The Imperial Splendour Team, with the TWC Modding Community proudly presents
The Imperial Splendour Team, with the TWC Modding Community proudly presents
Last edited by Bongfu; March 09, 2010 at 03:31 PM.
Lorehammer - Team Lead
A Radious Total War: Warhammer Sub-mod
Rock on!
I cant mod or prog for dung, but if I can help out in anyway let me know, the sooner we get this stuff the better. Vanilla is too arcade like.
"There was a time when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me then gold or jewels"
-Thulsa Doom
i want to help but i dont now how to mod
i can be a rechearcher
If you would both like to research, start by PMing me information on populations during this time period all around Europe. I do not need numbers, I need quality of life, how people felt about their government, and all round cultural background.
I also need information on where the best horses were bred in Europe. As regions in the game will now effect unit quality.
Lorehammer - Team Lead
A Radious Total War: Warhammer Sub-mod
Oh, good idea. I had that idea towards the end of ETW, but never got around to implementing it.
I've heard that Hannover had some incredible stables, as did Frisia/Friesland (Oldenburg in the game). The Frisian horse being the closest contemporary to old-world medieval warhorses still being bred.
And the latest news is that I THINK Ahiga is in. His words: "although I'm not sure I'd help much with there only being this Ottoman faction." (paraphrase)
Every day takes figuring out all over again how to live.
Yeah, I'm in although my expertise is more limited this time around with all but one Eastern Faction. Which is not too much of an issue - all it means is I hold onto the vain hope that we'll be able to modify maps in the future. But I took over French and Austria back in IS, so I can easily adopt and research for another faction - probably Spain.
For run of the mill infantry (not those with Rank fire), I would recommend PB&J's approach of giving Skirmish mode to those troops once we've been able to do more testing. What this does is apply the fire-volley system (Every soldier fires on his own tempo) to roughly the entire unit. This does not apply the ability to spread out and crouch (That's light infantry doctrine). If a unit has Square-formation (as most line infantry besides irregulars & militia do), then they are unable to select the "run away if approached" option that Skirmishing enables. Militia and Irregulars who do not have square formation would be able to do that, but that seems fitting for them.
It does require testing to verify that the AI does not inherently do "Run away if approached" even if they have square formation, however. It does mean that if you had a massively deep column hypothetically a lot more men could fire then should, but this would only be an exploit for the player to worry about (And simply not use). It's application in IS with PB&J's popular sub-mod for it, along with our official use of this system for our Eastern Irregulars with Quixote's spread dynamic easily balanced the lethality of having a lot more of your unit being able to fire at once.
Above all, it gives regular infantry much more firepower without resorting to the silliness of only the first rank firing & CA's giving of excessively fast reloading skill to compensate for the limited number of men firing. Unlike Mass fire it doesn't require the entire unit be in formation to fire, thereby allowing the player to keep the fluidity which we've experienced in NTW.
Last edited by Ahiga; March 04, 2010 at 09:09 AM.
Lorehammer - Team Lead
A Radious Total War: Warhammer Sub-mod
What we could do, if the research supports it, is have Mass Fire for some of the more antiquated factions or antiquated units within those factions, and as they modernize transition into the "Fluid french style", or a disciplined British style (Rank fire).
My thoughts exactly, not everyone (even in ETW's time period) used the same firing drills. So for NTW we should really look into different factions and how their infantry fought. British are the best known (probably all that British propaganda) for their rank firing to stop advancing French. The Russians just used the age old mob "I have more men than you!" tactic. Prussians were strict discipline, one instance was when French light infantry fired repeatedly into a Prussian battalion, the Prussians stood there until only a few of them remained before they withdrew.
Lorehammer - Team Lead
A Radious Total War: Warhammer Sub-mod
IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Just leaving work now so I'll plug an hour or 2 into research. Love reading up on history.
"There was a time when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me then gold or jewels"
-Thulsa Doom
Whatever took you guys so long?
Excellent news, looking forward to this.
i have 2 questions
a. this is for the napoleonic times right?
2. is the shuvolov secret howitzer back?
Yes, this is set roughly during the same period of the Coalition Campaign in vanilla NTW.
The Russians are one of the first, if not the first, faction I will be looking at to improve and release units for. Who is to say that I won't slip in that awesome unit (although I can't find it in use during the Napoleonic Wars)
Lorehammer - Team Lead
A Radious Total War: Warhammer Sub-mod
Once again, you can count on my support (be it betatesting or something else)
i can also beta test when i get my steam account back (dumb hackers)
Bongfu,
Did you switch your name? I liked the old one.
excellent news!
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
the name just gives me goosebumps
Wicked Banner Bonfu !