CampaignMissions V4 file

What is new:

General

• A new unit management system allows the campaign to check for additional units and integrate them if they are present in another mod, allowing them to be unlocked at appropriate missions, as well as being included in scripted spawns.
• Several non-essential quality of life changes have been included in a separate mod (CampaignFixes) which is used by the main mod. This mod can be switched out for other mods if desired.
• All commander units are now detectors. All squad leaders are also detectors, but with less range, to prevent scout cheese, while keeping them useful if microed well. Rangers are allowed to infiltrate again.
• Assault Marines, raptors and Stormboyz can now use transports and deep strike.
• Tartarus guardsmen can capture strategic points.
• The camera is a little bit more zoomed out.
• Compatible with the Unification Mod, except for visual glitches. Almost compatible with DowPro, except for the final Imperial Guard Mission, which is unwinnable due to not being able to construct the required number of thermo generators, and the soulstone not being usable in the final Eldar mission (which can be completed without it). Not compatible with Ultimate Apocalypse, unfortunately, as there are changes in that mod which breaks scripting.
• The frequency of scripted attacks is now dependent on difficulty.
• All attack waves are now randomized; unit composition, squad sizes and weapon upgrades. They will always have squad leaders to help spot careless scouts.
• Objectives requiring the player to capture strategic points or critical locations, now use the UI elements from skirmish to show how many of them have been captured.
• Eldar now have a separate drop in effect, instead of using the chaos one.
• Fixed a bug that gave Eldar an upgrade they should not have, which made banshees even more overpowered.

Tartarus Campaign

• Restored the original Blood Ravens colour scheme.
• The AI has been increase to max level on Insane difficulty, for those who want an extra challenge. It is, however, prevented from attacking the player immediately.

Mission 1

• The guardsmen fights can now only be triggered after clearing the first ork base, to prevent them from dying without the player being able to do anything about it if they are accidentally spotted too early.

Mission 2

• Fixed a bug that caused a crash if the starting scouts were killed after the reinforcements had arrived.
• The rescuable guardsmen will now only be transferred to the player's command after their attackers have been defeated. The guardsmen squad that erroneously belonged to the Blood Ravens 3rd Company, now correctly belongs to the Tartarus Defence Force.

Mission 3

• The allied Leman Russ tanks will no longer drive out to attack nearby enemies after being saved, but will still shoot if they come too close to the base.
• The starting guardsmen squads now begin fully reinforced.

Mission 4

• Adjusted Orkamungus and Sindri's positions to better fit within the camera view in the opening cutscene.
• Orkamungus's AI is now turned on later in the mission, to prevent the traffic jam right outside the player's base.

Mission 5

• The ork base has been given a few generators and listening posts, so they have the economy to actually do things.

Mission 6

• The Eldar AI now starts active, to prevent cheese, but isn't allowed to attack until after the player has established a base.
• Colonel Brom now respawns if killed, but will stop doing so if the player loses all the imperial guard units.
• The eldar harassers now actually use the webway gates, instead of spawning next to them (probably not noticeable, but it's fun to mention anyway). Rangers only show up during the later stages of the webway cleanup objective, since they are infiltrated and annoying again.

Mission 7

• The first eldar enemy now starts with a full base, and listening posts on all the relics.
• The strategic point controlling the bridge has been replaced with a critical location, to signify its importance.
• The avatar now drops in bodyguards when attacked.

Mission 8

• Raptor harassers now respawn indefinitely until the allied space marine base has been saved. They will randomly choose which part of the chasm they will jump over.
• The rescuable space marines will now only be transferred to the player's command after their attackers have been killed. The chaos attackers now start with heavy bolters, to ensure they win the fight unless the player intervenes. The chasm turrets have been removed, to prevent them from killing an attacker without the player having to do anything.
• The chaos AI now has a small extra base in the top right corner, to make that part of the map relevant.
• The chaplain is now available from this mission onwards.

Mission 9

• The guardsmen squads now spawn fully reinforced.
• Replaced the spawned enemy attack waves with respawnable defenders for each relic, which they will try to recapture if the player has taken them.
• Gabriel now drops in with one terminator squad and one assault terminator squad, two scout squads and two servitors, regardless of difficulty.

Mission 10

• There is now only one AI enemy, with two bases, instead of two enemies, to make the mission less of a slog. The bases are now defended by turrets, and they start with some strategic points captured.
• Gabriel and Isador no longer switch back and forth between weapons during their duel.

Mission 11

• Daemon Sindri now drop in bodyguards when attacked.
• Moved some of the turret lines and mine fields to better positions.
• Removed the ban period on vehicles, because Chaos really needs them to defend against the orks and eldar, who like ganging up on them. They don't attack the player base early on anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem.
• All the factions are now allowed to build their super units, for a grand finale.
• Fixed a bug that caused the AI to default to easy when playing on insane difficulty (I feel a little bad about fixing this one - it was so close to celebrating its 20th anniversary).

Winter Assault

• Fixed an issue that could prevent commanders from respawning if they were attached to a squad when they died.
• Added a resource income bonus to the second playable faction in each mission where you switch between them, to compensate for the bug that reduces income. The income rate will look way to high, but is actually approximately what it should be.

Order Mission 1

• Replaced the seer councils with banshees and guardians, to make the eldar section a bit more challenging. There are no longer enemy possessed marines to fight.

Order Mission 2

• The eldar now have a soul shrine and can build fire dragons and the first set of upgrades on this mission, to make the fight against the wartraks less tedious. The killa kans can now more easily be killed instead of lured away, which will fail the objectives to distract them, but not the main objective. A more direct way to complete their section for those who don't like eldar trickery.
• Removed most of the eldar starting squads, to allow the player to choose unit composition.

Order Mission 3

• Removed two of the starting rangers, both of the starting kasrkins and one of the reinforcing leman russes, to comply with unit hard caps.
• Leman russes are no longer unlocked in this level.
• Kasrkins and ogryns are unlocked during the first stage of the Imperial Guard defence section.
• The rangers no longer turn invisible (actually invisible; not the normal infiltration) when they kill the assassin during the mid mission cutscene.

Order Mission 4

• Leman Russes are now unlocked in this level.
• Removed bonus armour on the landraider and allied imperial guard bunkers.
• The enemy will alternate between chaos and ork waves, and they will always attack what the active player is trying to protect (the landraider for imperial guard and the webway assembly for Eldar).
• There is now only one enemy in the ending cutscenes (chaos killing guard in the eldar ending and orks killing eldar in the guard ending) to prevent the enemies from fighting each other instead of their intended target.

Imperial Guard Mission 5

• The defenders of the ork and chaos bases now despawn when the necrons attack, to prevent them from killing monoliths.

Eldar Mission 5

• The enemy attack waves now move towards wherever the webway assembly is, rather than a specific point on the map, in case the player decides to get creative with relocation.

Disorder Mission 1

• Each ork clan now has a unique colour scheme.
• The squiggoth trainer now respawns in his cage if killed, instead of failing the mission.

Disorder Mission 2

• Changed the dialogue a bit, and some are now randomly chosen alternatives, instead of playing all, as there was just too much babbling. You can still hear every bit of dialogue, but not in one playthrough.
• The ork attacks from the base now continue indefinitely, until the base is destroyed.
• Gorgutz no longer turn invisible when collapsing in the mid mission cutscene.
• The orks spawning from the sewer tunnels in the ork section of the mission, are no longer randomized, to ensure that the player gets tankbustats before meeting any tanks that need busting. Fixed the amount of ork resource the player gets each time a new ork squad is spawned, so there is no longer possible to run out of it and make the mission a slog.
• Reactivated and repurposed an unused mission specific button for Gorgutz. It now re-summons lost ork squads from their sewer tunnels, without Gorgutz having to go all the way back himself to get them.

Disorder Mission 3

• Changed the dialogue a bit, and some are now randomly chosen alternatives, instead of being played in succession.
• Fixed an issue that could cause two Gorgutzes to appear in the cutscene where Sturnn is killed, if Gorgutz had died and respawned during the ork section.
• Removed one of the starting predators, to comply with unit hard caps.
• Extra guardsmen units now stop dropping in after the sacrifice objective has been completed.
• The avatar is now allowed to move after reaching his final destination, so he can attack things.

Disorder Mission 4

• The Eldar forces defending the psychic gate now correctly belong to Ulthwe Command.

Chaos Mission 5

• Extra guardsmen units now stop dropping in after the sacrifice objective has been completed.