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Hello everyone,

Today we are glad to announce a new update for the game. This is likely to be the final update for the game. Please see main announcement for details. You can download it from the 'File Downloads" section of your registered game in your My Page tab on the Matrix website or by clicking this link: HERE

v1.06.83 – September 16, 2024
Note:version 1.06.83 will allow you to continue with any saved games you started with 1.06.66 or higher. It is recommended that you complete the reaction phase of your current game before loading it with 1.06.83. Note that changes to aircraft data will only take effect when starting a new scenario.

Changes & Fixes:
• “Battle of Britain” scoring:
The Air Superiority “to win before turn 40” for BoB40 is increased from 8 to 12.
The Victory totals for the BoB41 one month and full campaigns are increased to 18 and 22 respectively.
• Fixed a major bug in EDBTR and BoB where following bombers in a raid would split away from the lead group after bombing and head straight for the original form up airfield. Now raids and followers will traverse the entire flight path together.
• Fixed a bug where the Axis AI in BoB 1941 would launch a flight of Hurricanes as a fighter-bomber mission.
• Fixed some issues with the "toggle stragglers" and "toggle following" functions on the UI panel.
• Made a few more UI enhancements.
• Made some tweaks which may help solve the issues with the attacking AI taking an extended leave from it's offensive duties.
• Reduced the possibility of mandatory U-Boat Pen targeting from 75% chance to 67% chance.
• U-Boat factories can now be targeted regardless of Mandatory U-Boat Pen restrictions.
• Reset Allied Hawker Tempest to fighter role. This fix will only show up in new games.
• Typhoon groups may now switch between rockets or bombs. Rockets are more effective against AFV ground targets than bombs but not so much with other target types. This fix will only show up in new games.
• Fixed a data error where some of the Allied Italian (Balkan HQ) fighter escort groups entered with a bad aircraft type and were unusable. They now enter with P39’s and upgrade normally.
• Fixed a legacy bug when human or AI sending multiple intruders for a night raid would
launch the entire group regardless of the number of planes assigned.
• Fixed an exploit where a player could send groups on both a morning and afternoon raid less than 6 hours apart by modifying the raid launch times. Now the later raid will not launch until at least 6 hours after the earlier raid regardless.

700 Turn Long Campaign. Balkan AF: just found a small snag. Some of the squadriglia have no aircraft attached. At least 3 units seem to be affected. Will their aircraft arrive in the next few days?


Thanks for your commitment to this game.

This issue has been fixed, but since it was a data error you will have to start a new game (although not having these Balkan squadrons is not a game-changer). Please post any further issues in the tech support forum.

OK - thanks.

Thank you all for the update

Thanks so much for your continued work on this. Am looking forward to starting a new campaign!

After the patch, turn 1 on BoB 1940 Full campaign is stuck in an infinite loop, and the game also plotted a night bombing mission and a recon mission on its own. It does this repeatably on any new campaign, seems to have broken my game .

There is no "fast forwarding" to later raids, the turn process goes through every single minute of the day regardless of whether there are any more raids in the day. And then, once it gets to past 2AM, it just keeps going - looping all the way back through the exact same day with no change in turn or date.

kosigan86 wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:53 am After the patch, turn 1 on BoB 1940 Full campaign is stuck in an infinite loop, and the game also plotted a night bombing mission and a recon mission on its own. It does this repeatably on any new campaign, seems to have broken my game .

There is no "fast forwarding" to later raids, the turn process goes through every single minute of the day regardless of whether there are any more raids in the day. And then, once it gets to past 2AM, it just keeps going - looping all the way back through the exact same day with no change in turn or date.

Sometimes the clock will continue for unknown reasons but it will eventually stop at 12:00PM without impacting your next turn which you can start normally after the briefing phase. Not sure what is happening with the other incidents in your post. In the future I am only responding to these types of questions if they are posted in the tech forum. Otherwise they will be ignored, by me anyway.