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I can play today.

Campaign battle then??

Edited: no, I guess that Andrew is needed....

Anything today?

I can play tomorrow, but not today.

Anything today?

Yes Sir, we're accepting your surrender

Tomorrow it is then!!


Miko you are starting to sound like Humboldt the Insane.

Tomorrow it is then!!

There might be enough players on for tonight. Have you got a scenario ready?

Mike, it was a tough scenario - it's a shame you've dropped. We didn't take the Chateau in the end. So even though Andrew had +5000 score I think we failed.

Kevin - could you put somewhere a guide how to reconstruct game from save/dump?
We continued without Mike even though me and Andrew had a rough idea what to do, but not entirely sure about all the steps. As you've done it hundreds of times, I'd rather relay on your guidance than trying to figure it out myself.

Done.  Here's the link: Restarting an MP Game

I think I know how to do this now.

1) After a player leaves the game, do not quit but hit the tilde key "~" (on my European keyboard it is in fact the @ sign key). On some others it is the ¬ key (left of the number "1" key.
2) Then type "dumpscen" without the quotes.
3) Make a note of the scenario time before you quit th egame.
4) Optionally you can also hit tilde again and type "dumpdead" as well which saves the casualty sprites file.
5) Go to your My Documents/SoWWL/Scenarios folder and in there will be a new folder called ScenSave with inside it a scenario file.
6) Open that file up and do a search for "surrender" and that will bring up all the units whose flag is now a white surrendered flag.
7) Delete all those units.
8 )Put the edited scenario file into your original scenario folder either overwriting the original scenario file or save that with a new name.
9) If you used "dumpdead" as well you will find a casfx.csv file in your main My Documents/SoWWL folder.
10) Copy that to your scenario folder as well.
11) Edit your scenario.ini file to make the start time the correct time it was when you saved the game and if you have saved the casfx.csv file, change carryover=0 to carryover=1. That should make the dead bodies from before show.

EDIT: Kevin got there first but I posted anyway for the casualty file if you wanted it.

T storm in the valley below knocked out electricity just long enough for my battery back up to shut down, no sooner had windows closed the lights came on.  LOL We some lightning close to the house for about 5 minutes after I left because of it.

Thanks Kevin and Martin for this guide.

Miko I thought the AI acted pretty well during that game.  They had reserves coming up in the rear of the OBJ just before I lost power.

I can play tonight

YAY GROG!!!!

I can too!

I should be able to play today. And for the first time in a while, I will be able to do this more consistently as my schedule as just become more accommodating

Did you get a promotion?

Thanks to both Kevin and Martin for providing a guide for restarting games.

Good heavens Grog, who IS that fellow in your avatar. He looks like he's just invented absinthe and been testing it all day.

Its a KK campaign game today and seems like we might have 1 player per brigade!

I can play at the usual time today, 20:00 BST, 15:00 EST.

I should be able to too.

I have the Rus and Brit OOB right and have a scenario PvAI if we have 5 or could be PvP if we have 9 or 10. LOL

There's a Kleine Krieg battle if people would like to do that.

You mean more diabolical fun?

More running away in the face of hopeless odds, yes.

Hopefull i will be the chaser this time. LOL

Phil will be there if he is not in a T storm and Andrew he should make it today. I also heard from Miko and Joe so we should have several today.

Will be there for some to help the Spanish whoop some French.

It'll be Beinwillers, Oberlenzers, Mockernians and Fichtenhains whooping each other.

Will the bloodletting end? There is another battle between the Small Warring States we can fight today if people are around.