Public Beta v1.02.52 is Now Available!

[HybridSpyda]

Hi Everyone,

A new Public Beta is now available for testing!

It is available from the Members Area as well as the Public FTP.

This public beta is also available on Steam, you will need to right click the game in your Steam library, select properties and navigate to the BETAS tab; from there, opt into the Public Beta by selecting it from the drop down menu.

Please see the v1.02.52 Beta Change Log below.

New Features and Rule Changes

1. Logistics Level (section 3.3.3) - Logistics help has been modified so it now impacts the following items: [ul]a. Impacts the formulas that determine the amount of supply a unit receives based on its supply trace. (new) b. Attrition suffered by vehicles during freight ops. (new) c. The amount of attrition a unit suffers due to movement. (in prior versions) d. The amount of fatigue added or removed from a unit during a turn (in prior versions) e. The ability of leaders to conduct successful admin checks. (in prior versions)

2. Adjusted combat losses in the EF box.
3. Decreased chances for the very weak intercept flights to cause under attack enemy fighter-bombers to switch from BOMBER to SWEEP mission.
4. Added a check at end of the air phase to displace 0 CV units that are adjacent to enemy units.
5. Removed trailing spaces when creating new folders/files.
6. Improved battles site art appearance during the battle.
7. AI - Fixed AI to prevent certain Allied deep penetrations that took control of enemy hexes without actually moving units.
8. AI - Improved likelihood of units that are cut off to escape when the opportunity exists.
9. AI - Improved German AI to reduce the chance it would leave major gaps in a defensive line.
10. AI - Improved ability of German Ai to pinch off Allied penetrations where the flanks of the penetration were not covered by the Allies.
11. AI - Axis AI will send less units to the Italian Front than it used to in 1944-45.
12. AI - Improved Axis AI west of the Rhine.
13. Rule Correction - Note for the manual, there is no MP cost reduction for swamp at high ice levels.[/ul]
Bug Fixes

1. AI – Game freezes at 27% Axis AI turn in Torch to Tunisia scenario. Fixed. 2. Illegal crossing of ferry hex (to enemy controlled hex). Fixed. 3. Editor – Interface glitch with right units bar. Fixed. 4. A defending unit remained next to an enemy unit after it was depleted by a 2 hex bombardment attack. The unit should move away when depleted. Fixed. 5. Game can freeze in depot capture routine. Fixed. 6. Fixed crash in CR screen group TAB when pilot list was selected in Pilot sub-tab. 7. 8 key freight lines would draw a line to a unit/airbase that didn’t receive any freight but had a depot listed on the unit supply detail screen. Fixed. Note, HQs do not currently have freight lines drawn to them, we may change that for HQs that receive a shipment, but as far as I can tell lines have never been drawn to HQs. 8. Fixed find dialog ('h') when searching next air group. 9. Crash to desktop during AI in Torch to Tunisia. Fixed. 10. Axis AI could occasionally move a unit from the EF box west by mistake. Fixed. 11. Axis AI was sending some Axis units to 0,0 effectively taking them out of the game. Fixed. 12. Air execution entries in the event log in PBEM and Server games should not be cleared during the logistics, so entries during the enemy air execution should be visible in the log before friendly air execution and exported to the separate AirExecLog...txt file. 13. National supply sources adjacent to enemy are incorrectly still functioning and have 2.5 M freight. Fixed. 14. Fixed a problem where rebasing aircraft sometimes would not get air support squads transferred in when they should have.

Data and Scenario Changes

1. Multiple scenarios: [ul]- Danish island Bornholm changed from neutral Sweden to Axis Denmark, add port depot and frozen fort unit to Ronne, fortification set to 4 - Fixed stray axis rail in Sweden - Aalborg airfield changed to size 3 - was a major bomber airport - Water/Ferry hexes south of Djerba island changed from Arid Desert climate to Temperate Dry - Remove railyard from Pantelleria and Malta islands - no rail there - Add 1x Railyard to Gabes (Tunisia), Ventspils/Liepaja (Latvia) - Port on a rail line but no railyard - Rebuilt Italian pre-armistice air units to a minimum of 50 experience, replace excessively low/high pilots by averaged ones to stay within unit experience level - 410th USAAF LB Grp added - Motorization status of several units fixed - WMBef. HQs frozen until the end of 12/44 - 199th infantry Division (EFB) - changed to occupation division OB (was a large division but one inf rgt + art bn sent away in mid 43) - 269th infantry Division (EFB) - changed to occupation division OB - 462nd Volksgrenadier Division - rebuilt as Occupation Inf Div (44b), placed and frozen (to 10/44) in Metz - All Grille-equipped German units checked: existing/arriving units prior to 12/43 will exclusively use Grille H, later arriving units will use Grille M. Added the SiG33 Grille K factory in Prague. - Adjusted Naval Support Groups - Review of German light Flak Bns (71-99)

2. 4SC/GC43-44:

- Existing Western Allied Italian air units replaced by four naval patrol groups with Italian floatplanes - ANR Torpedo bomber group added (if missing), if present verify correct use of aircraft model - Multiple changes to pre-armistice Italian air units - Royal Navy Air Squadrons withdraw between early and late 1944 - transferred out-ofarea - Addition of UK Home forces reserve Infantry Divisions, some of them will be released while others stay frozen - Arriving German Volksgrenadier Divisions renumbered to historical 500-series number - Several changes to naval support groups

3. 4SC:

- Adapted devices/elements to new data structure - Manstein extended to 9/45 - Italian divisions evacuated from Afrika upped to 50 exp/morale - battle hardened - Ariete II degraded somewhat - Centauro II renamed CCNN and degraded somewhat - Bf 110G-2 production stopped, path to Fw 190A-5 added - Bf 110G-4 will end in autumn 43 and upgrade to new Me 410 NF - Ju 87D-5 production will end 12/43 and upgrade to Fw 190F - Created new Me 410 night fighters with production in Braunschweig, absorbing Bf 110G-4 production in autumn 43 - Created new Me 410 Patrol aircraft with production in Braunschweig - Ju 88C-6a production cancelled (replaced by Me 410) - Ju 52 and Ju 88S production extended to 1945 - He 177B replaced He 177A-5, extended to 1945 - Flakpanzer 38 added back with production in Prague - Changes to adhere to scenario description: Centauro Armored div recreated (was missing despite claimed evacuated) Soviet potential reduced a lot - no Kursk

4. GC44 D-Day:

- No. 14 RAF Pa Sqn reassigned to Coastal Air Force and placed in Blida - No. 458 RAAF Pa Sqn reactivated and placed in Bone - Changed several older aircraft in units to more recent ones

5. GC44: Changed several older aircraft in air units to more recent ones
6. GC45: Increased Soviet Potential in 1945 Campaign from 30 to -50.
7. Minor changes to GC45 and BttR.
8. BG Italy and Salerno to Rome:

- Added 39 RAF and 458 RAAF Patrol Squadrons (to Coastal Air Force) - Universal MG carrier pool increased to 250 - RSI divisions 'Italia' and 'Monte Rosa' withdraw 12/44

9. Dragoon:

- Added the proper naval support units to the three Invading Task Forces. This includes battleships and cruisers. Also added more descriptions to TF 84, 85, and 87 by calling them Alpha Force, Delta Force and Camel Force respectively. On the Axis side JGr 200 was added to Ground Support to protect German bombers and the Do217E2s were upgraded to the Do217K-M version.

10. African scenarios:

- Reduced oil/fuel production (mostly Romania) and synth fuel production (Germany) - Tunis/Tripoli port increased to 2 - Disabled duplicate Italian air transport group, strengthening the other

11. Battle for Tunisia:

- Depot priority of Porto Vecchio (Corsica) from 4 to 1 - Disabled duplicate flak unit - Tripoli changed from national source to standard port depot

12. Air unit pilot exp normalization with these Cutoffs:

- Torch: 50 exp (all nations) - GC43 to 44: 50 exp (Allied + German) and 45 exp (Axis minor)

13. OBs:

- Several German OBs adapted to new Grille setup - Several German/Italian OBs added or modified to fix motorization issues - Addition of special path for UK Home Forces Reserve Infantry Divisions - Normandy Naval support groups modified to match historical ships in fleets

14. Ground elements and devices:

- German Grile K SP Inf gun - will be produced from 12/43 to the end of war - Minor changes to Ostwind and Universal MG carrier - Some minor revisions to ground and device files

15. Air Profiles: Western Allied Italian Fighter and Bomber/Tpt increased in size, addition of a new profile for naval patrol/recon units
16. Aircraft:

- Western Allied Italian Floatplanes changed to new air profile - Addition of US Spitfire VC - US Spitfire LF.IX available some months earlier - Axis Italian series-5 fighters (G.55/MC.205/Re.2005) changed from FB into pure fighters - Addition of Italian Do 217J/Re.2001CN and US Spitfire VC - Re.2002 made tac bomber (Italian Fw 190F) - Spitfire XII changed to Fighter - Tempest II: durability +1 to 35 - Tempest V: armor -1 to 1, durability +1 to 35 (kept as FB) - Hurricane IID/IV, Typhoon, Tempest II changed to TacB - Typhoon IB: durability +2 to 34, build limit -4 to 14, upgrades to 45 version, performance slightly degraded - 0560 - NEW - Typhoon IB 1945 – late war reduced production version with slightly increased performance over original values - Some minor data changes/fixes - Aircraft (changes also made in the 4th Supreme Command scenario): 0476 - LeO 451 T - changes to basic fuel load, endurance and speeds; add weapon sets with additional fuel 0774 - LeO 451 - changes to basic fuel load, endurance and speeds; add weapon sets with bombs and additional fuel - added several non-producible aircraft for 4SC scenario: 0470 He 177B 0434/0435 - Me 410 A-2 as night fighters 0436 - Me 410 A-4 as radar-equipped patrol aircraft.

17. Aircraft photos:

0738 - Spitfire VC (US) 0558 Typhoon IB 0560 Typhoon IB 1945 ID fix for tiffie 45

18. Leader photos:

523 Zannini 524 Reisoli-Matthieu 553 Balocco 567 Priore 571 Zanghieri 1729 - Scarlett-Streatfeild 7. Leader data 157 Rommel -> Political Rating from 3 to 5 181 Student -> Set max command to Army Group 526 Bernasconi -> Restriction to Air Only // Max Command: to Corps/Army // Lower is Mrl Rating to 4 535 Ilari -> Set max command to Army Group 570 Robotti -> deactivated

19. Added unit symbol for 90th Light Afrika Motorized Division[/ul]

Happy Gaming!

[Denniss]

please also announce this via Steam and in Steam discussion forum

[IslandInland]

Thanks for beta update.

[xhoel]

Thanks for the update.