Surprising lack of mods.

[Field Marshal Paul Von Lettow]

A bit new to this game series and just curious as to why there are not any mods for this game. I love the series and I am enjoying an return to playing RTS games and this one is a gem I somehow missed. I'm not new to games in general but I guess I am used to my games having available mods here on Steam. Steam has always been a great lace for creative moders.

[tacoshy]

This is a competetive versus multiplayer games. It had added an ok'ish multiplayer but it was never intended to be for singleplayer.

Modding in competetive games have one serios issue: You need to ensure that the balance not getting ruined or that mods will give you an advantage you not suppose to have.
A good example is Company of Heroes where you find maps that are very favoured for one side. Also you find Mod that unlocks premium stuff or giving all units to every nation. This game however is build deck-wise to make choices and saacrafices. Not to be able to pick everything or having bonuses and disadvantages with your deck choice. A mod would remove this strategic decission.
Same if you have units added that nobody is intended to have. Of course is sound one to have tanks with an inpenetrable armor, more accuracy, damage and RoF, but it would ruin the experience for the other gamers.

Same stories for other comepetetive games, you will not find mod support for most of them. You see that this is a special niche game where the normal player base died. However you still have the problem that even if you want to play single player it was not ever ment to be played alone.
Look at World of Tanks where they allowed moddign and have huge problems with it and delcaring so many mods as forbidden like alser mods, mods that remove obstacles for a better seight which obviosly giving advantages, aim bots etc. Easiest way of preventing it is to prevent the use of mods in the first place.

[kanami]

There are mods, just not on the workshop. You can find a few here: https://www.moddb.com/games/wargame-airland-battle/addons

Honestly don't see what you'd want mods for other than perhaps the sandbox mode that I know RD has. This is pretty much the peak game in the series and is good enough on its own to still hold a small dedicated fan base even while most other players have moved on to RD.

[SGTLuPolt]

I tried the sandbox mod for RD
I was confused and went back to regular multiplayer

[Field Marshal Paul Von Lettow]

Thanks to all for the info. I enjoy the game. It is a shame it has died out as much as you've stated. Great concept with it. When playing it on your own as it seems to be the main case for this game, are there any trusted trainers or anything to just have fun with it? It seems to have no cheats at all and it would be fun to have something akin to that when playing against the computer.

[helm123]

This was also released six years ago and the party has moved on some time ago.

[piddlefoot]

What happened to all the simple games, build a base, make lots of troops, tanks etc, and go to battle, now most of them just try to stress the fek out of you as much as possible, force you into ding everything there intended way, for what ever reasons, we need a simple AOE style war game with modern equipment and huge detailed maps, would be a hit for sure.

Conflict Zone was fun.
I find this game not as much fun.

Wargames was the best, cant beat the 90s really.
Simple, brutal, black and white , or should I say blue and red !

[SGTLuPolt]

Modern games mostly have the same missions

Go here
Watch cutscene
Go here
Complete objective
End mission

[piddlefoot]

Yea but alot of them try to be over complicated.

KISS>

Something alot of devs forgot about....

[Sneaky_Beaky]

The information posted in this thread is mostly inaccurate.

Official Airland Battle mod forum:
https://forums.eugensystems.com/viewtopic.php?f=161&t=35461

Official Red Dragon mod forum:
https://forums.eugensystems.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=42270

To directly answer the original poster's questions:

A. There are programming issues which make the creation of mods for Wargame very difficult.
However, there are some mods out there. Mostly they're aesthetic mods, pretty textures for airplanes, etc. But there's some other cool stuff too. Obviously, major gameplay mods won't be compatible with regular multiplayer; but they're fun to tinker with solo.

B. I have heard of these "trusted trainers" you seek, and I believe they do exist; but I don't know what they are, or where to find them. Searching or asking the Eugen forums would be most fruitful I think.

Happy modding.

[Northy]

Good.
Mods just divide an already small player base

[Tellashim[GIF]]

Originally posted by Northy:

Good.
Mods just divide an already small player base

This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Who does it divide? THERE IS NO PLAYER BASE NOW! The devs have moved on. There is no one to divide. Unless you're a troll, which makes sense.