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Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 12:39:08 PM

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All strategy fan will be pleased by this beautiful news: Advanced Tactics Gold - the wargame based by the award winning game engine by the same name � has been updated to version 2.21g!

This new version brings an important new feature, the possibility to create your own Tables of Organization (TOE) while playing the game!
After assigning a unit to a TOE model the game will automatically use logistical resources (trains,trucks, and cargo ships) to send the appropriate troops to it.

This is a truly unique option and in random games only your imagination is the limit!

For a more detailed explanation on how this feature works please check here

You can download the patch as usual from the download section of the product page or simple clicking here

Get more information about the game from its official product page

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 1:20:40 PM

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1) I believe this Gold version contains a couple more bug fixes so if you are running the beta you will want to upgrade.

1a) To see NATO counters you must create a TO&E template and apply that to your units. Alternately, install my NATO counters mod or do both. Attached is a sample TO&E template. Open the TO&E Designer and import the file (remove the txt extension first and put the standard.atgtoe file in your savegames folder). Note also that the TO&E feature works only with the "A New Dawn" game type. It does not work with the Standard, Alt Graphic or Classic game types.

2) Information on TO&E:
Read here: TO&E Documentation

3) Information for Newbies:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3677219

4) NATO Counters Mod (with v2.21g only need if you want the AI to have NATO counters or you want NATO counters in the Standard or ALT Graphic game types). If used, both your units and the AI will have NATO counters with no option for the silhouette counters (unless you use the "put back my standard counters" mod).
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2788950

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 10:56:28 PM

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i must of missed it but how do you get your units to use nato symbols. I don't see a button that switches between the display options for symbols or nato for your units.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:08:19 PM

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i must of missed it but how do you get your units to use nato symbols. I don't see a button that switches between the display options for symbols or nato for your units.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:16:08 PM

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thats what i thought but it doesn't change the graphics to nato just stays at symbols.Steam version if it makes a difference.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:17:27 PM

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You are playing with v2.21g correct? Also, you must be playing "A New Dawn" game. Doesn't work with the other game types.

Edit: Your issue is you have not created and/or applied a TO&E template to your units. Do that and you'll get NATO counters. Alternately, install my NATO mod and you'll have NATO counters with or without a TO&E template. Import the attached TO&E template file to get a start (remove the .txt extension first). The file goes in your savedgames folder.

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thats what i thought but it doesn't change the graphics to nato just stays at symbols.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:25:43 PM

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Yes to both

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:28:01 PM

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Read my edited post with new information.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:40:09 PM

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ok, yea i didn't create a TOE yet. Your file just opens for me doesn't download.Should i copy and paste the contents to notepad? Where can i get your nato mod, is it JSME ready? Thx for your help, I appreciate it. i have a question, once you make a TOE model can you edit it later as researched items become available?

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 7/31/2015 11:49:30 PM

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1) It is a text file so simply save it with the atgtoe extension.

2) Link to the NATO mod is in the second post of this thread. Use ATG to install it.

3) You can edit a TO&E template at any time in your game. I routinely do so as the game advances into later stages. Use the export function to save your templates for use in other random games. Once you learn the structure (view it in NotePad) you can even edit it outside the game if you so choose.

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ok, yea i didn't create a TOE yet. Your file just opens for me doesn't download.Should i copy and paste the contents to notepad? Where can i get your nato mod, is it JSME ready? Thx for your help, I appreciate it. i have a question, once you make a TOE model can you edit it later as researched items become available?

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/1/2015 12:15:49 AM

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thank you sir, i think i'm squared away.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/1/2015 11:22:08 AM

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So i'm having an issue implementing the TOE system to a mod:

Is this the correct rulevar setup? It still doesn't have the TOE when I load a random game using that scenario file.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/3/2015 5:38:55 AM

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Hi panzeh,

Check the paragraph on enabling TOEs in the editor:
http://www.vrdesigns.nl/atwiki/doku.php?id=tables_of_organisation_and_equipment

I think you let out enabling the buttons to show up for the player.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/6/2015 6:05:10 PM

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Wonderful update! Please tell me if there's a way to control the flow of the reinforcements - prioritize some units, forbid others from getting reinforcements, and reinforce selected units forcibly right away (after click of the mouse)?

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/6/2015 6:30:17 PM

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You can do all that except turn off reinforcements completely. The only way to do that is disband the unit or remove the TO&E template.

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Wonderful update! Please tell me if there's a way to control the flow of the reinforcements - prioritize some units, forbid others from getting reinforcements, and reinforce selected units forcibly right away (after click of the mouse)?

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/8/2015 10:16:21 PM

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You can do all that except turn off reinforcements completely. The only way to do that is disband the unit or remove the TO&E template.

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Wonderful update! Please tell me if there's a way to control the flow of the reinforcements - prioritize some units, forbid others from getting reinforcements, and reinforce selected units forcibly right away (after click of the mouse)?

you can control the % of replacements (prioritize) for each unit by adjusting the % in the unit screen (this is not a new feature).You can add immediate reinforcements to TOE units by transferring them from HQs in the usual old way.However if you have chosen certain options, the TOE unit might send the extra replacements back to the HQ.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/9/2015 1:15:55 AM

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Deleted... posted in wrong thread.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 8/31/2015 8:13:24 PM

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I tried to install the latest upgrade v2.21g. It says I don't have ATG installed and cancels the install of the patch. But I do have the game.

But It seems to be thru Steam, so I suppose I have to throw pixie dust into the air and turn around three times to get the damn thing to work.

I have absolutely no patience left with this crap.

on second thought forget it. I don't need the aggravation.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 9/1/2015 12:15:30 AM

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A Matrix patch cannot be applied on a Steam install of the game. If you have the Steam version, then you must get your patch through Steam.

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I tried to install the latest upgrade v2.21g. It says I don't have ATG installed and cancels the install of the patch. But I do have the game.

But It seems to be thru Steam, so I suppose I have to throw pixie dust into the air and turn around three times to get the damn thing to work.

I have absolutely no patience left with this crap.

on second thought forget it. I don't need the aggravation.

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RE: Advanced Tactics Gold Version 2.21g is now available! - 11/4/2015 3:49:27 AM

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Hello,

I'm hoping for a bit of help. I'm merely trying to get the game to recognize the NATO unit symbols and am finding it amazingly difficult and frustrating. I think this thread is assuming a level of proficiency with the game that I don't possess.

For example, apparently I have to "create a TOE" in order for the game to recognize the NATO symbols. Above is the following link:
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2) Information on TO&E:
Read here: TO&E Documentation

So I go to that link and it says:
Creating TOEs in the TOE model designer
Its quite easy. You create a new TOE and then specify in up to 8 slots its ideal composition."
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Hmm...so under what seems to be the heading that is going to explain how to create TOEs what it seems I'm being told is, "it's easy, you just create one". Ugh. Elsewhere it says to go to the TOE Model Designer and says something about "one of the right buttons" and "one of the middle buttons". I have no idea where or what that's referring to. I do see the TOE section in the editor and so am assuming that's it.

Bottom line, the forum seems to indicate that getting the game to recognize the NATO symbols is an easy thing to do, but if by "easy" it also means proficiency with the editor please let me know and I'll just move on for now and maybe get to it at some point. I'm just not a fan of the standard graphics; I thought someone had jokingly put in a symbol for the engineer that looked like a hockey player. I really appreciate all the effort the modders put into this game and share with everyone and so sorry if my frustration is coming thru. Thanks for any help!

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