First Winter Rule question

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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traemyn
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First Winter Rule question

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The manual states:

"The following rules impact the Axis player in the section of the map area delineated by
coordinates X>72 or X>54 AND Y<95 during Blizzard turns in any scenario that includes the
months of December 1941 through February 1942
"

The last part seems to imply that the first winter rules only apply to Dec through February, however this is not explicitly stated anywhere that I can find.

Can someone clear this up?

Thanks!
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Yes, this is true, IIRC, that the first winter rules are only for those 3 months.
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Thanks Joel.

Seeing that you can have blizzard in Oct and Nov with random weather, it seems like it would make more sense to tie the first winter rules to the weather type and not those months. I know if it hasn't been coded for this that's easier than it sounds, but any chance this will change?

Just replace:
If(month >= Dec && month <= Feb && year==1941)

With:
If(weather == blizzard && year == 1941)

Done! (kidding of course...)
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No plan to change this.
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Gotta love a direct answer !
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Just replace:
If(month >= Dec && month <= Feb && year==1941)

With:
If(weather == blizzard && year == 1941)

Both wrong mate.

if ((month == Dec && year == 1941) || (month <= Feb && year == 1942))

and

if ((weather == blizzard && (year == 1941 || (year == 1942 && month <= Feb))))

See? No simplification. [:'(]

EDIT: Oh btw, kidding as well.
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Oops now I feel silly. Less beer with my pseudo code plz thanks!

I added this to suggestions thread.
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Edit: dupe
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