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CTLD 2.0.0-rc15 — release candidate

Installation

  1. Download ctld-tools.exe below — it is the only file you need.
  2. Run it: the tool opens in your browser, locally, with nothing to install.
  3. Open your .miz, adjust what you want, then Install into mission: the tool writes CTLD, the beacon sounds and your configuration into it.

Windows blocks it on the first run? The tool is not code-signed, so SmartScreen stops it: click More info → Run anyway. If the file came through a browser you may also need right-click → Properties → tick Unblock → OK.

Prefer doing it by hand? The files are attached to this release too — see the documentation.

The Fat Cow release candidate: a CH-47 that lands in the field and becomes a forward refuel and rearm point for helicopters. DCS still has no native Fat Cow, so CTLD brings its own. Nothing breaks for an existing mission: the Fat Cow is a new F10 submenu, on by default, and works with a mission configuration written for an older CTLD.

Fixed since rc14

  • The Fat Cow works with a mission configuration written before it. In rc14, a configuration saved with an older CTLD had no Fat Cow aircraft, crates or loadouts: CTLD read the missing lists as removed on purpose. A list CTLD added after your configuration's version now takes its default, and the startup message names it; opening the configuration in ctld-tools adds it for good. A list you removed yourself stays removed.

Fat Cow

  • A player-flown CH-47F loads a ready-made loadout in a logistic zone (F10 → CTLD → Fat Cow → Load), lands, and deploys its FARP: helicopters around it refuel and rearm from what the cow carries, and nothing more. Pack the FARP, or take off, and what was not used goes back into the hold.
  • Ready-made loadouts, all with two 800 gal tanks (4 800 kg of fuel): Apache loadouts at the top (40 or 60 Hellfires, laser and radar, with 30 mm rounds), a Russian submenu (Vikhr for the Ka-50, Ataka or Shturm for the Mi-24P, with their rounds) and a Mixed one. Crates can also be requested one at a time.
  • Any pilot can request an AI Fat Cow, choosing its loadout: an AI CH-47 comes from the nearest friendly logistic zone and follows the flight, which commands it from F10 (Land here, Take off, Hold here, Join us, RTB).
  • FARP status tells what the Fat Cow FARP you are at still holds.
  • Mission makers can place a late-activated CH-47 escorting a named flight (fatCowAICows, with the loadout to carry), and change the crates and loadouts (fatCowCrates, fatCowLoadouts, with a menu field for the Russian and Mixed submenus).
  • The stock is finite and guarded: if another script refills the FARPs (as the VEAF Mission Creation Tools did on every player join), CTLD puts the cow's own count back.

See the pilot and mission-maker Fat Cow pages of the documentation.

Configuration

  • New settings fatCowEnabled, fatCowTypes, fatCowCrates, fatCowLoadouts, fatCowDeployDelay, fatCowAIType, fatCowAICows; catalogue version 2.3.0. An older configuration gets their defaults, from CTLD at mission start and from ctld-tools when it opens it.

Other fixes

  • JTAC radio messages are translated on a French, Spanish or Korean server; they came out in English.
  • Packing a FARP says how many crates were created, instead of always reporting a success.
  • Unpack Crate no longer announces a success when nothing was created (for example a JTAC refused by the coalition's limit).

Known limits

  • The Fat Cow was tested on a VEAF server on 2026-10-26; the fixes that followed that evening are in this release and have not been flown yet. Reports welcome.
  • The Russian weapon names in the warehouse come from the DCS data, not yet from a flight: a weapon the ground crew reports as out of stock is a name to fix.

Thanks to the VEAF pilots of the 2026-10-26 Fat Cow evening for their reports.