
1942 GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN      


ECA Panel 3.1 compatible addon for EUROPEAN AIR WAR - Microprose

The 1942 Guadalcanal Campaign replaces the 1943 Campaign with a Battle of Brittain type
campaign starting in August of 1942, at the start of Operation Watchtower and the 1st Marine
Division lands on Guadalcanal, Tulagi and other small islands. The marines capture the Lunga
Point airfield (later renamed to Henderson Field) that the Japanese were constructing on 
Guadalcanal. The aim of this campaign is to simulate the air and air to ground/sea war in
the Solomon Islands between American and Japanese naval air forces. There were also a few 
USAAF squadrons forces participating in the campaign.

The Guadalcanal Campaign is a modified 1940 campaign, with different aircraft and 
upgrades. It starts in August 1942 and ends in February 1943, when the Japanese evacuate 
their remaining ground troops from Guadalcanal ("Tokyo Express no longer has terminus on 
Guadalcanal"). In a normal campaign you fly a mission every 4 days, if you choose a long 
campaign be prepared to fly a mission every 2 days for a total of 90 sorties.

As in reality all American and Japanese aircraft will participate in a significant number of
air to ground bombing and interdiction attacks. Ofcourse also a significant number of sweep,
escort and intercept missions will be flown.

This Guadalcanal Campaign is not 100% historically correct, but it is certainly more
historically correct to play than a Battle of Brittain or 1943-1944 campaign of the original
EAW with south pacific terrain and south pacific aircraft skins applied.

Use this addon campaign with other addons as pacific terrain, pacific aircraft skins,
palm trees, pacific airfield textures, Japanese speech pack, DDLoco1.0 that changes trains and radar stations into
destroyers and other Pacific utilities as they might appear in the future.


Squadrons available for the 1942 Guadalcanal Campaign:

	- Japanese                      Aircraft        Esc/Swp/Bom/Inc/Ind

	Tainan Kokutai                  A6M2 Zero        35  35   0  15  15 %
	2nd Kokutai                     A6M2 Zero        10  10   0  70  10 %  
	6th Kokutai                     A6M2 Zero        25  25   0  25  25 %
	4th kokutai                     G4M2 Betty        0   0  50   0  50 %
	2nd Kokutai                     D3A2 Val          0   0  50   0  50 %
	
	- American

	VF-5                            F4F-4            30  30   0  20  20 %
	VMF-223                         F4F-4            20  20   0  30  30 %
	67th FS                         P-400            20  20  20  20  20 %
	339th FS                        P-38F            25  25   0  25  25 %
	VMSB-232                        SBD-3             0   0  33  33  33 %
	

When you play this campaign DO NOT select Limited Supply or you may not have bombs to carry.
I would like to quote Charles Gunst on this : "Did you join up to be a fighter pilot or 
a supply clerk anyway?" :)

INSTALLATION AND USAGE INSTRUCTIONS

To use this addon you need to have an install of EAW patched to version 1.2 level.
Enemy Coast Ahead 1.4 and ECA panel 3.1 need to be installed.

Use ECA Control Panel v3.1 to select the 1942 Pacific aircraft. Do this by using "Global 
Changes"/"Pacific (1942) aircraft", or by individually selecting the various aircraft
options as follows:

Hurricane:	Kittyhawk Ia
Spitfire I:	P-39Q Airacobra
P-51B:	 	SBD-3 Dauntless
P-38H:		P-38F
P47C:		F4F-4 Wildcat
P-47D:		TBF-1 Avenger
B-17F:		B-17D
FW-190A:	A6M2 Zero
Ju-87B:		D3A2 Val
He-111H:	G4M3 Betty

To fly the P-400 Airacobra instead of the P-39Q Airacobra change the plane characteristics
with Jeroen van Soest's EAWAircraftEdit v1.08 utility (http://www.gironet.nl/home/lvsoest/).

The P-400 has a 20 mm cannon with 60 rounds instead of the 30-37 mm cannon with 30 rounds,
it has the same .50 cal guns in the cowling, but only two .30 cal guns in the wings instead
of four. If you would like to you can also change the rest of the plane characteristics to
the ones found on the P-39D Airacobra in the P-51B slot.

If you like American radio chatter instead of British when flying the P-400 Airacobra change
the aircraft type to American instead of British with the same utility.

Remember that every time that you reopen ECAPanel your changes to the plane characteristics
will be automatically overwritten as will other files that come with this campaign.
So DON'T OPEN ECAPanel after installing this campaign if you don't want to lose some of it's
characteristics.

To install just copy the following files that come with this Guadalcanal.zip file into your 
EAW directory : 

CAMPGR43.DAT
CAMPUK43.DAT
CARQUOTE.STR
GERFNAME.STR 
GERLNAME.STR
GRANKL.STR : is the same as in James Richards Japanese speech pack 
GRANKS.STR : is the same as in James Richards Japanese speech pack
LOADOUT.DAT
MISN43.DAT
PNAMES.STR
RADIOTXT.STR : cfr James Richards Japanese speech pack, but some more alterations
SQDESCGR.STR
SQDESCUS.STR
SQGR43.DAT
SQNAMEGR.STR
SQNAMEUS.STR
SQUS43.DAT
STGEV1.STR : cfr James Richards Japanese speech pack, but some more alterations
STGEV2.STR : cfr James Richards Japanese speech pack, but some more alterations
STGEV3.STR : cfr James Richards Japanese speech pack, but some more alterations

Say yes to overwrite files with the same name in your EAW directory.
You notice that some files also appear in James Richards superb Japanese Speechpack,
that is an obligate addon if you want to fly an immersive Japanese career.
I used James Richards files and changed them a bit more : I changed the words Gruppe,
Staffel and Schwarm to Kokutai, Chutai and Shotai respectively. These words now appear
in the wingmen commands menu. I also changed the wingmen exclamations of British, Spitfire 
and Mustang to American, Airacobra and Dauntless respectively.

To uninstall this addon delete all the above mentioned files from your EAW directory and
reinstall the following files of Enemy Coast Ahead 1.4 : 

GERLNAME.STR
LOADOUT.DAT
PNAMES.STR
RADIOTXT.STR
SQDESCGR.STR
SQDESCUS.STR
SQGR43.DAT
SQNAMEGR.STR
SQNAMEUS.STR
SQUS43.DAT

To plat the campaing after installation start a 1943 German or American campaign.

Dirk 'Emil' Schoorens
emil@pandora.be
28 May 2000