OMG! I have never seen that before.

This sounds like either march beta 2 is not installed/installed wrong OR minimod V1.5 is not installed. Dystopia needs both. So if minimod 1.5 is installed, you should see operation safari v1.6 and cresent moon v1.3 under missions. If crescent moon v1.3 and safari v1.6 run without crashing then all should be good. Both these missions depend on Mini mod V1.5. It adds custom squads used by missions.......ie there is not playable t62 for unita in default game. Plus a whole bunch of other units. If these are missing, then crash O rama. Also March beta changes the way rifle rounds are handled. Before there was 1 type used by sabow.....7.62 x 54mm. March betas added in 7.62 x 39mm and 7.62 x 51 mm NAto. If march beta is not installed right......crash O rama.

So install list in updater should look like

V1.0 Dystopia
V1.5 mini mod
V1.03 garviteam march beta 2 patch.

OK I installed correctly but I play from the map the whole engagement?

Ah no. Just like regular SABOW. Green means playable, red and orange mean ai. Your tank by convoy should get attacked right off...well should, ai does what it wants . Should hit the turn icon and see red flaming thing. That will take you to set up screen. PLace your units where you want, then the clock icon thing, for initial orders....ei tell em what to do, if anything. SET up arty TRP's flag icon and numbers 1,2,3. Call air support if you want. 5 minutes VS 25 minutes or so if you wait till in battle. Start the battle, try not to die. Protect your assets....etc.

These screens are from Dystopia. Just want to say..........USE YOUR SUPPORTS WELL!!!!!! Use the terrain to YOUR advantage. Make sure you LOOK at fuel ammo levels of your units. You can set up what units need/dont need supplies and what priority they get. Somewhat important in Dystopia, REALLY important in operation safari. Oh and I like feed back. I am trying to balance out the sim/gamer/cav scout in me in these missions.



2 south african choppers went medieval on this BMP.



Good TRP's and arty are your friends. Nearly a whole platoon wiped out from 2 trp's from arty spotter and a platoon leader.

it keeps giving me AI turn then my turn AI turn then my turn then Victory all from the map. I guess I really dont get this UI thing.

Check in options -> game and realism settings -> "historical units" - should be "disabled"

Masiff......something is totally borked. Can you post a screen or two?

it sounds like mini mod v1.5 is not installed right.....or something? Its what makes the t62 playable for unita and alot of other stuff used in mission.

In updater it should look like this...

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V1.0 Dystopia
V1.5 mini mod
1.03 graviteam march beta 2 patch.
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If for instance graviteam patch is at the top, it will over write mini mod files and return to vanilla game.....or something close. Which would explain that.

Historical units dont matter one way or the other in this case. Off gives you a few more units and is a little less hard.

Well beyond the fact I forgot to add a 0 at the end of version number that all looks fine. Now why the heck you cant fight it out with the t62's is vary confussing.

Ok, Dystopia needs some more tweeking in order to become a better mission. It is not a bad mission but it could be better. Off the top of my head, the point system is totally borked. Well, the reason for that was simply when I put more important point ai do hickies, the ai became vary perticular about what it wanted to do. Thats pretty easy to fix, but 12 turns really was not enough. The darn mission ended (for me,your milage my vary) right when things where getting interesting around supply depot. Well i got one good fight in, but 1 platoon of cuban armor was taking its marry time getting into battle. This play thru, the freaken t55 and bmp platoon NEVER engaged me anywhere. LOSERs...lol. But that can change per play thru depending what the ai wants to do.


I am looking for feed back, so please post ideas for improvements.
What I am currently thinking is....

1. fix points
2. Less Ratel/oliphant platoons.....more t62's. Now I have no idea if Unita ever captured a t62. They certainly got there hands on enough t55's but alas, no playable t55. But for fun sake......more t62s. Probably replace 1 of the oliphant platoons with a mixed t62/t55 platoon.
3. a couple more turns
4. Dump mortars from manuver platoons. Since march beta and better formation command, this is just a pita to deal with (I ended up disbanding my mortars for men after they shoot all their ammo:D.
5. More manuver points around depot area. 2 does not seem to be enough, that was a surprise.
6. Depot needs something to do when your off playing the cavarly.

So post ye comments!

However it will be awhile before I update this mission. (a few weeks) Still its 4 or 5 hours of something to do. When next version comes out, it will a lot different.

Unfortunately I haven't time to play anything until Sunday or even Monday but SA:BoW and Dystopia has first place in my list of games.

Totally understand that. I am lucky right now as I have no job and got all messed up from being older and military stuff. Ok not really lucky, but I have breathing room to change well, everything as I go civi once again. .

Just broke a gig of downloads from mediafire. Since my largest file is 1.56mb I think that is pretty good.

Where is my FEED BACK! Lol.......... No really, need to start plannning out how to make dystopia a bit better. Not totally happy (the core elements, yes; everything else.....NO) with it yet.

I still haven’t had time to play it much or even the basic missions.

But if you feel like doing more modding I have a suggestion 

What about an interface mod? I really don’t like the interface and those flat buttons. Not as much fun as making weaponry though that’s for sure

I am a little embarassed to ask but how do i install the mods?

Why should you be embarassed?

Sabow needs to be patched with 5.77 engine update and march beta 2 patch to work.

Installing mini mod v1.5 and Dystopia is just like installing march beta patch. That is, open game updater, hit install, go to where ever you unpacked folder, open folder (from updater file browser), find its desc.addpack file, and hit save and play.

in updater it should look like.....

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Dyestopia
flashburn mini mod v1.5
Graviteam march beta 2 patch.

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I thought so but was not shure!
Thx a lot Flash!

Going to be doing an updated/improved dystopia mission shortly. Will probably end up bundling it into mod so there will be only 1 mod file that people will have to download. So if interested in doing a little bit of testing on new version let me know via pm.

Also I would like to do another cresent moon style mission, only from the Iraq side. If anyone has suggestions feel free to post!


Mod is closing in on 2000 downloads for the files I am hosting...........neato. I really hope people enjoy it.