War of 1812 submod - work started

[Thibaud]

Hi all,

Following the popular demand, i have started work on a war of 1812 submod for NTW2.
Due to the limitations in the number of entry in DMB, i have totally suppressed the portuguese, spanish, and swedish factions (sorry to all the people from these countries )

There will be two main factions for this mod : The USA and the UK (as you could figure for yourselves perhaps ) my goal is to produce a historically acurate representation of this war, perfect for the rtw engine, as the largest engagements were around 5000 fighters, iirc.

Anyway, i already have created new regiments for both these factions : The 5th West indies regiment, composed of colored soldiers, and the Royal Marines for the UK faction. I also created new flagbearer for the canadian militia, and i used the magnificent piper thelordz gave to us for the highlanders.

For the USA, i have re-used the USA factions you could find in the rhine/US submod, but i have created custom officer, flagbearer, and i'm finishing the drummer, before starting the cavalry officer. I have also reworked the Light dragoons's texture.

Both nations will have irregular units, like indian americans, or militiamen, or even citizens levies.

Anyway, I am in search of
- 1 guy who could modify some models for me (i run on a mac, 3DS is impossible for me)
- 1 guy who could generate sprites for me, as my graphic card generates only empty sprites .tga files

Also, if any guy from thelordz passes around here, is there any chance that i can borrow you PSD files of some of your textures? It would make my life a LOT easier.

I will post some early development screenshots later this day.

Cheers


EDIT1: Link to the first preview: USA :HERE

[Thibaud]

here are the screens so far

ALL THESE UNITS ARE VERY MUCH WIP.
Canadian militia and US line texture by warluster

Canadian militia Flag

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US Flag

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Royal Marines

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5th West Indies Regiment

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[Thibaud]

I have added the US marines in their 1812 uniforms.

They advance, ready with bayonets.

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the melee begins with the soldiers of the 5th west indies

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but the training of the US marines will change the tide, despite some losses.

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[Thibaud]

Some more new units

The US 16th infantry regiment, with their distinctive green trousers and black uniforms.

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The US 25th infantry, member of the famous scott brigade. they wear the grey uniforms usually worn as fatigues or undergarments, as during the battle of Chippewa.

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And the rocket's red glare...

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Regimental colors of 25th US infantry.

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[Gen.jamesWolfe]

now that's a beautiful set of preview pics.

[GRANTO]

nice

[Thibaud]

Started work on the map_regions. So far it looks like that :

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[Dark_horse_spirit]

Where are your Native Americans...2/3rds of the warriors were NAtive American...if you can get Native American Models I would love to animate them for you.

[GRANTO]

Where are your Native Americans...2/3rds of the warriors were NAtive American...if you can get Native American Models I would love to animate them for you.

THATS A GREAT SHOUT , having native americans in it would be grand

[Thibaud]

For now on i'm using the Native americans of the SYW submod, i'm implementing some models from vanilla to represent native archers and horsemen. if someone with the ability to modify model would join me, that would be GREAT! new previews coming soon, stay tuned!

[aqualord123]

This may sound very ambitious to you guys, but maybe in another version you could make a nice campaign map of north america (as alot total war gamers are american).
I think that it would be neat to see the european powers fighting for dominance in all of north america using the effective RTW engine. I don't care if you dismiss this idea, I just think that it would be a good representation of the political situation of 1812, which greatly involved north america. I really like the work that you guys have done so far on the units and campaign map, my only suggestion would be to include more regions in the states that you have, or expanding the campaign map to make a more enjoyable campaign.

Once again, Wonderful work so far

[Thibaud]

I am thinking about make double more regions on the campaign mp,but i may need a better map of the US to begin with, mineis a bit off proportions...

[aqualord123]

Then thats good! By the way when is the release date expected? Months? Years? Weeks?

Also, the units are stunningly well done! I love the cannon fire with the rockets red glare

[Thibaud]

Mmm... might depend on my time and motivations. could be 1 month or 1 year....

[aqualord123]

thx for the info, I'll check this thread every now and then to see the progress

[Thibaud]

Some news:

Thanks to Granto, i will implement the RSII environments to my submod. These will procure a new gameplay, and a vegetation closer to the northern america vegetation.
+rep to him

P.S.: see here for screenies

[Thibaud]

Here are two screenies of the Native americans (from SYW submod, which i HIGHLY recomand). They need a better paintjob, but sshhhh i'm working on it...

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[GRANTO]

looking good , will there be any on horse back?

[jackx]

This does look rather interesting, I'll be keeping an eye on it..

[Thibaud]

Hi to all,

I'm working on making new models for the british dragoons.
I want them to wear the tarleton helmet they wore at the period of the beginning of the war of 1812.
Can anybody with modelling skills do this little work for me?
If possible, i'd like two models with this helmet:
- the british dragoon model
- a british hussar with this helmet (for the canadian fencibles officers, to be used on foot)
Here is a reference for this helmet :

Otherwise, a small googleing will give you plenty of ref pics.

I sincerely hope that some modder will come through here.
Oh, and BTW, if this modeller could keep the different LOD models that would be GREAT...

Thanks in advance guyz!

Thibaud