Rio de la Plata terrain 1.3.0

Rio de la Plata terrain version 1.3
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This terrain is written for SF2NA and SF2E or SF2I.

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I. Short description:

This terrain covers the Bay of the river Rio de la Plata. South of this bay we find Argentina, north of it Urugay and Brazil. East of it is the Atlantic Ocean.
The timeframe of the terrain is from 1980 to 2020.

It is made as a NavalMap with carrier vs carrier operations in mind.
The scenario is, that in 1982, the Royal Navy answered the argentinian invasion on the Falkland islands with sending a Naval Task Force toward Buenos Aires and landing troops on the shores of Argentina.

Thatswhy you find a big british beachhead on the map.

You can fly following missions for the British and their allies, the Brazilians:
SWEEP,CAP,ESCORT,INTERCEPT,STRIKE,SEAD,ANTI_SHIP,RECON,CAS,Armed_Recon

For the Argentinians you can fly this missions:
SWEEP,CAP,ESCORT,INTERCEPT,STRIKE,SEAD,ANTI_SHIP,CAS,RECON

New in vesion 1.2:
- number of target area increased from 37 to 47
- all target areas are now fitted with objects. Factories, warehouses, commbuilding etc.
- Airbase Tandil moved 75 km westward. It is not yet at the correct position. I fear, that if the base is placed at the correct position, the AI would not use it, because it is to far in the west.
- At the former position of Tandil Airbase i placed a temporary aifield.
- I added the river Rio Paradana and the neigbour rivers.
- I relocated Montevideo and the Montevideo Airport. The airport is completly new made.
- I reworked all rivermouth tiles, enlarged them to 1024x1024 pixel size.

New in version 1.3
- number of targetareas increades to 82
- a lot of new factory target areas for Argentina
- included uruguayan airbases
- included static Cessna for airfield "population
- included some goodies

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II. INSTALLATION:

To run this terrain you need SF2NorthAtlantic and SF2 Israel or SF2 Europe.

Unzip all files into your saved game folder ...ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2XXXX

Thats it.

If you have SF2Europe installed you must do nothing more.
If you miss SF2E and have SF2Israel you must open file

Rio_de_la_Plata_Bay.ini

with Notepad editor and look for the lines:

//CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat
CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat

change the entry into:

CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat
//CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat

save the file
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II.A: Goodies
I have made a new mainscreen and included a new mainscreensound. Check it out and if you like it then copy the folder Menu to your SF2 mod installation

If you own the TK's  DLC28 and SF2Israel, you can use the MirageIIIEA and MirageIIIEBR, which you also find in the goodies folder. Simply copy to your objects folder.

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III. Credits.

Tileset            is basing on Starys Green Hell 3.0 tileset. I converted it to jpg format and
            merged the 512x512 tiles to 1024x1024 pixel tiles.
Tileset green        made by Wilches
GK-CG1            civil airport building made by GKABS
GK-CMT            civil airport building made by GKABS
GK-CT1            civil airport building made by GKABS
Base_C.lod        round parking area taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue
Base_H.lod        small parking area taken from AirfieldDevKit_v1.1, made by Pureblue
ControlTower.LOD        made by RussoUK
Modern Royal Navy ship pack     made by WhiteBoySamurai
            i added shipnumbers and converted the bmp to jpg files, corrected the hitboxes
ARA 25 de Mayo        made by Torno for original 25 de Mayo CV, - upgrades by paulopanz
            i made the angle deck and the Flak working and converted the bmp to jpg files
TAM            made by SUICIDAL & Torno, taken from SF2 Tanks Pack
            i converted the bmp to jpg files
TAM_Roland        made by Gabilon, i made a new skin
Unimog            made by BANIDOS TEAM and SUICIDAL
            i converted the bmp to jpg files
GearingFRAM1B_ Argentina    stock ship of SF2NA, made by TK, modded by me
SumnerFRAM2_Argentina    stock ship of SF2NA, made by TK, modded by me
Fearless Class        Austin, stock ship of SF2NA, made by TK, modded by me
Cleveland class        made by YEYEYE (General Belgrano), modded by me
Leopard1A5_Brazil        LOD file made by Gabilon, skin made by me
Gepard_Brazil        LOD file made by Gabilon, skin made by me
Factory buildings        Made by Geezer
Refinery1,2 and Factory-2    Made by Wingwiner, i renamed the files
Techniker            made by Geezer, moded by me
Mainscreensound        mady by Andrius Klimka

A special Thank you goes to Wilches and Snowburn for their support.

I hope i have not forgotten someone.
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IV. This Terrain is Freeware. Commercial use is not allowed.

And i say it again for the YAP, YankeeAirPirates file thiefs, the usage of this terrain and/or parts of  the terrain for commercial use is not allowed!!!!!

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V.

For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use CombatAce forum or send me a PM.

Hope you enjoy it.

Michael (Gepard)

Made in Germany
27. April 2023