US Civil War Mod ver.1.0 Beta Released

[Sepe 1]

Trig, you can still come into Finland to my house. My offer of that 50€ is still on. (Uh, do I even have that much?)

Will you make a campaign in some future release, like you fight from the start of the war to the end? That would be soo cool!

[eestikas88 0]

That would be a long campaign.Campaign would last years.

[Triglav 0]

Trig, you can still come into Finland to my house.

Will you make a campaign in some future release, like you fight from the start of the war to the end? That would be soo cool!

Thanks for the invitation.

This is the 3rd invite to Finland I got in the recent months. I'll really have to give it a go then. ;)

But I hate cold, so I'll prolly wait till summer. I have an aunt in Sweden and I visited her once in December...froze my nuts off. Lesson learned.

As far as a campaign goes. Pickett had a few great ideas about doing a couple of days in a life of a soldier during the Gettysburg battle...we'll think of finishing that first.

[joshnolan225 0]

how bout this, a young VMI cadet goes with the corps to new market, then enlistes in Confederate army and goes on to be an officer at gettysburg, im sorry but i had to say that, im in like a mega VMI craze right now cause im putting my transfer application together to VMI so i can get out of the hellhole VCU and go to VMI next fall and do something with my life other than play OFP and occassionally go to class and hit up the hardcore and metal shows around richmond, ughhhhhhhh but yeah whatdya think sounds like a winner campaign to me!!!!

[billybob2002 0]

How about this, a young West Point dropout enlistes in the Union and rises to the rank of an officer before gettysburg. I'm in like a mega VMI craze right now cause im putting my transfer application together to VMI so i can get out of the hellhole called VCU and go to VMI next fall. The reason wanting to attend VMI is to do something with my life other than play OFP, occassionally go to class, and hit up the hardcore and metal shows around richmond....ughhhhhhhh... Anyway, this sounds like a winner campaign to me!!!! Furthermore, students of VMI during the Civil War did a treasonous action!!!! So, I think there should be a mission in which you shoot random confederate VMI soldiers who are unarmed.

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[Sepe 1]

That would be a long campaign.Campaign would last years.

Who said you would have to fight in every battle?

[eestikas88 0]

Nobody,but if you write a sentence like this without enough information it seems like this to me.

[joshnolan225 0]

How about this, a young West Point dropout enlistes in the Union and rises to the rank of an officer before gettysburg. I'm in like a mega VMI craze right now cause im putting my transfer application together to VMI so i can get out of the hellhole called VCU and go to VMI next fall. The reason wanting to attend VMI is to do something with my life other than play OFP, occassionally go to class, and hit up the hardcore and metal shows around richmond....ughhhhhhhh... Anyway, this sounds like a winner campaign to me!!!! Furthermore, students of VMI during the Civil War did a treasonous action!!!! So, I think there should be a mission in which you shoot random confederate VMI soldiers who are unarmed.

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[Triglav 0]

Ok gentlemen.

Zouaves are done.

[billybob2002 0]

How about this, a young West Point dropout enlistes in the Union and rises to the rank of an officer before gettysburg. I'm in like a mega VMI craze right now cause im putting my transfer application together to VMI so i can get out of the hellhole called VCU and go to VMI next fall. The reason wanting to attend VMI is to do something with my life other than play OFP, occassionally go to class, and hit up the hardcore and metal shows around richmond....ughhhhhhhh... Anyway, this sounds like a winner campaign to me!!!! Furthermore, students of VMI during the Civil War did a treasonous action!!!! So, I think there should be a mission in which you shoot random confederate VMI soldiers who are unarmed.

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Can't help it...

@Triglav: Nice Zouaves.

[korax 4]

Nice Zouaves

But can I make a suggestion for the next release, change the formations back to how they are in the original OFP (or adjust the values a bit). If you try to get some of these units in a line formation, they scrunch up and overlap making that formation useless, I liked it the old way where you could combine rows and rows of perfectly lined up soldiers for a much neater formation effect.

[joshnolan225 0]

How about this, a young West Point dropout enlistes in the Union and rises to the rank of an officer before gettysburg. I'm in like a mega VMI craze right now cause im putting my transfer application together to VMI so i can get out of the hellhole called VCU and go to VMI next fall. The reason wanting to attend VMI is to do something with my life other than play OFP, occassionally go to class, and hit up the hardcore and metal shows around richmond....ughhhhhhhh... Anyway, this sounds like a winner campaign to me!!!! Furthermore, students of VMI during the Civil War did a treasonous action!!!! So, I think there should be a mission in which you shoot random confederate VMI soldiers who are unarmed.

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your mean

Can't help it...

@Triglav: Nice Zouaves.

ummhmmm west point sucks anyway, and yeah....it sucks... ok.... and since when is excersising a constitutional right treason, last i checked, americans had the right to take up arms againt a tyranical government in an action condoned by Thomas Jefferson as "constituent power" which is the whole premise for the REvolutionary war, History is written by the victors, had the south won it wouldnt have been seen as treason, but the north won and in an act of kindness, congress decided not to charge the southerners as traitors, which they certainly didnt have to do... i cna tbelieve i just said that... i am a sotherner and i beleive that it was the souths right to succeed.

Josh Anderson

ps, you ought to make a lincon and a JW Booth... im not gonna say what for, but i will have fun...j/k

[billybob2002 0]

Quote[/b] ]ps, you ought to make a lincon and a JW Booth... im not gonna say what for, but i will have fun...j/k

Lincoln would have been "fair" to the "southern people" compared to the happened during Johnson admin....talk about kicking yourself in the balls...

@Triglav: you guys fixed the visual problem (the hat) with the Union cav officer?

[adrenaline red 0]

Are you CW mod guys making any progress on the sabers?

They look awesome just hanging on the side of an officer or cav man but it would be great to use it in battle. Any word?

[Combat Chaplain 0]

Those Zoaves are excellent! I'm very eager for this next release.

This mod arouses passions in a number of ways... Aside from the fact that it's about the most unique of all the mods, and it's well done, the historical setting fires some folks up as well. Count me one of them.

When I was at Auburn University, board wargames were still a big thing. One company released their mapboards as a piece of paper, not mounted. One of their games was a grand strategic game of the War of the Northern Aggression, This Recent Unpleasantness, or as some of you call it the Civil War ("T'warn't nuthin' civil about it!"). One of the players won Gettysburg, or it's equivalent, and marched on Washington. When he got to that hex, the players looked at him blankly and asked him what he was going to do. He smiled, pulled out a cigarette lighter, lit it and touched it to the map where his units had marched to, Washington DC. Good thing it was his game...

Excellent units, those Zoaves... and from everything else we know about this next release I'm really stoked for it!

[mr burns 132]

i´ve made a little ( ) wallpaper kind of thing with this excellent mod, maybe the civil war fans will like it:

click me gently / 2221x1195 - 2MB

[Sepe 1]

Nice one, but not a wallpaper I would personally use as a wallpaper.

I'm planning to make a Civil War-type RPG multiplayer mission, where you can be a civilian, a rebel or a yank. Though I'm thinking of making several roles for the civilians, like robber, banker, weapons seller etc.

And of course, the civvies can (like they did IRL too i guess) get their revolvers and rifles and join the battle on the side they prefer.

[Triglav 0]

Errr everyone...

There's a million forums online where you can argue who was right and who was wrong in the Civil war.

The makers of CW Mod distance themselves from taking sides (Except for the yankee-hating Tsalagikola, but that's to be solved between him and his yankee wife... ), and would like to keep this thread dedicated to the mod, not to the controversial history behind it.

Answers:

-We're trying to fix the formations so they don't get all messed up, while trying to retain them staying tightly together.

-There is currently no functionable swords/sabres in the mod. In CW they were maily used for parade purposes, while officers preferred to rely on the revolver in battle. To apply a working sword a whole lot of coding, animating, etc would need to be done, which is rather unpractical for us...Maybe we'll work on it for fun in the months after the release, but don't count on it...

-Strike has been added to all the rifles as one of the attack modes. No now a rifle has 3 ways of damaging an enemy...shooting, bayonet, and strike.

[bucket man 2]

Does the AI use the strike ability? Is the strike thingie automatic like with the bayonet? Like when you get close enough the soldier smack his rifle into the enemys face.

[Sepe 1]

Omg, the bayonets were bad already...

Like I would want to have the butt of a springfield into my face? Damn, reload it faster, damnit...

[longstreetcsa 0]

Hey to everyone! First things first: this Mod ROCKS! Best one I've seen so far + it war the Mod I've been waiting for being a CW enthusiast and all.

Did anyone see that "Ox Wagon" released 3 days ago at ofp.gamezone.cz ? Would be nice to ad such an animal to that suttlerwaggon to be able to transport troups, weapons or amunition to places...

That's all for now!

Longstreet

[Sepe 1]

Yepster. A horse version of that one would rock, though i have played around with the ox already.

[sika 0]

Hi!

Would it be quite easy to retexture some civil war units and deleting swords and backpags and turning them civilians.

[joshnolan225 0]

uhhh, sorry... ill be a good boy... yea, i gotta chime in on the strike thingy, can AI use it, if not it had might as well not be there, theres no sense in haveing one southerener in 1000 be able to run up to a dirty yank and beat him shitless and then run back to formation, if everyone cant do it....anyway, yea, how bout some sailors and marines??? that would be interseting, after all it was the marines who lost the first battle of bull run... man that hurt to say, im torn between my future career and my future college and my home... that should pose some interresting gameplay for me, run up and kill a marine with tears of saddness running own my cheek...

[joshnolan225 0]

oh yeah the big brick fort is done, i just need to figure out how to email it as a template, its got a shitload of armstrongs, and quarters for a garrison of a battalion of men, two earthen bunkers where the officers can plan their course of battle, and its got a magazine for the ammo, with a bunch of sulterwaggons inside so you can rearm, ok? its flipping huge so no regimental sized battles here, probebly best to use a company of garrissoned troops and maybe 2 companies of attacking troops, so yeah, gimmie till the end of the day, then email me at andersonjn@vcu.edu to get the fort...