Help With Sandbox Scenario-Making

[A.S. Johnston]

I'm attempting to make a Sandbox battle for use in MP battles. What I'm aiming at is to have a Corps with three infantry divisions and one cavalry division on each side, with two brigades each of two regiments each. I have looked at the Sandbox screens in the game and read the manual and am quite at sea.

I'm proposing to let each player take his Division as he logs in, five on one side and five on the other. Battle type is Hunt for Them without an Objective. In the Manual, Hunt for Them w/o an Objective is described, but I don't see that option on the Sandbox screen, for example. Similarly, I can only select one commander - "the commander you'll be playing in the battle" ... need to be able to select division CO's also, if possible.

If this has to be a Mod, has the doc for the new 1.4 SDK come out? If not, I'll get the 1.3 docs and d/l the 1.4 and take a swing at it.
If this can be done as a Sandbox Scenario, how?? :unsure: It doesn't seem to be able to be done as a Sandbox, but I've been wrong lots before.

Any help is appreciated.

[Michael Slaunwhite]

I just tried turning Garnier's GCM Battles into carryover scenarios (I would create a battle using his program, prepare it, and try to edit it for local play). The game loads fine up to Planting Brush or something, then it tries setting up the command structure (or something like that) then crashes.

Be nice if I could create online GCM battles, and turn them into carry over scenarios because with GCM you can create fully random battles, with random maps, and etc to play.

Oh well...good luck on getting your scenario's going...I failed miserably.

[A.S. Johnston]

It seems there ought to be a way, I just haven't figured it out yet. I don't want random scenarios. I need to be able to make a scenario with specified CO's, with a specified OOB on a specific map, save it and play it and replay it; wash, rinse and repeat. I'm going to start reading the SDK manual and see what I can figure out.