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
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Highly experimental machine translation for the main BE scenario
- Russian, German, French and SPANISH languages for BE main scn & library
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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
