EAW: New Guinea by RockHPI

EAW:New Guinea is an add-on campaign for European Air War.  It covers the Papuan campaign in New Guinea from July 1942 to January 1943.  From "Pacific Sweep" by William E. Hess:
"Preparations for the Guadalcanal campaign cut deeply into the flow of men and planes to Australia and New Guinea.  The Japanese continued to press their New Guinea ground offensive in the summer of 1942 in the direction of Port Moresby, while Australian infantrymen fought a desperate holding action.  Not only were Allied ground forces restricted by shortages of personnel and equipment, but Allied airpower was also forced into a holding and defensive role.  It was the mission of American fighter units to defend Port Moresby as best they could and to participate in limited escort and ground-support duties.
	As the Guadalcanal campaign progressed, the role of Allied ground forces and ground forces and air units became more and more important, for the approaches to Australia had to be held or the costly campaign in the Solomos would have gone for naught."

To install:  

Select the following planes in ECA control panel: 

P-38: P-38J
P-51B: P-39D Airacobra 
B-26: B-25J
B-17F: B-17D
B-24D: B-24D
Hurricane: Kittyhawk IA

Bf-109E: Ki-43 Oscar
FW-190A:  A6M2 Zero
Ju88A: Ki-21 Sally
He-111H: G4M3 Betty
Ju87B: D3A2 Val

Do NOT select place names in the ECA control panel AFTER installing the EAWNG files-there is a place name file included.

Unzip the files in the EAWNG.zip to your EAW directory.  It is recommended that you use a Pacific terrain and the appropriate Pacific theatre skins as well as the Japanese speech pack available online at the Hangar.

Start the game and select a 1943 campaign for either the Americans or Germans (Japanese).

Design notes: I had a great time modeling the air war in New Guinea for EAW, and hope to finally get to fly it now that it's complete!  You'll notice no flyable bombers-personally I'm in it for the fighter action, although I do plan to try and add a B-25 campaign.  If I can work out how to set parked aircraft as targets, I think flying a B-25 strafer would be a lot of fun.  There were a few other things I wanted to include (and still may in later versions) : the Dinah was present in New Guinea at the time (probably more than the Val) but it occupies the Bf-110 slot and I couldn't get the computer to stop using it for escort in the American campaign.  Also, I'd like to get more info for Japanese units-the ones I've used in the game were present at Wewak just after this scenario ends, but as to whether they were based at Lae previous to that, I'm honestly not sure.  Japanese unit histories are a bit tough to come by online.  If I run across a good book on Japanese air units, I'll update the campaign.  There were a limited number of targets in this campaign-the airfields at Lae, Port Moresby, and Milne Bay, plus air support for the army fighting along the Kokoda track with a few convoy attacks thrown in, so I cheated by giving duplicate names to many of the cities.  Buna was a hotly contested area and both sides may fly there.  There is a good mix of escort and interception for the fighters and even some bombing if you're flying the P-40.   While some may long for more ground action, I prefer the all-out fighter duels and EAW:NG reflects this.  I was able to modify the main screen for EAW:NG,  but I'd like to find out the filenames of the briefing screen and the armament/fly mission screen so you're not looking at FW190s in your Zero campaign!  The same goes for the little pictures when you're selecting your squadrons.  Japanese speech would be great for the briefing and SOMEONE PLEASE FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THE ZERO .3DZ FILES!  I plan on releasing a B-25 skin with the proper non-glass nose and probably some P-40 and P-39 skins too.  If I'm able to make any the above improvements, I'll be sure to post them on the EAW forum (www.combatsim.com) .  Please address any questions to RockHPI@earthlink.net and include EAW in the title heading.

Finally, thanks to Emil for some of the .str files!

Please enjoy!

RockHPI
  
