SGS Battle For: Shanghai news & patch notes

Hello everyone, this is a belated apology and update announcement. First of all, we wish you all a

Happy New Year!

We also have to regretfully announce to all players that the development plan for the Nan-hsang & Chen-ju Counterattack Operation scenario has been canceled. The specific reasons are as follows: After careful research, we found that the Shanghai war situation during this period was irreversible, and the counterattack plan formulated by the Chinese army was basically unfeasible. This made it difficult for us to make this stage of the Shanghai war into an independent scenario with a certain degree of playability. At this time, the Chinese army's defense line was close to the edge of the game map, with no way to retreat, and it was difficult to organize an effective counterattack; while the Japanese army had already controlled most of the region on the map. In addition to continuing to break through the Chinese army's already precarious frontal defense line, there was no other action that could be performed. We believe that such a scenario is not interesting for players on both sides. Based on the above reasons, we have to cancel the development plan of the Nan-hsang & Chen-ju Counterattack Operation scenario, for which we deeply apologize.

Update content:

To express our apologies, we have prepared another Battle of Shanghai (Historical Setup) scenario for you in this update. This scenario is based on the Campaign scenario of the Battle of Shanghai, and mainly makes the following adjustments:

• Remove all the Options of both sides and directly adopt the historical setting (now you can try to have a battle with AI based entirely on historical setup),
• The Chinese reinforcement units that originally entered the map from Nan-ching and Hang-chou now have a certain probability of entering the map directly from Nan-hsang (East), and the Chinese reinforcement units that originally entered the map from Lo-tien (West) can now freely choose the entry region between Lo-tien (West) and Nan-hsang (East).

New scenario

Combat around Lo-tien

Improvements

Removed the ability of IJA infantry units to re-roll combat dice

Fixes

Fixed a bug where some IJA heavy artillery units were unable to obtain artillery hits

Hello everyone, this is the first major update in September. First of all, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Secondly, I want to say sorry to everyone: this update did not complete the previously promised Luodian scenario as scheduled. The main content of this update is still balance adjustment. Due to the rush of time, the small update on September 2 was not tested sufficiently, which made it difficult for the Chinese army to defeat the Japanese army by means other than cutting off supplies. Corresponding adjustments were made in this update. The specific contents of this update are as follows:

China:

• New Option Card: ‘Focus On Defense’
• New Event: ‘Wartime reinforcements’
• Slight increase of the hit rate in card ‘Torpedo Boats Attack’
• The cost of two commander cards has been reduced from 2VP to 1VP.
• The hit dice of heavy artillery units have been adjusted from two to four.
• Each IJN naval unit sunk will bring 3 (Natori, Notoro Komoi ST Sqd) or 5 (1st Carrier Division, 2nd Carrier Division, Izumo) VP rewards.

Japan:

• The cost of two commander cards has been reduced from 2VP to 1VP.
• Removed the Veterans attribute from most Japanese units, except for the 3rd, 9th, 11th, and 16th Divisions' Infantry Battalions, Independent Engineer Regiment, and SNLF Infantry Battalions.
• Removed the 2-point damage per hit effect of IJA Elite Infantry Units, and replaced it with two separate hit dice, causing 1 point of damage per hit.
• Removed the 2-point damage per hit effect of IJA Heavy Artillery Units, and replaced it with two or four separate hit dice, causing 1 point of damage per hit.
• Slightly lowered the combat factor of Japanese Elite Infantry Units.
• Increased the upper limit of the IJA Infantry Battalion's strength level from 6 to 8.
• Increased the stacking value of the IJA Infantry Battalion to 2.
• Split the reinforcement groups of the non-infantry units of each IJA division into the reinforcement groups of each infantry regiment.
• Strengthened the air defense capabilities of IJN Izumo, Natori, Notoro Komoi ST Sqd.
• Slight adjustment of the IJN battleship gunfire range area.
• Changed parameters so that he Japanese fleet box stays on the map.
• Cancel the VP penalty for the loss of the SNLF HQ

Game mechanics:

Modification of the land battle rounds, the regular battle rounds are changed from the first and third rounds to the first two rounds, and retreat is not allowed; the Veterans shock round is changed from the second round to the third round, and retreat is allowed.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the bug of the landing zone being cut off from supply.
• Fixed the bug that the 6th Battalion of SNLF could not be displayed normally in the initial setting of each scenario.
• Fixed the bug that China can repeatedly obtain the score of the SNLF HQ occupation in the campaign scenario.
• Fixed a bug that some units were immune to the out of supply effect.
• Fixed a bug that the morale modifiers for the cards ‘Determination’, ‘War Correspondent’and ‘Mrs Chiang Visit’ were invalid.
• Fixed a bug that the card ‘Fortified Position’ combat correction was invalid.
• Fixed a bug that the card ‘Mud’ movement penalty was invalid.
• Fixed a bug that the card ‘Rest’ prohibition of movement effect was invalid.
• Fixed a bug that the garrison units of both sides could not counterattack during the assault round.
• Fixed a bug that the Japanese card ‘Trench’ may incorrectly provide mortar reinforcement.
• Fixed some garbled characters caused by incorrect text citation of some units and events.

Hello everyone, this is the first update in September. The main content of this update is balance adjustment, the specific update content is as follows: NEW

• New cards and units: 16th Division (IJA)
• New independent unit free unlocking mechanism:
• Chinese Army: 4-6 independent units (artillery, tanks) are randomly unlocked each turn
• Japanese Army: 8-12 independent units (artillery, engineers, tanks) are randomly unlocked each turn
• Reduction in the replacement point consumption of Japanese air units
• Added the Veterans attribute to Japanese units: in each battle, each unit can cancel the first step loss.
• Strengthening of the elite infantry units and army heavy artillery units of the Japanese Army: every 1 point of hit will cause 2 points of step loss

CHANGES

• Adjustment of the movement cost of crossing the Huangpu River: 2MP→4MP
• Adjustment of the Japanese landing mechanism in Hangzhou Bay: change from reducing VPs for the Chinese to gain of VPs for the Japanese

FIXES

• Fixed the bug of IJN carrier-based aircraft loss
• Fixed the bug of AI units wandering between different landing boxes

The next update is expected to be on September 15th.

• Added some cards to boost the opponent AI (more challenge to players, it will increase AI units combat and morale by one and provide it an extra free move)
• Added a new Anti-Aircraft round to better represent the use of AA weapons
• Added new events to rebuild destroyed Elite Chinese troops
• Adjusted combat cards

• Fixed some units combat values, in particular in Air combat factors
• Fixed some erroneous texts

• Changed China’s strategic victory conditions for the Battle of Shanghai scenario: Eliminate the Japanese forces around Shanghai and recapture the urban within 10 turns (30 days).

SGS Battle for Shanghai

The urban battle that probably marks the actual beginning of WW2 in Asia. The fourth game of the SGS Battle Series is available, allowing you to fight the struggle to gain control of the largest port city of China, in Summer and Fall of 1937. After the epic battles for Stalingrad, Madrid and Hué, we are again in Asia for a titanic fight. Take command of the Chinese New Revolutionary Army units attacking the enemy in the famed city to attract world’s attention on the conflict, or play the Japanese forces that have to defend their initial holdings and then capture the whole area. SGS Battle Series is an evolution and adaptation of the renown SGS engine to operational or grand tactical combats. Please also check our Dev blog here https://strategygamestudio.com/dev-blog/ for more news about this title and our other games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2595230/SGS_Battle_For_Shanghai/

Here is a new trailer for the upcoming new wargame in the SGS Battles series, on the topic of the important battle of Shanghai, in 1937: SGS Battle for Shanghai. Coming soon on Steam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-EIODn-XE https://store.steampowered.com/app/2595230/SGS_Battle_For_Shanghai/