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Hello Everyone,

We have an new update ready for Public Beta. If you have registered your copy of War in the West and/or War in the West: Operation Torch, you can download the latest beta update from our Members Club and/or Members Club .

v1.01.56 – 13 February 2017

[b]New Features and Rule Changes:[/b] [ul]1. Optimization changes to speed up logistics phase, supply routines, ground element replacement routine and battle resolution. 2. Air groups will be getting only pilots for the ready and damaged planes when rebuilt in editor. 3. Adjusted air Ground Support routines. 4. Adjusted resupply and vehicle usage routines in off-map East Front units. 5. Correction for manual: Cargo ships carry 1250 tons of cargo each turn, not 250 as listed in the War in the West manual.

Bug Fixes:

1. Depot range value is not initialized correctly after loading a save. Fixed. 2. Fixed AC and pilot total numbers on air group tab in CR. 3. Units that move by train are suffering vehicle attrition during the next movement phase. MPs spent in strategic movement (train or ship) shouldn't be causing vehicle attrition. Fixed. 4. Naval sorties count can go negative due to canceled manual naval patrol AD. Fixed. 5. Fixed bug that was preventing proper display of Freight Usage Types info in the logistics report in WitW (WitE2 did not have the problem, but worth making sure this fix didn’t cause a new problem in WitE2). 6. Fixed memory leak in unit draw routine. 7. Fixed top menu drawing routine 8. Air units that haven't expended miles are no longer able to transfer to any base on the map. Fixed. 9. Sea hex control not set correctly. Fixed. 10. Fixed potential memory leaks that could crash the game. 11. First turn AI moves could take control of hexes units could not reach. Fixed. 12. Units can get replacements over 100% (mostly visible in small support units). Fixed. 13. When converting support to infantry unit can get over 100% of TOE in the divided unit. Fixed.

Data and Scenario Changes:

1. Minor changes were made to all scenarios. In the case of the 3 standard Campaigns (and 2 of the Torch Expansion Campaigns), the changes were more substantial so we’ve included Beta versions of these scenarios while retaining the original versions of the scenarios. Below is the list of scenario changes: [ul]xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x 1943/1944 Campaigns, 4th Supreme Command x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Recalculation and redistribution of oil, fuel and synth fuel factories plus some minor changes to resources Some special fuel facilities like Benzol distillations were added as oil/fuel in several german locations near Heavy Industry centers Romania lost ~30 oil but gained ~105 fuel Slovakia/Bulgaria/Czech/Poland/Yugoslavia received some oil, some fuel or both Hungary received ~30 fuel and ~10 oil Italian fuel facilities increased by ~25 Germany lost a lot of oil but some were redistributed and others gained by Benzol facs, in the end loss of ~10 oil but gain of 40 fuel Synth fuel facilities placed at proper locations, mostly in germany; adjusted sizes to match reality. In all reduction by ~40 points. Several damaged facilities tagged for priority repair, especially large vehicle, resource and synth fuel facilities Damaged synth fuel facilities and romanian oil/fuel in 44 campaigns Added priority-1 rail depots in YUG/ALB region, Athens, Corsica, Sicily. General review of land and air units: Duplicates were removed, missing added, names/group sizes fixed, corrected aircraft model or number of a/c on hand in certain air units Some land units had their arrival hex changed so they won't arrive in EFB-enabled games as duplicates xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x All Scenarios x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XX FACTORIES XX Cottbus/Frankfurt (GER): change setup of 10/4->251/17->251/21 SP Flak factories: one size-3 fac at each location + a 10/5 fac in Cottbus (size-5, from 6/43) Duisburg/Nurember (GER): Panther fac moved from Duisburg to Nuremberg Fix some invalid/leftover factory data Adjusting some aircraft facs in America Aircraft to match new aircraft data xxxxxxxx x GC43 x xxxxxxxx x ALLIED 1st Carpathian Lancers PO Armoured Car Rgt was accidentally disabled in vanilla GC43 (available in Addl Air HQ and 4SC) 485th USAAF LB Grp had invalid HHQ xxxxxxxx x GC44 x xxxxxxxx Some oil/fuel damaged to Romania in May 44 campaign, further damage added in D-Day campaign Extensively damaged certain synth fuel facilities in D-Day campaign x ALLIED 501st Sep. US Parachute Rgt: disabled, included in TOE for 101st Airborne Div xxxxxxxx x GC45 x xxxxxxxx x ALLIED 501st Sep. US Parachute Rgt: disabled, included in TOE for 101st Airborne Div xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x 4th Supreme Command x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x ALLIED 485th USAAF LB Grp had invalid HHQ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x Bulge to the Rhine x x Westwall x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x ALLIED 501st Sep. US Parachute Rgt: disabled, included in TOE for 101st Airborne Div

2. Wfac.dat file - Speed profile for He 162 added/fixed.
3. Art Changes
Aircraft pictures:
A0431 - Ju 88A-4 LT
A0432 - He 111H-6LT
A0433 - He 111H-11
A0736 - P-5E
A0737 - P-38L
A0735 - P-47D-22
Leader picture:
Ld0554 - Barbieri, Alberto
Ground picture:
Gp2524 - M4A3E2 Jumbo (before with a 76 mm; now shows a 75mm)
4. Fixed spelling of 6 Italian leaders [/ul]
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Happy Gaming!

Thank you!

Top stuff. Just in time for me to start my first axis campaign.

Was just about to start a new Torch to Tunisia game. This is a wonderful surprise, thank you!

Hi...

Why in the load scenario screen there are a lot of duplicate scenarios with the suffix BETA? (see image below)

if you wish to play the none beta games

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. Minor changes were made to all scenarios. In the case of the 3 standard Campaigns (and 2 of the Torch Expansion Campaigns), the changes were more substantial so we’ve included Beta versions of these scenarios while retaining the original versions of the scenarios. Below is the list of scenario changes:

Major changes have been made to Axis production, especially fuel-related, and to units. That's why these campaigns are called BETA. Please provide feedback if you spot errors or balance issues.
Non-Beta scenarios/campaigns have only received some small changes/add-ons/fixes.
The official changelog is a little misleading - changes listed under point 1 "1943/1944 Campaigns, 4th Supreme Command" is for the Beta campaigns only, changes listed below that are for all scenarios/campaigns and/or for the specified ones only.

Thank you Zak

np, enjoy

Not seeing this in the Members download area? I can only see the file "Gary Grigsby's War in the West PC Update v1.01.37 (12 OCT 2016)" which I already have...

For whatever reason (I am sure there is a good one!), this download does not show up in the Members section of Matrix website but DOES under the Slitherine Members 'Registered Downloads' page, in case you're looking for it...

Do you need to do the other updates first before you use this beta?

no, just load over what ever version you have

Unless noted otherwise all official/Beta updates are cumulative, containing all files changed since release.