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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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eskuche wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 12:16 am Thanks for the detailed responses! I would love to be able to play 2.5 against someone. I am breaking from PC for a bit otherwise. Of my 5-7 multiplayer games for BE2.4, only 1 made it to 1942 (and that one only till early '44).
So why did those other matches ended so early? Did your opponent(s) surrendered? Or was it you?

I personally like to play MP matches till the end, whether I win or lose, it does not really matter. Perhaps it may worth finishing early if the difference is too great though, I don't know.

But MP games differ from the single player scenarios in many ways, for example the Axis side gets a lot more reinforcement units for free if the Axis is on the losing side. In the coming v2.5 even more so than before. So that the Axis player still has some incentive to continue, even if things do not really work out as planned in 1941-42.

Locarnus wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 4:10 pm I roughly corrected the road graphic for the connection between North - Northeast - Southeast. In the unmodded game the North and Southeast connections are misaligned.
Are there any hexes in the BE main scenario with this erroneous connection? Only because I have already modified these tile files for 2.5 and so it is not just a simple file replacement, I would need to manually change the affected tile hex. But I would not bother if there isn't... :?:
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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McGuba wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:37 pm
Locarnus wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 4:10 pm I roughly corrected the road graphic for the connection between North - Northeast - Southeast. In the unmodded game the North and Southeast connections are misaligned.
Are there any hexes in the BE main scenario with this erroneous connection? Only because I have already modified these tile files for 2.5 and so it is not just a simple file replacement, I would need to manually change the affected tile hex. But I would not bother if there isn't... :?:
If I remember correctly from your match against Duedman, there was one in the Ardennes forest. Mainly noticed since this region was actually a battleground in the match, not sure if that tile is used in other places as well.
It was great to see the scenario played out to the end, other playthroughs are either to Axis victory or stop long before the end.

If you only added more tiles to the road png files, you could send me your files and I would just replace those 4 icons (2 per roadsurface and season), then upload the files again.
Perhaps you could also send me your 2.5 modified rail files early if possible? Which you adjusted for rail connections in the desert. Would help me a lot!
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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McGuba wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:37 pm So why did those other matches ended so early? Did your opponent(s) surrender?
Most just stopped playing slowly. Only 1 surrendered. Half the games were accepted but no-play after turn 1, annoyingly. Would love to play more and inform on a beta build :wink:
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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eskuche wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 5:58 pm
McGuba wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:37 pm So why did those other matches ended so early? Did your opponent(s) surrender?
Most just stopped playing slowly. Only 1 surrendered. Half the games were accepted but no-play after turn 1, annoyingly. Would love to play more and inform on a beta build :wink:
Eskuche set up a straight up scenario with you as the Axis to give you a shot at defeating me as the Axis.
Ok?
Let me know the password
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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goose_2 wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 6:31 pm Eskuche set up a straight up scenario with you as the Axis to give you a shot at defeating me as the Axis.
Ok?
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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eskuche wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 11:32 pm
goose_2 wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 6:31 pm Eskuche set up a straight up scenario with you as the Axis to give you a shot at defeating me as the Axis.
Ok?
Let me know the password
Password is "a" rematch time!
done and done
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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Locarnus wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:24 pm If I remember correctly from your match against Duedman, there was one in the Ardennes forest. Mainly noticed since this region was actually a battleground in the match, not sure if that tile is used in other places as well.
Ah, ok, now I think I see it, I guess it's that bit?

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It is really hard to see it, but true, it is indeed a bit misaligned by default PzG tiles.

But you wrote there is another one besides this N-NE-SE road connection. So which one is the other?

Perhaps you could also send me your 2.5 modified rail files early if possible? Which you adjusted for rail connections in the desert. Would help me a lot!
As I remember I just used the same summer rail tile file for the winter as well. Basically just copied and renamed it to winter version. So there is no special "desert" rail tile. All the rails are the same now and they do not change color when winter comes so that they do not look weird in the desert.

It was great to see the scenario played out to the end, other playthroughs are either to Axis victory or stop long before the end.
I have played all of my previous MP games till the end apart from the very first, which was still an experimental under-development version. And there was one which was abandoned by my opponent around turn 78 or something, but he had no chance at that point anyway.

eskuche wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 5:58 pm Most just stopped playing slowly. Only 1 surrendered. Half the games were accepted but no-play after turn 1, annoyingly. Would love to play more and inform on a beta build
Yes, ideally everyone should just accept defeat and surrender if they really do not want to continue, but that's only in an ideal world. Which is not ours, I guess. :)

Once finished, the MP version of BE 2.5 will be a beta again since I have made quite a few changes since we finished our match with Duedman. So that was more like an alpha test to be honest, and now it needs yet another test play. When 2.5 will finally come out I will be happy to play another MP match but I may want to take some time out from PzC. (Now I am testing and polishing the single player version.) So I don't know, perhaps I can play vs. you as well some time later, but I think I need to offer this to Duedman first, we agreed that we may play a re-match first or whatever.

Personally, I would like to see more people to play this mod in MP as I think it is much more exciting than playing against the silly AI. Especially now that I am testing the 2.5 in single player mode I can see how bad the AI plays compared to a seasoned veteran player like Duedman. The difference is really great, the AI is quite predictable and easy to be fooled, nothing like playing against another human player.

But the problem with MP games is the speed: players can rarely afford to play more than one turn per day, most often even less than that. And thus a full match lasts about 6 months. Which is very slow for testing purposes.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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McGuba wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 3:24 pm
Locarnus wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:24 pm If I remember correctly from your match against Duedman, there was one in the Ardennes forest. Mainly noticed since this region was actually a battleground in the match, not sure if that tile is used in other places as well.
Ah, ok, now I think I see it, I guess it's that bit?


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It is really hard to see it, but true, it is indeed a bit misaligned by default PzG tiles.

But you wrote there is another one besides this N-NE-SE road connection. So which one is the other?
Yep, I would not have worked on it for that BE instance alone, but Monte Cassino in the grand campaign west pushed me to finally deal with that misaligned connection.
The other one is just the desert road version of that same N-NE-SE tile. Highly unlikely to have been used in BE, but since I already fixed that desert road tile in the file as well, it would only take me a few seconds to overwrite the old version.


McGuba wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 3:24 pm
Perhaps you could also send me your 2.5 modified rail files early if possible? Which you adjusted for rail connections in the desert. Would help me a lot!
As I remember I just used the same summer rail tile file for the winter as well. Basically just copied and renamed it to winter version. So there is no special "desert" rail tile. All the rails are the same now and they do not change color when winter comes so that they do not look weird in the desert.
Ah, understood, will just do the same then.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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I finished this mod (again) and really enjoyed it! In fact, I've become accustomed to the way subs and other "switchable" units work in this mod. Is there a way I can use this unit system in another mod, such as the PG original campaign mod, or even the original Panzer corps campaign? (Not to publish, just to play personally.) That would be a great change of pace.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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Hi Der Kuenstler,

Original Panzer Corps campaign : Yes only with Locarnus mod (he also uses switchable units) / No with BE.
Panzer Corps DLCs (East) : Yes only with Locarnus mod (he also uses switchable units) / No with BE
PG Original campaign mod : Neither with Locarnus mod or BE
GTPG campaign : Neither with Locarnus mod or BE
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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RobertCL wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 12:33 am Hi Der Kuenstler,

Original Panzer Corps campaign : Yes only with Locarnus mod (he also uses switchable units) / No with BE.
Panzer Corps DLCs (East) : Yes only with Locarnus mod (he also uses switchable units) / No with BE
PG Original campaign mod : Neither with Locarnus mod or BE
GTPG campaign : Neither with Locarnus mod or BE
OK thanks!
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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@McGuba - When are you likely to release v2.5?

I just read General Werner's AAR from 2023 (its been many years since i've been on this forum) and got an itch to play again (last time i played was during COVID if i remember well). If v2.5 will come out soon i will wait for that. Otherwise i will have a run with 2.4.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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JimmyC wrote: Sun Feb 15, 2026 5:11 am @McGuba - When are you likely to release v2.5?

I just read General Werner's AAR from 2023 (its been many years since i've been on this forum) and got an itch to play again (last time i played was during COVID if i remember well). If v2.5 will come out soon i will wait for that. Otherwise i will have a run with 2.4.
Hi, and welcome back! :)

Due to the large number of changes it takes longer than I expected. It is hard to say, but I think I need about another month.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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McGuba wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 1:21 pm
JimmyC wrote: Sun Feb 15, 2026 5:11 am @McGuba - When are you likely to release v2.5?

I just read General Werner's AAR from 2023 (its been many years since i've been on this forum) and got an itch to play again (last time i played was during COVID if i remember well). If v2.5 will come out soon i will wait for that. Otherwise i will have a run with 2.4.
Hi, and welcome back! :)

Due to the large number of changes it takes longer than I expected. It is hard to say, but I think I need about another month.
Hello,
eskuche is currently playing BE with my Addon mod, with difficulty setting including +1 strength to enemy units.
This lead to the units in the Minsk pocket surviving with 1 strength instead of none. The script reduces those units strength by 10 instead of setting the strength to 0, due to zone scarcity with 1.30 and thus multi-use?
Anyway, perhaps something that can still be adjusted for BE 2.5, with the increased interest for playing the scenario on harder difficulty settings.

Yesterday I also introduced an experimental safety switch for the fighter to Fw 190 upgrades. Which previously triggered twice on the same unit, if players are not as careful as the in-game message asks for. While the quick, experimental implementation is perhaps not quite fitting for the theme, it does seem to work for preventing accidental double upgrades.
Those experimental scripts are at the very end of the script list, if you want to take a look.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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Locarnus wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 2:51 pm eskuche is currently playing BE with my Addon mod, with difficulty setting including +1 strength to enemy units.
This lead to the units in the Minsk pocket surviving with 1 strength instead of none. The script reduces those units strength by 10 instead of setting the strength to 0, due to zone scarcity with 1.30 and thus multi-use?
Anyway, perhaps something that can still be adjusted for BE 2.5, with the increased interest for playing the scenario on harder difficulty settings.
Yes, I have fixed that already.

Locarnus wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 2:51 pm Yesterday I also introduced an experimental safety switch for the fighter to Fw 190 upgrades. Which previously triggered twice on the same unit, if players are not as careful as the in-game message asks for. While the quick, experimental implementation is perhaps not quite fitting for the theme, it does seem to work for preventing accidental double upgrades.
Those experimental scripts are at the very end of the script list, if you want to take a look.
Ah, now I see. A U-boat named "Bessie" (as an allusion to Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, I suppose) in Lake Balaton, that should be surfaced and dived like a switch? :D

Well, to start with, I am not sure if you are aware, but the average depth of that lake is only like 3 meters, and even at its deepest point is only 12 meters (and that's just a very small area really), which is barely periscope depth. So I would be hard pressed to imagine a submarine being used in that lake, but naming after a fantasy creature or something is quite a bit immersion breaking in the context of the mod, I guess. Other than that, in my opinion it requires a bit too much reading and interaction from the player so I think I would try something easier. But yes, I agree that the current implementation is not exactly ideal and there is no really good solution due to game engine limitations, so...
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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Regarding the Nancy submarine, it is amusing, reminiscent of a humorous parable about a submarine in the steppes of Ukraine. :lol: However, ultra-small submarines were used by the Soviet and Japanese navies during World War II.

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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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Sometimes I forget the conversion locations/details (eg you can swap bombers to fighters somewhere until turn x). Is there some way to access this info after the notification?

Also, regarding above mentioned converting bombers to fighters, where and by what turn can I do this?
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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Vienna, you can read all notifications in the notes section.

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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

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JimmyC wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 2:40 pm Sometimes I forget the conversion locations/details (eg you can swap bombers to fighters somewhere until turn x). Is there some way to access this info after the notification?

Also, regarding above mentioned converting bombers to fighters, where and by what turn can I do this?
Yes, message history can be checked here:
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And yes, the location for strat bomber to fighter retraining is Wien/Vienna airfield, I am not too sure about the exact turn number, but I think it is from quite early on until like turn 50 or something.
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Re: Battlefield: Europe MOD v2.4

Post by JimmyC »

Thanks for the quick responses Pete and McGuba. I’m up to around turn 40 now and playing fairly historically and finding it more challenging than expected. Really enjoying it!

By the way, where can I find the file with all the unit stats and upgrade timing/cost etc? I recall there used to be a .csv file with this info, but can’t seem to find it.
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