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Introduction
May, 1995
Welcome to the Stalingrad FAQ. This is version 1.05 of that guide.
Thanks and a tip o' the hat to all those who contributed. I've
tried to cite everyone who contributed, so if I forgot to mention
you, drop me a line.
This article is provided as is without any express or implied
warranties. While every effort has been taken to ensure the
accuracy of the information contained in this article, the
author/maintainer/contributors (take your pick) assume(s) no
responsibility for errors or omissions resulting
from the use of the information contained herein.
Bob
creel@bioch.tamu.edu
What is Stalingrad?
Russia, November 1942. After 5 months of German advances
on Stalingrad and the oil fields of the Caucasus, the German Army
has settled in for a bitter winter on the Russian steppes, with their
Rumanian, Italian, and Croatian allies to bolster their flanks. But the
Red Amy has other plans. Comrade Stalin, having pulled reserves
from every front and military district, is about to hand the Furher
his first major defeat.
Stalingrad, like the other Atomic Games product Operation
Crusader, allows you to either play against the AI or a live
opponent (locally or via PBEM). You can command the Red Army
of Workers and Peasants to pound the Fascist invaders with massed
artillery, or take command of fast panzer divisions to save your
outnumbered forces from frozen defeat
Table of contents
1. What is the relationship between the V for Victory (v4v) and
the World at War (w@w) series?
2.. Hey, if the v4v series isn't being sold, how come I see it on CD-ROM?
3. How can I contact Atomic Games?
4. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to Atomic's listserver?
5. What is Atomic coming out with next?
6. Game Specific Bugs/Patches
7. What happened to the bibliography for Stalingrad?
8. What happened to minefields?
9. How can I attach one HQ to another HQ?
10.. What's that young woman on the calender saying when I
click on her picture?
11.. PBEM How to
12.. Strategy/tactics
1. What is the relationship between the V for Victory (v4v) and
the World at War (w@w) series?
V4V was a series of four operational-level WWII land
wargames created by Atomic Games and published by 360
Pacific, Inc.. The WaW series, (also created by Atomic, but
published by Avalon Hill) is built on V4V, but represents a
complete rewrite of its predecessor. The changes emphasize
more and better gameplay (read: Fun!), easier access to game
functions, greater accuracy and higher-quality graphics. The
first release in the WaW series was Operation Crusader (set in
North Africa; PC Gamer's Editor's Choice Award) followed by
Stalingrad, a massive treatment of this critical eastern-front
battle. In addition to new WaW titles, such as the upcoming
Kharkov, Atomic/AH will be revising the V4V titles and
upgrading them to the WaW standard. toc">Back to TOC
2. Hey, if the v4v series isn't being sold, how come I see it on CD-ROM?
From March 1995 Atomic News
Some of you may have read the series of articles in PC Gamer
concerning a contract on which someone forged my signature
(ie K. Z.). This contract allowed a company to manufacture CD-
ROM versions of our V for Victory games - which they did.
Even though we immediately notified them of the forgery and
they represented to PC Gamer and us that they understood
they did not have the right to make or sell these CDs, they
ultimately decided to sell them. We are now trying to track
down these bootleg CDs. If you see any of them, please let us
know where, when, about how many, and how much they
were selling for. I appreciate any help you can give us. The
address to send info to is 'sightings@atomic.com'. Be sure to
include enough info so we can call the store if necessary.
Thanks. toc">Back to TOC
3. How can I contact Atomic Games?
Atomic monitors comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic, comp.sys.mac.games.strategic
and
maintains a www web site at http://www.atomic.com. Game patches
are available at their ftp site atomic.com in the appropriate
directory. Atomic may be contacted at Compuserve
72662,1333, internet feedback@atomic.com (see also
listserver). People who have America On Line accounts should
contact FishBo at LeadEaters@AOL.com. This is a new wargame
club that will be supporting Atomic's products. toc">Back to TOC
4. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to Atomic's listserver (Including HYPERMAIL)?
Hypermail
Perhaps the best thing invented since underwear (IMHO). For you people with
a web browser, check out Atomic's hypermail web site. No more slogging through
numerous mail messages, no more howls from your local net support on incoming
mail. Mail may be sorted as to date (my favorite option), subject, thread or
author. For Operation Crusader point your web browser to
http://panzer.atomic.com/maillist/crusader/index.html#start
and for Stalingrad
http://panzer.atomic.com/maillist/stalingrad/index.html#start>
Listserver
(This section was lifted directly from crusader- request@atomic.com)
This is the gateway to the Atomic Games discussion groups. In the
language of the Internet, these
groups are called "mailing lists" because your email address is
added to an electronic mailing list. Whenever anyone on a
mailing list sends a message to us, we automatically echo that
message to everyone else on that mailing list.
Atomic Games currently has two public mailing lists: one for
World at War: Operation Crusader and one for World at War:
Stalingrad. Topics usually range from strategy and tactics to
reading lists to finding play-by-email opponents. The lists are
constantly monitored by Atomic Games. This gives you direct
access to the game designers and developers and it assures that
no one talks about the OJ Simpson trial or fuzzy bunnies.
Also, membership to these lists is free of charge. Your Internet
provider may have a charge but that's not set by us, nor do we
get any money at all for these lists. Currently, we only know of
charges levied by CompuServe.
Warnings
1) Sometimes each list can generate 50+ messages a day. The
newer and more popular the game, the more messages you'll
get. If they get to be too much for you, you may want to try
the digest version of the list. This will come to you three to
five times a week (depending on the lists traffic) and will
contain all the messages that were sent to the list since the last
digest version was mailed.
2) Remember that when you send a message to a mailing list,
EVERYONE on the list reads it. But don't let this inhibit you.
The people on these lists are extremely polite, helpful, and
knowledgeable. So, enjoy yourself, but know that everyone is
listening.
To make the listserver more efficient, please use the
following subject prefixes:
BUG: Bug reports
OPP: Opponent wanted
SUGG: Suggestions
TAC: Tactics and Strategy
HIST: Historical background/discussion relevant to the game
CHAT: Legit Chat subjects include notifiying the list of
interesting
topics elsewhere on the net, TV shows, books, movies, etc.
PLEASE keep Chat messages brief and to a minimum.
SYS: Annoucements and responses from Atomic - (not for your
use)
How to Join To join a list, you must "subscribe" to it by sending email to a
special address. If you want to join the Crusader mailing list,
you'd send mail to:
crusader-request@atomic.com<
Or for the digest version:
crusader-d-request@atomic.com
Similarly, to join the Stalingrad list, you'd send mail to:
stalingrad-request@atomic.com
Or for the digest version:
stalingrad-d-request@atomic.com
Once you have addressed your note, put the word SUBSCRIBE
as the subject. (To unsubscribe, put the word UNSUBSCRIBE as
the subject.)
Then send the message. Usually within minutes, you will
recieve confirmation that you have been added to the list.
Depending on the time of day, you may also start receiving
mail from the list almost immediately. Don't worry unless you
don't see mail for 24 hours. The Internet can be a very twisted
place - literally. Also, digest versions may not come for several
days.
In the event your mailing address changes, it would be the
wise to first send an UNSUBSCRIBE message to the
-request@atomic.com or -d-request@atomic.com address from
your old address and then resubscribe from your new address.
Otherwise, all the mail will still be going to your old address.
The archive server
Every submission sent to this list is archived. The size of the
archive depends on the limits set by the list maintainer (it is
very well possible that only, say, the last two mails sent to the
list are still archived, the rest might have expired).
You can look at the header of every mail coming from this list
to see under what name it has been archived. The X-Mailing-
List: field contains the mailaddress of the list and the file in
which this submission was archived.
If you want to access this archive, you have to send mails to
the -request
Subject: archive help
This archive server knows the following commands:
get filename ...
ls directory ...
egrep case_insensitive_regular_expression filename ...
maxfiles nnn
version
Aliases for 'get': send, sendme, getme, gimme, retrieve, mail
Aliases for 'ls': dir, directory, list, show
Aliases for 'egrep': search, grep, fgrep, find
Lines starting with a '#' are ignored.
Multiple commands per mail are allowed.
Setting maxfiles to zero will remove the limit (to protect you
against yourself no more than maxfiles files will be returned
per request). Egrep supports most common flags.
Examples:
ls latest
get latest/12
egrep some.word latest/* toc">Back to TOC
5. What is Atomic coming out with next?
(From Atomic news, May 1995)
Introduction
May, 1995
Welcome to the Stalingrad FAQ. This is version 1.05 of that guide.
Thanks and a tip o' the hat to all those who contributed. I've
tried to cite everyone who contributed, so if I forgot to mention
you, drop me a line.
This article is provided as is without any express or implied
warranties. While every effort has been taken to ensure the
accuracy of the information contained in this article, the
author/maintainer/contributors (take your pick) assume(s) no
responsibility for errors or omissions resulting
from the use of the information contained herein.
Bob
creel@bioch.tamu.edu
What is Stalingrad?
Russia, November 1942. After 5 months of German advances
on Stalingrad and the oil fields of the Caucasus, the German Army
has settled in for a bitter winter on the Russian steppes, with their
Rumanian, Italian, and Croatian allies to bolster their flanks. But the
Red Amy has other plans. Comrade Stalin, having pulled reserves
from every front and military district, is about to hand the Furher
his first major defeat.
Stalingrad, like the other Atomic Games product Operation
Crusader, allows you to either play against the AI or a live
opponent (locally or via PBEM). You can command the Red Army
of Workers and Peasants to pound the Fascist invaders with massed
artillery, or take command of fast panzer divisions to save your
outnumbered forces from frozen defeat
Table of contents
1. What is the relationship between the V for Victory (v4v) and
the World at War (w@w) series?
2.. Hey, if the v4v series isn't being sold, how come I see it on CD-ROM?
3. How can I contact Atomic Games?
4. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to Atomic's listserver?
5. What is Atomic coming out with next?
6. Game Specific Bugs/Patches
7. What happened to the bibliography for Stalingrad?
8. What happened to minefields?
9. How can I attach one HQ to another HQ?
10.. What's that young woman on the calender saying when I
click on her picture?
11.. PBEM How to
12.. Strategy/tactics
1. What is the relationship between the V for Victory (v4v) and
the World at War (w@w) series?
V4V was a series of four operational-level WWII land
wargames created by Atomic Games and published by 360
Pacific, Inc.. The WaW series, (also created by Atomic, but
published by Avalon Hill) is built on V4V, but represents a
complete rewrite of its predecessor. The changes emphasize
more and better gameplay (read: Fun!), easier access to game
functions, greater accuracy and higher-quality graphics. The
first release in the WaW series was Operation Crusader (set in
North Africa; PC Gamer's Editor's Choice Award) followed by
Stalingrad, a massive treatment of this critical eastern-front
battle. In addition to new WaW titles, such as the upcoming
Kharkov, Atomic/AH will be revising the V4V titles and
upgrading them to the WaW standard. toc">Back to TOC
2. Hey, if the v4v series isn't being sold, how come I see it on CD-ROM?
From March 1995 Atomic News
Some of you may have read the series of articles in PC Gamer
concerning a contract on which someone forged my signature
(ie K. Z.). This contract allowed a company to manufacture CD-
ROM versions of our V for Victory games - which they did.
Even though we immediately notified them of the forgery and
they represented to PC Gamer and us that they understood
they did not have the right to make or sell these CDs, they
ultimately decided to sell them. We are now trying to track
down these bootleg CDs. If you see any of them, please let us
know where, when, about how many, and how much they
were selling for. I appreciate any help you can give us. The
address to send info to is 'sightings@atomic.com'. Be sure to
include enough info so we can call the store if necessary.
Thanks. toc">Back to TOC
3. How can I contact Atomic Games?
Atomic monitors comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic, comp.sys.mac.games.strategic
and
maintains a www web site at http://www.atomic.com. Game patches
are available at their ftp site atomic.com in the appropriate
directory. Atomic may be contacted at Compuserve
72662,1333, internet feedback@atomic.com (see also
listserver). People who have America On Line accounts should
contact FishBo at LeadEaters@AOL.com. This is a new wargame
club that will be supporting Atomic's products. toc">Back to TOC
4. How do I subscribe/unsubscribe to Atomic's listserver (Including HYPERMAIL)?
Hypermail
Perhaps the best thing invented since underwear (IMHO). For you people with
a web browser, check out Atomic's hypermail web site. No more slogging through
numerous mail messages, no more howls from your local net support on incoming
mail. Mail may be sorted as to date (my favorite option), subject, thread or
author. For Operation Crusader point your web browser to
http://panzer.atomic.com/maillist/crusader/index.html#start
and for Stalingrad
http://panzer.atomic.com/maillist/stalingrad/index.html#start>
Listserver
(This section was lifted directly from crusader- request@atomic.com)
This is the gateway to the Atomic Games discussion groups. In the
language of the Internet, these
groups are called "mailing lists" because your email address is
added to an electronic mailing list. Whenever anyone on a
mailing list sends a message to us, we automatically echo that
message to everyone else on that mailing list.
Atomic Games currently has two public mailing lists: one for
World at War: Operation Crusader and one for World at War:
Stalingrad. Topics usually range from strategy and tactics to
reading lists to finding play-by-email opponents. The lists are
constantly monitored by Atomic Games. This gives you direct
access to the game designers and developers and it assures that
no one talks about the OJ Simpson trial or fuzzy bunnies.
Also, membership to these lists is free of charge. Your Internet
provider may have a charge but that's not set by us, nor do we
get any money at all for these lists. Currently, we only know of
charges levied by CompuServe.
Warnings
1) Sometimes each list can generate 50+ messages a day. The
newer and more popular the game, the more messages you'll
get. If they get to be too much for you, you may want to try
the digest version of the list. This will come to you three to
five times a week (depending on the lists traffic) and will
contain all the messages that were sent to the list since the last
digest version was mailed.
2) Remember that when you send a message to a mailing list,
EVERYONE on the list reads it. But don't let this inhibit you.
The people on these lists are extremely polite, helpful, and
knowledgeable. So, enjoy yourself, but know that everyone is
listening.
To make the listserver more efficient, please use the
following subject prefixes:
BUG: Bug reports
OPP: Opponent wanted
SUGG: Suggestions
TAC: Tactics and Strategy
HIST: Historical background/discussion relevant to the game
CHAT: Legit Chat subjects include notifiying the list of
interesting
topics elsewhere on the net, TV shows, books, movies, etc.
PLEASE keep Chat messages brief and to a minimum.
SYS: Annoucements and responses from Atomic - (not for your
use)
How to Join To join a list, you must "subscribe" to it by sending email to a
special address. If you want to join the Crusader mailing list,
you'd send mail to:
crusader-request@atomic.com<
Or for the digest version:
crusader-d-request@atomic.com
Similarly, to join the Stalingrad list, you'd send mail to:
stalingrad-request@atomic.com
Or for the digest version:
stalingrad-d-request@atomic.com
Once you have addressed your note, put the word SUBSCRIBE
as the subject. (To unsubscribe, put the word UNSUBSCRIBE as
the subject.)
Then send the message. Usually within minutes, you will
recieve confirmation that you have been added to the list.
Depending on the time of day, you may also start receiving
mail from the list almost immediately. Don't worry unless you
don't see mail for 24 hours. The Internet can be a very twisted
place - literally. Also, digest versions may not come for several
days.
In the event your mailing address changes, it would be the
wise to first send an UNSUBSCRIBE message to the
-request@atomic.com or -d-request@atomic.com address from
your old address and then resubscribe from your new address.
Otherwise, all the mail will still be going to your old address.
The archive server
Every submission sent to this list is archived. The size of the
archive depends on the limits set by the list maintainer (it is
very well possible that only, say, the last two mails sent to the
list are still archived, the rest might have expired).
You can look at the header of every mail coming from this list
to see under what name it has been archived. The X-Mailing-
List: field contains the mailaddress of the list and the file in
which this submission was archived.
If you want to access this archive, you have to send mails to
the -request
Subject: archive help
This archive server knows the following commands:
get filename ...
ls directory ...
egrep case_insensitive_regular_expression filename ...
maxfiles nnn
version
Aliases for 'get': send, sendme, getme, gimme, retrieve, mail
Aliases for 'ls': dir, directory, list, show
Aliases for 'egrep': search, grep, fgrep, find
Lines starting with a '#' are ignored.
Multiple commands per mail are allowed.
Setting maxfiles to zero will remove the limit (to protect you
against yourself no more than maxfiles files will be returned
per request). Egrep supports most common flags.
Examples:
ls latest
get latest/12
egrep some.word latest/* toc">Back to TOC
5. What is Atomic coming out with next?
(From Atomic news, May 1995)
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