🛡️ TA Archive

Welcome to the TA Archive

Total Annihilation
Archive & Knowledgebase

A curated archive for the best RTS classic of 1997: hand-picked links, downloadable maps & mods, and everything you need to build your own maps, units and scripts. Everything here has been collected, verified and prepared with care.

Ambusher deploy animation
Ambusher deploy sequence — animated 1:1 from the original ARMAMB.COB script →
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Links

The essential TA sites on the net: communities, archive servers, forums and tools.

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Maps & Downloads

Curated maps and packs — self-hosted or linked, with descriptions and preview images.

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Knowledgebase

How do you build maps? How do FBI/TDF, BOS/COB scripts work? The technology from the inside.

A quick note

This archive is a fan project and grows with every visit. If anything is missing or broken, drop us a line — see the Imprint for contact details.

📰 Latest news

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October 8, 2026

Engine-verified: TNT loader and COB interpreter facts

Cross-checked our format documentation against the matching decompilation of TotalA.exe — header fields, feature sentinels and COB hook arguments are now confirmed at the source.

October 7, 2026

Site polish: the map editor stops jumping, pages cache properly

Cumulative layout shift on the Web-Mappy workbench down from 0.96 to 0.02, static assets now cached at the edge, robots.txt and favicon added, old mapbuilder URL redirects.

October 7, 2026

311 new maps and 119 mod packs from the File Universe mirror

A complete mirror of files.tauniverse.com is integrated: 311 previously missing maps, 119 community mod packs, 26 GB archived to cold storage — every file hash-verified and malware-scanned.