New Cold War 2020 Mod for WinSPMBT v4.5!

[PlasmaKrab]

Hello everyone!

As usual and nearly exactly a month after the last official upgrade,, here comes the new installment of the Cold War 2020 Mod for WinSPMBT v4.5!

To those who don't know the mod yet, here is the idea: the USSR has not gone bust, the East-West standoff has continued uninterrupted from 1990 all the way to 2020.
Nothing too original, but this means three decades of unfettered force consolidation and military development, FMS and shifting alliances.
Now think about it in wargame terms...

There come Comanches, T-95s, Marder-II, Block-III MBT, and a lot more! No force reduction, no oldies kept in service for decades without replacement, no Shinseki doctrine (well, not too much), now you can have fun wreaking havoc in Germany with the best technology that will never be available!
And now there's Korea!

The mod installer contains:

-25 historically modded OOBs:
Russia (USSR), USA, West Germany, East Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Chad, Mujahedeen, South Korea, North Korea, Japan and Canada.
-211 new IA picklists
-905 new icons
-1746 new B&W .lbm pictures
-136 presentation-screen color .lbm pictures
-357 encyclopedia text files
-9 stand-alone scenarios
-1 complete campaign

To play, just install a new, clean version of WinSPMBT v4.5 (that's to prevent wrecking your custom files or your PBEM games), and run the mod installer over it. (And install the custom OOB set, but all the nuts and bolts are in the Readme file)

Kinda compelled to add this:
[official warning]
"This mod contains highly altered or additional files that may or will cause interference with the master game files and it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that this mod be installed and played ONLY in a separate copy of the game and NOT run from the master game"
[/official warning]

You will find the mod install on Fabio Prado's Armor site, who kindly offered to host it and saved you all from the bother of unregistered RapidShare queuing:

Fabio Prado's WinSPMBT page with the Cold War 2020 mod install. If you didn't already, you should really check his site on the way, it's a great reference on armor and SP-based wargames, but I guess you all know this last part.

Just in case, here is the backup RapidShare link. (probably not valid for long)

As always, I am open to commentaries, criticism, corrections, death threats or fan gifts.

Have fun!

Regards,

Plasma

[Warhero]

Wow thanks Plasma! I must d/l this immediately... Nice to see more nations!

[Imp]

Could be fun will have a look at your spin on things when my game 2 is free

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Campaign included?*downloading*...

[Great_Marshall_Gumbaiev]

The mod looks wonderful. Specially the "What if.." units in the WP are wonderful. Good to see the almost turretless T-95 in action.

I am wondering about some scenarios between GDR and FRG units.

[Warhero]

Hey Plasma, have you noticed that in Polish OOB Tarpan Rys and Jenot have no icon at all? Could you fix them? Or tell icon numbers that I could fix with Mobhack?

[PlasmaKrab]

Originally Posted by Warhero

Hey Plasma, have you noticed that in Polish OOB Tarpan Rys and Jenot have no icon at all? Could you fix them? Or tell icon numbers that I could fix with Mobhack?

Hmm, this is not good, there was already the problem (with other units) in the previous version, and no solution could be found.
I just tried both units with my test version, and there is no problem at all, units show up fine in MOBhack, buy, deploy and game screens.
Icons should be 4640-4642 for the Tarpan and 4651-4656 for the Jenot. Both are in file Icon0122.shp. Neither the icon numbers for these units or the icon file were changed in the Mod, and that part of the Polish OOB was not changed over R.C.0.6.

Can you just check if you have the same problem with the official Polish OOB?

[Warhero]

I just checked in Encyclopedia that both icons for Tarpan and Jenot is ok in WinMBT 4.5. Due some strange reason they don't show in Cold War 2020 (installed into separate MBT) Encyclopedia... I remember that Polish OOB had some problems in earlier versions too.

[Agesilaos]

PlasmaKrab, any chance of updating Great Britain, USMC and China OOB's for the 2020 Mod?

[PlasmaKrab]

Originally Posted by Agesilaos

PlasmaKrab, any chance of updating Great Britain, USMC and China OOB's for the 2020 Mod?

Sure I will, at some point, but these are large OOBs with a lot of background history to figure out, new systems to invent from scratch, icons to do, and already very detailed in the official version to sieve through. I can't promise when I'll do any of them, but they sure are high on the to-do list.