Advance to Contact:- 0.5.1 Beta released. Poll to choose the next 4 factions!

[Darkhorse]

Xmas has kept us all busy

They are coming, along with a video

[Shugo560]

installation is very confusing, second step is the confusing part though, what are you guys talking about take the Advance to Constact from .rar and copy it and replace it with the installed one, because it always crashes on the start up screen, do i need a fresh Install??

[Falconpilot]

installation is very confusing, second step is the confusing part though, what are you guys talking about take the Advance to Constact from .rar and copy it and replace it with the installed one, because it always crashes on the start up screen, do i need a fresh Install??

I know, we had a problem with the installer and this was the only way to fix it.

Ok u installed the beta. Normally in the beta.rar that u downloaded there should be an Advance to contact.exe file (not the installer).

If u have this, u need to copy this one file to your program files/steam/steamapps/common/empire total war and overwrite the existing advance to contact.exe

Then it should work perfectly

[Falconpilot]

2 New maps are ready for this mod!

First is Desert Oasis
Info
A desert map with high hills, artillery will have a hard time getting on top of the hills, the oasis is the key point here. It is a map intended for 1 vs 1 with the possibility to expand to 2v2 or bigger.

Description
A Battle taking place in the center of afghanistan's desert, Both armies urgently need water to continue their patrol but there is only enough water in the oasis for 1 army. A confrontation is imminent to conquer the oasis.

Screenshots

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Second map is Battle for the river
Info
A desert map with small hills and a big river on one flank, the river is not accessible. It will be a 1 vs 1 battle with the option for 2v2 or even bigger! Expect contact with your enemy fast.

Description
One army needs to reach the river if it is to continue it's patrol in the desert. The opposing forces however know this and are preparing to confront the enemy army at the riverside. The army that wins will gain access to the much needed water resource.

Screenshots

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Hope u like them

greetings,
falcon

[Falconpilot]

And guess what, this map was normally for a different mod but darkhorse found it so fitting for a scenario that happened in real life that I decided to bring it in this mod

So I present another new map

Sangin Fields
Info
A map in the middle of farmlands with alot of trees and possible hiding places. It is intended for 1v1 but like the other maps it is suited for bigger fights
Expect fast contact with enemy long range units!

Description
COMING SOON

Screenshots

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As allways, hope u like it

[King Sama]

Fantastic maps! The river one looks beautiful.
+rep
EDIT: given you too much already

[Shugo560]

i had a thought while playing the beta(i got it to work) until you get the new gun models in why not just use the dragoon carbine model for infantry with assualt rifles and smg's, and snipers keep the huge rifles, also why does the U.S. have 1 unit and its not very good, i tried it against 1 unit of taliban weakest unit and it only lost 2 men while i lost every single one of mine

[Falconpilot]

i had a thought while playing the beta(i got it to work) until you get the new gun models in why not just use the dragoon carbine model for infantry with assualt rifles and smg's, and snipers keep the huge rifles, also why does the U.S. have 1 unit and its not very good, i tried it against 1 unit of taliban weakest unit and it only lost 2 men while i lost every single one of mine

We have not yet looked into such stuff, we are currently staging on trying to get custom rifles ingame but unsuccesfully.

We will look into your idea to implement it for now

We don't have any US units yet, we will have a final roster by new year and start implementing the us units from then on Be patient they will come

Also the GMG (the only unit you have for the US) is designed to counter vehicles and units, we don't expect it to wipe out infantry squads, only the taliban gmg is capable of this role

We might make it a little bit stronger though

greetings,
falcon

[Darkhorse]

I can reiterate, the American roster is on the verge of being confirmed and updated.

You should have expected this delay, America always shows up late for wars!

[ComnenusTheOne]

You guys managed to add models in it? :S

[Falconpilot]

You guys managed to add models in it? :S

at the moment we got 1 weapon model ingame the L85, we are working on getting some more ingame but are running into some problems

[ComnenusTheOne]

at the moment we got 1 weapon model ingame the L85, we are working on getting some more ingame but are running into some problems

How did you guys manage that?

[Darkhorse]

Falcon knows god personally

[Falconpilot]

Falcon knows god personally

yea, he owed me a couple of favors after I stopped some asteroids which were heading for earth

Well to get 1 weapon in is easy, the problem is once you start to import more than 1

[ComnenusTheOne]

yea, he owed me a couple of favors after I stopped some asteroids which were heading for earth

Well to get 1 weapon in is easy, the problem is once you start to import more than 1

Can't you.... i dont know.... replace a weapon?

[Falconpilot]

Can't you.... i dont know.... replace a weapon?

there is only a limited amount of existing weapons ingame we need a large variety of weapons so I don't think that will work, however that is our backup plan

[Darkhorse]

Indeed, there are 15 different small arms weapons for the British faction alone!

[Shugo560]

im guessing for the U..S. there is 12 or 13

[Darkhorse]

16 actually, with the present roster. This will go down to 12 or 13 I think after the US Marines get their own AUPP.

[Lord Dakier]

I'm surprised the British have so many weapons. Off the top of my head I can't think of that many guns our army and special force use.