Wargame: Asia in Conflict mod

Welcome to AIC MOD, Commanders!

Cold War is over！Asian is becoming the new powder keg on the earth since early 2000s.

There are many overlapping claims to territories/ideological opposition/religious conflict/ethnic conflict between the major Asian powers such as the People’s Republic of China, Public of China (Taiwan), Japan, Russia, North Korean, South Korean, Iran, USA, Vietnam and many Southeast Asian Countries.

This is the historical background of Asia in Conflict Mod! Timeframe of this mod is from 1990 to 2012. Prototype that being canceled or never enter service before 2012 will not be part of the armory. However, some imported units for some countries that in service before 2012 in their original countries but exported after 2012 have been added into the armory. For example, Su-30 and T-90s for Vietnam or M1A1 for Taiwan. Many weapons are also added and the their damages/AP/range are converted, which are more or less consistent with vanilla Wargame.

Modding Wargame is really limited due to the engine restrictions. You can’t change the unit models, add new units apart from the original 2099, add new maps, etc. I have tried the best to modify the skins of units to make the graphic more realistic in terms of the era, such as the camouflage military uniform for most of the countries and historical skins for tanks and jets. So please do not ask why Raptor is like Eagle or ZTZ-99 is like Challenger, the answer is always ‘Engine Limitations’ !

Following is brief of key features of this Mod

Nations

The Mod is focus on conflicts in Asia (Especially East Asia) so countries that are neither Asian nations nor being able to complete global military deployment would not be included in the Mod.

The proposed nations in V1.0 include:

Blue:

USA, UK, France, German, Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, Singapore & Malaysia Alliance (WIP), Japan, South Korea, ANZAC, Netherlands, Israel, South Africa

Red:

Russia, China, India (WIP), Vietnam, North Korea, East German, Poland, Czech

New nations potentially to be added and the nations would be replaced:

Iran (Czech)

Arab coalition (East German)

Poland and Netherlands play very limited roles in Asian conflicts, I am thinking about replacing them by Iraq (or Pakistan) and Italy (or Turkey). You are welcome to let me know your suggestions if any.

Coalitions

Some vanilla coalitions has been removed or reedited, bonus activation points are different because some coalitions are significantly stronger than others.

New coalitions include:

EUROCORPS = France + German + Sweden + Netherlands (5 bonus activation points)

COMMONWEALTH = UK + ANZAC + Canada + South Africa (10 bonus activation points)

BLUE DRAG + South Korea + Taiwan (10 bonus activation points)

FVEY = US + ANZAC + Canada + South Africa (5 bonus activation points)

SAMD = US + Taiwan (15 activation points)

RED ALLIANCE = China + Vietnam + North Korea (10 bonus activation points)

More Coalitions will be added in future updates.

Decks

General decks don’t really have too much fun in vanilla. Deck in AIC mod is reshaped totally. I am not sure if the balance is good enough but I am pretty sure you now have much more fun to build your own decks. You could build an US Stryker battalion + a fire support company or a Russian BTG deck that have similar numbers of tanks/APCs/artillery/AA to the realism. You will find the deck construction is similar to WARNO but you have flexibility to drag all units into your tabs.

Main changes include:

- 9 slots for all categories, default activation point is upgraded to 60,

- Cost Matrix of each tab changed, you have to spend more points to drag the 4^th and 5^th card into the deck, especially air and support tabs,

- Slightly more quantities per card, one card is similar to a platoon or a company,

- Much more quantities of cards for all units (except units of WIP India and SG-MAY), which means you now could fill the amour tab by 8 x M1A2, so the total number of M1A2 you could have would be 40+, which is equal to the numbers of tanks in a real battalion,

-Specialised decks haven’t been changed too much so it is not as flexible as general deck now. But it still works in terms of the reduced cost matrix and other bonus of units.

Balance hasn’t been tested yet.

Logistics

Changes of FOBs are significant, they now carry 30000 supplies and the number you can carry to the battlefield is 4. US and Russia could transport Fobs to anywhere in the map by heavy transport aircraft like IL-76 and C-5 Galaxy. However you need to pay extra points for these expensive transporters.

Infantry

The biggest changes to infantries are the reskin for more than 70% of them, I would not spend too much time introducing the changes, I would recommend you to check in game by yourself. The only thing I need to mention is that more than 80 percent of reskin textures are from POK. I either used these high quality textures directly or edited based on them. Much appreciated to POK. You could find the addons through this link: Moddb.com. So please say thanks to him if you like the skins of solders in the mod. I created 20 percent of the textures for infantries so please name both POK and me if you want to ‘borrow’ some textures from AIC mod.