Commander Battles

Commander Battles is a comprehensive gameplay mod that makes use of Holdfast's officer line controls, allowing players to control lines of bots while fighting other commanders on the battlefield!

Official mod can be found on steam workshop here.

Any issues, bugs, feature requests, or general questions, reach out to Alexaroth on the Commander Battles discord

How To Play

Find a 'Commander Battle' supported server, for example the official public Commander Battles server, hosted by BMG. Alternatively, use the Commander Battles discord to join in on the fun, or reach out to your regimental leadership and ask about installing it on your private server.

Once in, you can use the !addBots command to spawn yourself a line (do it on even ground if possible), like so:

!addBots <Amount> [NamePrefix] [ClassName] [UniformID] (elements in [] brackets are optional but previous optional elements are mandatory)

Examples:

!addBots 20 (Spawns 20 line infantry bots)

!addBots 20 [AGS] (Spawns 20 line infantry bots with prefix "[AGS]" in their name)

!addBots 20 [AGS] guard (Spawns 20 guard bots with prefix "[AGS]" in their name)

!addBots 20 [AGS] Guard 1 (Spawns 20 Guard bots with uniform id 1 and prefixed by the "[AGS]" tag)  

For a list of all possible ClassName's, see this page

Server Setup

Have the mod defined as such outside the rotations:

mods_installed 2654672970 # Commander Battles mod

Then, inside each rotation, in between the !map_rotation start/end, have the mod defined as such:

#Mods
load_mod 2654672970 # Commander Battles mod
#Commander Battles Config
class_system_orders_formline_cooldown 1
class_system_orders_breakrankandfollow_cooldown 1
class_system_orders_fireatwill_cooldown 1
class_system_orders_makeready_cooldown 1
class_system_orders_fireorder_cooldown 1
class_system_orders_ceasefire_cooldown 1
class_system_orders_charge_cooldown 10
#End of Commander Battles Config

Mod Vars

Server owners can configure the mod with various mod variables. Here is a list of them and their functionality:

- mod_variable CB:maxbots:20

Sets a new maximum amount of bots

- mod_variable CB:allowAnyBotClass:true

Enables spawning bots of any class type

- mod_variable CB:defaultbotclass:Guard

Sets a default class for bots, use the ones here (with allowAnyBotClass mod var above if needed)

- mod_variable CB:disableaux:true

Disables the spawn of aux units.

- mod_variable CB:disableSlapHealthBalance:true

Disable extra health for commanders, no more slaps

- mod_variable CB:customHealthBalance:100

Sets a custom health balance value for commanders. Default value is 100 (as in,100 extra HP for commanders). You can use negative values, but no smaller than -99

- mod_variable CB:disableshortcutbotspawn:true

Disables the Alt+S UI shortcut, and it will no longer render. You should not need this however, reach out to me if you think you do.

Credits

Original version of this mod made by CoreDumper. Adaptation, rework and subsequent updates by Alexaroth, with initial contributions from Elf and help from Wrexial. Special thanks to ApexPhantom for providing bot names for various factions!

Check my other mods!

Battle Royale: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795281854

Holdfast FC: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2869847453

Holdfast Weapon Menu: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2935155767