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Downloads Notes InfoTAWD changes Total Annihilation into a contemporary-like war game, pitting a NATO coalition against a Soviet styled Mospact. The overall effect is for realism - well, within TA's parameters, anyway. It uses modern weapons, such as attack helicopters, tanks, naval units and marines - no lasers, lightning bolts or K-Bots. The Commander is replaced by a Command Vehicle, a giant battle tank equipped with a nanolathe and a power arsenal of weapons. This is a total conversion in the true sense of the word, although all concerned still use nanolathes to build, capture and salvage with. The whole affair looks, feels and sounds a lot like Red Alert. Units are small and understated - unlike most TA customs that are usually over the top. InfoInfantry can be churned out by the horde very quickly, and all of them look like specks, identifiable only by what they shoot. Infantry warfare can be very fast and very brutal. You can conjure up a whole swarm of different infantry in a flash, but watch them all die just as quickly to a few well placedPillboxes. Snipers can wreak havoc on infantry with little effort. But weapon effects are very cool: missiles in particular are worth the download - fast, long ranged and deadly. Tanks tend to be a little anonymous, just small boxes with different length cannons and different camouflage patterns to distinguish between them. A lightly armoured Bradley fighting vehicle doesn't look much different from the hulking great Abrams M1 Main Battle Tank. However, the attention to detail is evident and the tanks all fill special niches. Shipping takes time to build, and apart from a basic naval yard you only get a cross section of modern shipping - and a nuclear sub. Ships are expensive, but their capacity for long range destruction is astonishing. The line-up of aircraft is fantastic - with a wide selection of recognisable fighters, bombers, antitank and helicopter gunships to blow things up with. B-52s and Tupelov Bears excel at massive bombing raids and quickly steal the show.Tomcats, MiGs, AWACs, Apache attack helicopters, A-10 tank killers, F22 stealth fighters... they're all there.TAWD comes with its own hacked executable, which you run instead of TotalA.exe, making it incompatible with TA:Mutation, has its own WD custom AI and you can download a set of maps made for it. |
