#BEST TOTAL WAR CIVIL WAR MOD MOD#

#BEST TOTAL WAR CIVIL WAR MOD MOD#

ArmA 2 also has (arguably) an even larger modding community to fall back on for guidance and support, and since no one has really attempted to create a period mod like this since OFP, hopefully this mod will be better received here and we will be able to assemble the team needed to make this happen. As long-time fans of this series, it was a natural transition for many of us. are all already part of the game and will not have to be added in just to make work. In many ways this engine is an even better fit because some of the more common engine mechanics such as shooting, projectile physics, explosions, hit boxes, etc. With the switch to ArmA 2 as the backdrop for our mod, many features and possibilities we wanted to implement, but were unable to because of the 'hard-coded' limitations of the previous engine are now at least feasible again. Not wanting our small team to spend several months of our time going it alone and reinventing the wheel where it had already been perfected only to possibly have another, more experienced team, release something while we were still in production, the decision was made to move over to one of the community's even more popular game ventures, ArmA 2, and break new ground. However, we quickly found that the modding community for that game was unwilling to assist in our effort even though the majority of the models, animations, systems, etc. We began a short while back to develop this mod using another game's engine, Mount&Blade: Warband, in an attempt to bring a first-person command/shooter/milsim based on the Civil War to life in a game that supported large-scale multiplayer battlefield combat, and that was also, relatively speaking, easy to mod and had a strong modding community behind it. A potential mod for ArmA 2 based on the American Civil War (1861-1865).īefore I begin, I would like to give you all a little back story behind our community's attempt to create a mod based on the American Civil War.

Best total war civil war mod