Slitherine

guille1434 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:09 am Hello Nono:

As I explained earlier, I prefer to spend my limited "modding time" in making new or improved game icons than making big unit graphics, that are not "operative" and more like "eye candy" (but, of course, they are a good thing to have, but if I have to make a choice, I prefer to add a new icon in the game, with all the associated files, like animations, audio, efx tables, than making a big unit portrait which only show in the purchase or upgrade screens). This causes, of course, that any player trying this mod will find a lot of missing big units. The idea is to complete the missing ones, but I cannot make promises.
To use images from other mods are a good and valid way to complete the missing images.

About the Sturmpanzer I, you can add an image from other mod or just to rename the big unit image present in the original game set. Besides, your comment about the problem in the Oslo scenario made me start a small research about this vehicle, and, as I believed, it was only put in service in time for the battle of France, so I changed the initial availability date to 10.05.1940 instead of 01.04.1940... Just in time for the invasion of France, but not ready for the Norwegian campaign. The good news are that I made the big units for this vehicle, both in regular Wehrmacht and SS camouflaged variants... So, another gap filled!

About the Sdkfz 10/4, as you mentioned that there were repeated entries in the equipment file, you have to note that in my equipment file, this vehicle has three switches (mobile AA, sentry mode and ground fire) and three variants (regular Wehrmacht, purchasable SS and bonus SS). So, there are nine total entries for this vehicle in the eqp file: The two original entries in the first part of the file (official game content compatible), and then seven more entries for the rest of the switches/variants at the final part of the file, reserved for the new units, variants, and switches added to the equipment file. In short, you have three variants: Regular Wehrmacht, SS purchasable and SS bonus, each with three switches... 3 * 3 = 9 entries.

Here I attach the big units for the Sturmpanzer I, and a new version of the equipment file with the Sturmpanzer I availability date corrected to 10.05.1940 for all the variants... I also added a new SS bonus variant for this vehicle, as this was not available in the previous version of the equipment file.

Greetings!

guille1434 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 1:26 pm So, I will stay here in the PzCorps 1 trench to the last bullet... heheh...

guille1434 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:01 pm Hello Nono: I think I cannot understand exactly what your request is, but I can tell you this, may be this is useful for you:

1) At present, my focus is set on the early war equipment (1939-40) so, I did not start making or modifying icons present from 1941 and later. I don't have (yet) an icon for the Bf-109F, but I think I would be able to upload one soon.

2) Bf-109E: There are already present in my mod a rather complete range of icons for the 109E variants, with their regular and SE versions, and all of them are implemented in the eqp file.

Bf-109E-1: This unit takes the place of the "generic" vanilla game Bf-109E. It was armed with four 7,92 mm machine guns, two on the engine cowling, and two in the wings. This fact is reflected in the equipment file with a reduced Air Attack value.

Bf-109E-3: This variant added a 20 mm MG-FF cannon firing through the propeller hub, so it has higher Air Attack. In fact, this centrally mounted cannon was prone to jamming, and was not very popular for the pilots flying this variant, being often dismounted from the aircraft.

Bf-109E-4: A heavier armed variant, the engine mounted 20 mm cannon was deleted, but the two wing mounted machine guns were replaced by two 20 mm cannon of the same model. So, it had two engine cowling 7,92 mm machine guns and two wing mounted 20 mm cannon. This heavier weight installed away from the center of gravity of the aircraft somewhat reduced maneuvrability, so this fact is reflected in the equipment file with a higher Air Attack value, but a lower initiative value. This variant should be better when used to attack bombers and no so good when attacking high performance fighters (like the Spitfire). It is worth to note that this early war 20 mm MG-FF weapon was not the same as the 20 mm MG-151 cannon used by 109F and later variants, because it had a lower powered ammunition, with lower initial velocity and a more curved projectile trajectory (less precision), and also a lower rate of fire and less ammo capacity in its magazine.

This of course, does not include the also implemented Bf-109E-1B which was an E-1 fighter that when replaced by more modern variants in fighter units service, was modified with an under fuselage 250 kg (I think) bomb mounting pylon to be used a fast pin-point fighter bomber, which is also present in "my" mod.

As I said, all those variants have their own distinctive regular, SE, desert and SE-desert icons, and (regretably) a "generic" "one for all" big unit portrait for them, so I think your in-game needs should be conveniently covered.

guille1434 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:47 pm Ok, this is not related to the equipment file, because I checked the availability dates and they are correct. I even corrected the vanilla game initial date for the Bf-109F which was 01-09-1940, when, historically, this model of the fighter was available from the start of 1941.
Maybe you are using a different equipment file for the GC 41 campaign. Take this example: If you are playing the GC 39 and GC 40 using an equipment file present in the "Data" game folder, it can happen that when you start the GC41 the game software takes the data from a different equipment file which is present in the GC41 folder. At the start of a campaign, when loading data, the game will first look in the specific campaign folder for an equipment file, and if there is no such file present there, it will load the data from the equipment file present in the "global" data folder in the game main directory.

In short: you have to check if there are a different equipment file inside the GC41 folder. If you find such a file there, you should delete it from that folder or replace it with a copy of the equipment file present in the Data main game folder. If this is not the solution to your problem, I really can´t tell another reason.

I hope this helps!!