European Air War - The Gen

Sorted out the apparent multinational problem, that was a glitch in the temporary frontline. I now seem to have virtually all of the bases visible, and am visiting them one by one doing a first cleanup. Proper layout in tardata.dat will come later. First object is to get a world in the planes can ta...

Virtually all of the locations seem to have gone in okay, and it's the tidying up and fine adjustment at the moment, the bases which refuse to activate, the ones on the wrong side of the temporary frontline, the ones which seem to think they have dual nationality, and the ones which didn't quite mak...

I'm currently working on the world files. First rough versions of targets.dat, airfield.dat and griddata.dat are done, now polishing carrier airfield and seaplane base placeholders. Something to look at and experiment with soon.

We can get a pilot career from the CVEs in fact - I See that USS Kalinin Bay CVE 68 with composite squadron VC-3 was escort for the landing forces at Saipan/Tinian, Guam, Palau/Peleiu and part of Taffy III in the thick of the Samar action at Leyte Gulf. Just got to put a few more Escort carrier posi...

This was the organisation of the Taffys: Task Unit 77.4.1 (Taffy I) RADM Thomas L. Sprague COMCARDIV 22 RADM Thomas L. Sprague USS SANGAMON (CVE 26) (Flagship) CAPT M.E. Browder Air Group 37 LCDR S.E. Hindman VF-37 16 F6F-3 & 5 F6F-5 LCDR S.E. Hindmman VT-37 9 TBM-1C LCDR P.G. Farley USS SUWANEE...

Thinking about the escort carriers in the action off Samar with the Japanese Central force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. We won't be able to make a career for those squads, which still used the late mark Gruman FAFs, but I intend to make one carrier in each of three "Taffys" an active base so tha...

... and talking of computer disasters nearly had my very own this evening. First struggled to update Norto anti-virus, getting nowhere until I discovered it now has a dislike for the firewall programme which consequently had to go. So a breathing space. Also today I finally picked up "Hidden and Dan...

Couldn't access either so far this evening.

I've uploaded to the CAW FTP Campaign folder a spreadsheet which is the interim product of the last few weeks work on US squads for CAW. The operations-carriers-squads data is based on the stuff from Kurt and Neira with other stuff I've been able to find, and the idea was to bring together a matrix ...

Now that we have a tile layout from Neira which includes all the locations we anted for CAW 1944 I will be getting on with the target location files. I've posted in the CAW file repository (Targets & Terrain folder) a zip file containing a spreadsheet with the target locations currently identifi...

Neira has just sent me a new CAW tile layout containing: - the last eaw.tm file, with Palau archipielago corrected and the new Truk archipielago - the last and NEEDED ter files for this world. Please, delete ALL the previous ter. files from your CAW folder and put this new set into it. They are alre...

Go for it I say!

Thanks pobs - watching with interest.

we can toggle smoke on and off in the exe table It's a while since I ploughed the mystery of the ground object properties table in the exe trying to get permamently blazing and smoking oil tanks for the Dunkirk set, so I knew that we couldn't yet attach smoke to the static tmods. I thought that the...

Very odd!

There is a eaw_ttd.dat editor now by Ryan, which I have and send over, because I forget where to download it. That enables to edit objects on the various tiles and positions.