Steel Panthers: US Civil War

by Sami Heimola and Jarkko Vihavainen

Download SP:CW Alpha

These files can be freely modify if somebody want to continue process of SPCW

STEEL PANTHERS: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MOD

This is CW-based mod for SPWAW. It works with versions 7.0 and 7.1 but I don't know how it works with older versions... Hopefully these files will not cause crashes with them.

WHY CW MOD?

Good question, isn't it? Well in fact I was searched long time enough good CW game which has as great features as SP series have (easy user interface for example). with good playbility. But I didn't found any. So I started to think to make own "game". I got some volunteers to join into my team (because I have much artistic abilities;-)). We started this as SP2-project but after release of SPWAW we changed our mind. We were very impressed about all SPWAW's features which SP2 had not (as unit rarity, weather changes etc.). All seemed to advance with speed during last years but now... Everything seems to be stopped (what comes to new OOB design). That's why I want to share these with you.

Use years 1941-45 for CW 1861-65 for playing.

And remember to load some "woody" map before battle because you might see your troops in desert ;-)...

Check more info about OOBs later in this text file!

HOW TO INSTALL:

Before installing be aware that new files will over-write default files!

So copy originals into new folder!

New icon files are:
icon0002.shp
icon0004.shp
icon0010.shp
icon0011.shp
icon0016.shp
icon0017.shp
icon0028.shp
icon0029.shp
icon0030.shp
icon0031.shp
icon0060.shp
icon0061.shp

New OOBs are:
Union:
OOB88 =>Canada
OOB84 =>Italy
CSA: OOB79 =>Netherlands
OOB72 =>Nat.China

Remember, if you want play with these OOBs in Battle Generator, only OOB84(Italy) and OOB72(Nat.China) are available between January 1930-49! OOB88(Canada) and OOB79(Netherlands) are available from June 1942 to end of 1942 (as Canada) and from January 1942 to end of 1942 (as Netherlands)!

You can change months/years with OOBEditor of SPWAW if you want. So you can redo icons/OOBs and improve them even better;-)...

New sounds are:
1000.wav
15.wav
16.wav
17.wav

More suitable sounds for cannons and rifles.

This mod includes 2 scens too:

1st Bull Run and
Cross Keys

If you have other scens in slots 002 and 003, you must copy them into other folder first!

Hopefully somebody will make more scens and maybe campaigns (as Gettysburg for example)...

Menu files: Well new menus are not necessary for seeing/playing these new files. But if you want to install them, notice that there are some things which need to be fixed (unfortunately we had no much skills to make them ready). If you need to make "what-if" OOBs and more OOBs anyway, go ahead;-)... But with your own risk!

Formmenu.shp
Mouse.shp
Menubut1.shp
Newmenu.shp
Biglcd.shp
Batbut.shp
Battle.shp
Actmenu.shp

CREDITS:

BIG thanks for following people who without this mod has never saw daylight:

Wild Bill Wilder about support and courage since beginning;-).
Matt Reeves about making icons.
Bob Wallace about making menus.
Bob Toncray about making scens/OOBs/sounds.
Don Llewellyn about Cross Keys map.
Jester about Bull Run map.

And so many ex-members during these years, my countrymen Jarkko Vihavainen, Ilja Varha, Aniway Inc. (you know who you are;-)!)

Hopefully you, the player, will enjoy about this and continue our work to make this complete!

Sami Heimola SPCW Project

Screenshots

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