It's time to fight the bloody Pacific campaign from the skies over Pearl Harbor to the tunnels under Iwo Jima!
This is the first release of the Battlegroup42 Historical Accuracy and Teamwork Mod on the BFV engine, and this release concentrates on the Pacific theatre. Besides content from BG42 and specially built items for this release, it not only includes all the DICE BF42 Pacific maps but also converted Battlegroup42 BF42 maps, community BF42 maps and a bunch of new BFV WW2 maps. It also has content from the Battlegroup42 (BF42), The Lost Battalion and Operation Anubis mods.
Highlights include:
- Maps include Midway, Coral Sea, Gavutu, Angaur, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima Tunnels, Tarawa, Peleliu and Philippines Liberation.
- 3D ironsights on small-arms.
- New US small-arms including the Grease Gun, M1 Carbine and deployable Browning HMG.
- New Japanese small-arms including the Katana sword, Arisaka, MP18 and deployable Woodpecker HMG.
- New US vehicles including M3 Stuart light tank, Sherman Ronson flamethrower tank, LVT4 amtrac, LVT(A)1 amphibious tank, M3 Scout car, M50 Quad 50cal, M16 mobile quad 50cal, M3 tank destroyer, Long Tom coastal defense gun, Jimmy truck, open topped M3A1 halftrack with sidemount 30cals.
- New Japanese vehicles including Ha-Go light tank, Ho-Ni tank destroyer, Te-Ke tankette, 8inch coastal defence gun, Ho-Ki personnel carrier, Isuzu truck.
- New aircraft including F4F-3 Wildcat, rocket firing P-38 Lightning, B5N Kate and G4M Betty. Also napalm-carrying Corsair on Iwo Jima (one of the first combat uses of the bomb).
- New ships including the Essex and Taiho.
- New effects including vehicle exhausts, tank flamethrower, vehicle headlights on night maps, breath condensation on cold maps, smoke grenades, smoke columns from burning vehicles, and dogfighting smoke trails.
BATTLEGROUP42 - THE WW2 HISTORICAL ACCURACY AND TEAMWORK MOD FOR BFV
=====================================The mod will be activated automatically when connecting to an online BG42 server. To run in singleplayer or start a server, go into Options, Custom Game, select BattleGroup42 and click Activate.
To run directly make a shortcut (or copy the one for standard BFV) and set the 'Target' as follows (changing as appropriate for your install folder):
"C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield Vietnam\BfVietnam.exe" +game Battlegroup42
and use ChangeIcon to point it at the BG42icon in the Battlegroup42 folder.
CONTENT
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Maps:
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07Dec41-Pearl Harbor (with limited bot support)
08Dec41-Wake (with bot support)
22Dec41-Philippines (with bot support)
08May42-Coral Sea
04Jun42-Midway
07Aug42-Guadalcanal
08Aug42-Gavutu Islands
12Sep42-Henderson Airfield
20Nov43-Tarawa
15Sep44-Peleliu
17Sep44-Angaur
19Feb45-Iwo Jima
20Feb45-Iwo Jima Tunnels
26Mar45-Phlippines Liberation - by Op Anubis mod
US Aircraft:
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B17
F4F-3 Wildcat
F4F-4 Wildcat
F4U-1 Corsair
F4U-1 CorsairN (carries napalm)
P-38F Lightning
P-38J Lightning
SBD Dauntless
SBD-T
Japanese Aircraft:
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A6M Zero
B5N1 Kate
B5N2 Kate
D3A Val
G4M Betty (from TLB mod)
US Vehicles:
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155mm M1 Coastal Gun
Bofors 40mm AA
Jimmy 2-1/2ton truck
LVT2 amphibious PC (spawn point)
LVT4 amphibious PC
LVTA1 amphibious tank
M2A1 Howitzer
M3A1 Half-Track (with side-mounted 30cal MGs and passenger firing positions)
M3 GMC tank destroyer
M3 Scout Car
M3 Stuart light tank
M4A3 Sherman tank
M4A3 Sherman Ronson flamethrowing tank
M16 MGMC mobile quad 50cal MGs
M18 Hellcat tank destroyer
M29C_Weasel amphibious vehicle
M55 quad 50cal MGs
Willys GPW jeep
Japanese Vehicles:
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8inch Coastal Gun
Black Medal car
Chi-Ha tank
Chi-Ha Shinhoto tank
Flak 38
Ha-Go light tank
Ho-Ha APC
Ho-Ki APC
Ho-Ni tank destroyer
Isuzu truck (from TLB mod)
Type 94 TL tankette (from TLB mod)
US Infantry Weapons:
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Knife
BAR 1918
Boys anti-tank rifle
Colt pistol
Deployable Browning 50cal
Gammon grenade
Grenade
Johnson LMG
Landmine
M1 Carbine
M1 Garand
M2-2 Flamethrower
M3A1 Grease gun
Smoke Grenade
Springfield 03
Thompson
Japanese Infantry Weapons:
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Arisaka
Arisaka sniper
Deployable Type 92 (model from TLB mod)
Katana sword
Mp18
Nambu pistol
Smoke grenade
Type 2 grenade
Type 97 grenade
Type 100 flamethrower
Type 100 SMG
Gameplay Features:
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1) APCs are crucial to teamwork - they repair tanks and other vehicles as well as giving health and ammo. The APC driver has a mouselook ability, and can even look round to see his teammates in the back (good clan screenshots welcomed!). There are extra APCs added to most of the original maps, and they stay around for longer (so you can use them as mobile supply points).
2) There is a lot of fixed artillery so make use of it.
3) The LVT2 is a mobile spawn point.
4) The M3 Scout Car has an armored windscreen - to improve visibility, raise it with the landing craft ramp keys (usually up/down arrows).
5) Small arms generally have 3D ironsights.
