KS Napoleon Mod II 1.02

After I drove them pesky Austrians of the hill and down it and I then brought my troops over the crest I could see your boys taking the bridge Roland.  AWESOME SIGHT!!  I was stretched from your flank to Digby's flank and at this time I could see the whole battle unfolding.  We had them Austrian's in a box, you hitting the bridge along with their flank from my left. Then Digby and Kevin pushing their flank from my right and I was pushing them into the river.

That was by far one of the best games I have been in so far, the battle was intense and then view from my point of view surreal.



How do you take screenshots in game?

I use a program called "fraps" - there is also a free version available on the net - but it limits you to certain types of pictures...
another one would be "bandicam"

at one point I had them both - each of them has its advantages...

It certainly did have an epic feel.

Interesting idea on the courier count Kevin, I hadn't thought of that. If a strength of 1 sometimes give instantaneous order transmission but 10 gives crashes, should we not try 5? What's your reasoning for going higher than 10?

Mike, the F4 key takes screenshots and drops them in your Documents/SOWWL/Screenshots folder. They are .bmp files so are ridiculously big but you can convert to .jpg with MS Paint to save disk space and to upload them.

I really like those screenshots Kevin posted. Particularly the first, which really looks like how I imagine a Napoleonic battlefield. It's not a feeling I experienced with the G/burg engine, even with our mods.

Martin (J)

Thanks Digby!

I agree Martin, visually it feels much more Napoleonic. I have lots of screenshots from that battle. Will post some up in the next day or so. What I like about WL is the units are spaced so much further apart, a brigade in columns of division abreast seems to occupy at least 1/4 mile, maybe more. Here's one panoramic shot (2 screens stitched together) of one of my brigades descending from the ridge crest to a preparatory position half way down to the river. This was just before the Austrian cavalry stopped my advance dead in its tracks and I had to send an urgent messenger to Kevin to bring cavalry.

http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/22426/Roussels_Brigade_Advances.jpg

Another shot of the opening act of the action on my flank as my voltigeurs go forwards to worry a brigade of Austrian landwehr.

http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/22426/Voltigeurs_At_Work_01.jpg

I said afterwards in TS that all the game needed was some edited-in close-ups of Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer and it would look like a movie.

Sorry I had to leave last night, I was so tired and the game wasn't anything like as exciting as the previous one!

How did things go?

The game seemed very stable at that courier level so we could use that for now as it's almost the same as the couriers by brigade level.

You were about to be enveloped. Up to the time you left, we had only engaged less than 1/3 of the enemy force. Defeating that small contingent seems to have angered Archduke Charles and he began mobilizing the rest of his army.

Taff also left not long after you and the game crashed. It wasn't a bad frame in packet, but a crash to desktop. We had that happen once before when a couple people left. I have no idea what causes it. In spite of that, I think we can say we successfully played another courier game. We should try a full courier game this weekend with the enhanced courier numbers.

Sorry about leaving but I turn into a pumpkin at midnight

I was playing an SP game just now. The KS 1815 Brit OOB vs French & corps vs corps and had a crash to desktop about 50 minutes in. The log file shows a lot of "bad formation ID: -1" lines. They get progressively more numerous until the game log ends like this:

08:46:00 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Nassau Brigade 3rd Rank
08:46:01 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Nassau Brigade 3rd Rank
08:46:02 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Avant-Garde btn
08:46:04 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Avant-Garde btn
08:46:05 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1/1st Nassau Line btn
08:46:05 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:06 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1/1st Nassau Line btn
08:46:06 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2nd Light btn
08:46:06 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2nd Light btn
08:46:09 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1st Light btn
08:46:09 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2/1st Nassau Line btn.
08:46:10 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Nassau Landwehr btn
08:46:11 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1st Light btn
08:46:11 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Nassau Landwehr btn
08:46:12 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2/1st Nassau Line btn.
08:46:14 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Lieb btn (Garde)
08:46:14 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Général de brigade Bruno
08:46:15 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Lieb btn (Garde)
08:46:15 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:17 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3rd Light btn
08:46:18 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3e Chàsseurs à Cheval esc 1
08:46:18 MESSENGER ARRIVED,LT Colonel von Specht
08:46:20 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3rd Light btn
08:46:22 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7e Hussards esc 2
08:46:24 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3e Chàsseurs à Cheval esc 2
08:46:25 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3e Chàsseurs à Cheval esc 3
08:46:26 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:29 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7e Hussards esc 3
08:46:29 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1st Line btn
08:46:29 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:29 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:29 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:30 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1st Line btn
08:46:33 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7e Hussards esc 1
08:46:33 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1st Brunswick Jäger btn.
08:46:35 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1st Brunswick Jäger btn.
08:46:36 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:38 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2nd Line btn
08:46:39 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:39 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:40 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2nd Line btn
08:46:42 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3rd Line btn
08:46:43 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3rd Line btn
08:46:46 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:49 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:49 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:53 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Nassau Brigade 3rd Rank
08:46:55 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Nassau Brigade 3rd Rank
08:46:56 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:46:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:06 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:09 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:12 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Général de brigade Gobrecht
08:47:16 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:17 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3e Chevaulegers-Lanciers esc 2
08:47:18 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3e Chevaulegers-Lanciers esc 1
08:47:19 MESSENGER ARRIVED,4e Chevaulegers-Lanciers esc1
08:47:20 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3e Chevaulegers-Lanciers esc 3
08:47:25 MESSENGER ARRIVED,4e Chevaulegers-Lanciers esc 2
08:47:26 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:36 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:46 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:56 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:47:59 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:06 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:09 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:09 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:16 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:20 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:20 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:26 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:30 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:30 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:30 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:32 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:36 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:40 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:40 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:40 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:44 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1er btn 29e Ligne
08:48:46 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:46 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Moll's Foot Battery
08:48:47 MESSENGER ARRIVED,von Heinemann's Horse Battery
08:48:47 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Moll's Foot Battery
08:48:49 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7-6-pounder
08:48:50 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:50 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:50 MESSENGER ARRIVED,von Heinemann's Horse Battery
08:48:51 MESSENGER ARRIVED,4-6-pounder
08:48:51 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3-6-pounder
08:48:52 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1er btn 8e Ligne
08:48:52 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2-6-pounder
08:48:52 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2-6-pounder
08:48:52 MESSENGER ARRIVED,von Heinemann's Horse Battery
08:48:52 MESSENGER ARRIVED,5-6-pounder
08:48:53 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:53 MESSENGER ARRIVED,5-6-pounder
08:48:53 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3-6-pounder
08:48:54 MESSENGER ARRIVED,6-6-pounder
08:48:54 MESSENGER ARRIVED,8-6-pounder
08:48:55 MESSENGER ARRIVED,4-6-pounder
08:48:56 MESSENGER ARRIVED,6-6-pounder
08:48:56 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7-6-pounder
08:48:56 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3-6-pounder
08:48:56 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2-6-pounder
08:48:56 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:48:57 MESSENGER ARRIVED,5-6-pounder
08:48:57 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1-6-pounder
08:48:57 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2-6-pounder
08:48:57 MESSENGER ARRIVED,3-6-pounder
08:48:57 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1-6-pounder
08:48:58 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7-6-pounder
08:48:58 MESSENGER ARRIVED,4-6-pounder
08:48:59 MESSENGER ARRIVED,7-6-pounder
08:48:59 MESSENGER ARRIVED,8-6-pounder
08:48:59 MESSENGER ARRIVED,6-6-pounder
08:48:59 MESSENGER ARRIVED,8-6-pounder
08:49:00 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:00 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:00 MESSENGER ARRIVED,8-6-pounder
08:49:00 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:02 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2e btn 8e Ligne
08:49:03 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1-6-pounder
08:49:04 MESSENGER ARRIVED,5-6-pounder
08:49:04 MESSENGER ARRIVED,6-6-pounder
08:49:05 MESSENGER ARRIVED,4-6-pounder
08:49:05 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1-6-pounder
08:49:05 MESSENGER ARRIVED,8e et 29e Voltigeur
08:49:06 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:10 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:10 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:10 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:11 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Munition Caisson
08:49:12 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:13 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:13 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Munition Caisson
08:49:13 MESSENGER ARRIVED,1er btn 25e Ligne
08:49:16 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:19 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Munition Caisson
08:49:19 MESSENGER ARRIVED,2e btn 29e Ligne
08:49:20 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:21 MESSENGER ARRIVED,25e et 45e Voltigeur
08:49:22 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:26 BAD FORMATION ID: -1
08:49:30 BAD FORMATION ID: -1

The log ends there.

Early on I had a very small number of these and they all appeared right after Major Cramm, the Brunswick cavalry brigade commander received a messenger:

08:30:54 MESSENGER ARRIVED,Major von Cramm
08:30:54 BAD FORMATION ID: -1

I also had a few of these:

08:34:52 Formation DRIL_LVL4_CAV_COLUMN cannot support additional unit type:2

I still have the log if you want to see it.

Any ideas Kevin?

Yes, those are formations that are not listed in unitglobal that the AI is trying to use. It will be corrected in the next version. I hope to have it uploaded tomorrow.