Armoured Commander II News

A minor update to fix a crash when the SPW 251/2 tried to attack.

I've uploaded a minor patch, hoping to avoid some of the saved campaign corruptions that a small number of players have experienced. Basically the game used to save itself to disk after every phase during the scenario, which isn't at all required, so now it drastically reduces the number of times that it is writing to disc, hopefully avoiding these corrupted saved campaign files. I had already implemented this for 6.0, but it was an easy fix to add to the current 5.x branch.

The players have spoken, and of 153 responses, 64.1% said they would prefer a major update to come first, addressing the AI and adding major new features, before adding more campaigns.



So the current version 5.2.5 will stay on the default branch for some time, and in the meantime I will start work on version 6 and once I've added a few new features, I'll put it on a separate preview branch for player testing. Barbarossa is still coming though; I'll see if I can create a pair of 1941 German/Soviet campaigns for the preview branch to help test the new stuff.

Thanks to everyone for their votes, and for your continued support of ArmCom2!

Some minor additions and fixes today, as always please report bugs and crashes in the discussion boards. Changelog follows:


ADD: British Bren Carrier, Scout Carrier to Battle of France (Germany) campaign
ADD: SPW 251/2, Lorraine 38L, AMC 29
ADD: Message re: advance point gain upon crewmen promotion
ADD: Additional detail to Battle of France (France/UK/Germany), Winter War (Finland/Soviet) campaigns
CNG: Increased modifier for close combat attacks on moving vehicles

I'm just about finished with the next minor update for the 5.x branch, which will add additional detail to existing Early War campaigns. I have two major projects that are next on my development plan - but which one should I do first? Cast your vote in this online poll, open until Sunday 12th July: Google Form Link