Forgotten Battles 2.0 Available Now!

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As of MCS Version 2.02, available now as a User Modification:

Warhorse Production together with Battle Kat Entertainment proudly present:



Campaign Series: The Forgotten Battles 2.0

Campaign Series: The Forgotten Battles is a mod focusing on minor nations, and the battles they fought, buried in annals of history, but forgotten no more!

When installed, this Add-on modification will absolutely not affect any stock or custom scenario. Worth a repeat: none of the existing games you have or are about to start will be affected.

Forgotten Battles 2.0 continues to boldly go where no Campaign Series scenario has gone before:

The mod has its roots on East Front, where in its previous versions it added a couple of new nations such as Allied Finland, and enhancing other nations such as early war Poland units and adding Bulgarian troops and partisans. Not just about minor nations, 'What-Ifs' were supported also in a form of adding an Allied Germany, and migrating the French, UK and US OoBs from West Front to East Front.

Some of the early content from the various Forgotten Battles 1.x versions made it to MCS 2.00 UPGRADE, while other content remains proprietary to this mod, such as the medical units that are still not ready for prime time.

New East Front Game Content

Forgotten Battle 2.0 proudly presents the World Premiere of the first 2D Project results to EF. New and enhanced graphics and a thorough upgrade to their OoB is provided for:

- EF Russia
- EF Germany
- EF Italy
- EF Rumania,
- EF Hungary
- EF Finland,
- EF Slovakia, and
- EF Poland, including the addition of LWP organizations and units for a full 1939-1945 unit roster timeline.

New West Front Game Content

While 2.0 is still mostly about East Front, we are looking forward to try more new things out with West Front and Rising Sun too.

Included in the WF add-on are:

- WF Polish Army in Britain and WF Polish Army in France OoBs.

New Rising Sun Game Content

Rising Sun? Stay tuned!

About the User Modification

Campaign Series: The Forgotten Battles continues to be a User Mod. It will have its issues and errors, which, when reported to us, we will fix if not sooner then later. It is packaged to go under Campaign Series User Modifications folder (/Mods), and it should be installed and uninstalled only via the JSGME mod management tool.

Your continuous co-operation and support is appreciated!


Installation

See Game Manual pp 123-125 about activating User Modification content on your Campaign Series Installation.

Forgotten Battles 2.0 is now included in the JTCS 2.02 UPDATE install. Just fire up JSGME, and it is there among the other user community modifications under the /Mods folder.

As part of Forgotten Battles 2.0 release, two new User Modifications are available to be enabled via the JSGME graphical User Interface:

ALL - Forgotten Battles 2.0
EF - Polish LWP Insignia and Scenarios Mod

The recommended installation procedure is to first enable Forgotten Battles 2.0. Then, when playing Polish People's Army scenarios, please enable the Polish LWP Insignia and Scenarios Mod for the duration of that game play.

NOTE: Once enabling Polish LWP Insignia and Scenarios Mod when Forgotten Battles 2.0 is already enabled, the JSGME interface will warn you about overwriting the icons2d07.BMP file. Please accept the overwrite via pressing YES.


PATCH (EAST FRONT)

I've missed the UK US and France Airplane BIT files when migrating the files from West Front to the East Front side of things. This will cause a East Front crash upon a Airstrike using any nation's airplanes as the bit file containing the plane's shadow is not found, with error message: Failure to create primary surface

Patch available here: => LINK

INSTALLATION:

1) Disable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME

2) Download the zip file, unarchive, place the *.bit files into:
C:\Matrix Games\John Tiller's Campaign Series\Mods\ALL - Forgotten Battles 2.0\East Front

3) Enable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME
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[Ashcloud]

Where is the download?

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Where is the download?

It's a User Mod now, included in the 2.02 install under the Mods folder. Just fire up JSGME and it's there

[Crossroads]

Patch time, unfortunately. It seems I've missed the UK and France Airplane Bit files when migrating the files from West Front to the East Front side of things.

This will cause a East Front crash upon a Airstrike using either nations airplanes as the bit file containing the plane's shadow is not found.

Patch available here: =>LINK REMOVED, INSTALL PATCH2 INSTEAD

Installation:

1) Disable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME

2) Download the zip file, unarchive, place the *.bit files into:
C:\Matrix Games\John Tiller's Campaign Series\Mods\ALL - Forgotten Battles 2.0\East Front

3) Enable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME

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I've not only missed the UK and France Airplane BIT files when migrating the files from West Front to the East Front side of things, but US airplane BIT files as well.

This will cause a East Front crash upon a Airstrike using any nation's airplanes as the bit file containing the plane's shadow is not found, with error message: Failure to create primary surface

Patch 2, including contents of Patch1 as well (you only need patch2) available here: => LINK

INSTALLATION:

1) Disable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME

2) Download the zip file, unarchive, place the *.bit files into:
C:\Matrix Games\John Tiller's Campaign Series\Mods\ALL - Forgotten Battles 2.0\East Front

3) Enable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME
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[Ashcloud]

I've not only missed the UK and France Airplane BIT files when migrating the files from West Front to the East Front side of things, but US airplane BIT files as well.

This will cause a East Front crash upon a Airstrike using any nation's airplanes as the bit file containing the plane's shadow is not found, with error message: Failure to create primary surface

Patch 2, including contents of Patch1 as well (you only need patch2) available here: => LINK

INSTALLATION:

1) Disable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME

2) Download the zip file, unarchive, place the *.bit files into:
  C:\Matrix Games\John Tiller's Campaign Series\Mods\ALL - Forgotten Battles 2.0\East Front

3) Enable Forgotten Battles 2.0 using JSGME

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Patch 2 link not working?