air/surface/sub detection stats have been halved for normal naval units Those bonuses are re-added/amped up by the inclusion of a command ship in your fleets They become available as soon as a country activates Light Cruisers and/or Battleships They provide bonuses in several areas for your fleets, and they have enhanced defenses for better survivability. These are flagships that are a bit more expensive to build, but they provide communications, office space, and accommodations for a fleet commander and his staff, and serve to coordinate fleet activities. NEW: Command Ships: Similar to the above 'air command units', we are introducing an experimental 'Command Cruiser (Light)' and 'Command Battleship'. Types: Fighter Group - For Inties Heavy Fighter Group - For Twin Engine Fighters Night Fighter Group - For Multi-Role Fighter/Bombers Bomber Group (Light) - For light bombers and CAS Bomber Group (Medium) - For Tactical Bombers Bomber Group (Heavy) - For Strategic Bombers Bomber Group (Naval) - For Naval Bombers and Flying Boats Transport Group - For normal Transport Planes Transport Group (Heavy) - For Quad Engine/Heavy Transport Planess USA/JAP/ITA/SOV/GER get some historical air command units in the starting OOB USA/GER/ENG get other historical air command units via event OOBs All countries can build the generic versions of these Increased the # of units an air stack without penalty by 1, per rank, to allow for the new air command units. Created hidden AI tech to receive those bonuses without an air command unit. Added those bonuses back to the air command units. Halved the air/surface detection of most normal air units. NEW: Retextured map, and now with new higher resolution terrain textures!Įdited shader code to provide a bit more 'pop' when rendering terrain tiles Lots of critical fixes, and a ton of new content.

Here is the current release notes/change log for the upcoming release of BlackICE v8.5! As you will no doubt notice, this has turned out to be a HUGE, and pretty epic release.

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