Hello!

In this article im going to explain you how to get the most out from Great Game for COH.

We will start at the moment on the installation menu where we have to select two kinds of options: basic or complete.

According to our skill level with hotkeys we recommend people with high skill to use basic configuration, which will let them make fast configuration changes and adapt it to their needs.

For those players without hotkey skills, we recommend to use complete installation, which will let them use a wide range of keys, in order to learn the script performance and so on a near future learn how to configure it to their needs.  

To learn how to configure correctly the keyboard i really recommend you to read the article "How to configure great game for coh" on the following link:

http://greatgameforcoh.over-blog.org/article-how-configure-great-game-for-coh-104468337.html

Once configured the keyboard as you like...

You can click on the Keyboard map keys button. One of the options is empty map, which you can print and make your own key map and have it in front by the time you are playing to start memorizing where you have set up each function. We recommend starting few skirmish games in order to calibrate appropriately your configurations before start playing seriously, if not, you will get overwhelmed because you will not play comfortable with your keyboard.

Effectiveness with Great Game is proved with our testing players, but you need a certain training games before improve your skill, it is approximately 10 games to get used with the script. Once reached this step, the script will be part of your gamestyle.

Our testing players achieved a improvement up to 3 rank levels in basic games (from rank 13 to 16) and  2 levels in 2v2 AT (from rank 9 to 11) in a period of two months, one of our testers achieved the top 130 in 1v1 with Panzer elite (rank 14), and in the past he was rank 11 after 3 years playing.

Remember you have two different ways to configure Great Game for COH:

• One is using the single configuration of Multi army keyboard that will have few functions but not all of them. 

• Another way, the one with more potential, is to make a customized configuration for each army, since there are functions that are only available for an army, in order to know  what are the special army functions we recommend to read the configuration files.

Take into account that the more similar are the 4 army configuration, shorter will be the adapting period.

According to your keyboard you have to define the game style you want to start:

• According to Camera movement keys (WASD): It will be like a basic or complete keyboard, with another functions next to these keys.

• According to Specific unit action keys: if using the mouse to movement you can make  a keyboard focused to the unit special action keys.

• According to Team action keys: it should be easy to select the actions of the groups. 

Remember you can always do a combination of the last functions.

 J&M SofTeam.

In this article you can tell us all the mistakes/errors found in the program. We will try to solve them as soon as possible.

In order to report a comment, just click on the bottom right link from this article.

Another way to report an error is using Report Errors button on the main screen of Great Game.

J&M SofTeam.

Hi all!

You can get this error when running an army:

"IT'S NOT A VALID KEY NAME"

We will detail how to fix it:

The reason for this error is that there are blank spaces, tabulations or some other symbols at the end of a line in .TXT configuration army file. These symbols have to be removed in order to work properly.

To detect those incorrect symbols you have to select all text in configuration file. Then you can see some blank spaces at the end of the line. ( See red arrow from picture )

Remove those incorrect symbols at the right of the double point (:r:)___ <···

When corrected it should look like ...

Once corrected, we save the configuration file and the problem disappears.

J&M SofTeam.

First of all we will click on the DOWNLOAD BUTTON located in this website.

Once reached this step, we will click on  "download"

And it will appear a window where we will select the download folder.

Save the file on the location you want to.  

In case of using Google Chrome, you will find this on the bottom left side of the screen, displaying the remaining time to finish the download.

Once completed this steps, you will have the file on your PC.  

J&M SofTeam 

We click on "Download" and it will start downloading automatically. According the windows browser, it may ask the destination folder to save the file. If not, the file will be downloaded in the "downloads" folder from windows.

In case of use Google Chrome it will appear in the bottom left side this window untill the file is completelly downloaded.

 THE DIFFERENT KIND OF KEYS IN "GREAT GAME FOR COH" ARE:

1-Default Keys: You will be able to redefine the original COH keys, offensive movement, tactical map, launch grenade, etc ...

2-Continuous construction keys (mode-shift): You can build barbed wire, sandbags, tanktraps and mines in queue mode without pressing the shift key (Shift)

3-Camera Movement Keys: Allow keys (WASD) for camera movement.

4-Unit reinforce Keys: Allows you to reinforce one, three, five, or ten squads at once, to its maximum capacity pressing only one key.

5-Chat Keys: You can send messages ingame without pausing the script. Team chat and All chat can be configured on keyboard keys.

6-Units Keys: Allows you to build any unit just by pressing one key.

7-Special keys for movement: will allow you to move vehicles safely in order to protect them from enemy fire. 

8-Soft keys: Allows you to perform the functions of five keys into one key. For example, the key 25 on British Keyboard, which lets a single key to perform all actions that normally do with these five keys: V, X, M, F and C.

9-Special keys team action: They allow you with only one key (must have been previously defined the team number) bomb, shoot, freeze, etc ... only will be necessary to move your mouse into the desired location and use the key. Not necessary to remove the view from the field to select the unit good for Calliopes/Howitzers/mortars.

10-Upgrade keys: They allow you to upgrade one or more skills without having to move your camera out of the battle zone.

11-Build structure key: Build any structure pressing one button, bunkers, trenches, buildings, trucks, etc ...

HOW CONFIGURE KEYS IN "GREAT GAME FOR COH":

In order to create a custom keyboard you have to open the Customize tab, inside you will find the different keyboards to configure.

To configure a keyboard you have to push the button of the army you want to modify and it will open a configuration file (TXT).

Per example on the american button, as shown in the following picture.

To set a keyboard you have to press the corresponding army and open the configuration file.

example:

sticky bomb throwing--------------- :g:

(With this configuration, press the "G" with a selected squad will launch a sticky bomb.)

After completing your changes save the document and press the army in the Selection army menu.

You can also use shortcuts to configure armies. In order to do this, select an army and press LEFT CONTROL + F6 and you will see the TXT file configuration. Once corrected and saved, press the "start" to reload the army script and enable your changes.

You will also find 3 more tabs:

Backup tab: Make backups of configuration files of your custom armies.

Restore configuration tab: Restores the backup configuration files of your custom armies.

Restore original tab: Reset the configuration files.

KEYS AVAILABLE TO CONFIGURE KEYBOARD

Here are the keys, combinations and buttons that you can use to customize your army script.

(Remember that if you want to keep the original function of a key game you must not assign a different function to that key.)

example:

grenade throwing--------------- :f:

To use combined keys you need to use "&" key.

example:

xxxxxxxxxxxx---------  z & x: (the action is executed when you press X and Z simultaneously)

MOUSE buttons:

LButton -     left mouse button 

RButton -    right mouse button 

MButton -    middle button or mouse wheel

WheelDown-  mouse wheel down

WheelUp -      mouse wheel up

WheelLeft -     middle mouse wheel to the left (if you have your mouse)

Wheelwright- middle mouse wheel to the right (if you have your mouse)

XButton1 -       third mouse button (if your mouse allows it)

XButton2 -       fourth mouse button (if your mouse allows it)

KEYBOARD Buttons:

Space- Spacebar

Tab-   Tab

Enter- enter (not recommendable to use it)

Esc- Escape

Backspace- back (not recommendable to use it)

Ins- insert

PgUp- page up

PgDn- Page down

Up- arrow up

Down- arrow down

Left- left arrow

Right- right arrow

ScrollLock- ScrollLock

CapsLock- CapsLock

Lwin- left windows key

Rwin- right windows key

Lcontrol- control left (not advised unless it is for combinations)

Rcontrol- control right (not recommended unless it is for combinations)

LShift- left shift (not recommended unless it is for combinations)

RShift- right shift (not recommended unless it is for combinations)

You can also use the media keys on your keyboard

(Depends on your keyboard if allow it)

Browser_Back

Browser_Forward

Browser_Refresh

Browser_Stop

Browser_Search

Browser_Favorites

Browser_Home

Volume_Mute

Volume_Down

Volume_Up

Media_Next

Media_Prev

Media_Stop

Media_Play_Pause

Launch_Mail

Launch_Media

Launch_App1

Launch_App2

You can also use the numeric keypad depending on whether active or not numeric lock.

Numlock OFF      Numlock  ON

NumpadIns         Numpad0

NumpadEnd        Numpad1

NumpadDown     Numpad2

NumpadPgDn      Numpad3

NumpadLeft        Numpad4

NumpadClear      Numpad5

NumpadRight      Numpad6

NumpadHome     Numpad7

NumpadUp          Numpad8

NumpadPgUp      Numpad9

NumpadDot (.)    NumpadDel

NumpadDiv (/)    NumpadDiv (/)

NumpadMult (*)  NumpadMult (*)

NumpadAdd (+)  NumpadAdd (+)

NumpadSub (-)   NumpadSub (-)

NumpadEnter      NumpadEnter

KEYPAD CONFIGURATIONS:

There are five keyboard settings for COH Great Game J & M SofTeam: USA Keyboard, British Keyboard, Wehrmacht Keyboard, Panzer Elite Keyboard and Multi-Army keyboard. 

In summary:

-American Keyboard:            165 configurable keys 

-British Keyboard:                 133 configurable keys

-Wehrmacht Keyboard:         163 configurable keys

-Panzer Elite Keyboard:         144 configurable keys

-Army Multi-Keyboard:            92 configurable keys

GENERAL KEYS:

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