American Civil War: Brothers vs. Brothers mod for Empire: Total War

1 comment by ACWDevelopmentTeam on Apr 9th, 2013

You are probably wondering what is new in this open beta? We have been very busy, and we tried to implement as much of the stuff possible and still retain good quality performance.

Some of the most important features, will be presented here. For the rest... well, you will simply need to download the beta and try it out. :)
 
 
Features

• completely reworked battle mechanics following the steps of realism modders (JaM and DaVinci)
• reworked the building system (both in construction and effects)
• increased campaign movement points of all units to represent rail-roads of Civil War era
• great number of units added including volunteers for each individual State (both CS and US)
• introduction of famous units and organizations such as Shelby's and Quantrill's Raiders, Virginia Laurel Brigade, Confederate and Union Marine Corps, several Union German Regiments, Confederate Natives Cavalry, Union Natives Sharpshooters, 55th "Garde de Lafayette" Regiment and many, many more
• reskinned great number of vanilla units and made new textures for existing units such as Richmond Artillery, Hood's Texas Brigade etc
• added new officers for both Confederacy and Union
• added historical generals own textures and assigned them corresponding models (now you can really see R.E. Lee or W. S. Hancock leading your armies)
• made historically accurate descriptions of every state volunteers and unit currently available in the game
• for the first time included steamship (only one ship available at the moment)
• reintroduced socket bayonet
• reworked earthworks and gabionade to more ACW era
• added Civil War era event pictures
• edited the chronicles and the date display
• added new, ACW era quotes
• and many, many, more things  

 
Important
 
Current build of 3.5 Open Beta supports Warpath map based ACW campaign only.
However, users who don't own Warpath can still play the custom battles with all the new units!

Also, remember this is a BETA of 3.5, so several features aren't working yet and the installation is not as smooth as the full 3.5 version will be.

In the current 3.5 beta, research is disabled, but it should function normally in the release version.
 
Installation
 
Requirements
1) Empire: Total War (preferably with Warpath addon)
2) ACW Brothers vs. Brothers 3.4.1 version (3.4 patched to 3.4.1)
3) husserlTW's Subs Power
 
Process
1) Install ACW 3.4 and 3.4.1 patch.
2) install husserlTW's Subs Power launcher
3) download the ZoR - Open Beta 3.5
4) unzip the ZoR - Open Beta 3.5
5) run setup.exe and follow installer's instructions
6) Do not forget to select ZoR in the launcher, to run 3.5 Beta

It's really not as scary as it may look. If you're having any trouble, head to our FORUM and we'll help you out there.

When the final version 3.5 is out, it will be a single install file, but now for the beta testing, it's a bit more difficult. Sorry about that.
 
 
Current Team
 
husserlTW
Trig
Chieftain John K.
[NC]Master
Minas Moth

Many thanks and kudos to everyone who worked on the mod in the past to bring it to the level at which the current team inherited it, to continue the development.