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Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06.05 ... - 9/22/2020 12:48:45 PM   
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Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06.05 is Now Available.

It’s time to suit up and switch on those magnetos, the latest patch for Gary Grigsby’s Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich is out now! Building on the tireless efforts of the previous patches, version 1.06.05 fixes even more minor bugs and adds several new features including:

A new “Find Air Units” tab is added to the reaction phase to allow you to easily find the location of each of your air groups during the heat of the action showing the current fatigue, morale, fuel, and damage of each individual pilot and planes. Or, momentarily stop the action and simply select one of your air groups on the map to get its current status - including mission type and even if the pilot is wounded!

The weather system has been reworked to introduce next day forecasting and variable wind direction. Now you can “stand down” and refit your air groups during a bad weather turn, knowing that tomorrow promises to be less cloudy or foggy in your sector. You can now also get the current weather report for all of Europe during the planning phase from a single glance at the strategic map.

All of this and much, much more awaits you with this latest patch for the most realistic and in-depth game of the Battle of Britain and the Strategic Bombing Campaign against Germany ever produced.

You can download the update from the product page, My Page or directly here.

Changes & Fixes:
• Strat map now shows weather by zone during planning phase.
• Changed cloud movement direction to randomly move from NW to SW direction each turn. Added forecasting of next turns weather in Campaign Summary.
• Defender start now sees cloud pattern for the upcoming turn.
• Allies must now have AS of 4 or greater to win BTR campaigns.
• Made tweaks to Eagle Day Attacker AI to increase effectiveness.
• Human player no longer gets automatic upgrades, allowing player to upgrade or change most plane types manually.
• Reinforcement arrival now displays, and centers on entry airfield and gives information about aircraft type.
• Leader promotion messages now show inspiration and leadership values.
• Auto plan raid range button increment increased to reduce multiple clicking.
• Max ranges reduced for AI raids in keeping with available escort ranges. Added some tweaks to increase BTR Attacking AI aggressiveness.
• Me110 night-fighters will auto upgrade to be fitted with upward firing cannon.
• Minor modifications to Jet-Age scenario to accelerate the development of more types of German jets.
• To decrease the over-effectiveness of attacking landing planes, added flak attack on enemy planes attacking landing aircraft, and increased likelihood of attacker calling off the attack if failed morale check.
• Fixed some altitude loss and gain anomalies caused by inconsistent variable types.
• Fixed incremental elevation gain during climb out from takeoff for intercepting fighters.
• Reworked e-warfare device upgrades and implementation, fixed data errors causing ELINT to be broken in 1944 campaigns and axis aircraft radar unused in 43 and 44. Aircraft in 1944 scenarios now benefit from previous 5 months of e-warfare technology upgrades.
• New Pathfinder group pilots start with higher experience.
• Area targets that do not produce terror points shown in blue circles, all others shown with black circles to differentiate from jammed radar sites.
• Pilot roster now shows which pilots occupy a ready aircraft and highlights the leader. Added color highlights to Top and Honor Roll Pilot views.
• When selecting a lead and following groups for a raid, only functional Nav devices will be indicated on the list (i.e. if range is too far for oboe, etc.)
• “Find Air Units” tab is added to the reaction phase to allow easy lookup and location, showing fatigue, morale, fuel, damage, and current mission of individual pilots/planes within the selected air group during the action.
• Enabled dynamic selection of friendly aircraft during reaction phase.
• Defending player less likely to strike balloon cables, Attacker gains some experience if he kills a balloon.
• Fixed bugs where experience was accumulating improperly or not at all.
• Fixed exploit that allowed Axis player to change weapon loadouts in flight.
• Fixed bug where game was not properly recognizing fighter to fighter-bomber conversion capability.
• Fixed bug where Defender Doctrine was resetting to default each turn.
• Fixed bugs where Fighter-bomber groups with swapped-out bombs could not be grouped together in a bomb raid. Added “b” designation on group lists to differentiate which groups have bombs and which have drop tanks.
• Groups equipped with Navigation (in range of target), Elint, or Radar equipped show “n” “e” or “r” respectively on group lists.
• Improved ability to select objects on map when zoomed out.
• Added altitude performance bands to weapons database display.
• Fixed inadvertent AI moving of RAF 100 Group planes.
• Fixed flight altitude changing to default 20K instead of mission altitude.
• “Raid detected” message moved to level 3.
• Pilots are now vulnerable to minor, in-flight wounds which can impact performance as they try to return to base. More likely to happen in non-level bomber types and aircraft with low durability rating.
• Several tweaks to ground campaign making combat occurrences more likely, making the breaking of front-lines more sensitive to the level of effort made by allied ground-attack campaign.
• Fixed bug causing targets to highlight blue after closing Order of Battle screen.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/22/2020 2:34:15 PM   
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A very big thank you to all those who made this update possible, good day to all.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/22/2020 5:50:57 PM   
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Thank you for the update!

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/22/2020 11:12:20 PM   
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Thanks for the continued support!

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/23/2020 1:00:02 AM   
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Thank you for the update!

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/23/2020 6:54:16 AM   
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Thanks, you´re great!!


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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/23/2020 4:05:18 PM   
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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/23/2020 4:22:05 PM   
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Thank you.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/23/2020 7:05:27 PM   
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Wow, an update for a game this old. Especially one I haven't touched in years. Do I need to revisit?

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/23/2020 10:47:13 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Wow, an update for a game this old. Especially one I haven't touched in years. Do I need to revisit?

If you haven't played since 2017 or earlier you should be pleasantly surprised.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/24/2020 12:39:55 AM   
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Thanks for all your work!

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/24/2020 8:08:04 PM   
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Just started a long campaign as Germany. Looking forward to see how the night fighting works now.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/24/2020 9:17:13 PM   
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Many thanks to all of you

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/25/2020 1:18:03 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: simovitch


quote:

ORIGINAL: rustysi

Wow, an update for a game this old. Especially one I haven't touched in years. Do I need to revisit?

If you haven't played since 2017 or earlier you should be pleasantly surprised.


Thanks.

Been at least that long. I'll have to wait a few months before I can dedicate the time. Main occupation right now is still WitP-AE. A real 'time vampire' of a game.


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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/25/2020 7:54:03 AM   
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This is great, thank you!

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/25/2020 9:53:13 AM   
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Thanks for update

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/25/2020 10:04:35 PM   
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This is great news.
In order to have the old graphics it's okey to copy Artbackup into the \DAT\ART folder?
Will that affect anything in the update other than graphics?
thx

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/26/2020 2:37:29 AM   
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quote:

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This is great news.
In order to have the old graphics it's okey to copy Artbackup into the \DAT\ART folder?
Will that affect anything in the update other than graphics?
thx

No changing the art wont hurt a thing.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/27/2020 10:07:08 PM   
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Thanks for all the hard work to make this game even better - there is really nothing else quite like it.



All the Best,

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 9/30/2020 10:49:36 AM   
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Thank-you for the patch and the hard work. Looks like a lot of interesting changes and tweaks from the description.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/2/2020 1:37:33 PM   
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The developer has poured their love into this update, it's good that everyone is so happy about it :).

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/4/2020 9:14:45 PM   
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Great work again, thanks very much. A quick question is this latest patch cumulative, or do I need the previous patches also?

cheers

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/4/2020 11:26:48 PM   
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quote:

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Great work again, thanks very much. A quick question is this latest patch cumulative, or do I need the previous patches also?

cheers

It is cumulative so you just need the initial GGEDBTR installed before installing the patch.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/5/2020 8:32:32 PM   
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quote:

It is cumulative so you just need the initial GGEDBTR installed before installing the patch.


Ok Thanks very much, By initial EDBTR you mean the original game? Mine is vers 1.00

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/6/2020 2:24:24 AM   
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Ok Thanks very much, By initial EDBTR you mean the original game? Mine is vers 1.00

I guess I should have said "it doesn't matter what version you have, you are good to go."

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/6/2020 4:24:03 PM   
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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/18/2020 11:15:23 PM   
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Hi There, First post but been playing the game for about a year on and off (used to have the old CD of bombing the reich back in the late 90's).

Been playing a 44 long campaign as I say on and off in version v1.03. I'm up to turn 170.

I just updated my game to version v1.06 and went to continue my campaign but I noticed all my scores were different ie industrial dam was something like -5500 or something and when I ended the phase it showed me as winning the campaign which before I was nowhere near.

I'm guessing with this new update I can't continue my old campaign which would be a real shame. Is there a way to revert my game to v1.03 so I can finish my campaign ?

Thanks in advance


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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/19/2020 12:07:17 AM   
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If you still have the 1.03 patch you can just re-install it. It shouldn't delete your savegames during a reinstall but copy them to a safe place just in case. If you don't have the 1.03 patch somewhere you may be out of luck, but let us know either way and we may be able to dig something up.

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/19/2020 11:13:56 AM   
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If you still have the 1.03 patch you can just re-install it. It shouldn't delete your savegames during a reinstall but copy them to a safe place just in case. If you don't have the 1.03 patch somewhere you may be out of luck, but let us know either way and we may be able to dig something up.


Thanks for the quick reply simovitch. I found my old v1.04.zip patch and updated the game to this. Unfortunately when i tried to load a saved game it didn't load properly. One time it loaded at turn 170 but I was now playing axis (in my saved game I was allied), another time it loaded at turn 1 but also axis and times it wouldn't even load the game.

When i tried yesterday after the v1.06 update I was able to open the as allies at turn 170 (where I left it) but as mentioned things were wrong, industrial damage -10, campaign aircraft lost wrong et etc.

So basically I think I shall have to forget about the old game (unless you got any other ideas?) and reinstall v1.06 and start a new campaign. I'm assuming I can now unzip the 1.06 file and it will overwrite everything okay ?

Thanks for your efforts on the game and I shall get into a new campaign with the new update. I did notice when i tried yesterday I saw when you select fighter escorts you can now see if they have bombs or extra fuel tanks which is very useful as I swap out at times for bombing attacks.

I have been reading many posts here to get tips on playing the game so thanks to all contributors the likes of yourself, kaybay, techsgt etc

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RE: Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich v1.06... - 10/19/2020 11:51:24 AM   
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Because of the many new features added with each patch since 1.03, saves will not be compatible patch to patch. The one exception is 1.05 and 1.06.05 saves will be compatible with 1.06.08.

You can grab the old 1.03 patch here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrvma8hoqq732im/EagleDaytotheBombingoftheReich-UpdateComp-v1.03.exe.zip?dl=0

or install the 1.06 official patch, and then the 1.06.08 hotfix. The choice is yours, but we have come a long way since 1.03.

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