Real Infantry mod Now Available

[Andrew Williams]

This plugin includes the Real Infantry Grand Campaign by Comrade Blabsky. All other Historic Campaigns are playable as are the Historic Operations and Battles.


Access it via CSO Downloads in Command Centre

[namzo6]

 Installed the mod,teams work fine,however the real inf offline camp appears to have the same 1st op.as the regular grand camp,i.e.maps.Is the first op.the same?Anyone ?
 
 thanx
 

[Beeblebrox]

Not sure if there is a disconnect here... just in case, the Real Infantry Mod will be for CoI Single Player (or Multiplayer if both players have the Mod installed), but has *nothing* to do with MMCCIII (well, at this stage...).
 
The first Op may well be the same as the Regular GC.  I don't know, but someone will [:)]

[namzo6]

o.k. understood,wasn't sure with MMCCIII.I call it "offline"simply 'cause there's a single player camp and then there's a single player MMCCIII camp.

[Comrade_Blabsky]

IIRC, the modified Grand Campaign for Real Infantry was just the stock camp with points adjusted (downward) in the operations. Not sure if that is the one included in the CoI mod.

Without some point adjustment, using the stock camp will result in surplus points after midway through when the ops start building up for armor battles. Since both sides are affected equally, it just means full rosters of valuable units.

Custom campaigns, anyone?

[Andrew Williams]

RI includes your Real Infantry Campaign.... cheers.
 
Also all other battles/ops/camps have been modifies to be playable but with the excess points.... thre's only 24 hours in a day , you know!
 
This is an enhancement over the orig RI plugin where trying to play most of the other battles/ops resulted in a crash to desktop.
 
 
Custom camps/ops/battles are welcome.

[Knu]

Hi
 
How does this work with other mods, that are out there?
 
Say that I install the Finland-mod. Should I first remove the Real Infantry and install it again, on top of the Finland-mod?
 
Other thing: I noticed that I wasn't able to edit the operations after the installing the Real Infantry? I tried to adjust the rank for AI and myself, but for some reason the game kept the default ranks, even when I tried several times.

[Andrew Williams]

Have only 1 mod installed at a time.

Uninstall 1 mod before installing another

When you edit an operation/battle it isplayable from your custom scenarios tab.

[namzo6]

 Hey Knu,the mod swap utility will not allow you to have multiple mods running at once.I think unless the mods and submods are from the same  "main" mod,i.e.Real red?At least that's pretty much how it works with CCIII.
 I for one would like to be able to use Real Infantry with any mod without jumping through too many hoops.
I know one can tinker in the make camp doc.to alter teams and such,however I'm still learning how to tie my shoes all by myself,lol
 

[Beeblebrox]

Page 14 of the ModSwap Guide:
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[Andrew Williams]

So basically

Do not install more than 1 mod at a time , unless you are explicitly told to in the mods readme.

[Tactics]

Im running Barbarossa and Real Infantry, at the same time. So far so good.

[Andrew Williams]

Barbarossa is a new campaign so doesn't have any effect on data the way RI does.... so this should, he said with fingers crossed, be fine.

[Comrade_Blabsky]

It all depends on what exactly is being modded. In some cases, the submods will have a "dependency" on the full mod. Some mods will have more than one submod that can be run at the same time.

The Real Infantry mod is replacement Teams.txt files, which depend on all the graphics etc that are in CoI. Those teams files will not work with another mod.

So each mod would need it's own sub-modded teams files like Real Infantry is for CoI.


What can be done with those submods is quite impressive. And ModSwap valid plugins will be able to replace one side at a time, if designed that way. (Solo play would enable the human to use the full availability, while restricting the AI---or vice versa.)

Campaigns will work with any mod, with the only requirement being the proper maps. (Some maps will not work with some mods, but that's a different story.)

Some of this is old hat to the vets, but confusing to the FNG's. Just listen carefully to your NCO's and you'll make it.

[Llyranor]

Just that we're clear, RI is really just providing a modification of the original CC3 campaign in such a way that infantry becomes the mainstay of battles, right? This sounds like my cup of tea.

How armor-heavy is the new Cross of Iron campaign? If the answer is 'very', is there a RI mod being worked on for that campaign as well? If it's fairly balanced, I can live with that.

[namzo6]

Hey TACTICS,how'd you install Barbarossa?I don't see it being available for COI yet,got a trick up your sleeve you wanna share?

[Tactics]

It's  here:
 
http://www.closecombat.org/CSO/index.php?name=UpDownload&req=viewsdownload&sid=5
 




 Barbarossa! Grand Campaign for Cross of Iron (Plugin) 


This is a Revised Grand Campaign for Cross of Iron created by diegrinder

[jukofyork]

Thanks for this! [&o]

I still haven't been able to play any H2H games yet and have found myself totally pounding the tank-greedy AI. Hopefully the RI mod will make it more of a challenge vs the AI now.

Juk

[namzo6]

Thanx Tactics,stupid me I go to the CSO website all the time,never thought to look under alt camps

[Comrade_Blabsky]

If you are using Real Infantry, you may play any campaign and not see the armor-fest, although the points may be a little excessive in the later years.