Locarnus Addon 2026-09 DE, RU, FR & SPANISH translations

[bondjamesbond]

Smaller update, mostly based on video feedback from the HerzogSieg youtube playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOm1MNJ ... wsk4pENQCL

Rails removed again from Sicily to prevent easy railway arty use against Malta.
Bizerte now needs to be captured by Allies as well, not only Tunis. Now two low strength Luftwaffe field units spawn in gliders above the adjacent airfields, instead of one full strength one.
Some Bf 110 lineup stat adjustments, making them more survivable.
Several Italian tracked vehicles nerfed, they were just not competitive.
And Soviet T-34 flame tanks are significantly more powerful, since they only replaced an MG with a flamethrower while the main cannon was still useable.

USA East Coast considerably tougher coastal defenses, but 3 more turns.
Thanks to goose_2 original campaign youtube playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NxFgeMWaY



2026-08 Update "Locarnus Addon" Download: https://bit.ly/4gaAqEx

This is only an update to the Addon and requires the 2026 base version of the Locarnus Addon to be installed already on top of BE 2.5.1 and the bugfixed PzC patch 1.32 first. All previous updates to the 2026 base version are included in this one.

Campaign specific changes, BE thanks to HerzogSieg
- BE Fixed turn 2 train unlock text, both game message and library
- BE Recently added rail removed from Sicily, no easy rail arty fire position against Malta
- BE Messina is still a harbor and now the end point for rail
- BE Seamines around Tunisia, Norway and North Atlantic reduced str
- BE Allied Submarines around Tunisia and Malta reduced strength
- BE Bizerte is now a VH and required for Allies to pretrigger Sicily invasion
- BE Feld-Division(L) spawning near Tunis split into two
- OC Drastically buffed US East Coast defenders, thx to goose_2

Unit Changes
- Fw 190 F-9+ one more air attack, one less air defense
- Bf 110 F-4 one more ini, G-4 & G-4+ one more air def
- Me 410 A/U4 one less ini, one more air def
- Availability of several units a few weeks earlier around January 1943
- Italian M15/42 nerfed close defense
- Italian Semoventes nerfed ini, except for the 90/53
- Italian Ro.37 old plane reduced movement but now has reconmove trait
- Italian MC.20x lineup prices raised for early to mid versions
- Feld-Division(L) cheaper, but one less ammo
- Soviet T-34 flame tanks buffed

Thank you very much for your hard work !

The German army's V-2 rocket launches—or, as they were called, "VERGELTUNGSWAFFE"—weapons of vengeance
https://union.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=971&p=32#p128407


A British tank crew takes a spin in a German Panther nicknamed "Cuckoo".


Battle of the Barents Sea, December 31, 1942 / New Year's Naval Battle
https://ok.ru/dzen/article/aVdXirdTWFeYvDh2

[Locarnus]

Thank you very much for your hard work !

The German army's V-2 rocket launches—or, as they were called, "VERGELTUNGSWAFFE"—weapons of vengeance
https://union.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=971&p=32#p128407


A British tank crew takes a spin in a German Panther nicknamed "Cuckoo".


Battle of the Barents Sea, December 31, 1942 / New Year's Naval Battle
https://ok.ru/dzen/article/aVdXirdTWFeYvDh2

Speaking of Barents Sea, I made the mid 1943 Norway convoy raid messages less intrusive, by using map markers instead.
And the captured Tiger in Soviet Corps can now be cheaply upgraded to a captured Panther in 1944 thanks to the Birgeria graphic.
Also flame and guards versions of the T-34 from Battlefield Europe are now purchasable in Soviet Corps.



Many changes based on the youtube video playthrough of Battlefield Europe on Heinrici difficulty (70% player prestige, +1 enemy strength) by HerzogSieg, both to BE scenario and unit balance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOm1MNJ ... wsk4pENQCL

As well as the youtube playthrough of the original campaign on Double Rommel (25% player prestige) difficulty by goose_2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0UmJXn ... FssRp8ZU5p


Occasionally I'm having another go at translations, like with this update.
I google translated BE main scenario messages, as well as the 3 library entries for BE scenario messages.
Unfortunately their quality is rather mediocre and google translate arbitrarily ignores formatting and pictures.
They are also impossible to maintain, so they will probably be removed again for the next update with major changes.
Thus I still highly recommend English, but if that is not possible then these occasional translations are an acceptable fallback.

While doing the DE, RU and FR translations, I wondered how PzC translations are structured internally.
Surprisingly my exploratory poking and testing resulted in a seemingly working SPANISH translation.
But only for the Battlefield Europe messages (including those library entries) as well as the main string file (containing strings like "Ambush" and menu translations and so on).
The Startscreen menu texts like "New Game" are images, I also did not translate those to Spanish.






2026-09 Update "Locarnus Addon" Download: https://bit.ly/4ikWFup

This is only an update to the Addon and requires the 2026 base version of the Locarnus Addon to be installed already on top of BE 2.5.1 and the bugfixed PzC patch 1.32 first. All previous updates to the 2026 base version are included in this one.

Languages
- Highly experimental machine translation for the main BE scenario
- Russian, German, French and SPANISH languages for BE main scn & library
- Spanish only for basic strings and messages from within BE main scenario
- Startscreen menu is images, so no spanish translations for those
- Library translations only for main BE scenario major, minor & upgrade events
- Mediocre translations & still those problems with formatting of the messages
- Google Translate seems to arbitrarily decide if formatting and pictures are respected...
- Thus ENGLISH still highly recommended, other lang mainly for non-english speakers

Campaign specific changes, BE thanks to HerzogSieg
- OC USA Mid West added one AA to Denver defenses
- OC Two aux Wehrmacht Inf and one aux He 177 heavy bomber added
- BE Holding two oil fields already reduces the airforce experience drain by 1 per turn
- BE 3 instead of 2 Strat to Bf 109 special exchanges & 10 turns earlier, now from 46
- BE 3 instead of 2 Ju 87 to Fw 190 special upgrades & 3 turns earlier, now from 53
- BE Norway blockade only 1 message, instead markers indicate active blockade
- BE Tirpitz commando damage to 3 strength instead of 1
- BE Widened the deep sea channel on the western coast of southern Norway
- BE Reduced strength of Allied naval mines around Norway
- BE Kem is once a again a crucial objective in Soviet Union, representing Murmansk
- BE Reduced exp of many USA North Africa invasion units, increased for others
- BE Italian fighter hero Visconti added and some Italian fighter hero reshuffling
- BE More Italian aircraft are core, thus do not surrender
- BE Hungarian fighter unit in mid 1942, with one of the two heroes that came later
- BE Mid 1942 additional warning to prioritize the airforce experience
- BE Pantherturm between Rhine and Meuse Rivers, shortly after Overlord starts
- BE 17cm K18 artillery unit gift much earlier, turn 17 instead of turn 57
- BE He 177 bomber, He 162 jet fighter and Do 335 heavy fighter bomber gifts
- BE A few downgrades to late war Soviet fighter spawn types, but not numbers
- BE 1942 prestige per turn increased from 60 back to 80
- SC T-34 guard and flamethrower variants, as well as early KV guards unlocked
- SC Several Soviet tank availability dates adjusted to Soviet Corps campaign
- SC Late T-34-85 with skirts added, thanky to Birgeria graphic
- SC Soviet captured Panther str8 added, same family as captured Tiger, thx Birgeria
- SC Soviet upgrade option for captured Fw 190, after Bagration same as Panther
- SC Soviet captured Fw 190 fighters nerfed air attack by 1 compared to Germans

Unit Changes
- Finnish Ju 88 fixed switchability
- Italian L3/35 Lanciafiamme flamethrower variant added
- SM 79 can now switch to strat bomber mode, both Italian and Romanian ones
- Romanian & Hungarian aircraft families reorganized
- Hungarian Re.2000 Heja buffed air attack and defense
- Bf 109 G-6 one less air defense, but one more air attack
- Bf 109 G-6+ up to G-14 get one more air attack, but not the gunpod variants
- La-7 one less air attack, one more air defense
- Yak-9U nerfed attack, ammo and fuel, due to severe engine problems
- Fw 190 A-8 available two weeks later
- Do 217 heavy fighters ini (re)buffed
- Spitfire Mk IX buffed ini
- Hs 129 B-2+ and B-2/BK available a month earlier
- Hummel available 6 weeks earlier, Nashorn available a month earlier
- Other minor availability changes around mid 1943
- IAR 81C with DB engine added, thanks to Birgeria for the graphic
- Soviet T-34 guard versions are now 10% more costly than regular version

[bondjamesbond]

Thank you very much for your hard work !

The German army's V-2 rocket launches—or, as they were called, "VERGELTUNGSWAFFE"—weapons of vengeance
https://union.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=971&p=32#p128407


A British tank crew takes a spin in a German Panther nicknamed "Cuckoo".


Battle of the Barents Sea, December 31, 1942 / New Year's Naval Battle
https://ok.ru/dzen/article/aVdXirdTWFeYvDh2

Speaking of Barents Sea, I made the mid 1943 Norway convoy raid messages less intrusive, by using map markers instead.
And the captured Tiger in Soviet Corps can now be cheaply upgraded to a captured Panther in 1944 thanks to the Birgeria graphic.
Also flame and guards versions of the T-34 from Battlefield Europe are now purchasable in Soviet Corps.



Many changes based on the youtube video playthrough of Battlefield Europe on Heinrici difficulty (70% player prestige, +1 enemy strength) by HerzogSieg, both to BE scenario and unit balance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOm1MNJ ... wsk4pENQCL

As well as the youtube playthrough of the original campaign on Double Rommel (25% player prestige) difficulty by goose_2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0UmJXn ... FssRp8ZU5p


Occasionally I'm having another go at translations, like with this update.
I google translated BE main scenario messages, as well as the 3 library entries for BE scenario messages.
Unfortunately their quality is rather mediocre and google translate arbitrarily ignores formatting and pictures.
They are also impossible to maintain, so they will probably be removed again for the next update with major changes.
Thus I still highly recommend English, but if that is not possible then these occasional translations are an acceptable fallback.

While doing the DE, RU and FR translations, I wondered how PzC translations are structured internally.
Surprisingly my exploratory poking and testing resulted in a seemingly working SPANISH translation.
But only for the Battlefield Europe messages (including those library entries) as well as the main string file (containing strings like "Ambush" and menu translations and so on).
The Startscreen menu texts like "New Game" are images, I also did not translate those to Spanish.






2026-09 Update "Locarnus Addon" Download: https://bit.ly/4ikWFup

This is only an update to the Addon and requires the 2026 base version of the Locarnus Addon to be installed already on top of BE 2.5.1 and the bugfixed PzC patch 1.32 first. All previous updates to the 2026 base version are included in this one.

Languages
- Highly experimental machine translation for the main BE scenario
- Russian, German, French and SPANISH languages for BE main scn & library
- Spanish only for basic strings and messages from within BE main scenario
- Startscreen menu is images, so no spanish translations for those
- Library translations only for main BE scenario major, minor & upgrade events
- Mediocre translations & still those problems with formatting of the messages
- Google Translate seems to arbitrarily decide if formatting and pictures are respected...
- Thus ENGLISH still highly recommended, other lang mainly for non-english speakers

Campaign specific changes, BE thanks to HerzogSieg
- OC USA Mid West added one AA to Denver defenses
- OC Two aux Wehrmacht Inf and one aux He 177 heavy bomber added
- BE Holding two oil fields already reduces the airforce experience drain by 1 per turn
- BE 3 instead of 2 Strat to Bf 109 special exchanges & 10 turns earlier, now from 46
- BE 3 instead of 2 Ju 87 to Fw 190 special upgrades & 3 turns earlier, now from 53
- BE Norway blockade only 1 message, instead markers indicate active blockade
- BE Tirpitz commando damage to 3 strength instead of 1
- BE Widened the deep sea channel on the western coast of southern Norway
- BE Reduced strength of Allied naval mines around Norway
- BE Kem is once a again a crucial objective in Soviet Union, representing Murmansk
- BE Reduced exp of many USA North Africa invasion units, increased for others
- BE Italian fighter hero Visconti added and some Italian fighter hero reshuffling
- BE More Italian aircraft are core, thus do not surrender
- BE Hungarian fighter unit in mid 1942, with one of the two heroes that came later
- BE Mid 1942 additional warning to prioritize the airforce experience
- BE Pantherturm between Rhine and Meuse Rivers, shortly after Overlord starts
- BE 17cm K18 artillery unit gift much earlier, turn 17 instead of turn 57
- BE He 177 bomber, He 162 jet fighter and Do 335 heavy fighter bomber gifts
- BE A few downgrades to late war Soviet fighter spawn types, but not numbers
- BE 1942 prestige per turn increased from 60 back to 80
- SC T-34 guard and flamethrower variants, as well as early KV guards unlocked
- SC Several Soviet tank availability dates adjusted to Soviet Corps campaign
- SC Late T-34-85 with skirts added, thanky to Birgeria graphic
- SC Soviet captured Panther str8 added, same family as captured Tiger, thx Birgeria
- SC Soviet upgrade option for captured Fw 190, after Bagration same as Panther
- SC Soviet captured Fw 190 fighters nerfed air attack by 1 compared to Germans

Unit Changes
- Finnish Ju 88 fixed switchability
- Italian L3/35 Lanciafiamme flamethrower variant added
- SM 79 can now switch to strat bomber mode, both Italian and Romanian ones
- Romanian & Hungarian aircraft families reorganized
- Hungarian Re.2000 Heja buffed air attack and defense
- Bf 109 G-6 one less air defense, but one more air attack
- Bf 109 G-6+ up to G-14 get one more air attack, but not the gunpod variants
- La-7 one less air attack, one more air defense
- Yak-9U nerfed attack, ammo and fuel, due to severe engine problems
- Fw 190 A-8 available two weeks later
- Do 217 heavy fighters ini (re)buffed
- Spitfire Mk IX buffed ini
- Hs 129 B-2+ and B-2/BK available a month earlier
- Hummel available 6 weeks earlier, Nashorn available a month earlier
- Other minor availability changes around mid 1943
- IAR 81C with DB engine added, thanks to Birgeria for the graphic
- Soviet T-34 guard versions are now 10% more costly than regular version

Thank you for your update, thank you for your hard work, and thank you for listening to requests, comments, and so on! As for a translator, I recommend Deepl—unlike Google Translate, it provides more accurate and correct translations!
https://www.deepl.com/ru/translator



ФАБ-5000НГ
https://ok.ru/dzen/article/aou6Je194WeQzcHm

[goose_2]

Thank you very much for your hard work !

Started West Coast 4 times and think I am keeping what I was able to garner
This is a rough one, no changes needed for West Coast scenario that is for sure

[daddiska]

Awesome work! Ich bin sehr beeindruckend.

Currently playing GC 39. There is a minor unit balancing issues I found. Opel Blitz costs less than both Henschel 33 and Mercedes L3000 despite its better stats.

[bondjamesbond]

Awesome work! Ich bin sehr beeindruckend.

Currently playing GC 39. There is a minor unit balancing issues I found. Opel Blitz costs less than both Henschel 33 and Mercedes L3000 despite its better stats.

The Opel was actually cheaper!
https://www.kolesa.ru/article/man-borgw ... oy-mirovoy
https://dzen.ru/a/YE5A0QERgUR7rsaw

The most mass‑produced vehicle in the series was the 3‑ton Opel Blitz 3.6‑36S. It entered production in 1938, and a total of 82,356 units were manufactured over 6 years. The average cost of one Blitz was 4,500 Reichsmarks. For comparison, the prestigious Mercedes‑Benz 540K cost 22,000 marks, the mid‑size Opel Capitan 3,500 marks, and the compact Adler Trumpf only 2,700 marks.
Along with the Opel Blitz, the backbone of the Wehrmacht’s motorized forces consisted of heavy tank transporters Büssing‑NAG 4500, costing 9,500 Reichsmarks, 3‑ton diesel Mercedes‑Benz L3000 trucks for 7,000 marks, and Borgward B3000 trucks for 6,500 marks, respectively.

https://autohs.ru/avtomobili/gruzovye/s ... manii.html

[Locarnus]

Thank you for your update, thank you for your hard work, and thank you for listening to requests, comments, and so on! As for a translator, I recommend Deepl—unlike Google Translate, it provides more accurate and correct translations!
https://www.deepl.com/ru/translator

You are welcome!
Yep, deepl is much better and I use it for short translations. Unfortunately there is a 500 character limit.
While google translate allows uploading and translating whole document files, which is necessary for the amount of text and multiple languages.

Started West Coast 4 times and think I am keeping what I was able to garner
This is a rough one, no changes needed for West Coast scenario that is for sure

The final leg of the journey. Can a hungarian unit reach the US West Coast?

Awesome work! Ich bin sehr beeindruckend.

Currently playing GC 39. There is a minor unit balancing issues I found. Opel Blitz costs less than both Henschel 33 and Mercedes L3000 despite its better stats.

Thank you! Freut mich sehr.

As bondjamesbond said, the Opel was much cheaper. But those three trucks are in different transport categories, which are unfortunately hidden by the game UI.
Eg the Opel Blitz is in the light truck category, while the Henschel 33 is in the medium truck category and Mercedes L3000 is in the Sd10 category.
A 2cm Flak gun can be towed by all three of those hidden transport categories, while a 3.7cm Flak is too heavy for the light truck and Sd10 vehicles.
Similar for the 88 Flak, which can be towed by the appropriately sized SdKfz 7, but also by bigger vehicles intended for much heavier loads (which are overpowerd and wasted for just a 88 Flak).

This mainly becomes relevant if a unit is upgraded or "downgraded" and then has different transport category requirements.
I recommend just using what works best at the time, if you are not playing with very tight prestige settings and thus need to deep dive into the equipment file anyway.

[bondjamesbond]

Thank you for your update, thank you for your hard work, and thank you for listening to requests, comments, and so on! As for a translator, I recommend Deepl—unlike Google Translate, it provides more accurate and correct translations!
https://www.deepl.com/ru/translator

You are welcome!
Yep, deepl is much better and I use it for short translations. Unfortunately there is a 500 character limit.
While google translate allows uploading and translating whole document files, which is necessary for the amount of text and multiple languages.

The final leg of the journey. Can a hungarian unit reach the US West Coast?

Awesome work! Ich bin sehr beeindruckend.

Currently playing GC 39. There is a minor unit balancing issues I found. Opel Blitz costs less than both Henschel 33 and Mercedes L3000 despite its better stats.

Thank you! Freut mich sehr.

As bondjamesbond said, the Opel was much cheaper. But those three trucks are in different transport categories, which are unfortunately hidden by the game UI.
Eg the Opel Blitz is in the light truck category, while the Henschel 33 is in the medium truck category and Mercedes L3000 is in the Sd10 category.
A 2cm Flak gun can be towed by all three of those hidden transport categories, while a 3.7cm Flak is too heavy for the light truck and Sd10 vehicles.
Similar for the 88 Flak, which can be towed by the appropriately sized SdKfz 7, but also by bigger vehicles intended for much heavier loads (which are overpowerd and wasted for just a 88 Flak).

This mainly becomes relevant if a unit is upgraded or "downgraded" and then has different transport category requirements.
I recommend just using what works best at the time, if you are not playing with very tight prestige settings and thus need to deep dive into the equipment file anyway.
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I reckon that if you sign up there, they let you post 5,000 characters!



https://waralbum.ru/379127/
Of course, these days rocket attacks on cities don’t surprise anyone ) But it was the Germans who started it all! ) So will launchers be deployed to fire rockets at London?
https://waralbum.ru/398935/


https://en.topwar.ru/206120-problema-pe ... fau-1.html


https://www.maximonline.ru/longreads/vu ... -id668353/
German engineers are fine-tuning the flight control unit for the Fau-1 and Fau-2 ( V -1 & V- 2 )rockets at the Mittelwerk underground factory in Nordhausen.Germany, 1944.
https://union.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=971&p=33

[goose_2]

is it safe to download the latest version to start on 45 campaign?