Wild Bill
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For those who like modern warfare, a good friend of mine, Ilja Varha and his crew, have produced a nice upgrade to SP3. I know this is an SPWAW forum.
I also know some of you play SP3 for the modern warfare and enjoy it. I thought I would let you know about this. Here is what Ilja has to say.
There is a new (introduced: June 4th) SP3 modification available from Fulgansoft. It's called "Steel Panthers III: Moderna", and as the name says it is about the years 50-99.
Moderna radically changes the behaviour of missiles and SAMs. It improves the accuracy and effectiveness, and it makes the battlefield very realistic. Even in one game, you will see the difference. Dragon missile is now very good anti-tank weapon, unlike before, when it had the hit
chance of 6% as regular and even if it hits, it bounces off the armour off T-64's side.
It isn't that way anymore. You get shot by a Russian Kornet, and you really do avoid the same spot again. Also the attack choppers got very much improved with this missile update. Now a Tiger UHU or Rooivalk with missiles are a really deadly weapon to play with. But they are to be kept out of SAMs' sight, or the result can be a dead chopper.
Also the AT-Guns and support squads are boosted. AT-Guns are harder to spot, and all support
squads (MG, Inf-SAM, Inf-AT etc.) have hand grenades to slightly raise their infantry fighting ability.
Moderna's other big fix is in it's KOBs (unit database etc.). All data found by multiple KOB makers is put together, and the result is masses of new units for many of the countries. No experimental weapon systems are in the game, no, only the real ones the armies use.
There is also three new countries to play with: Finland, Sweden and South-Africa (these replace Denmark, Checkoslovakia and PLO). These countries have very interesting armies, with unique, self-made equipment.
With all this come "the chrome": 1020 new LBM-images (unit fotographs), most of them in colour, new SHP-files (unit Icon-graphics, new main-menu picture, new mouse cursors), and last, but not least, there are the improved sound effects to bring the feel of real fighting even closer.
Get the Steel Panthers III: Moderna at:
http://members.xoom.com/Zipuli/Moderna.htm
It's downloadable in small files (around 2 Meg), and the full size is 15 Megabytes. On this site you can add your E-Mail address to the PBEM-players list, to others to challenge you.
Have fun and all comments, suggestions, questions, etc are welcome!
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Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games
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I've run out of excuses around here. Just bite the bullet 
Wild Bill
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Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games
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