Company Of Heroes: Afrika DESERT RATS! 06.24 LEND LEASE

[Aidas2]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/company-of-heroes-afrika

Announcing you the North Africa Theater mod for Company Of Heroes. Company Of heroes: Afrika is a Total Conversation mod, that will bring North Africa to your game. Afrika mod will take you from the beaches and hedges of Normandy to the dreaded sands of North Africa. The mod not only brings in new environments, models and textures but also bug fixes, revamped weapons system to suit open desert warfare and a completely different, open desert tactics, where two world class generals clash together in an unforgiving battle over teritory and resources, who will win?

Features:

• New maps, models and textures
• Revamped weapons system and doctrines
• New reward units
• Bug fixes

Requires:

• Company Of Heroes and Company Of Heroes Opposing Fronts and latest ( 2.602 ) patch installed.

Credits:

• Aidas2 – Leader, Modeling and Coding
• Adiya – Texturing
• Burton - Animations ,Importing and Coding
• Celestial – Coding
• Chopin – Texturing
• Eliwood – Animations, Importing and model edits
• Loran Korn ( RIP ) – Various models
• Halftrack – Model mixing and Textures
• Heretic - Animations and Importing
• Playmobil – Maps
• Serg_Codmod – Textures
• Slayerknecht – Textures
• Tank Destroyer – Model edits
• Tiger – Animations and Importing

And yes, I'm aware about Heretics North Africa mod that he just announced. We merged forces and ideas and are both developing this mod.

[OnkelSam]

Interesting, looking forward to see more...

[Aidas2]

We're going to try our best to not dissapoint.

[Cireva]

Screens look very good so far

[huetti07]

Wow, great news!!!
Will you create more factions or "only" Brits and Germans?

[Aidas2]

Firs release will only feature Brits and Axis. Will see what comes after that.

[Martinlegend]

the skins looks fine but i hope that this Afrika projekt will be released some day and not like other projekts with the same Scenario.....

[eliw00d]

Looks good! I'll see if I can fix the sMG 34 for you guys.

[Aidas2]

That would be great. Now it only shows up when deployed.

[eliw00d]

Hmm, the only problem I was aware of was with the sMG 42 showing up when packed...

[Aidas2]

Yes. Mg34 shows when deployed and 42 when packed.

[Celution]

Aidas, could you come on xfire, please?

[eliw00d]

@Aidas
Actually, I just tested it on mine and I have the opposite: sMG34 shows in all mods, but sMG42 has an MG34 when carried and MG42 when deployed. Hmm. Strange.

[Gurdy]

That looks awesome.

[eliw00d]

Okay, I figured it out. It is because of the order in which .abp files are loaded. Since I am loading "mg34_lafette_sync" after "mg42_lafette_sync", that means the "machinegun_state" is set to MG34, since the "mg34_lafette_sync" was the last one to be loaded. I actually remember noticing this, but couldn't think of a way to fix it. If you don't plan on using the sMG 42 in the mod, you could probably just load them in that order and not have any issues.

I take it you guys are loading "mg42_lafette_sync" last?

[kapulA]

It's looking great so far. However, I'm not sure how historically accurate it is to portray the Germans with shorts as well as the British, as I recall reading that the former weren't permitted to wear them on the frontline. To what extent that order was followed is probably debatable, but I am of the opinion that it would be better to have most of them wear regular trousers with a mix of ankle boots and tropical boots, maybe with the occasional shorts guy for variation.

[DMz]

They wore shorts and trousers, It was just dependant on what idividual regimental commanding officers permited, its no different to some british units being permitted to wear a choice of kilt or trousers or lightweights or battledress, its entirely upto the units co, unless theres a parade of course. And lets just let them get the basics done, and the things working before we start harping on about accuracy. Theres at least a dozen vehicals not to mention light anti tank weapons and light armour on both sides they will need before they can fine tune it down to accuracy.

[saukopf]

I remember there was another NorthAfrica MOD but dead, it can run on 2.602:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthre...orps-V1.4-DEAD

I think the old NA MOD would be helpful if Dartborne and the Credits don't oppose. Hope the new Africa mod will become a great success.

[Aidas2]

@kapula We're using shorts to bring in some fresh air into coh and to be a bit unique.

@saukopf Those are all made by Halftrack and he kindly gave us permission to use all the model mixes and textures he made for his afrikafeldzug mod and we greatly apreaciate it. All the infantry you'll see is made by Halftrack.

And thx for all the support.

[caprera]

Any hope to Italians along with ze germans ?

[Aidas2]

Yes

[caprera]

Awesome then, thanks for the good news

[kapulA]

Alrighty then, it's entirely your call, was just doing a bit of brainstorming there. I really hope you manage to acquire all the models necessary for the time-period. Will be watching this one closely.

[Jagdpanther]

Looks indeed interesting. Will watching this ...

[Sturmhaubitze]

Are you also including American forces? And if so, does that mean you're specifically focusing on the battles in Tunisia when the Americans arrived in the theatre? Or is this going to be a mix-up of the entire North Africa theatre allowing for what-if battles?

[Aidas2]

Most likely won't add Americans. We're going through the whole North Africa theater, not set period. And We will try to deliver real battles and maybe some fictional ones.

[PaLLeRo]

Sounds great! I loved Afrikafeldzug, hopefully this brings me the same experience.
Could you say any kind of number how much is done already? Like 10 , 20, 30 % ?

[Sturmhaubitze]

Are you doing it with historical squad sizes and organization, or the more abstract method of regular CoH? Sort of curious if you have plans yet on how you're handling the mixed infantry/antitank nature of the Schützen squads.

[Aidas2]

@PaLLeRo Around 30%

@Sturmhaubitze Coh style. Having big squads gets a bit messy.

[Gamerisin]

Oh nice...emmm...another Afrika mod? no disrespect or anything like that guys (Aidas2) I really hope this one finally gets done,I mean...there have been like 3 Afrika mods and none of them aren't complete and were just WIPs,I been disappointed by Afrika Mods
It's just that I want see a nice Afrika Mod,really I wanna have one

[Aidas2]

Sdkfz 251 Halftrack - The main means of transport for the Afrika korps, armed with 2x Mg34's and can carry 12 soldiers.

Thx Eli for the mg34's and Slayerknecht for the amazing texture.

[kapulA]

The skin is looking great - does this mean Slayer is returning to regular skinning as well or?

[PaLLeRo]

This mod is going to be great.
The skins look awesome!

[Aidas2]

@ kapulA Probably not, since he's working on his own mod aswell.

[kapulA]

Oooh, Slayer's releasing his own mod?
Another thing to add to my watch-list!

[Aidas2]

@ Kapula http://www.moddb.com/mods/pegasus

[kapulA]

Oh wow, thanks for the info Aidas. Seems like this is going to be a very fun summer, judging by all the great mods that are in development atm. Can't wait to see what you, Slayer and Halftrack have cooking

[huetti07]

I think, this will delay to the next summer

[Aidas2]

Depends on how fast can we complete new models.

[caprera]

Aidas sorry to bother but you mean we'll see 4 men teams again like in vanilla ?

[Aidas2]

5 - 6 men squads.

[PaLLeRo]

You are going to keep support squads 3 men still, aren't you?
For example, HMG and Mortar?

[Aidas2]

Yes, squad sizes are like in vcoh. Weapons are similiar, but a tad bit more realistic and longer range, nothing as destructive as in Blitzkrieg though.

[huetti07]

like in the mod, you already made?

[Aidas2]

No, not at al. Its the vcoh system tuned for longer ranges and slightly bigger damage.

[Aidas2]

Sdkfz 250/3 - Recon vehicle for the Afrika Korps. Can setup to increase view range, but can't move. Can carry 2 soldiers and is armed with 2x Mg34's.

Thx Eli for the Mg34's and Halftrack for the texture.



Opel Blitz - Map static. Thx Slayerknecht for the texture.

[WangTangManPro]

hmmmmm looks awesome

[bangalor44]

Great job guys.This looks like a great winner.Models look spot on.imo ai is key.I play mostly skirmish.Good luck can't wait.









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[Lethal Dosage]

Indeed, it's looking good. As others have expressed, i do hope this one gets done, and doesn't get hung up when trying to get the new models that are needed ingame.

[Aidas2]

Well, Heretic is currently animating the Matilda 2 and should be done by the end of this week and we have some other new stuff ingame, such as the Lefh18 from Men of War.