Armoured Commander II News

Edit: Fixed that crash on the Campaign Day map, and added a few more improvements that I was working on anyway.


ADD: Display of expected enemies in Support Unit menu when moving into an enemy-held zone
ADD: Infantry, Cavalry, and Gun units hit by WP may rout immediately
ADD: Unique result text and pop-up message for when an unarmoured vehicle saves from an AP hit
ADD: Messages about a Player Commander death must now be dismissed with Tab
ADD: Crewmen remaining in the Field Hospital at the end of a campaign stay with the player if the player continues into a new campaign
ADD: More updated unit portraits from cjprince
ADD: New Skills: Keen Senses, Coordination, Primo Victoria!, Fire Fighter
ADD: Greater chance of enemy unit surrender if they are gun/infantry and are the only remaining enemy unit on the map
ADD: AI units will now automatically attempt to un-jam jammed weapons during their activation
ADD: Fate Points can now be used against attacks from unspotted enemy units

CNG: Reduced number of frames in canister firing animation
CNG: Spotted units now moved to top of unit stack before message is displayed
CNG: Removed message when friendly, non-squad units are spotted
CNG: Rescue objectives no longer spawn during Spearhead mission days
CNG: Highlight colour for player commander name/nickname
CNG: Minor changes to campaign option VP modifiers
CNG: Campaign Day random event where enemy strength is revealed will now only happen in a zone that is adjacent to a friendly-held zone
CNG: Opened 'Burst Fire' skill to all crew positions
CNG: Targets of overrun attacks now much more likely to engage in defensive fire
CNG: Defensive fire close combat attacks now have a small penalty to hit, unless it's urban combat

FIX: Rare bug where an impossible weather condition could be selected
FIX: Bug where player's own tank type may be spawned as a squadmate, even if it's not part of the player_squad_list as defined in the campaign
FIX: Display of crew fatigue levels was not being updated after waiting in place from the Crew tab in the Campaign Day interface
FIX: LoS depiction was remaining on screen after AI attack finished
FIX: Il-2 now correctly has a single seat, Il-2 Sturmovik Type 2M added with extra seat
FIX: Routed units can no longer become Heroic
FIX: Incorrect turret armour values for M4A1(76)W Sherman and M4A3(76)W Sherman
FIX: When continuing into a new campaign, crewmen are now given the new campaign's campaign skill if any

ADD: Vickers 6-Ton Type A, Vickers 6-Ton Mark F (by cjprince)
ADD: If player withdraws from a zone with a Rescue objective, that objective is failed
CNG: Updated portraits by cjprince
CNG: Fog dissipation check now occurs every weather update cycle; lighter cloud cover will increase the change of fog dissipating
CNG: Firing an AA MG on the turret will no longer prevent the turret from then being rotated that turn
FIX: Player can no longer cancel waiting in place from the Unit Support Choice menu; menu now shown before message to player about waiting in place
FIX: A jammed or unjammed weapon will now be immediately displayed as such in the player unit info console
FIX: AI units were sometimes rotating a fixed turret to fire
FIX: If player hits a landmine or bogs down during overrun attempt, overrun is cancelled

(Many of these were previously applied in hotfixes)

ADD: P-51 Mustang, P-51 Mustang (CAS)
ADD: Finnish definitions for captured units: BT-5 M34 (FIN), BT-7 M37 (FIN), KV-1 M39/40 (FIN)
ADD: More portrait updates (thanks to cjprince)
ADD: New airplane portraits (thanks to Czarek422)
ADD: Category in campaign selection menu for alternate history campaigns set before 1914
CNG: Minor changes to campaigns
CNG: Enemy unit class spawned in a zone with a Rescue mission much more likely to be dangerous (i.e. not a truck, etc.)
FIX: Crash when trying to swap places with a dead crewman
FIX: Flame throwers and molotovs can no longer cause a shock test, immobilization, or spalling

CNG: Updated unit portraits by cjprince (added in previous hotfixes)
CNG: Free advances upon continuing into a new campaign no longer increase crewman level
CNG: Crewman level cap now increased to 75
FIX: Several minor bugs fixed (in previous hotfixes), thanks to Minty on the Discord
FIX: Messages about crewmen being shaken were appearing before message about the crewman being KIA
FIX: Minor rounding error in displayed total VP modifier for campaign options
FIX: Progression toward King of Diamonds Steam achievement not being recorded properly

ADD: M3A1 Scout Car
ADD: Bail-out action to push an unconscious crewman out of any hatch in the same location (hull/turret)
ADD: Landmine checks for player squad units
ADD: Artillery attacks now do a historical rarity check before selecting gun unit

CNG: Further reduced frequency of lightning/thunder effect
CNG: Small change in how unit stacks on the Scenario map are drawn
CNG: Updated unit portraits by cjprince
CNG: Display colour for Canister ammo
CNG: Increased AA MG range to 2 hexes

FIX: Armour values for Panzer III D
FIX: Semovente da 47/32 changed to Open Top
FIX: Total campaign options VP modifier not being displayed properly
FIX: Bug where the airplane depiction would not be cleared at the end of an air attack
FIX: AI bug where units with fixed guns would not pivot properly in preparation to attack
FIX: Bug where an enemy-held zone might have its strength reduced to 0, and thus not able to be captured by player