


TFAR is natively compatible ACE is mostly natively compatible, the only issues I've found is that IFA medics aren't ACE medics by default, and the IFA mortars aren't usable with ACE running since they have two overlapping ACE options that prevents you putting a round in the tube.Īnyway, we've been using IFA among other things for several weeks now and it's worked well for us. Gear: IFA textures are a bit crap so FOW kind of wins, but as with the vehicles, there are options on the workshop (notably GEIST) that improves things very significantly. FOW had issues with weird animations (the K98 reloaded with the hand movement animation from a Katiba or something), IFA doesn't have great textures, but IFA won this one for me. IFA had what I expected plus a bunch of more unusual things and oddities. Weapons: FOW had about what I expected but not much more. Damage model is mostly OK but German tanks are pretty overpowered compared to everything else, which I suppose is realistic but needs to be managed from a mission design perspective. IFA has more variety but some of the quality particularly with regard to textures is dodgy, though there are addon mods on the workshop that fix a lot of this. Didn't test enough to comment on damage models. Vehicles: FOW doesn't have the best variety but the quality is pretty good for what they do have. Personally would like some Japanese in IFA but otherwise I've never found it lacking. Neaville and Staszow spring to mind.įactions: FOW has US, UK, Germany, and some Japanese. Some are very obviously unfinished, some are so small that they're basically useless, but there are a few gems in there. IFA has a whole bunch, but the quality is all over the shop. Terrains: FOW only has three, all Pacific themed. It's also about three months since I looked at FOW so things may have changed. Ultimately I went for IFA but it's not quite as simple as saying IFA is better as it depends what you're after and which bits are more important to you (and you can always use both, though you'll get a lot of duplicates). I looked at both quite a bit when I was putting together a WW2 modset for my group.
