paradigmblue
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Just uploaded an update.
Changes include:
*Added the P-40Q as a late-game Dutch fighter. One of my goals in this mod was to keep the minor allies relevant, and the P-40N just isn't close to being competitive in 1944 or 1945. The P-40Q was a streamlined, bubble-canopy version of the P-40 with a supercharger that overcame the air-craft's biggest shortcoming - high altitude performance. The design was not manufactured because the P-47 and the P-51 were considered superior, but in this scenario the plane was produced for lend-lease export. I wanted both France and the Netherlands to have a different "feel" to them late game, with slightly different capabilities than you would find by just giving them USAAF and Commonwealth hand-me-downs. I think this change helps achieve this goal, with France flying the P-63 King Cobra and the Netherlands flying the P-40Q.
Manuverability and climb rate adjusted downward from the picture you see here to better fall in line with other allied aircraft.
*Added more Indian small and large ground force leaders
*Removed the P-39D from the French line-up. Previously I had the French flying both the P-39D and the P-400, which was unnecessary and confusing. All French air-groups that previously flew the P-39D have been now assigned the P-400.
*Fixed the Endurance issue with the Orion-Class AMCs.
*Guam gets a small Buffalo detachment
*Oosthaven gets a CD unit
*After 2 weeks, Dutch reinforcement regiments appear in Ambom, Palembang, Soerabaja and Tjilitap
*Some marine detachments get a small boost in the Pacific
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Here is an important late 44 plane for Japan. Gadzooks!
It needs to be assigned to the IJAAF (Army).
This made me realize I had the wrong plane art for the Rob, thanks! Now fixed:
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Since this is focus pacific, and althist, I think the Allies really need bolstering early on...how about adding the Hood and a few more destroyers to Force Z?
I don't think it would hurt, since the IJN has the Yamoto, Musashi and a third super heavy already steaming around.
I agree that the allies could use another battlewagon to even the scales a little bit, but instead of the Hood, what about the Jean Bart?
The Jean Bart is the sister ship to the Richelieau, and a beast in it's own right. I created a separate ship class for it, as in stock the Richelieau enters the game with a mid-late game AA suite, which the Jean Bart would not have in 1941. In 1943 the Jean Bart can upgrade to the better AA suite.
There were two more French Battleships laid down that were never finished - the Gascoigne and the Clemenceau. Very similar to the Richelieau class, these two ships had 1 4-turret mount fore and aft, instead of the 2 mounts forward like the Richelieau and Jean Bart. These will start the game unfinished, in a similar state to the Joffre and Painleve. Like those ships, these will have to be sailed from Tahiti to a large repair yard, taking up yard space for 4 months before they are completed and ready to sail.
*Added float plane detachments for all three new ships.
To update:
Download new scenario files: Focus Pacific > Scen Files, and place these files in your SCEN folder.
Download new plane art: Focus Pacific > Art > Plane Art > A_PlaneSide.bmp, Aptop_alpha.bmp, Aptop.bmp, J_PlaneSide.bmp, Jptop_alpha.bmp, Jptop.bmp, and place in your ART folder.
Download the side art for the Gascoigne class: Focus Pacific > Art > AlliedShip_Back > AnSide0845.bmp, and place in your AlliedShip_Back folder
Download the transparency art for the Gascoigne class: Focus Pacific > Art > AlliedShip_Trasp > AnShil0845.bmp
For those downloading the mod for the first time, please use the instructions previously posted in the thread.
< Message edited by paradigmblue -- 3/29/2015 2:49:50 AM >
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