Hi there, I am an ex-developer from another ACW mod for NTW. Following a split between me and that mod group, I still wanted to bring ACW content to the NTW community, and so ACW: BW was born! ACW:BW aims to bring enhanced realism/historical accuracy to build an atmosphere unmatched in other mods.
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Full list of 1:1 scale featured armies:
- 1st Battle of Manassas
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Siege of Charleston Harbor (Fort Wagner)
- Siege of Vicksburg
- Camden Expedition
- Red River Campaign
- Siege of Port Gibson
- Battle of the Wilderness
- Appomattox Campaign
- Battle of Fort Stevens
- Atlanta Campaign
Others will be coming soon after the release date! In addition, this mod features:
-Custom Sounds for muskets and artillery
-Custom dense smoke
-A variety of historical maps
-(As aforementioned) 1:1 Scenarios
-Historical uniforms for most units (more will be coming)
-Custom UI
-Custom menu and in battle music
-And much more!
In addition:
I am excited to say that I have partnered with the Grand Battles: Community Mod to bring a unified launcher allowing for Napoleonic and ACW warfare together! Find them on Moddb and head over to their discord to get the files!
There's a discord server link incoming soon, and I hope to see the community for this mod grow and grow!
NOTICE: For Copyright purposes, this work will be published in an evolving format. This means that the Wilderness, Atlanta Campaign, Appomattox Campaign, and Fort Stevens armies will be added in recurring updates.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: ACW: BROTHER'S WAR MOD DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY CONTENT ORIGINATING FROM ANY INDIVIDUAL OR OTHER MOD THAT HAS NOT GIVEN EXPLICIT PERMISSION FOR THAT CONTENT TO BE FEATURED. ANY CREDIT FOR THIS WORK WILL BE GIVEN, AND CONSENT HAS BEEN RETAINED.
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I feel this is necessary since this is now coming up a lot. The Development team of another mod, led by a guy named Coldfront, is now falsely accusing me of stealing work from them. This is not the case. I am an ex-Developer of that mod, and following a minor disagreement, I was maliciously kicked from the team. This led to a split and my own mod. Following this, they threatened to continue using my work without my permission, which is considered Copyright infringement. After a period of time, they did do so, and as a result, there is now pending litigation for Copyright Infringement. ALL, and I mean ALL, of the updates to the mod after 1.5 released for that mod, is 80-90% my own work. There were minor contributions from a couple others, and I have not included them in my mod. There was a major contribution made by someone who has given me permission to continue using his work, and so I have. They are no longer a dev for that mod either. In addition, several members of the staff on the ACW dev team have made defamatory remarks, specifically libel, in regards to my mod and what I did to produce it. This is actionable, and litigation may or may not be pending for that as well. TO BE CLEAR:
I have not stolen any work from any of the ACW DEVs, and while there may be a couple files in mod that appear unchanged, it is simply because none of them actually made it, just added a line here or there, and is not actually their intellectual property. Happy New Year.
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What are the differences between this mod and ACW?
Currently, there aren't really any big differences. HOWEVER, if you look at articles I wrote one about the Copyright Infringement Allegations against the other ACW mod, where they have (allegedly) stolen my work.
I was wondering if you could make a simple version of the mod like the old version. I want to make machinimas when in custom battles there just too many factions and units.
I might add some factions that are meant for cinematic things, but I'll have to see.
only way to add flute players to custom battles and disable fog of war so they can play?
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By the by, if you ever need a recording of musketfire, I'm a civil war reenactor and I wouldn't mind trying to get some high quality recordings.
Best of luck in your litigation, I hope your reputation will be cleared up. This is an excellent mod and I look forward to seeing your progress completely stump the other ACW mod's developers now that they've lost you, lmao
Best of luck
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. Some records of battle sfx would be awesome. let me know how you'd like to get in touch.
I find this all ironic because it was Coldfront who stole all the ACW work from a guy who was the original dev of the ACW mod before Coldfront came around named Slyk who created the maps and the original unit textures/models.I know because I was a tester for Slyk's North & South mod way back in 2016. He then released an updated version named ACW 2.0 in 2018, after which point Coldfront and his team took the work and change it to their liking because didn't agree with the roadmap that Slyk had and the timeframe it was being completed in. I'm thinking then you came in the picture as part of collaboration with Coldfront and then you guys had disagreements which caused you to go your own way.
That's pretty much the gist of it. I didn't know that situation occurred.