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A Men of War Game

by Emanuel Leston October 4th, 2015

Men of War

Men of War franchise  is a series of world war two RTS (Real Time Strategy) games currently in Steam platform.  It is a game set in the second world war where the player deploys troops strategicly to defeat the opponent. There is a variety of troops within each unit(infantary units,armored units, naval units and air units) as well as game modes, e.g a set of different battles approach(Assault Zones,Day of Victory,Combat,Frontlines ). In this game the player seats the position of the commander in the field ,launching his troops towards his goals to achieve victory.

The game modes available are much similar to Conquest ,Dominition and Breakthrough from Battlefield series. In the first game mode, the more flags you control the faster you score points until you reach your goal. The second game mode you score as much as you kill until you reach your goal. At last,in the third game mode , the ofensive faction goal is to capture stage by stage all the necessary flags  in order to force the enemy faction to withdraw until he is defeated. In the other hand the defensive faction has to hold ground until the ofensive runs out of manpower.

The stage is set for the real time strategy game. Factions such as the USA, United Kingdom, Germany,Japan and Soviet Union  fill the game with all types of content and diversity putting the player the hard decision to pick in any context, e.g battle modes.  
All this factions diversity is  upon their  strength in the field. It is mostly define by aggressivenes, pressure and counter-attack. In some factions that lack in mobility you may find fire power or other perks according to it's units.

Modding Community

Men of war franchise  had always a great community through all the series,Men of war Assault Squad 2 will not be an exception. As I mention in most of my work , It would not be possible for me to understand all the mechanics and the necessary tools of the game without the experience I absorved from other mods.

Imperium Portucale mod 

As a fictional modification, this mod brings an alternative story for world war two. A different reaction from Portugal towards Japan advance through East Timor.
The part I got most of my mind focus was on uniforms and weapons. I tried to get the most realistic ever. I had to put my photoshop skills on use to get the best of it. The only thing left then was to setup factions on code. That took a while. I also coded a new game mode but as time passed by , and updates got released, my new game mode become unplayble due to major Digitalmindsoft team updates.

Dili,East Timor

New maps

East Timor

This map is mostly focus on mountain combat which mitigate vehicle support  through most of the area.

Açores

In this map there is a sort of all kinds of fight approach. Either close combat on the way to the airfield or medium range combat.

Moçambique Islands

This map is composed by three islands and both factions spawn location is at sea. This map makes use of the naval units hidden inside the game,with a personal reskin.

Dili

This map is mostly close combat with an odd exception. The hillside hides a fortification with an artilery cannon towards the city.  Use it wisely.

New features

Infantry units

Only Portugal and Brazilian units were brought to the game. Some flags were also added to major battle tanks.

Naval Units

Naval units were hidden inside the game. Even today there isn't maps able to support this type of unit to spawn. I brought most of the usefull naval units back into the game with this new maps.Some exceptions such as destroyers or submarines were discarded.

Air units

Air units were also hidden inside the game.The main problem with this unit was the height of the player view in the map.The height is still today very limited ,still,I increased  so air units could be the most value option  when you are outrun.

Teaser Trailer

My video & photo editor  friend managed to pull this amazing trailer with in-game clips.

Teaser Trailer