Here are some of the changes I remember for v2.0
* Extensive changes to the map (look at the thread where you can download Paul's new map)
* All ports have no production now so clean up the map
* Added some units in southern Russian and Romania because the map changes.
* Syria will now become Vichy instead of British Annexed
* The units that were supposed to spawn in Syria will now spawn in Egypt and Iraq
* There is no need for any house rule regarding the naval units in Egypt can't move as long as Egypt is neutral. They won't spawn until Egypt joins the Allies. The game has been done to the USLL destroyer in Fredericton, Canada.
* The Russian reserve units will only spawn on the turn USA joins the Allies so there is no need for any house rule telling that these units can't move until they're release.
* The German DAK armor unit will spawn near Benghazi 3 turns after Italy joins the Allies. This is done to make sure the AI can use this armor instead of not moving it when it started near Tripoli
* All European major powers will not get a leader in their force pool when they activate. No need to have any house rule telling people to build a leader with at start PP's
* Vichy BB's are added in Casablanca and Oran at reduced strength
* The Russian oil hex will automatically get back to Russian control once Russia activates.
* Germany will get the Swedish iron ore PP's until Sweden becomes an enemy of Germany.
* Partisan rules are changed. Only garrisons will spawn now and with variable strength. Major powers except Italy will get garrisons of 4-10 strength, big minor powers will get from 1-10 strength and small minor powers will get from 1-5 strength. Major powers and some minor powers will also get partisans after they're conquered, but at half the spawning rate.
* Partisans can now spawn in cities or resources so there is no longer a need for the garrison house rule. If you don't protect your occupied cities then you might actually lose them.
* Weather effects is introduced in all hexes north of the 50th hex row. That is most of Europe (except southern Spain, Greece and Italy)
* Winter in Europe starts in November and ends after February. The effects are +1 movement cost per hex, -1 ground attack for land units except armor, -2 ground attack for armor units, spotting range reduced, shock, air and naval attack halved (rounded up)
* In addition the Russian severe winter will affect mother Russia. The above effects will also affect the area under severe weather, but in addition these hexes have a +1 vehicle penalty and a morale loss at the start of the severe winter.
* The research limit dependent upon game year is now hardcoded so there is no need for a house rule keeping track of this.
* Message boxes are given to the players when certain events happen.
* The surrender rule for Italy is changed so no hexes change side when Italy surrenders. That gives Germany a fair chance to continue fighting in Italy alone.
* Fixed the v1.05 bug where Italy could only place reinforcements in Rome
We have some further changes we want to implement before we release v2.0:
* Fix the bug so Paris liberated will give supply level 5
* Hardcode the rail restrictions in the house rule
* Maybe some other things as well like adding new transportation loops so we can remove the sea line at the bottom of the map.
The playtesters will have to test the game balance after so many changes so if we find game balance issues then we need to deal with that. That may delay the release of v2.0. So I won't commit to a date yet, but I think we speak about weeks and not months.
But this doesn´t matter anymore since you have removed the North Africa sea lane... You are doing a very good work. I think CEAW is a good game and you are turning this game into a much better one. Since you have hardcoded all house rules, have improved the map and have added new transportation loops, CEAW BJR mod 2.00 has nothing to do with the vanilla game. It seems to me you have entered in CEAW main core game and you can do almost everything with the game... Thanks for this work!