PWCG

[TheNappingMan]

On 1/27/2026 at 9:47 AM, nt55551 said:

Is this the end of the line for PWCG? Big update today, new theater, probably no chance Odessa gets added to PWCG right? I feel like its a lot of work and there hasn't been a major update in a very long time 

Unfortunately it probably is.  Pat's been hit by a case of "real-life syndrome"...like most of us.  He said on a post a few months ago that the new planes may be added, but probably not the new maps.  Really a bummer, but I don't blame him.  I still prefer it to the official Career mode.  Especially for WWI stuff.

[Pingu565]

On 1/31/2026 at 8:14 PM, FungibleofFungible said:

That's crazy cool! I'd love to hear how you did that? Did you have to open up the base java files or is this entirely editing within the BoSData folders?

Hey Man, thanks just been messing around for awhile with PWMG, its a fair bit of asset swapping, hijacking other mods and some scripts to update the hardbaked values like Aircraft names after they leave Java, im suprised I got this far to be honest here is an update of some of the semicursed assets:

 

Paper Cut Out (This creeps me out lol)
uiii

 

September 1942 (Ty Pacific Mod Easy Mission gen For Frontlines)

I have a few things to do still - its working like a charm now, which has just broadened my horizons re stuff I can ram in before it breaks. 

Will be posting here soon.

Cheers - Pingu

 

Edited February 8 by Pingu565
added content

[Fox_VR_]

On 12/24/2025 at 6:44 PM, Barracuda4Surf said:

Hi guys!
I hope someone is able to help me over here :)

I have been using PWCG for quite a while now, but recently I ran into some issues.

I chose to fly the Western Front Channel Campaign and it works okay, BUT:
I am not able to choose a plane replacement anymore (other than a Ju-88C 🤨)
Flying on the german side I am well into July now and a 109-F4 is nowhere to be seen. 
To check this out (because of the introduction date maybe)  I started an Eastern Front Campaign where the squadron explicitely told me it has F-4's, but no, only F-2's available.

I didn't have had this before in previous versions, I even could call in FW-190's on the Channel Front in 1941 (which was cool to simulate the arrival of the first 190's)
Also there is only 1 squadron of A-20's on the Channel Front, where before there where all the american medium bombers to see.

So... any ideas?

Hello Guys, 

i just found this nice app after starting wit IL2 and unfortunately im running in exactly the same problems as @Barracuda4Surf mentioned some time ago. Is there already a fix/workaround for this issue?

Cheers

[Stonehouse]

PWCG tries to follow historical service dates for aircraft.

109 F4's are introduced in Oct 1941 so if you are doing July missions then they shouldn't be available. 

For Allied bombers the only aircraft flyable are the A20 and Mosquito. The Mossie arrives Sept 1942. The A20 arrives June 1941. Looking at the front lines defined for the Normandy map the earliest career starts June 1, 1941. So A20s will be around then. The B25 and B26 are not flyable aircraft so are not available for a career at all.

For the same period for the Luftwaffe and bombers you can fly He111 H6s or Ju 88A4s or Ju87D3s

[Fox_VR_]

1 hour ago, Stonehouse said:

PWCG tries to follow historical service dates for aircraft.

109 F4's are introduced in Oct 1941 so if you are doing July missions then they shouldn't be available. 

For Allied bombers the only aircraft flyable are the A20 and Mosquito. The Mossie arrives Sept 1942. The A20 arrives June 1941. Looking at the front lines defined for the Normandy map the earliest career starts June 1, 1941. So A20s will be around then. The B25 and B26 are not flyable aircraft so are not available for a career at all.

For the same period for the Luftwaffe and bombers you can fly He111 H6s or Ju 88A4s or Ju87D3s

Thnx for the reply, in understand the historical background and make totally sense.. but I thought exactly for this reason we have the replace equipment option. Imo it makes no sense to replace a BF 109 F2 with a JU 88C but it would be great if I could replace it with a F4 or any other BF 109 I own.

Btw I never got any information that a plane I nit available, despite ticked correctly all the planes I own, inside pwcg. 

[AeroCrab]

There is a bug in PWCG that prevents the list of replacement aircraft from being populated correctly. I think we talked about this on the old forum, but if I remember correctly the potential workaround involved putting a description in for each aircraft. So in PWCGBoS\BoSData\Input\Aircraft, each one of the aircraft has a .json file, and inside that file is a line that looks like this (e.g 109 G6):

    "displayName": "Bf 109 G-6",
    "script": "LuaScripts\\WorldObjects\\Planes\\bf109g6.txt",
    "model": "graphics\\planes\\bf109g6\\bf109g6.mgm",
    "desc": "",
 

The issue is due to that desc line being the same (aka nothing) for every plane. So above, you'd change that to whatever the display name is (for instance, it doesn't matter as long as it is unique):

"desc":"Bf 109 G-6",

for each plane and I think that would work around the problem. The real fix involves a code change which I have done locally, so I haven't actually tried the above. 

Edited February 10 by AeroCrab