A Fixing Idea
 

So apparently a lot of people, me included, have had problems with patching digital download copies bought through services such as impulse in my case. The error says that:

"The setup has detected that no version of Men of War is installed.
The update requires a previous version of the game to be installed. setup cannot continue."

My thoughts were to have the files for the patch available for download with out the setup for the patch. this way the files could just be copied and transferred to the correct locations in the Men of War folder. kind of like in this guide.
http://www.gamereplays.org/community...owtopic=551454

currently I am running the very basic version of men of war with no patches so I would need all the required ones in order. but I feel this idea would work.

you can use UniversalExtracor for extracting patchfile.

http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums...t=6618&p=81480

Thanks a lot man. You may have just became my new best friend.