdf

I do know for sure that the 2nd and 3rd Army of Egypt is the two most important combat commands for the Egyptian Army in the field tho.

Nooo, I had last responded on Friday, that's only 3 days ago.

Besides right now, I am really sick and in bed. I won't be doing any heavy research for few hours like normal. Not today.