BattleGroup42 RTR
0.98 Released!
BattleGroup42 RTR 0.98 is here! Now you can take to the battlefield
as Italians and French in proper BG42 style. Take on hordes of
enemy infantry in your M11/39, hunt enemy armoured formations
in your Mosquito and snipe at the assaulting forces during Operation
Husky. As an extra bonus we've included two new models, the Pantherturm
emplaced turret and as a preview of BG42 1.0, the Elefant tank
destroyer!
BG42RTR 0.98 uses the same improvements
as its parent mod, namely historically accurate damage system,
projectile velocities, repairing APCs and all the other tweaks
and advances players have come to expect. All the bot-supported
maps released with the original expansion have been tweaked as
well as a host of other maps already found in 0.98. These changes
centre around applying the BG42 principle of historical accuracy
with all the new equipment across the entire range of battlefields.
BG42RTR 0.98 is the latest release from
the BG42 team and is aimed at owners of the Battlefield 1942 Road
to Rome expansion pack.
Requirements:
Battlefield 1942 1.6
Battlefield 1942 Road to Rome Expansion Pack
BattleGroup42 0.98
File Size:
Client Install - 23Mb
Server Install - 1.7Mb
For full details of the updates and changes
made in BG42RTR 0.98 view the ReadMe.
THIS
THREAD on our forums has all the details of mirrors
and servers!
See you on the Battlefield!
M10
Wolverine |
PantherTurm |
Bf110 |
Elefant |
M3 Grant &
M3 Stuart |
StuGIIID &
M11/39 |
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Operation
Husky |
Italians
on
Anzio |
M16
on
Anzio |
M3
GMC
Pacific |
Bren |
Santa
Croce
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BG42RTR 0.98 Featured
Models
Battlegroup42 is pleased to confirm
that the Battlegroup42 Road To Rome mod will be released this
evening at 2000 (central European time). It will be about 25Mb
in size and require the Battlegroup42 mod (0.98) and the Road
To Rome expansion pack. It will put Battlegroup42 vehicles such
as the Panzer III, Panther, Brummbaer, Panzer II, M16 GMC, Staghound
AA and Bishop on the RTR maps. In addition it will put the RTR
vehicles (M11-39, M3Grant, M3GMC, Mosquito and Bf110) on the existing
desert and Pacific maps such as OperationCrusader, El Alamein,
Rabaul and Gaudalcanal. Two original maps, El Alamein and Tobruk,
have been converted so that the Axis forces are now Italian, with
Italian skins, hand weapons and flags.
There will be two special features in this
release: the PantherTurm and the Elefant. The PantherTurm consisted
of a Panther tank turret mounted on a pillbox and used in defensive
positions. The Germans made extensive use of advanced, prefabricated
fortifications - many mounting tank turrets - and the most deadly
was the PantherTurm. It found particular, and infamous, use in
the northern Italian defensive lines (e.g. the Hitler and Gothic
lines) and is therefore included on the Santa Croce, Monte Cassino
and Salerno maps. It was also used during the defence of Berlin,
and so has been added to the Berlin map, just outside the German
base.
The Panzerjaeger Tiger (P) Elefant tank
destroyer is one of the first of our new generation of models
and is destined for inclusion in our forthcoming 1.0 release.
However, with the growing anticipation for 1.0 we decided to give
a taste of it by including the Elefant in BG-RTR as an exclusive
preview. The model includes real Tiger sounds, exhaust smoke effects,
a gunsight and zoom. The Elefant was a specialist tank destroyer
mounting a high performance 88mm cannon in a chassis built from
unused Tiger (P) chassis (this Porsche Tiger was an unsuccessful
prototype built in competition with the design that was eventually
accepted as the Tiger). Players will have to find the Elefant
in BG-RTR, but many will know that it first saw combat at Kursk
(though the DICE Kursk map is too small for such a long range
tank killer), and then later in Italy.
PantherTurm |
Elefant |
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