Armoured Commander II News

Small update today that fixes a rare crash when continuing into a new campaign.

A minor but important update today, fixing two issues reported on the Discord. There's also been a number of minor fixes applied through hotfixes over the past few days, which are also listed below.



ADD: New portrait for the Panzer II J
ADD: Renault FT (BEL)

CNG: Slightly increased range of front and rear facing on vehicles
CNG: Minor changes to 18 Days' Campaign

FIX: Zone capture VP values in Hold the Line mission
FIX: No longer possible to throw a smoke grenade while BU
FIX: Rare case where friendly and enemy units could end up in the same hex on the scenario map as a result of a player move, usually leading to a crash
FIX: Withdrawing units no longer count for Steam achievements relating to destroying units

I've recorded (with the help of a veteran player and contributor) a new quickstart video outlining the first steps in learning the game, available on my YouTube channel and embedded here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr-ovDVhHSo

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ADD: 18 Days' Campaign (Belgium) and Belgian units by cjprince
ADD: Game setting to disable main menu music
ADD: Display of XP needed for crewman to advance to next level
ADD: Display of HD save odds

CNG: Modified procedure for handling Player Commander heading to the field hospital, now possible that tank and crew are lost if player stays in hospital until the end of a campaign
CNG: Updated glyph sets and portraits by cjprince
CNG: Commands that are currently not allowed due to hatch status are included in list but warning is displayed and will default to 'Spot' if selected

FIX: Crash when Player Commander dies and player unit withdraws from battle in the same turn
FIX: Crewmen who are sent to the field hospital without bailing out of the tank now have their current position correctly cleared

This is a medium-sized update bringing new campaigns, additions, and fixes. Campaigns saved in the previous 8.1.x versions are still compatible with this update. Full changelog follows:


ADD: Maczek's Best (late-war Polish campaign), Leclerc's Best (late-war Free French campaign)
ADD: 13 new Steam achievements for the Clubs suit, mainly having to do with destroying things
ADD: Minor changes to campaign selection screen
ADD: New sound effects, including movement sounds for Medium and Heavy tanks
ADD: Units that start a scenario in friendly territory are now more likely to start Hull Down toward their hull's facing direction
ADD: All possible campaign awards and their required VP scores are now displayed in the final report
ADD: Smoke mortars to most Valentine and Crusader tanks
ADD: Radio Operator skill: Good Comms
ADD: Acclimatized and Acclimatized (Nordic) as campaign skills for Finnish campaigns
ADD: Additional check in case the campaign calendar ends up with two or more refitting days at the end of the calendar

CNG: Overrun bonus now also applies to Gun weapons
CNG: Reduced effect of weather conditions on artillery spotting chance
CNG: No longer possible to target allies in same map hex
CNG: Only the maximum extra time required for any active support request will now be applied to required movement time on the Campaign Day map
CNG: Minor changes to travel time on the Campaign Day map
CNG: Removed 15-minute time passing at start of Scenarios
CNG: If Player Commander is KIA during bail-out, the bail-out procedure ends immediately

FIX: T-34-57 now has a Restricted turret
FIX: If the Player Commander spent time in the field hospital, other crewmen who were released earlier from the field hospital would just disappear
FIX: Unjamming AA MGs was not being handled properly in vehicles with a RST
FIX: Objectives will no longer be placed in locations where if the player were to move there, a map area shift would end up pushing the objective off the map anyway
FIX: Surnames with a space in them (eg. St Pierre) now displayed properly with first-name initial
FIX: Rare crash in DisplayUnitInfo
FIX: Bug where some pop-up messages could be displayed too far to the right in fullscreen mode
FIX: Rare crash when player commander was sent to the field hospital near the end of a campaign
FIX: Typo in Baytown to the Winter Line (Germany) campaign that could lead to crashes