Update on 22 April 2016:This mod is now only available in a package to which you have access in the download section here!
Greetings fellow gamers,
for those of you who like to play out different encounters on the American front in the time frame of ETW I have prepared a mod that gives you a selection of 32 different factions in custom battles. I thought that the most suitable place to release it was here at husserlTW's Startpos Mods forum thanks to his excellent work on the colonization of America scenario. And the creator of this forum was of the same mind, so here we are. This little tweak brings you the following colonizing or native sides to the table:
- American Rebels
- American Indian Rebels
- Britain
- Cherokee
- Colombia (Gran Colombia)
- Courland – established the colony of Neu-Kurland (”New Courland”) on Tobago in the 17th century.
- Denmark – established the colonies of Dansk Vestindien (”Danish West Indies”) on present day US Virgin Islands in the 17th century.
- European Settler Rebels
- France
- Huron-Wyandot
- Inuit
- Iroquois League
- Louisiana
- Mexico
- Netherlands – apart from the territories seen on CA's map for the Americas in ETW, it also used to hold Nieuw-Nederland (”New Netherland”), a colonial province on the east coast of North America in the 17th century.
- New Spain
- Norway – representing the old Norse colonization of Vinland ("Wineland", the Viking name for the North American continent; their name for American Indians were Skrälingar).
- Pirates
- Plains Nations
- Portugal
- Powhatan Confederacy
- Prussia – in the former capacity as Brandenburg it established a colony on the Caribean island of St. Thomas, but it could also represent the larger German colonization of Venezuela, Panama etc.
- Pueblo Nations
- Québec
- Russia – did not have any territory seen on the CA map for the Americas in ETW, but established a colony in Alaska in the late 18th Century and later expanded and explored into British Columbia.
- Scotland – established colonies on Nova Scotia, Carolina etc in the 17th century.
- Spain
- Sweden – established the colony of Nya Sverige (”New Sweden”) along the Delaware River in the 17th century.
- Thirteen Colonies
- United States
- Virginia (British Colonials)
- Virginia Colonists
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
If you have bought the Warpath Expansion, this mod keeps the new units with this addition into play. European powers have their colonial troops enabled here, along with some native auxiliary, and the Pirates have shown up on the scene, too. The colonial troops are cheaper and less skilled variants of the regular troops, but look identical to them unless modded (retextured) otherwise.
To activate this mod, do the following:
1. Download the attached file.
2. Extract the downloaded file.
3. Place the extracted file into the data folder of ETW.
4a. Tick the box for it in the Mod Manager and launch the game from there; or...
4b. Open or create the "user.empire_script" text file in the C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Account On the Computer]\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts folder (visible only if the setting for showing hidden folders and files on your computer is enabled), and write...
mod "32_factions_in_custom_battles_americas_w.pack";
...on a line there, save, and exit the script file, and then start up ETW the normal way through Steam.
5. Enjoy!
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Edit: a little update on the available units.
Edit 2: other selections in custom battles are available at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=314270. For compatibility issues, see the bottom of the OP in the same thread.