Hornblower

[KozCDVI]

There are a couple of mods released with units inspired by the Sharpe series.

What is next is to create units that are inspired by Hornblower- Or a mod that focusses on the Royal Navy.

It could be to make ships such as the Indefatigable and the Renown, changing the British naval units to wear historical uniforms, or adding a marine unit. Any Hornblower/ Aubrey/ Naval ideas post here. I have negative modding experience but if anybody would be willing to try things out, I shall lend what aid I may...


Thanks

[Scarface123]

Good man, I'd love to see this too

[PubliusKhannus]

well i have the entire collection of hornblower novels so that might come in handy.

[KozCDVI]

well i have the entire collection of hornblower novels so that might come in handy.

I have all series on DVD too...

From that I could get quite a bit, I just can't mod...
I think it would be a great idea for fans, the Sharpe units are certainly brilliant, and the Royal Navy could do with some buffing up...

One possibility is to have say HMS Indefatigable- a Razee on the battlemap with the officers in blue jackets. The unit card is of the Indy (either historical or from screen) and has maxed out traits or something. Would also be cool to use in the campaign. Same thing for HMS Renown and HMS Suprise (Jack Aubrey).

[KozCDVI]

Does anybody have any ideas of what could be done?

There are relatively few mods that deal with the naval aspect of the game, so the main focus of this could be to be an upheaval of the naval side of things; like faction-specific traits and perhaps even historical ships. At the very least it could add names to the custom battle ships.

[PubliusKhannus]

At the very least, we can use the ship names on both sides, the French and the Brits, along with some Spanish, Russian and Swedish ships. Even a few U.S ships.

[KozCDVI]

At the very least, we can use the ship names on both sides, the French and the Brits, along with some Spanish, Russian and Swedish ships. Even a few U.S ships.

Yeah.

What I could imagine in a Hornblower mod pack would be

-Complete re structuring of the major sea-faring faction's ship's stats (as you stated)
- Marine units perhaps...
- British naval units change colour to historical blue
- British/French infantry 1794 inspired by Hornblower (Frogs and the Lobsters episode)
- Ship names (although I do believe this was included in the latest patch)
- Open to more ideas

[PubliusKhannus]

What i would actually like, is a greater model variant on the ships, the bo'sun, midshipmen of the watch, drummer boy, lieutenant, sergeant of the marines etc etc.