Project Raptor for Generals Zero Hour: Latest Versions and Where to Download

Project Raptor for Generals Zero Hour is now released as Project Raptor: War Commanders and gets regular updates: version 9.1.27 came out on September 21, 2026, and all the 9.1.x numbers, 9.1.22 included, belong to it. The mod is free and hosted on ModDB.

The mod at a glance

• Latest version: 9.1.27 from September 21, 2026; releases 9.1.20 … 9.1.27 are listed below.
• Team: Vanguard, TipaIvan, DetroyT, GenJohnson, ~{MODoGEN}~, 927AVIApolk.
• Main features: new vehicles, two new sides (Militia and B.O.S.S.), a navy, long missions, engine fixes.
• Mod page: moddb.com/mods/generals-war-commanders.

If a forum post or video tells you to get "Raptor 9.1.22", that's this same mod, just an older version.

Project Raptor: War Commanders

The mod grew out of the first Project Raptor, which Vanguard started back in 2005, and keeps its style. It brings new vehicle models, including the Iskander-M, plus new aircraft, tanks and infantry. Two new sides became playable. According to the 9.1.27 files, they are the Militia and B.O.S.S., which is General Leang from Zero Hour's Generals' Challenge. There's a strong focus on single player: missions and bots work, and the new missions are several times longer than the original ones.

What each side builds, what it costs and which real hardware stands behind it is collected in our Project Raptor wiki. It also has a table of differences from regular Zero Hour: the Command Center has 12000 health instead of 5000, the Raptor costs 3200 instead of 1400, and superweapons cost twice as much.

War Commanders versions

In 9.1.27 the authors updated the engine. According to them, big armies no longer crash the game, 8-player matches run smoother, and modern resolutions can be picked right in the game. You can change the frame rate mid-match with Ctrl and "+" or Ctrl and "-". In total there are more than 1,600 fixes from the T.S.H. team. The authors keep the full changelog on their Discord.

How to install War Commanders

1. You need Zero Hour 1.04 installed. Get the game on Steam or the EA App; more on the game files page.
2. Copy your Zero Hour 1.04 folder to a separate folder. The authors recommend this themselves in case something goes wrong.
3. Extract the mod archive into the copy and confirm overwriting files.

The mod goes on top of the game files, so without a copy you'll lose your clean Zero Hour.

If 9.1.22 won't launch

9.1.22 came out in 2023, and there have been five updates since. Before you dig for the cause, install 9.1.27 on a fresh copy of Zero Hour 1.04. If that won't start either, check whether Zero Hour runs without the mod. The common reasons the game won't start on Windows 10 and 11 are covered in our guide on Zero Hour not launching on Windows.

Project Raptor on a phone

We have run War Commanders 9.1.27 on a phone and found two problems with a regular install. The mod ships as loose files, about 14,000 of them in the Data\INI and Art folders. On Android the port reads some of these INI files twice and the game crashes with an error, and searching through big folders stretches loading to several minutes.

So for phones we packed all of the mod's files into .big archives, and in this build War Commanders 9.1.27 works in ZeroFront. The link is in the bot, under "Game files & mods" → Project Raptor. Keep in mind that the 9.1.27 engine changes and the move to DirectX 9 were made for the Windows version. On a phone the game runs on the ZeroFront engine, so those changes won't be there. Besides Raptor, Contra 009 Final and Contra 007 work on a phone, and the other mods are in the full mods table.

Project Raptor also starts on the new Reforged engine, but it is tested better on Classic, and Reforged has no network play yet.

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