this is the rebuilding of the former Dieppe Raid Mod-site at "http://members.nbci.com/WPinkhof/uk.htm" of 1999:

The CC2 - Dieppe Raid patch

The patch was made by David Bourchanin from France and Wouter Pinkhof from Belgium in 1999. They had teamed up to deliver new maps to the CC2 gaming community. The rebuilding of the site and the republishing of the patch is done with their explicit permission. Don't forget: the copyright of the patch belong to the original authors. This is what they wrote on their former homepage:

David handles the graphics beautifully, whilst Wouter does the coding work. Over the last few months we have worked together to produce a patch aimed at playing the raid on Dieppe on August 19th 1942.

A bit of history

On August 19th, 1942, a combined forced of Canadian units (infantry and armoured), some British Royal Marine Commando's and Royal Navy ships, as well as some RAF fighter-bombers launched an attack on the French port of Dieppe. About 6000 men landed on the beaches. At the end of the day, 900 men had been killed on the Allied side, many more taken prisoner, and some managed to make their way back to England. The Dieppe Raid was over.

Some say the battle was sheer suicide, others say it taught Allied commanders how to tackle the main attack on Continental Europe, some two years later (D-Day, operation Overlord). The Canadian forces eventually came back to liberate Dieppe in 1944, as well as most of the coastal areas of Northern France, Belgium and the Southern part of the Netherlands. Canadian units are honoured throughout this whole area, and many are the villages along the coast that have avenues and streets named after them.

Thank you's

We have tried to make our patch as realistically as possible (but we have taken some liberties). That meant a lot of research into the units involved, the actual layout of Dieppe in 1942, the shape of the main buildings etc... We wish to thank a number of people specifically for helping us out. Our apologies to those we forgot:

• Jay Kohls (Canada) for his description of the battle, suggestion and feedback.
• Andrew Glenn "Naked Foot" (Australia), for allowing us to use his great graphics of landing craft.
• Diggin Robat (), for his creating of the forward observers in the Great War patch.
• Stephen Licoys (France) of the travel agency Dieppe Voyages at Dieppe, who put us in touch with important local sources.
• Ms. S. Aubry (France) of the "Fonds ancien et local de Dieppe", who provided us with great pictures of Dieppe's Casino the way it was at the time of the raid (after suffering great damage during the raid, it was taken down). If you are ever in Dieppe, go visit their collection. I am certainly planning on doing it.
• Antonio Garcia (France), Manager of the City of Dieppe's Communication Service, who e-mailed us Ms. Aubry's pictures and helped us in retrieving data. Do visit Dieppe's official website.
• Bruce Rolston (Canada) for tips on how to make operations and campaign's work in CC2.
• Martin Block for full details on the German units involved in the Dieppe operation.
• All the people that have created the tools to help us develop patches for CC2 (named in the readme file).

The files

There are four maps in this patch. The Dieppe maps are based on factual data from Dieppe (maps, pictures). The Berneval map is pure fiction, but helped us build a campaign containing 4 maps. We have split up the patch into 7 separate zip files, so the download process remains manageable. Together, they are just over 28 MB! If you find this too big to download, contact Wouter and we can see if we can sort out alternatives through CD-Rom (you will have to cover the cost of burning the CD-Rom and mailing it, but we will not be charging for the files). Downloading is, however, our preferred approach. The files work for both the Windows and the MacOS versions of CC2.

We have tweaked a great number of things, but left other elements unchanged, since some of it is hardcoded in the CC2 engine. Enjoy discovering what we have changed.

Here are the files you need:

Datafiles (138 kB)

Gadget files (982 kB)

Interface file (1 228 kB)

Dieppe Harbour map (6 507 kB)	Berneval map (7 400 kB)
Dieppe Casino map (6 810 kB)	Dieppe Town map (5 959 kB)

UI-file for MacOS users (3 163 KB, added by Mafi, June 27th, 2002)

Terrain-file (MacOS & PC) (192 KB, added by Mafi, October 10th, 2002: Canadian flags at the VL's - link updated!).

We would appreciate you sent us an e-mail when you download the files. Mainly for reasons of support, since we had a few problems that are now hopefully solved. If we know our user community, we can warn you by e-mail for any updates. Any other feedback is also appreciated any time, so feel free to shoot us a message:
Click here to send David an E-mail
Click here to send Wouter an E-mail

This site was rebuilded by Mafi in June 2002 (eMail: closecombat2_|at|_claranet_de)

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The ReadMe file of the CC2-Dieppe patch:

"Dieppe Raid patch" by David Bourchanin and Wouter Pinkhof

This is the "readme" for the set of files provided in the 7 zip files of the Dieppe Raid patch download. The names of the files are:

- Datafiles.zip
- graphics (gadget files).zip
- graphics (interface file).zip
- graphics maps (map100).zip
- graphics maps (map101).zip
- graphics maps (map102).zip
- graphics maps (map103).zip

Warning: these files, when installed, will change the looks, maps, operations, campaigns and units in CC2. If you want to keep the original files, you can copy them to a temporary directory. Or you can always copy them back from the CC2 CD-rom.

Instructions for installing :

1. You need a full install of CC2 in order to be able to use this patch.
2. Unzip Datafiles.zip to a temporary directory. This will result in a number of new zip files. The name of each zip file indicates where the files need to end up when extracted. Example: The files contained in Data_ops_10.zip need to be in directory "A Bridge Too Far\data\ops\10" of your CC2 program.
3. Unzip graphics (gadget files).zip and graphics (interface file).zip to the "A Bridge Too Far\graphics" directory
4. Unzip the graphics maps (mapxxx).zip files to the "A Bridge Too Far\graphics\maps" directory
5. You can play the Dieppe Harbour, Dieppe Casino, Dieppe Town or Berneval battles, the Red Beach or White Beach operations or the whole Dieppe campaign.

CREDITS (credit is certainly due to all of these guys, and I am sorry if I missed out a few.

* Gerry Shaw (AKA TinTin) - gerry_shaw@yahoo.com (ICQ#-3492098) for his Texture and Map Maker tools.

* Vincent Viaud - Vincent.viaud@wanadoo.fr, for solving the LOS file structure.

* Mark Clouden - escobar@dfm.com (ICQ3-11588430) for ccSprite.exe.

* Piotr Lewandowski (Poland)- gjpiotr@ikp.atm.com.pl (ICQ#-10305829) for general excellence in hacking and macking.

* John Anderson - wargamer@atomic.com, for his time and talent in answering questions and coding everybody's favorite oppo, the AI

* Adam D'arcy (THE MAN) - adam@netwave.ca (ICQ#-11020251), who made public the file formats for the CC2 map graphics.

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LEGAL DISCLAIMER

Use these files at your own risk. The developer(s) are not responsible for any damage or problems that occur as a result of using these files.

These files are not supported or authorized by Atomic Games, Microsoft or anybody else. Close Combat, Close Combat 2 and Close Combat 3 are Reg. products of: Atomic Games Software Studios and Microsoft Software Inc. - all rights reserved.

You may distribute these files freely on the Internet as long as they remain intact in the same format with proper credit to the authors.

Any person or company wishing to distribute these files through electronic media must have the written permission of the author and may not recieve profit as a result of distribution.

Many thanks to John Anderson and the production team at Atomic for giving us this great game. Have fun.

David Bourchanin & Wouter Pinkhof