This is an overhaul mod by the BG42 team, with focus on team play. Features improved AI, approximately 130 tanks, trucks and cars; nearly 50 aircraft, over 70 small-arms and over 40 unique maps. Note that this mod is split into 3 parts.
Authors: BG42 Team
BattleGroup42 (BG42) is a game modification based upon the acclaimed Electronic Arts Game Battlefield 1942 which provides each budding soldier the opportunity to fly, drive, sail and march their way to victory.
The BattleGroup42 team aim to promote team-play in a historically accurate and fun environment set across the battlefields of World War 2. With each successive release BG42 is developing its own style of unique gameplay. Scout forward positions and call in covering fire as a troop of friendly tanks roll forward backed by APC support, fly air cover protecting your bombers from marauding interceptors, assault an enemy beachhead taking the forward positions before moving inland to victory!
Historically accurate equipment displays the benefits and failings of their real counterparts. Features such as multi-role APC's and improved infantry classes promote teamplay by making it easier and more beneficial for players to work together. A comprehensively revised damage system allows for a much greater depth of feel without being draconian, one-hit kills are the exception not the rule.
We have gone to great lengths to produce gameplay that is both balanced and enjoyable. Attention to detail has also become a key aspect of the mod with high quality textures, sounds and models all carefully researched and developed. The result is a mod with approximately 130 tanks, trucks and cars; nearly 50 aircraft, over 70 small-arms and over 40 unique maps*. These represent 7 nations: Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, The United Kingdom and The United States.
BG42 is continually on the leading edge of creative development with the Refractor 2 engine that powers BF1942. Features, previously thought impossible or impractical have been made a reality. Examples include Autoplanes, self-flying aircraft with no input from users, and fully-articulate towable artillery originally thought impossible due to engine restrictions.
BattleGroup42 has brought together superbly talented people from around the community to build a mod for all players, on-line, off-line or both. We hope you enjoy playing the mod as much as we enjoy building it!
Install this file before installing the other two parts.
Changelog:
Map Fixes/Changes:
- replaced Panzer IV H on 4406-pegasus_bridge with SdKfz 234/1
- removed PaK 40 from 4406-pegasus_bridge
- completely reworked version of 4301-velikye_luki (Push Mode)
- new pathmaps for 4107_dnieper_river, made by DACV
- new pathmaps for iwo_jima, made by DACV
- Coop added to 4111-operation_crusader by DACV
- reworked version of 4207-kokoda_path (Push Mode) done by Sarge Surfat
- Objective Mode version of 4207-intruder_mission, done by Bommel
- reworked version of GuadalCanal, done by Sarge Surfat
- reworked version of Liberation of Caen, done by Sarge Surfat
- reworked version of Market Garden, done by Sarge Surfat, new coop done by DACV
- reworked version of Omaha Beach, done by Sarge31FR and Sarge Surfat, new coop done by DACV
- changed 4311-raid_on_rabaul to 4201-rabaul (japanese attack)
- changed 4503-the_swamp to 4208-milne_bay (Australians vs. Japanese)
- changed Jagdpanther to Jagdtiger on 4503-paderborn and 4504-volkssturm
- reworked version 4504-berlin_streets, done by Sarge Surfat
- set correct LODDistances for all maps
Code Fixes/Changes:
VEHICLES/STATIC GUNS
- changed tank gun ammunition amounts to historical correct values
- replaced Bofors on japanese Carriers with Model 96 25mm aa guns
- re-coded Taiho carrier´s armament (removed rear small AA guns, coded turret for dual purpose use)
- added gunner reticules to tanks
- removed coax mg from StuG III G
- added Smoke Dischargers to King Tiger, Tiger and Panther
- re-added artillery spotting capability to armored cars and several light tanks
HANDWEAPONS/KITS
- added Bayonets again
- Mines are now invisible except of the detonator
- recoded smoke grenades to be more effective
SOUNDS/TEXTURES/ICONS
- many new sounds (explosions, guns etc.)
- some new vehicle icons
- new tracer effects for machine guns
- dirt added to some vehicle textures
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New content:
ARMY:
- Australians (from TLB mod)
- Dutch (uniform skins made by [LotW]-klick, helmet mesh and skin by smig. They look really great !)
soldier voices are from Edke. Thanks Eddy :-)
- French (from Bf 1918)
PLANES:
- Gloster Gladiator (kindly donated to us from "Norwegian Resistance" Mod. Thanks guys !)
- Bristol Type 152 Beaufort (from TLB mod)
- Grumman TBF Avenger
- P-80 Shooting Star
- new skins for Wildcat and LaGG-3 on 4205-operation_ironclad made by [LotW]-klick
VEHICLES/STATIC GUNS
- new Opel Blitz
- new Hanomag version armed with MG34
- Type 94 japanese truck (from TLB mod)
- 155mm M1 Long Tom field gun (taken from BG:V, converted and re-coded by Sarge31FR)
- Churchill Mk.VII from XWWII mod in exchange for BG stuff. Thanks guys :-)
- SdKfz 232 (Model and Skins made by Nimrod6, code by Sarge31FR)
- SdKfz 233 "Stummel" (Model and Skins made by Nimrod6, code by Nimrod6 and Sarge31FR)
- SdKfz 263 (Model and Skins made by Nimrod6, code by Sarge31FR)
- 152mm ML-20 Howitzer
- SdKfz 251/1 "Stuka zu Fuss" (Hanomag hull mesh kindly donated by FH mod, Wurfrahmen and Rocket made by Geronimo|Ger, Code by Sarge31FR)
(it´s completely bot supported, so watch out :-) )
- M3 Scout car
- Renault FT-17 (from Bf 1918)
- M1897 75mm gun (from Bf 1918)
- Ehrhardt E/V-4 (from Bf 1918)
- Type 1 47mm AT gun
- Ford T (from Bf 1918)
- french Bus (from Bf 1918)
- static Oerlikon
- new Nebelwerfer model and skin (done by Koricus from BGF mod, converted to BG42 by Sarge31FR)
- Boys Carrier (variant of existing Universal Carrier)
- Flower Class Corvette, model done by Cabrio
- Freighter, model done by Cabrio
- Type A japanese midget submarine (from TLB mod, skin by Sarge Surfat, code by Bommel
- SdKfz 186 Jagdtiger (done by Koricus from BGF mod, converted to BG42 by Sarge31FR)
- 8inch japanese coastal gun (model and skin done by Geronimo|Ger, code by Sarge31FR)
- new IS-2 model and skin (model made by Koricus, skins made by Tha Godfather and Geronimo|Ger)
HANDWEAPONS
- PPS-43 (from BGF, model made by Plutonius)
- TT-33 (from BGF)
- Nagant M1895 Revolver (from BGF, model made by Plutonius)
- Danuvia 39M (from BGF)
- Mannlicher M.95 (from BGF)
- Lee-Enfield Rifle No. 1 MK III (from TLB mod)
- Lee-Enfield Rifle No. 5 Mk I (from TLB mod)
- Webley Mk. IV (from TLB mod)
- Lewis MG (from Bf 1918)
- Luger P08 (from Bf 1918)
- Madsen LMG (from Norwegian Resistance Mod)
- Eihandgranate 39
- new G43
- new SVT-40
- new SG44
- new F-1 grenade (from BGF, model made by Plutonius)
- new M 24 Stielhandgranate
- new geballte Ladung
- new PPSh 41
- new Panzerfaust
- new tank mounted DT machinegun
- new MG34
- new FG42
- new Sten Mk2
- AN/M2 "Stinger"
- Maschinengewehr 30
- new RPG 43 (from BGF, model made by Plutonius)
STATIC OBJECTS
- feldwagen_m1 *
- gulaschkanone_m1 *
- krankenwagen_m1 *
- pigeonry *
* those statics were done by Nimrod6. Thank you very much :-)
- bg42_factory3_m1, model & unwrap made by smig, textures and conversion to BG42 made by Geronimo|Ger
- bg42_Lighthouse2_m1
- lighthouse_m1
- bg42_Lenin_m1, model made by Snicker (BGF mod), conversion and skin done by Geronimo|Ger
- BG42_OldFactory1_m1
- BG42_OldFactory2_m1
- BG42_GermanPontoon1_m1, model and skin by Geronimo|Ger
- Fieseler Fi 103 (V1), , model and skin by Geronimo|Ger
- sewer system, model and skin done by smig
- japanese pillbox, model and skin done by smig
- set of trainstation statics, modeled by Koricus, skinned and finished by TerrorDuck
- set of workers houses (Type "Staaken"), model and skin by TerrorDuck
- set of barrack buildings, model and skin by TerrorDuck
and lots of more new statics
OTHER STUFF
- tools/hull addons for many vehicles
MAPS
- 4005-grebbeberg, made by Sarge Surfat (Coop made by DACV)
- 4106-halfaya_pass, made by Sarge Surfat (Push Mode, Coop made by DACV)
- 4202-tracking_the_wolves, a fictional map made by Bobton, reworked by Sarge Surfat and Bommel
- 4205-operation_ironclad, made by Sarge Surfat
- 4401-operation_shingle, made by =MAD= (two versions) (Coop made by DACV)
- 4409-nuenen, made by Lt. MoederTheresa (Coop made by DACV)
- 4412-noville, made by Lt. MoederTheresa (Push Mode)
- 4503-cologne_trainstation, based on =MAD=´s 4503-cologne. Changes made by Bommel
- 4504-crossing_the_spree, based on BF1942 Berlin, rework done by Bommel
- 4504-the_facility, made by Sarge Surfat
- 4701-antarctica, a fictional map by Sarge Surfat
