FRANCE 40 Campaign #2.ZIP

A modified Charles Gunst's 1940 French Campaign patch for European Air War
For use his other EAW utilities, ECA Control Panel v3.2 and ECA v1.4
This campaign uses a new frontline which now fits to the french border. Thus, the french bases are located in France 
while german ones are in Germany and Belgium.
Of course, this static France 40 campaign is still very far from reality 
but it is now more immersive that the previous one.

In order to simulate a dynamic campaign :
1- the frontline trace is not shown on the maps.
2- one and two airfield changes are (very) likely to occur during the campaigns for the german 
and french sides, respectively. For example, the Groupe de Chasse 1/1 will stay in Lille, 
then it will shift to Amiens and finally Rosires. German II/KG53 "Condor" will shift from Bonn to Florennes (Belgium). 
Nothing historical here but this allows more varied targets. 
Please note that some missions of the northern french Groupes de Chasse 
(More precisely those based in Lille and Amiens) may have targets in the south of England. 
Unfortunately, this cannot be fixed. If you want to avoid missions in England, 
just escape from the career and reload it to get another mission.


The nine files in this zip file:
FRANCE40 #2.TXT (this file)
MISN40.DAT
CAMPGR40.DAT
CAMPUK40.DAT
SQDESCUK.STR
SQNAMEUK.STR
SQGR40.DAT
SQUK40.DAT
FRNTLINE.DAT
provide a rough approximation of a 1940 French campaign 
and single missions for both the Luftwaffe and Armee de l'Air. ECA Control Panel v3.1 is required to use this patch. 

To install "France 40 Campaign #2", take the following steps:

1.Copy the nine files to your EAW directory (the one with EAW.EXE in it).

2. Use ECA Control Panel v3.2 to select the French 1940 aircraft. 
Do this by using "Global Changes"/"French (1940) Aircraft", or by individually selecting the various 
aircraft options as follows:

Hurricane:	Morane MS.406
Spitfire I:	Dewoitine D.520
Spitfire IX:	Caudron C.714
Spitfire XIV:	Bloch MB-155
Typhoon:	Curtiss Hawk 75A
Tempest:	Bloch MB-152
Mosquito:	Potez 631 (or Potez 630)
P38J:		Fokker G-1 Mercury
B26:		Amiot 354 B4
Fw 190A:	Macchi C.200
Ju 88A:		Ju88A (or Do17Z)

3. Copy to your EAW directory the skins for the appropriate aircraft. 
This patch is optimized for the French aircraft skins created by myself and Jean "JPI" Pigeon, 
which are available from Airbuddha, Cord or Alain-James' websites (adresses below).

3. Start a new campaign for either the Luftwaffe or R.A.F. (Armee de l'Air). 
All of the appropriate 1940 aircraft should show up in missions from time to time. 
There will be greater variety in campaign missions than in the standard EAW 1940 campaigns, 
including sweeps for the Armee de l'Air, and bombing, interception and interdiction missions for the Luftwaffe.

4. You can use the ECA Control Panel Squadron Editor to assign any other available aircraft 
to your squadron after flying any mission, in the usual way. 
Note that if you do not have ECA installed, assigning one of the previously non-flyable EAW aircraft 
to your squadron will cause EAW to crash to the desktop when you try to fly a mission.

5. To un-install this patch, simply delete the nine files from your EAW directory. 
Note that if you had ECA v1.4 installed these files will have overwritten the corresponding ECA ones, 
and you will have to re-install the ECA versions of the seven *.DAT and *.STR files set out in the list 
above when you have finished flying in France 1940 Campaign #2.

6. If you do not have ECA v1.4 or ECA Control Panel v3.2, they are available from:
the CombatSim EAW download site (http://www.combatsim.com/),
Airbuddha's site (http://users.ezwv.com/~buddha/EAW.htm)
E's site (http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/6644/)
Cord's EAW site (http://http://eaw.thrustmaster.com/)
French Alain-James' pages (http://spower.free.fr)


Aknowledgements : I am very indebted to Charles Gunst who allowed this to be possible.
I have special thanks to Jean "JPI" Pigeon and Alain-James Palisse for their useful help and advices.
Thanks also to the EAW community for their addons and efforts that make EAW one of the greatest flightsim ever done.

Dominique Legrand
Dominique.Legrand@univ-lille1.fr
July 2000