Gary Grigsby’s Eagle Day to Bombing of the Reich - Update v1.06.80

[MaximKI]

Hello everyone,

Today we are glad to announce a new update for the game. You can download it from the 'File Downloads" section of your registered game in your My Page tab on the Matrix website or by clicking this link: HERE

Here is the changelog:

v1.06.80 – December 27, 2023
Note: version 1.06.80 will allow you to continue with any saved games you started with 1.06.66 or higher. It is recommended that you complete the reaction phase of your current game before loading it with 1.06.80.

Changes & Fixes:
• “Battle of Britain” scoring:
For both 1940 and 1941 long campaigns, the axis player must now meet or exceed the “to win” victory levels shown as stated in the manual and as required in “Bombing the Reich.” This fixes a legacy bug where the BoB victory levels had to be exceeded to win the game (Mark Dolby). Also, the “to win” scores needed to win for these campaigns have effectively been increased by one. Also, the Air Superiority “to win” for BoB40 was hard-wired set to 13 and has been set back to 8 per the manual.
• Fixed a pbem issue where BoB40 long campaigns would immediately auto-end with an axis loss before the game started. Also fixed mislabeled sides when selecting a pbem handle (Arbogast1429).
• Added an alternate font type selection in the “Options” menu to be used in case of font troubles with the stock font.
• Fixed a bug where Bomber Command was unable to send Recon missions using auto-planning (Johntxic).
• Fixed a bug where when planning night raids you were unable to set the hour past 12.00am without returning to 18:00 (Johntxic). Note that night raids cannot be sent to launch later than 01:59.
• Raid start times now default to sunrise for day raids and sunset for night raids.
• Fixed a bug where recon and intruder aircraft would appear to be available for a 2nd raid immediately after assigning them to 1st raid.
• Fixed a legacy bug where if you sent recon/intruder missions out and then moved any of your groups or squadrons, your remaining available recon and intruder planes in that group would no longer be available, and they were resetting to maximum ready planes (davidjruss).
• The AI will no longer plan Recon missions to purposely fly after dark.
• Fixed a bug where “List Targets” menu would sometimes not allow target selection during raid planning (warshipbuilder).
• Added “Order of Battle” menu option while in “Auto-Plan Raid” menu.
• You can now select rail-flak to move from the map or from the list (Glenn Beasley).
• Fixed a bug where you could not select a Rail-flak unit from the map unless it was co-located with a map location.
• Defender player can now see daily production levels of AFV, ART, and AA guns when viewing a list of Armaments factories. Mousing over your armaments factories on the map will show which factories are producing these items. AFV and ART gets distributed to ground units (depending on supply and disruption levels) and AA gets distributed to the pools for the various AA gun types.
• During raid planning, aircraft with navigation devices such as Y-Gerat, GEE and OBOE will have range circles generate from the form-up base when selecting a lead unit for a raid. This is intended to aid in selecting targets within range of these navigation devices.
• Intruders/Nightfighters with bombs will attempt to drop them on their targets. Any notable results will be somewhat rare. Note that in BTR, the only Nightfighter with bombs is the Allied P-61 “Black Widow”. Opportunity strafing of airfields and rail targets by day and night fighters has been reintroduced, although with more discretion and only by more experienced pilots.
• Added some UI color improvements to facilitate menu selection.
• Fixed a legacy bug where the game speed setting was interdependent on the scroll speed setting; i.e. the game clock would slow down when scroll speed setting was lowered. The only drawback now is that scroll speed will be max during the reaction phase unless the clock is stopped.
• Slowed down scroll speed by x2 to give a more noticeable range of settings.
• Axis aircraft displaced by Allied ground advances return in 15 days instead of 30, but lose all damaged aircraft.
• Added the original Talonsoft 12 O’clock High and Battle of Britain manuals that were included in the early Matrix patches.

[sardou]

hello thanks for the update

[Johntxic]

Thanks for the continued support.

[sardou]

• Added the original Talonsoft 12 O’clock High and Battle of Britain manuals that were included in the early Matrix patches.

Good idea to join these documents in the manual section ; i still own the BTR english paper manual (and a quick french paper guide ) …. and a BoB french paper manual and theirs CDRom !

[Johntxic]

I've played about a dozen Turns with this new update now: all good so far!

[Peter Fisla]

Thank you to all involved with the patch - as always!