Consolidated Heroes of Stalingrad thread

[Barthheart]

Cool. I think this was a good idea and look forward to the next game that gets the same treatment.

[smittyohio]

I'm curious how many people finished either of the campaigns.  I've enjoyed the game, but some of the scenarios just irritate me...  Mostly the defensive ones where the russians just keep hammering at you.

[chemkid]

maitre bongo is giving ALL HIS LOVE to L'n'L HoS - modded scenarios of all the original modules

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4222442

Since the appearance of this game, my wish was to be able to play all the original modules of Lock'n load that I own with this game engine because of the difficulty of finding human opponents and the time to deploy all the material on my table.

So I created mods that allow me to do this and it works rather well (making some adaptations on the specificities of each module, of course).

It has been several years since this game is no longer really supported by its developers and I think they will never publish a sequel to this episode.

So I decided to post here the mods I made so that the whole community who still plays this game can enjoy it.


The modules I have realized are:

- Heroes of the Blitzkrieg

- In defeat Defiance

- Band of Heroes

- Swift and Bolt

- Noville Bastogne Outpost

- Heroes of the Pacific

- Forgotten Heroes Vietnam

- Heroes of the Gap

- Honneur et Patrie

- A Ring of Hill


It is distressing to note that with a little extra effort, the developers could have arrived at this result (and even much more)... Too bad.

I'm reorganizing the files that make up these modules and make them to fit for a clean installation.
In the coming weeks, I will post them at the top of this topic.

I hope there are still people playing this game.

[smittyohio]

Sweet!   I have Heroes of the Motherland, Heroes of Normandy, and the solitaire module on pre-order..   ;-)   This will make a nice companion piece.

[RyanE]

This almost sells me on buying HoS.

[Rayfer]

Curious....is this thread about the board game or its computer version? Or both?

[Richie61]

Might have to re-install my copy  :)

[-budd-]

Curious....is this thread about the board game or its computer version? Or both?

Computer version.

[RyanE]

I did some thread necromancing over at Matrix.  I had remembered that there was a thread on the Heros of the Gap mod.  It doesn't support thermals, modern fire control, units with two main weapons (like an M2 or BMP), etc.  So there are some serious limitations around modern combat.

[-budd-]

Heroes of the Pacific mod posted. http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4222442&mpage

[Boggit]

Does anyone know if there was a patch for the German campaign. I was asked by Sauron the other day, and the only person I could think of who might know was Barthheart. Can any of you drop him an email or PM him to let him know if he can patch the game now? Thanks. :)

[Barthheart]

Don't think there were any more patches.... but I'll poke around and see what I can find.

[Richie61]

I think Lock 'N Load Heroes of Stalingrad Update v1.10 patch was the last one.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/349/downloads/Mark.H..Walker's.Lock.'n.Load:.Heroes.of.Stalingrad

[jomni]

Interesting mods. I never got past the first mission of the stock campaign.

[gameleaper]

Hopefully I'm not necro-ing this thread too badly...

Are folks still playing this? I have to admit that I'm having a hard time with it, mostly because I can't seem to find a zoom level that works for me. There just seems to be a lot on the screen with a lot of map obscured. Any tips on settings that might help?

I had this exact thing on my 1024x768 desktop, you have to set desktop res higher and then the clutter shrinks ok, someone should tell people about this.