Cold War Crisis (CWC) is a Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour total conversion. It takes place in the 80s, and features infantry, vehicles and aircraft of that era.


CWC offers two factions: the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States of America (USA). The Soviets tend to use tanks and artillery, whereas the USA relies on aircraft and other high-tech units. In contrast to vanilla Generals, infantry plays a more prominent and deadly role. The mod's gameplay is a mix of realism and fun, i.e., it is more realistic than vanilla Generals, featuring real-life weapon systems and characteristics, while still emphasizing each faction's strengths and weaknesses.

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In the modern world
great gamers resolve their conflicts
with words...

(words like...)

GenPatcher,
GenTool,
GenLauncher!


We released a re-packaged version of Cold War Crisis v1.5 Final (v469) for easier installation on modern systems (ssleay32.dll errors be gone!). CWC works with vanilla ZH (patched to version 1.04), as well as the many compilation releases of the game, just make sure you install it in the right directory (how-to).

This release is also compatible with GenPatcher (which fixes common ZH problems on Windows 10+) and GenTool (which improves ZH generally and includes essential improvements). Additionally, CWC is now available through GenLauncher (the ZH mod manager). All three are recommended to enjoy ZH and its many mods.

Thank you for playing Cold War Crisis!
The CWC-Team

New maps for generals cold war crisis included 62 maps + new side AirGeneral USA

New maps for generals cold war crisis included 62 maps + new side AirGeneral USA

News 21 comments

First of all, this service pack is for all CWC fans, who have completed all 100 missions and want new battles. This package includes a new side - the...

New maps for CWC (part-1)

New maps for CWC (part-1)

News 15 comments

new maps for generals cold war crisis included 45 maps.

New Maps for CWC

New Maps for CWC

News 5 comments

I will add more than 50 new maps to generals cwc mod.

Let's celebrate

Let's celebrate

News 19 comments

Ten years ago CWC was revealed to the public. Let's beginn the next chapter.

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Cold War Crisis v1.5 Final (v469)

Cold War Crisis v1.5 Final (v469)

Full Version 18 comments

Cold War Crisis v1.5 Final (internal version v469) re-packaged for manual installation on modern systems.

Improved bugfix/polishing patch

Improved bugfix/polishing patch

Patch 8 comments

I have been playing CWC for many years. After all played games with AI and human players, I have come to realize CWC might need some bit of polishing...

CWC balance patch

CWC balance patch

Patch 16 comments

I have been playing CWC for many years. After all played games with AI and human players, I have come to realize CWC might need some bit of polishing...

Genesis Project (CWC Map Generator)

Genesis Project (CWC Map Generator)

Mapping Tool 7 comments

The Genesis Project - A Cold War Crisis Map Generator can generate complete and fully playable skirmish maps in a matter of seconds. And do you know what's...

Source Code: Genesis Project (CWC Map Generator)

Source Code: Genesis Project (CWC Map Generator)

Source Code 1 comment

This is only the source code! The Map Generator itself is a different download in the download-section! The Genesis Project - A Cold War Crisis Map Generator...

Cold War Crisis Patches for manual installation

Cold War Crisis Patches for manual installation

Patch 21 comments

Requires: CWC 480 Full. All old CWC patches for MANUAL installation starting from 479. In case your CWC Auto-Update works fine or if you already have...

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9K32_Strela
9K32_Strela - - 1 comments

Wow, I've never seen anything like this!

Any resemblance between me and some other guy is purely imaginative!

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Comrade_Philip
Comrade_Philip - - 39 comments

Well, the main-release is still far away, but a Demo is under way :)

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2312222 Creator
2312222 - - 124 comments

Hey thanks for the comment. We're working hard to release a preview version of CWC (I'll call it "demo") so that you can finally start playing. Development is still our main focus though :)

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ieatspoons09
ieatspoons09 - - 1 comments

Still waiting on a release and this is still THE best looking mod that is coming up for any game at the moment, :) RAWK

w00

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imagica
imagica - - 183 comments

I really am looking forward to this.

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[CWC]SHADOW Creator
[CWC]SHADOW - - 971 comments

...so for gameplay reasons - yes. Even in some FPS like Operation Flaspoint the player could fire up to 4-5 missiles with a LAW. To make the anti-tank soldier useful he will of course be able to carry more missiles but will have a long reload time (not like in ZH).
If he could carry only one missile (would be realistic) who would recruit them? One shot and the guy is useless, if he missed the target even more. That's why we decided to go "gameplay first" on this one.

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HaloStrike
HaloStrike - - 942 comments

LAW soliders? I though LAWs only fired on missle and thats it. Are the LAW soliders in this game going to have a million of them?

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[CWC]SHADOW Creator
[CWC]SHADOW - - 971 comments

At the moment we have an internal Alpha. The Demo will be the first public version. The first "real" complete CWC release (with Multipalyer) will be a Beta. We don't want to release "unfinished" work ;)

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bloodangel99
bloodangel99 - - 6 comments

This Mod looks amazing, I hope you guess finnish it, and sometimes soon, ha ha.
Anyways, keep up the good work.
Товарищ

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jkinho
jkinho - - 26 comments

its an alpha

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