Desert War Mod

This article is about the original Desert War Mod (DWM) created for Faces of WarFor the later part of this mod series planned for Men of War see: Desert War 2

Desert War (DW) also known under its full name: Desert War Mod (DWM) is a total-conversion modification for Faces of War which changes the theatre of war to the northern-african desert of World War II. It was published in june of 2007, about one year after Faces of War released. Desert War Mod was one of the most popular FoW mods as it brought not only a lot of new textures, models and code. Desert War was one of the first mods which changed the whole battlefield location, and the only one which featured battles in the dusty dunes and villages of Tunesia and other northern-african areas.

Development, release and death
The development of Desert War directly after Faces of War released. Steiner, its lead developer, coder and texture editor confirmed a development begin around the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007. Development took about half a year were the team, mainly consisting of the communitiy members Steiner, Murmeltier, Müller and others created an over-100-megabytes large modification with lots of new vehicles, buildings, units and sounds. In the end of june 2007, the only official patch for DWM released. With that, several bugs were fixed and a feature to build sandbags by infantry units was introduced.

In the beginning of August in 2007, the lead developer Schneider removed all download links to his mod after a plagiat was discovered. Community members blamed him for using stuff from other modifications in DWM. Later, he said that he was knowing doing it and he did that because it seemed the only way of getting the required vehicle models for his mod. After that, the Desert War Mod was removed from Digitalmindsoft's download base.

Download
Even if it is forbidden to advertise or re-publish Desert War Mod, it can be downloaded from different locations on the internet.


 * Desert War Mod v1.0
 * Rapidshare
 * Part #1
 * Part #2
 * DIF_Davewar
 * Patch v1.01
 * Rapidshare
 * DIF_Davewar

Links

 * DMS Forum threas (Preview)
 * DMS Forum thread (Release)
 * DMS Forum thread (Patch) (German)