[BTS] Warhammer Heart of Chaos - DOWNLOAD and Current Changelog

Has taken a while to make sense of the 'paper trail' through all the old threads and different versions after all these years so correct me if I'm wrong on and anything and please let me know if you have the missing files and I can arrange new hosting here at CivFanatics and elsewhere to make sure they're not lost again..

There was originally a Warhammer Fantasy Battles for Vanilla Civ 4 released and then later removed due to being superseded.

Then there was a Warhammer Fantasy Battles for Civ4 Warlords released with a extra sound addon which had it's own separate thread here. However sadly the downloads are long gone, there's no webarcive backups and these releases have been lost.

Then there was a Warhammer Fantasy Battles for Civ4 Beyond The Sword 3.17 released using FFH in a old separate thread here by @Ploeperpengel . Good news is I have fixed the broken image and downloads for version 0.13 and Patch E here & on the download page so thankfully this version is not lost. However it is highly unstable due to being a beta and for a older version of Civ4 BTS. There was a Patch F in the making but it was not released.

Presumably while in the process of making Patch F the project was merged with the Warhammer Mini mod project by @Psychic_Llamas which had it's own separate thread here. He did a 1.2 release and was up to a Patch C however sadly despite using the atomic gamer archive trick I was unable to rescue either file and these releases have been lost.

Presumably the merger project originally kept the Warhammer Fantasy Battles name but took on the Mini projects version numbers and had a 1.4 release with a extra sound addon in a new seperate thread here. However sadly the filefront downloads are long gone and these releases have been lost. According to the filefront webarchive backup page the download was called Warhammer_1.4.zip and was 201.31 MB. There was a Patch A released however it broke the mod and was removed from the thread but the download remains here. There was a Patch B in the making with a long list of changes but it was not released.

Presumably while in the process of making Warhammer Fantasy Battles 1.4 patch B they pivoted again and had a new version 1.5 release with a extra sound addon in a new separate thread here. Although the thread text doesn't match the thread title and says version 0.03 Alpha just to make things extra confusing lol, and I can see in the webarchive backup page that the original thread text said 1.5 as well so presumably the version numbers were 'back changed' with a future project name change. Sadly despite using the atomic gamer archive trick I was unable to rescue the files and these releases have been lost. There this a Patch A and a Patch B (not mentioned in the thread) hosted on CivFanatics but they are useless without the original main version 1.5 (0.03 Alpha) release.

Presumably while in the process of making Warhammer Fantasy Battles 1.5 (0.03 Alpha) patch B they pivoted again and the project was renamed to Warhammer Heart of Chaos, the a new version system was implemented, and had a new version 0.04 Alpha release with a extra sound addon in this very thread you're reading this in now. This is apparently the first version of the project compatible with Civ4 Beyond The Sword 3.19 (all the earlier versions including up to 1.5/0.03 Alpha will crash). However sadly the Megaupload downloads are long gone, there's no webarcive backups and these releases have been lost. There this a Patch A hosted on CivFanatics and a Patch B on Megaupload meaning it's also lost, but they are useless without the original main version 0.04 Alpha release. This appears to be the final version of the project so it is a real shame that both this release and it's final patch are currently lost!

EDIT: Looks like there were 0.01 and 0.02 Alpha releases between Warhammer Fantasy Battles 1.5 and Warhammer Heart of Chaos 0.03 Alpha after all! Using the atomic gamer archive trick I was I was able to rescue their files so thankfully this version is not lost. However I'm not sure yet if they're compatible with BTS 3.19 as we know it happened after 1.5 and before 0.03 Alpha. Download and more details here.

So if anyone happens to have the final Warhammer Heart of Chaos 0.04 Alpha release and Patch B & it's sound addon, or the previous 0.03 Alpha release, or even the earlier Warhammer Fantasy Battles 1.5 or 1.4 versions please let me know and I can arrange new hosting here at CivFanatics and elsewhere to make sure they're not lost again.
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Woah! Finally some success just as I was about to give up. :) I noticed in the first post of this thread that there was a hidden spoiler area with download links for the old versions and while most were ones I'd seen before I was surprised to see that there was a 0.01 and 0.02 Alpha release of Warhammer Heart of Chaos so presumably Warhammer Fantasy Battles 1.5 was not renamed to WH HoC 0.03 Alpha and it was just the 1.5 thread that got repurposed as there were 2 big releases in-between them (so the old 1.5 thread was probably repurposed several times but due to forum moves I can't access backups of those periods). So anyway these earlier releases of the projects final incarnation were on atomic gamer and this time the atomic gamer archive trick worked! :)

I found the original download page here:
https://web.archive.org/web/2015072...82242/warhammer-heart-of-chaos-0-02-pre-alpha
Which gave me a upload date of 11/21/2009 (21/11/2009 outside of America) which reversed told me it would be in the atomic backup file for 091121 here:
https://archive.org/download/AtomicGamer_091121
I viewed the contents of the tar file in there and located the mod using the 82242 ID from the atomic download page here:
https://archive.org/download/AtomicGamer_091121/AtomicGamer_091121.tar/091121/userUploaded.82242
I then downloaded and renamed the 82242 file back to it's original 'WHoC0.02Setup.exe' and the installer worked!

The file is a bit big for hosting on CFC and it's not the final version 0.04 Alpha we all want so for now just use the web archive link above and rename the file like I did.

I also noticed that version 0.02 Alpha has a Patch A here on CivFanatics so we'll probably need that too!
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/whoc0-02a-patch.13678/

And lastly the same tricks above also worked with the older version 0.01 Alpha download too as I was able to locate the download page backup which then lead me to the atomic archive containing download 81315 which can be downloaded and renamed to it's original 'WHoC0.01.exe' filename. However since we've rescued the newer 0.02 Alpha too it shouldn't be needed.

The big question is did the compatibility update for Civ4 Beyond The Sword 3.19 happen before these versions as we know it happened after 1.5 and before 0.03 Alpha. Only one way to find out so I'll have to test them soon!

And once again if anyone has the newer final 0.04 Alpha release and it's final Patch B please let me know!
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