Quote:  Hot War: 1945 v1.01 

"Hot War: 1945" is a mod for West Front that allows players to fight USSR vs. US, UK and Allied (West) Germany!!! It is a separate install of WF and requires EF II also. Version 1.01 works with all WF v1.05 packages (including WF, WF Elite, EIF and WIF). It does require the Battle Pack CD's (or the later bundles like WF Elite, etc) to run certain scenarios.

It comes with ELEVEN scenarios covering the initial Soviet assault on the West and their subsequent exploitation of their breakthrough, the desperate German/American defense of Bastogne, the bloody Soviet airdrop on Arnhem, the Anglo-French defense of Iran and, of course, the American invasion of Northern Germany.

It now includes all the USMC and other new units from Rising Sun!!!

Several pesky bugs have been fixed and I think (hope?) it is now COMPLETELY bug free.

It now works with WF v1.05 and thus all later bundles.

The artwork has been updated as appropriate.

New scenarios are available on the HW Scenarios Page of the Designers Guild Section. More scenarios will follow.

Note to previous users of HW: Even if you have already installed Hot War: 1945 v1.00, I'm afraid you will have to completely re-install HW v1.01 from scratch. However with many new and updated scenarios, with WF v1.05, with much new art work (and a few key bug fixes [sigh]), I can assure you it WILL be worth the effort.

[Install Suggestion: Create a "Hot War" directory on your computer. Unzip the 'Hot War.zip' file into that directory. Read and print the 'read me' file from that directory. Install HW by following the directions in the 'read me' file.]

HW 'Briefing Sheets' 

[not yet updated to v1.01]

This zipfile contains 'briefing sheets' (one for each side) for every HW scenario! A briefing sheet consists of one page of 'conditions' (eg scenario description, visibility, supply level, scenario length, etc), one section of the friendly OOB (only units actually appearing in the scenario, not the entire *.org file), one section of friendly forces and capabilities (eg which and how many of each platoon type, basic combat data for those platoons, etc) and one section on possible enemy forces and capabilities (ie roughly the same as the previous section except that it contains only platoons available in that time period to the enemy countries in question). It uses full FOW so reading the 'briefing' for the side you are playing will not give away any secrets! It is in the simplest *.doc format and should be readable by any word/wordpad version (or rename it as *.txt but lose the page breaks).

(Note: These files are free standing so they can be unzipped anywhere. I'd suggest making a subdirectory under WF called "Briefings".)

Hot War Scenario Chart 

[not yet updated to v1.01]

This is an MS 'Excel 5.0/95' file of all the HW scenarios w/ relevant info. Very useful for picking scenarios w/o having to page through the HW screens. It is also is the file that provided the raw data for the Scenario Rating System. The update also includes a Word 6.0 document file with all the scen descriptions.

HW Database! 

This is Hot War's unit and weapons data in an MS 'Excel 2000' spreadsheet.

Hot War Unit Display

(Not yet available)

This is an MS 'Access 97' database of  Hot War. It draws on all the information available in the new spreadsheet (above) but actually allows the user to filter by date, country, side and unit class. It also shows both the 3D unit picture and the photograph (where available). A must have!

(Notes: This file can be loaded in any directory, it works best if the WF cd is in the cd rom drive - to show the photographs - and if it can't find any unit data it is likely that your registry points to the wrong directory).