This past month, I have been working on all the unit types, unit names, counter names, and divisional names. What I thought would take a week took a month. To give a scope of the size of the work...

Total Division Types: 626

Many of these are similar with different varieties based on the nation. For example, France has a lower infantry movement rate than Germany, reflecting various factors.

Aircraft: Each country has historical aircraft grouped by the most common and similar. Aircraft have different statistics. Players can form air counters with a mix of fighters and bombers.

Naval: Individual capital ships have been researched for accuracy in representation. Even carriers hold the number of planes they did historically. Cruisers come in groups of 4, destroyers and subs in groups of 8. I decided to include light cruisers in the force pool as well.

Total Game Counter Names: 709

Examples of counter names you will see on the map are 10th Army, or 20th Corps.

Total Game Division Names: 4110

Each land counter can hold 60,000 men. Each country has different-sized divisions. The Western Allies have 18,000 men in a division, Germany 15,000 men, and the Soviets 10,000 men. Every strength point a unit has = 100 men.

Each air counter can hold 4 air units or roughly 400 planes. Each strength point of an air unit roughly represents 1 operational combat airplane.

Each naval counter can hold 6 naval units.

This entire process has been an enormous task of data entry. It is 96% done. I now have to finish minor countries. Volunteers will double-check my work for accuracy. I want ships and planes to be as close as possible to their realistic attributes while keeping it simple for playability.

Next is creating the 1939 main scenario. This is another giant beast to tackle. It is the correct placement of hundreds of units on the map from various resources.

Once this is complete, work will move to coding the remainder of the game.

To answer your first question, yes I developed the WarPlan games.

Total Victory is a new brand of my wargames based on the Kingdom, Dungeon, and Hero engine. It has a little more complexity than my WarPlan series keeping with a solid UI and deep strategy.

Due to Kingdom, Dungeon, and Hero's success I decided to transform that engine into World War 2 grand strategy. All of the code had to be adjusted.

One of the lessons I learned making this game engine is why most games have 1 hex, 1 unit, 1 attack. The difficulty level of creating multi hex attack system with stacks of units is quite challenging. So much can go wrong through user actions or systems interacting. You have to account for every mistake and action a player makes including how fast they play. But this is a game I am excited to make.

I started with all new art, sound, and music. Total Victory has greater visual detail than my previous series. I also decided to use a realistic map. The editor has been improved as well. Modders will be able to overlay a map onto scenario they create while using the tile system. The map overlay is not required.

Currently the game's map and most of its menu functions are working. Units can move around.

I am currently working on inputting all the corps/army names, division names, individual unit classes, and setting up each major power. This needs to be done so I can create the combat system. Land combat is 80% complete. Naval combat is 50% complete.

Some features.

The map uses different scales depending where you are on the map. The Pacific is 4x as large as Europe. So it has a higher movement cost as does the Americas.

1 land, 1 air, and 1 naval counter can stack in a hex.
Each land counter can hold up to 60,000 men or 6 divisions/brigades/regiments.
Each air counter can hold 4 air groups.
Each naval group can hold 6 units with a limit on carriers based on technology.

A land unit strength = 100 men
An air unit strength = 1 aircraft
A naval unit represents the following scale.
Capital ships: BB, BC, CV, CVL = 1 of that unit.
CA represent 2 to 4 of that unit.
DD represent 4 to 8 of that unit.
SS groups represent 8 of that unit.

Oil impacts the abilities of units.
Manpower impacts the experience of units.

Neither can totally run out. But low amounts impact the ability of units in combat.

This gives a rough vision of the game scale and possibilities.