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[salan]

THE SECOND POST WILL HOLD THE MOST RECENT UPDATE LINK, or check my folder in this post.

It is October 2nd 1944. We stand on the edge of the Motherland, our homes to the east, the Yankee Dogs to our west. We will stand here in the city of Aachen and make them pay. We will draw blood. The bulge has collapsed and that blasted forest is behind us now. Here we stand, where once we were liberators, now we are defenders! It all started so quickly, we thought we had it under control. It all started With the Fall of France.

On August 24th I decided I wanted to be creative.  I started out with corsix tools and hit that 'create new mod' button.  I decided on a hybrid idea between what we play here at Europe In Ruins and what VCoH has to offer, but a completely reworked version of either.

a brief description

this mod does not attempt to stay true to base VCoH, but unlike most mods that claim that it is not aiming for 100% realism (ranges / 1 shot kills).  I have maintained VCoH's balance through using most of their predesigned weapons with minor tweaks to reloads, cooldowns and accuracies only. (in most cases).  

It is interesting how long it takes to do a full build from scratch, this mod uses a completely new file structure from what I am use to working with here at EIR, part of what I wanted to accomplish with this was broadening my knowledge of the RGDs and how they work.  I definitely exceeded my knowledge gain expectations.  All entities, upgrades, squads, weapon files are unique to this mod and have been created from scratch.  The only thing I borrowed so far was my lockout routine for the airborne sniper, not wanting to have to recreate it a second time.

The game currently works with the PE and Americans only.  I chose these two factions as the testing point so that players with OF and only Normal COH could both partake.

The mod is based on Unlocks, as you will find there should be absolutely ZERO upgrades available throughout the game.  The game also currently does not have a single unit buff in it, nor will there be any.  Veterancy will be marginal at best, and more a way to track a unit then anything.

A lot of the vanilla abilities are missing from this mod.  Suppression Fire, Volley Fire, Button, Tread breaker.. to name a few.

This is not the official release for this mod, I am simply putting it up here because A: People keep asking me where I have been, B: The people who have tried it so far have really enjoyed it, and C: I need to test it more before adding in the british and Wehrmacht, and the other factions which are planned for it at the end phase.

I have created a minor wiki here which while probably badly written will give you all the needed information.

http://falloffrance.wikispaces.com/

and you can find the updated files at anytime on my filefront account at

http://www.filefront.com/user/salan

CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO GRAPHICAL ADDITIONS TO THE MOD, no skins, no maps, no nothing.  that will come shortly.  Read the wiki, download the mod, give it a try... if you want.  

[salan]

FALL OF FRANCE CONVERSION MAP PACK
this map pack is the maps which I myself and Leophone converted from Vcoh for EuropeinRuins, they remain with their EIR logos and adverts, but will be sponsored in FallofFrance in tribute to the time and effort it took to make these conversions. <<< will also contain maps which authors allow to be released for FoF >>>
http://www.filefront.com/14564763/FallofFranceCONVERSIONmappack.rar

archive.05 = FallofFrance\Archives\8p_Salentijn
archive.06 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Authie_EiR
archive.07 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Bergen
archive.08 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Pointe_Du_Hoc_EiR
archive.09 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Rails_And_Metal_EiR
archive.10 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Salentijn
archive.11 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Semois_EiR
archive.12 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_Vire_River
archive.13 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Arnhem_EiR
archive.14 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Carentan
archive.15 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Industrial_Town_2600
archive.16 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Linden_EiR
archive.17 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Mcgechaens_War_EiR
archive.18 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Saint_Lo_EiR
archive.19 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Salentijn
archive.20 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Vieux_Port
archive.21 = FallofFrance\Archives\6p_Villers_Bocage
archive.23 = FallofFrance\Archives\4p_woodland_ridge

LATEST VERSION:
http://www.filefront.com/14677815/FallofFranceALPHA2b.rar


unzip it into your COH directory, it has a quick link in it that if you are not installed in normal coh install directory you will have to alter.

[Tymathee]

 Its pretty fun. I really like it, kinda reminds me a bit of fortress europe. It uses the atc system and you have to play it in victory point because you can't destroy teh bases lol which actually draws out the games to be pretty long. You only get a limited number of resources to build your forces and it can be really tough and close after a while, very fun and something new.

[Falcon333]

When I try to extract "FallOfFranceData.sga" it says the file is corrupt...

[Piotrskivich]

Are people going to play it multiplayer via ventrilo?

The bane of most mods is that nobody plays them multiplayer.

[Dragon93]

<---
What Falcon said....

[Piotrskivich]

I had the corrupt thing but I was still able to play singleplayer, not sure if it worked perfectly or not.

[Dragon93]

Yeh worked for me, used 7Zip and extracted it to my desktop.
Got the error, but everything was there.

[Computer991]

Awesome mod

[CafeMilani]

it works. i had an error too

[Armormaven]

I played it in Skirmish mode and with the expert AI you get a pretty interesting game.  Reminds of the TOV campaign which I actually enjoyed including the unlocks.  I really like the ability to reset your doctrine so if things change in game you can change your doctrine and adapt. 

[GeneralGlacko]

Blue box on the Jagdtiger.

[salan]

whacko, im uploading it again, obviously something went weird, tehre was an older version that didn't have any of those problems i left on there, but forgot to mention.

sorry, its funny how things like that happen, we played a game just before uploading that and had absolutely no problems.

[salan]

the copy i had on my computer worked fine, the one on filefront corrupted the datafile.  Hence the blue box as well, some of it was missing I think.

repacking it all and reuploading, I will download this one myself and test it before updating the link

[LeoPhone]

if i download the one on filefront now, will it be the bugged one or the right one?

[Phil]

Trailer IMO~~~~!

[Draken]

Blasphemy.

[salan]

if i download the one on filefront now, will it be the bugged one or the right one?

I just reuploaded it as B..

[Ununoctium]

if i download the one on filefront now, will it be the bugged one or the right one?

I just reuploaded it as B..

B is a bad letter. my computer thinks B should die.
cmon don't tell us you forgot the "eta" part of "Beta" again.



P.S. eta is estimated time of arrival.

[salan]

B's not so bad, C will be cooler though.. oh a play on words