The War of 1812: The Conquest of Canada - game update v.1.06 - Download

version: v.1.06

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.06

- Change so that artillery counts as 25 men for stacking purposes instead

of 50.

- Added hotkey 'K' for the display of command ranges.

- Added number of unseen units in arrow keys in Hex Info Area.

- Added ability to display Users Manual to Help Menu.

- Added ability to display a color associated with the battalion of a unit

(see Battalion Colors under View Menu).

- Added ability to display labels using an alternate style (See Alt Label

Style under Settings Menu).

- Added ability for mounted cavalry to fire when the weapon they carry

is identified as being fired while mounted in the Parameter Data.

- Added the ability for artillery to retire by prolonge when the optional

rule is in effect and when the artillery type is identified as being

able to retire by prolonge in the Parameter Data.

- Added restrictive bridge values for movement, at least 10 for infantry,

at least 50 for cavalry, and at least 100 for artillery and supply

wagons.

- Added ability to fire artillery at bridges and to melee against bridge

hexes to cause bridge damage.

- Added ability for infantry and cavalry to repair bridges.

- Added new engineer unit and leader type that is used to improve rate of

bridge repair.

- Change so that units behind an embankment or stone wall do not suffer

Enfilade fire effects unless the fire is coming from a higher elevation

(The Enfilade effect is now noted in the unit picture).

- Change so that units behind an embankment or stone wall get a +2 morale

modifier for rout checks (The bonus is indicated as a '+' after the

Quality value in the unit picture).

- Added optional background sound feature.

- Placed a "base" weather entry in each PDT file so that visibility can be

set to a max of 80 hexes.

- Put in various flags (PDT) for weapons to allow indirect fire, retire by

prolong, firing while mounted & small arms.

- Reduced the range for the Rifle w/ bayonet by 1 hex.

- Increased the effectiveness of artillery at short (up to 5 hex) range for

all artillery over 4lbs.

- Increased movement rates for supply wagons.

- Decreased stacking limits to 150 men per hex.

- Increased the movement costs in clear terrain to 3 for units in Line

formation.

- Increased the movement costs in forest to 5 for infantry, and slightly

higher for other unit types.

- Altered various modifiers for terrain types.

- Increased ammo depletion values for both armies.

- Decreased the value of artillery and cavalry, added points for supply.

- Increased the number of supply wagons in most scenarios.

- Added supply sources to forts as needed.

- Added in bridge strengths of 150 to all scenarios.

- Line & Cav troops will now disrupt if moved in Forest, Orchard, Marsh,

Town or Rough terrain types.

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.05

- Fixes for Vista compatibility.

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.04b

- Fix for melee from/to bridge problem.

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.04a

- Fix for missing weapons in pdt files.

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.04

- Added a new On-Map Results feature which shows combat results on the

map instead on in a dialog box. Feature can be turned on/off from the

Settings Menu and defaults to on.

- Added Indirect Fire ability to certain weapons. See Users Manual

under Defensive Fire for more information.

- Added new Emplaced artillery units which cannot move from their

location. More information is available in the Users Manual in the

Defensive Fire section.

- Added a new Boat Movement feature which allows infantry and leaders to

cross water.

- Added Alternative Scrolling option to solve graphics problem with

certain video cards.

- Added change to prevent ships from moving under bridges.

- (Scenario Editor) Added a hot key "E" for toggling Fixed status.

- (Scenario Editor) Added ability to check for Duplicate Leaders under

Scenario Menu.

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.03

- Fixed bug which caused Indians to go into Extended Line when file

is read.

- Added ability for Supply loss to count towards victory point levels in

scenarios based on scenario data specified in Scenario Editor.

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.02

- Added Line Disruption indicator in Terrain Info Box.

- Change to Optional Line Disruption Rule so that it does not affect

units in Extended Formation.

- Fix to missing org file for War of 1812 campaign.

- Removed Ctrl key from Hot Keys as this conflicted with mode changes.

Now N means next unit that has not moved, while Ctrl-N means next unit

that has not fired.

- Added number of turns to File Selection Dialog.

- (Map) Fix for 2 map files which had no road exits from forts.

- (Oob) OOB changes for various unit designations and names.

- (Oob) OOB changes so all Indian forces are now equipped with "K" type

weapons (Muskets without bayonets).

- (Pdt) Update for all pdt files to add in new weapon types and to correct

missing terrain line disruption entry.

- (Scn) Update for Bladensburg_d & _dw victory conditions and objective

hex values.

- (Scn) Update for Stoney Creek_a & _aw to fix remaining US leaders until

their units release.

- (Scn) Fix for Tippicanoe_a & _aw to correct formation display on 2D zoom

out for Indian

Changes for The War of 1812 version 1.01

- Improvements to AI.

- Fix for stray yellow lines that appeared in 3D Zoom-In mode with units

turned off.

- Fix for fatigue fire results failing to affect ships.

- Setting of 3D Bases is now saved and restored when program or editor is

run.

• Last update: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
• Genre: Strategy
• File size: 28.5 MB