B-17: Queen of the Skies v1.8.1 — B-17: QUEEN OF THE SKIES — CHANGELOG

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

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.