British Rifles Custom Units Pack beta WIP

[Zaitochisan]

Custom Unit Packs in beta stages:
British Rifles


currently includes:
60th Rifles
95th Rifles
Royal Corsican Rifles,
Sicilian Levy Rifles.

I intend to release them as "open source", so if any one wishes to included them in their mods I'd be only too pleased, especially if it were AUM or IS or someone else's unit pack.
PM me if you are interested.
Recognition must go to Maxsim666 for his support and help in working the Variant and Atlas system and general support and encouragement, to Erasmus777 too for the same for the Atlas/Variants system, and for PFM, and Erasmus777,husserlTW, The Vicar and of course to Matt Chambers (aka "LtChambers") is the primary author PFM.
A big thanks for encoragement and support from SwissHalberdier;
and to La♔De♔Da♔Brigadier Graham for being a good egg!
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Royal Corsican Rifles: 60th Rifles Sicilian Levy Rifles 95th Rifles ...... "I said About Face!!!!!"

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95th Rifles 95th Rifles Rifles On Parade 95th Rifles

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Sicilian Levy Rifles 60th Rifles...Captain Frederickson BEFORE his hairloss 60th Rifles Royal Corsican Rifles:

I hope your feeling teased!!

UPDATE June 24th 2011

British Rifles (beta 2) current Version download Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sje2ya..._KN2-PC_sc.zip



(beta 1) pervious version:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3ngh34...2-testonly.zip


Is it me or is PFM not reading "Naval units" "Naval stat" "Land Units" AGAIN ....recent CA patches?...in both NTW and ETW using the lastest versions and the NTW/ETW swapper version???

[General K]

Excellent old chap. I'm looking forward to this

[Zaitochisan]

Further Information:
completion % currently: 65% ....pure guess how about the LRDG on camels too?

Current Size uncompressed DDS packed:345mb

This is a large mod because it includes Custom Atlas files, Custom Variants, New Unitparts and equipment,Custom textures,Custom Icons. As few conflicts with existing NTW files as possible... as separate as possible from default NTW file structure.
Hope to include new character faces, Sharpe and Frederickson.
As close as possible to "popular" image of these units, with a mind to historical sources and the straightjacket limitations of CA mesh and textures application system.

Will include here some earlier work test images showing some of the issues that have made me blend my face into my plasma screen with frustation at timers and some near misses.

preview WIP

[Zaitochisan]

Reserved

Current Work In Progrss:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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Latest work 4th May 2010

http://img30.imageshack.us/slideshow...3960142264.jpg

http://img708.imageshack.us/slidesho...4700531988.jpg

http://img188.imageshack.us/slidesho...4701273467.jpg

[GasMask]

Looks excellent You and Toon should talk his all in one is epic and for your mod to be included would be amazing sir you are on my REP list.

[maxsim666]

Great works!!!!!!

[ToonTotalWar]

Nice looking units mate!!
Please no more French units!!! Lordmongsworth and bar07 are doing enough, and there are compatibility problems already arising!! there are plenty of other factions to do, its just an observation and not a request mate

[Zaitochisan]

I hear you you old Toon!
I started some old Guards right at the start when NTW was released just never posted them.
As for compatability, thats why its taking so long and is so large a mod, there should be no compatability problems in so far as textures go, Its a totally separate atlas and unitparts.
I haven't done much in the dbs side thought I'd leave it open to those that wish to incorporate them.

[ToonTotalWar]

I hear you you old Toon!
I started some old Guards right at the start when NTW was released just never posted them.
As for compatability, thats why its taking so long and is so large a mod, there should be no compatability problems in so far as textures go, Its a totally separate atlas and unitparts.
I haven't done much in the dbs side thought I'd leave it open to those that wish to incorporate them.

Excellent news mate!!

[Zaitochisan]

Latest work 4th May 2010

http://img30.imageshack.us/slideshow...3960142264.jpg
http://img708.imageshack.us/slidesho...4700531988.jpg
http://img188.imageshack.us/slidesho...4701273467.jpg

to do list:
finish 95th officer coat
adjust and finish custom belts and sash textures for 95th maybe add these to 60th
try to do new faces for Sharpe and others
rebuild custom unit parts directory and adjust atlas as per
general tidy of textures
Finish AOR versions
Do 1805 versions

later to add to create Sharpe version:
add Portuguese and Spanish units tbd
add South Essex and later version Prince of Wales Own
add other Sharpe units

separately ...
Finish and refine and release all custom unitparts textures as resource for community.
Finish off Old Guard unit with the Custom Bearskins with other treats as resource.

[squatlover]

Request: can you make a chosen men unit as a dismounted general unit with Richard Sharpe as the general unit with rifles textures?

[agranel]

Fantastic! Go ahead, please!

[Zaitochisan]

Request: can you make a chosen men unit as a dismounted general unit with Richard Sharpe as the general unit with rifles textures?

Sure will add that as a separate unit to add if you want to.

[Zaitochisan]

I decided to give you a preview release, it not finished by half its just I have been much delayed by external factors.
Besides you might still enjoy them.
At the moment this version is with the Global AOR though I play with my own AOR mod.
The icons and info need finalising, some textures for the 95th and 60th are WIP, the belgic shako badge is too small for example and the 95th officer coat is very WIP but bearable.
Also the dds. files are not compressed atm so you might find longer load times in battles.
you may want to adjust stats to your own personal preferences, will take requests for adjustments.
57mb zipped took me about 5min at 250kB/s to download.
enjoy:

Early beta version:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3ngh34...2-testonly.zip

[georider]

Excellent work on the rifles units +rep to you.
According to my resources the Sicilians was wearing blue coats , but all the WIP is very good. Keep on.

[Zaitochisan]

Maybe the pictures aren't clear but they are wearing dark blue



Atm I have gone with the winter style uniform, in fact I think this Historically unit maybe light infantry rather than rifles but may keep them as they are and add light infantry.


Quote:
I assume what Gates (1986) calls the "Anglo-Italian Levy" is what Haythornthwaite (1995) call the "Italian Legion" as both are Italian and both served in the Eastern army, and there is nobody else in that force with a similar description. The Italian Legion was a 2 battalion unit formed form Italian prisoners in England. Austrians commanded the first regiment and other foreigners in Sicilian service the 2nd.

See Haythornthwaite, black and white fig A.a. for painting details - quite different to normal Brits.
3rd 'Estero' Sicilian Infantry Regiment
The 3rd 'Estero' Sicilian Infantry Regiment was a two battalion unit (Sapherson, 1991).
The style of the uniform was like the British Line infantry, but the colour differed. The coat was dark blue, with shoulder straps, piped in white. The cuffs, collar and turnbacks were red, with white piping. Summer issue trousers were white, but winter issue was dark blue, with grey gaiters. The bell top shako of the Grenadiers and Fusiliers had a red cockade with mixed red and white cords. White metal was used for all buttons, shako trim, and badges. Grenadiers had red shako plumes and fusiliers white plumes. The light company probably replaced the shako with a type of top hat with a green plume.
Sapherson (1991) notes that the Sicilian Grenadier Battalion - who also fought with the Eastern Army - would have had the same uniform as the Grenadiers from the Estero Regiment.
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I intend to add some Portugese, Baleric particularly Mallorcan units, some more Sicilians, and Spanish units to create a special units for Penisular and Mediterranean Campaigns

[maxsim666]

Great work old chap!

[♔Black Watch 42♔]

How is this mod going, im most looking forward to the 60th rifles.

[Sharpshot Gaz]

Hi, nice looking mod here.

Anyway, I'm working on a Sharpe's 'Enemies' pack featuring a wide range of troop types Sharpe and the British fought against, as seen in the Sharpe TV series. Will reveal a screenshot of a 1 unit tonight hopefully, for those interested.

[Lord Lotion]

Excellent work on the rifles units +rep to you.
According to my resources the Sicilians was wearing blue coats , but all the WIP is very good. Keep on.

Hi Georider!

great admirer of your work. It means so much to me. Also a very big thank you to Zaitochisan, the British Rifles Mod is fantastic. It also works fine with georiders and Swissy´s AUM mod.
Thank you all so much!!!!

May I ask if any of you gentlemen has plans for new releases in the near future?