Life, the universe, everything. 2.42 patch notes

A big set of changes that will have to mostly be covered by summaries:

Deck sub-types have been re-ordered, with somewhere in the ballpark of 1500 individual adjustments. After a settling in period we'll look at further tweaks to make certain deck types more useful, looking at you armored.

Air to air missiles have been radically altered: damage has been lowered and critical chance has been increased. The critical hit tables have been adjusted. Details of the new critical hit tables are in the A&S players guide.

Yugoslavia has been upgraded to 'Danube Pact'; Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Ukraine plus equipment from former East Germany. All nations along the Danube river, hence the name.

New units include:

Behivott infantry

Gyalogsagok heavy infantry

PTKR Skif ATGM infantry

Vulturi Heavy SF infantry

RL-4M Tunguska

T-84 Oplot M tank

T-55M8-A2 Tifon tank

TR-85M1 tank

MLI-84M IFV

BMP-23 APC

PASARS AA vehicle

IAR 330 Transport helo

IAR 330 SOCAT attack helo

Ge.31 ZHABA attack aircraft

A new class of 'anti-heavy' weapons have been added: all have 1.1 HE damage to make them stand out. P-90's, MP-7's and new weapons in 6.5mm CBJ caliber have been the main recipient of this upgrade. With the way the class 1 damage table works, these weapons will do 1.1 x 0.75 HP damage per hit to all infantry types.

HMG's have been cosmetically adjusted; previously they did 0.75HE using the class 1 damage table value of 1.5. This has been swapped so the weapon displays 1.5HE and the class 1 damage table list 0.75 damage, so the end result will be the same amount of damage. 14.5mm HMGs have been raised to 1.75 HE

Air to Air missile speeds have been increased again. Hopefully I got them all. If you find any particularly slow Air to Air missiles, post a bug report about the unit.

Airborne ATGM and JDAM ranges were adjusted; long range weapons were reduced in range while the shorter range weapons were increased slightly.

Other changes:

US A-6 Intruder re-purposed to a glide bomb carrier

F-111E and F-111F Aardvark bomb load increased (more than doubled) to reflect their real world carrying capacity

Corrected missile count bug on F-18E

Longbow availability increaed

Kiowa recon helo availability increased

AH-64A and AH-64E availability increased

MH-60 DAP availability increased

OH-58C availability increased

AT4 LAW range increased to 525m

UK SAS MANPADS swapped to RBS 70 NG

Jaguar missile load increased to 2, made [FF]

BAE Corax cost increased

Puma-C availability reduced

NPzK-130 availability reduced

Conscripts have an M79 Osa until I can figure something better to do with them

TAPV transport added for Canada

Cougar upgraded to Cougar Mk2

Norwegian NM-125 Mortars moved to vehicle tab

NM-135 IFV card availability increased

XZ-203 and XA-186NO availability decreased

Hauraki regiment ammo for MANPADS reduced, cost increased

NZSAS cost increased to 25, AT weapon downgraded to a CG3

Baekho MANPADS ammo load reduced, LMG swapped to a K3 Para

Korkut reduced to 65pts

Pal Nat cost reduced

Improved 9M388K Morfey missile replaces the old Osa SAM for several red nations

Improved 9M337 SOSNA missile replaces the Strela 9M37 for several red nations

KUB ranges buffed to 6300m vs planes

TOR ranges buffed to 4900m vs planes

Since I discovered it weighs 13kgs, I've reduced the number of RPG-28's carried by infantry. Let me know if there are any left carrying 12 of them...

MiG-31 added for Egypt

Republican guard and Taskforce 999 get the new 6.5mm CBJ rounds

Fixed a pricing error with the V-LKV T815 logi truck

MiG-35E availability altered

KAB-500 carrying Mig-35S added for Russia

VDV Kopya MANPADS ammo reduced

Hind-D added as a transport for VDV

Spetznaz cost reduced to 28

Sprut finally made amphibious

Numbers of cheap MiG-23 and Mig-21 high speed fighters reduced for Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia.

T-55M8 Tifon tank added for Unasur

Jaguars get the new CBJ round