USMC Picklist correction April 2026

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There were two USMC main control files that had a single error in each... ( No bad considering there are 24,272 picklist entries the USMC OOB uses in the game and that total does not the number of entries in the main control files or the opponent registry files...... Suhiir created a massivly complex picklist set up for USMC..NO otherr nation comes close).....those would be in the two "PK0" files in this zip

The "PK201300.DAT" is a opponent register file that sets up what picklist set USMC uses when each other nation in the game is picked as an opponent. USMC has four different picks based on the nation it is fighting

Extract this to the MBT Game data / Picklist folder

Once that is done, confirment you have 3 DAT files dated 2026 in that folder then allow the game to pick USMC forces from 01/2009-06/2020.......... You SHOULD see normal infatry picks with these replacements. Previously any game pick for the USMC in that time period would have skipped every infantry Co pick and you would end up with a very armour heavy force

EDIT: I will add here that in the majority of cases the correct infantry would have been picked. The problem was with nations with a 2 and 3 rating
2 = More armor/mech, 75/25 aircraft/helos.
3 = Very little armor/mech ("CS" type formations),*34/66 aircraft/helos

without going into too much detail Russia and USA ( for example ) are '2's in the USMC opponent register DAT file as are 28 other nations for 30 '2's in total....... there are only three OOB's that are '3's but that means 1/3 of the nations in the game as opponents of an AI USMC were affected by the USMC picklist error...... BUT that means that there will be no change for the other 2/3

Two entries were wrong pointing the game at formations that were outside the date range so it just didn't pick them and they were critical formations

Feedback welcome......this was indeed a "needle in a haystack" problem