The Battlegroup42 team also used this patch to tweak some settings regarding the balancing on some maps, as well as to integrate ideas of the community and new content which came too late for the 1.5 release, notably the French FM 24/29 machine gun. This excellent weapon was introduced in the French Army in the 1930´s in great numbers. Because of that, the Wehrmacht was able to capture many of them during the Battle of France. This circumstance allowed us to eliminate one the most complained inequality in BG42: On early Eastern Front maps where the German assault class with the MP 40 had a Russian counterpart with DP 1928, the FM 24/29 is now used on the German side..
The French assault class also got the FM 24/29 while the MAS 38 is now the main weapon of the medic class. The FM 24/29 was later also used by the Free French troops and preferred over the BAR. Even after the war it was used for a long time, for example by the French Foreign Legion during the First Indochina War. The model was made by Seth Soldier, the skin by RuppDee.
For some time now, the Battlegroup42 team has been in contact with the Hungarian Front mod team in order to exchange our old, low-quality Hungarian tanks with the excellent models from Master T. Thanks to the efforts of our Hungarian team member SimLac we were able to replace our old Turan II model with the HF model. The tank was converted and recoded by Sarge31FR.
The Turan II was the successor of the Hungarian tank 41M Turan I, with the biggest difference having a more powerful 75mm cannon instead of the 40mm cannon of the Turan I. It was used by the Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front from the end of 1943 on, but proved to be no match against Russian tanks like the T-34. Actually the whole design with its straight, riveted armor plates was already completely obsolete since 1940. The Hungarian industry was unable to build a more powerful tank until the German occupation of Hungary in the mid of 1944.
The integration of the new Turan II delayed the release date for a few days, but it was worth the wait. Sarge Surfat took the chance of this delay to rework his map "Volkssturm" according to community suggestions. The popular, yet as "empty" known map got more vegetation and some ambient sounds alongside some wrecks to increase the overall battle ambience. Last but not least the B-17 which was missed by many players made its return to the map. The big bomber has to fear the Bf 110 G-2 though, which replaces the Fw 190 on this map. With its 37mm cannon it is able to knock down any enemy from the sky. As usual all changes and new content have been written down in a changelog:
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Battlegroup42 1.5 to 1.51 Patch - 20th of November 2008
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Map fixes/changes:
- fixed wrong soldierspawn in coop mode on 4412-ghost_front
- changed Hanomag with MG42 to Hanomag with MG34 on battle_of_britain
- made rearming of planes easier on 4112-kalinin_front
- removed mobile aa from 4309-aces_over_italy
- changed german assault with MP40 to FM 24/29 on:
4107-dnieper_river
4111-rostov
4112-kalinin_front
4301-stalingrad_winter
stalingrad
stalingrad_no_tanks
- changed SBD on Wake to F4F-3 Wildcat
- replaced AT class with officer kit on:
4207-intruder_mission
4309-aces_over_italy
battle_of_britain
- changed german bot names to hungarian names on 4408-carpathian_defense
- reworked 4504-volkssturm, added some statics and ambient sounds. Changes made by Sarge Surfat
Mesh/Code fixes/changes:
- added artillery camera to 155 mm gun M1 Long Tom and 8 inch Howitzer M1 artillery
- fixed ZIS-3 name in lexiconall.dat
- fixed the SC50 bomb
- fixed bombs on Martlet IIIB
- increased rotating angle of rear mgs to 90 degrees left/right and 45 degrees up on some planes
- completely recoded and re-exported both Henschel versions (rotated and centered meshes correctly, fixed code)
- re-exported BT-7-2 hull with correct side armor
- fixed some minor code bugs
- Bren and Boys carrier now only heal the allied soldiers
- new Bf 110 and Mosquito physics, changes made by Sarge Surfat
- new COL02 for Maxim M1910 shield, it´s now possible to shot the gunner through the shield´s opening
- replaced Gammon with M14 Thermite grenade in US AT kits
- replaced smokegrenade with M14 Thermite grenade in US Officer kit
New content:
VEHICLES/STATIC GUNS
- exchanged Turan with model and skin from "Hungarian Front". Thanks go out to Hungarian Front and FHSW for their permission.
- exchanged gunsights of 2, 5, and 7,5cm german tank guns
HANDWEAPONS/KITS
- fusil-mitrailleur modèle 1924 M29, model made by SethSoldier, skin by RuppDee
- french assault class now has FM 24/29
- french medic class now has MAS 38
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