B-17: Queen of the Skies v1.14.0 — B-17: QUEEN OF THE SKIES — CHANGELOG

B-17: QUEEN OF THE SKIES — CHANGELOG
Newest first. Every release is kept.

VERSION 1.14.0 — 2026-09-26
- Preview crew passes and rest-home orders before the next briefing.
- Compare actual seat-selection forecasts, stress, reserves and replacements.
- Show recovery countdowns and pilot-credit / lead-training consequences.
- Apply and save existing recovery actions; cancel leaves the roster intact.
- Preserve core campaign rules, saves and artwork.

VERSION 1.13.0 — 2026-09-26
- Preview spread-fire or ammunition-saving gun assignments during defense.
- Compare coverage, individual targets, hit chances and ammunition cost.
- Apply legal assignments without advancing combat; cancel preserves orders.
- Auto-fly pauses during review; core combat rules and saves remain intact.

VERSION 1.12.0 — 2026-09-25
- Navigator route board: terrain, distance, escorts, contrails and coast flak.
- Per-zone fighter-wave odds from public rules, without revealing planned rolls.
- Fuel budgets include current tank loss and damaged transfer valves.
- Correct takeoff/overcast step counts and keep all fuel displays consistent.
- Compare continuing versus aborting; show engine oil endurance.
- Pause auto-fly for a zero or negative projected fuel reserve.

VERSION 1.11.0 — 2026-09-25
- Searchable mission archive with credit/outcome filters and five sort orders.
- Statistics for shown missions and CSV export preserving filters and order.
- Detailed reports with prior-sortie comparisons, route events and crew notes.
- Open full reports from debriefs; retain filters when returning to the archive.
- Historical replays pause auto-fly and block live mission actions.
- Restore the earlier camera/view on return; preserve saves and combat rules.

VERSION 1.10.0 — 2026-09-25
- Flight command: fuel margin, crew, fire, engine, ammunition and formation alerts.
- Preview and apply legal crew orders while preserving ongoing first aid.
- Exact 2d6 hit percentages, fighter coverage and zero-chance shot warnings.
- Landing and ditching outlooks, including controlled forced landings.
- Preserve save format, combat rules, random state and existing cover artwork.

VERSION 1.9.0 — 2026-09-24
- Checked save loading; visible storage-failure warnings; backup and restore tools.
- Retain unreadable saves for recovery; keep unsaved live tours on menu resume.
- Preflight readiness, bomb-load comparisons and one-click load recommendations.
- Reduced-motion flash fix, responsive cover height and keyboard-focus adjustment.

VERSION 1.8.2 — 2026-09-24
- New original B-17 cover illustration, displayed in a responsive launch screen.
- Full artwork stays visible beside the menu on desktop and above it on mobile.
- Saved tours and gameplay are unchanged.

VERSION 1.8.1 — 2026-09-24
- Packaged to the Tronsoft Games Package Specification v1.6.2: manifest,
store art, screenshots, manual, tutorial, credits, licence, checksums,
self-tests and validate.js.
- Rendered sound files; effects and voice volume; reduce-motion switch;
arrow keys pan the route map.
- Code split into rules, German side (ai.js), sound and interface files.
No change to play or to saved games.

VERSION 1.8.0 — 2026-09-24
- Crew nerves: strain from every hard mission; flak-happy men shoot, bomb and
land worse; the flight surgeon grounds a man at breaking point; the flak
house and the 48-hour pass.
- Lead crews: offered to an experienced crew; lead the group, +1 bombing, a
DFC for putting the group on the target; H2S radar from mid-October 1943.
- Contrails: fighters from six o'clock hide in them; escorts find the box.
- Printable end-of-tour certificate; nerves in the logbook and debrief.

VERSION 1.7.0 — 2026-09-24
- Bomb loads (general purpose, incendiary, 1,000-pounders, Tokyo tanks);
strike photographs; lasting target damage that the Germans repair;
Distinguished Unit Citations; target folder in the logbook.

VERSION 1.6.0 — 2026-09-24
- Aircraft damage sheet; renaming the aircraft and crew; the crew intercom
in the log and as optional speech; settings for larger text and high
contrast.

VERSION 1.5.0 — 2026-09-24
- Three save slots; after-action route map and replays from the logbook;
the Experten; logbook charts.

VERSION 1.4.0 — 2026-09-24
- Difficulty levels; crew experience (green replacements, veterans, aces);
wear, patches and early returns; trading in a war-weary aircraft;
first-time tips; logbook export.

VERSION 1.3.0 — 2026-09-24
- The 18-ship combat box with losses and thinning crossfire; closing up into
a gap; coast flak; Hall of Fame.

VERSION 1.2.0 — 2026-09-23
- The Summer–Autumn 1943 tour: deep raids, rockets, Me 410s and Ju 88s,
longer-range escorts, the B-17G chin turret, the sun, attack passes; the
logbook.

VERSION 1.1.0 — 2026-09-23
- Crew posts and first aid; ditching; the decision over a clouded target;
group losses; auto-fly; nose art.

VERSION 1.0.2 — 2026-09-23
- Review fixes to the interface and keyboard handling.

VERSION 1.0.1 — 2026-09-23
- Review fixes to rules and balance.

VERSION 1.0.0 — 2026-09-23
- First release: a solitaire B-17F tour of the winter of 1942–43, zone by
zone to the target, fighter waves and positions, hit, location and damage
tables, flak, bombing, landing; an optional second player for the German
fighters; shared orders codes to fly one mission in formation.