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    The Year is 1945
    The world is in a state of Total War.

    FACTIONS

    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)
    The US is poised to take Mainland Japan, if their new weapon cannot be delivered on time, The Imperial Army and Navy prepare to defend to the last man.
    The Fate of America no longer hangs in the Balance as it did in 1941, however the Japanese must be stopped at all costs, if not mainland United states could be in the Firing line.


    THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH (ANZAC)
    the British Commonwealth, battered from the Darwin Bombings and The Invasion of Hong Kong, still fights despite receiving limited help from Britain herself fresh ANZAC troops from Australia and New Zealand can be pushed into any Allied Offensive.

    EMPIRE OF JAPAN (IJ)
    With the Empire being pushed back, a new strategy must be put in place, with the Americans pushing in at the Philippines and onto Japan herself something must be done. There is no time for failure, the rising sun is setting fast. The Allies forces must be annihilated- then with their nations defenseless, Japan can reign supreme over the Pacific.


    SOVIET UNION (USSR)
    The Soviet Union has interests in the Area, and may Invade Japan, if the US cannot do so within a year.
    The Germans are about to be utterly destroyed in Europe- this freeing up the Red Army for Pacific ambitions with a presence in the far north keeping the Japanese out of Siberia, it could be easily mobilised. Imperialism could be uprooted and a Japanese Socialist Soviet could be forged.


    NAZI GERMANY (NAZI)
    Nazi Germany battered but not beat in Europe,has a limited contingent in japan, however they could expand to bring the Reich much needed support in the Pacific,The Fuhrer betrayed the Russians- In time the Japanese could be "disposed" and the the Wehrmact could push towards moscow on a far eastern front, However with no resources from the Reich in Europe. A Pazifik Korps would be hard to make and would be drawn from locals, and vehicles would have to be built in Japan. Yet it could be done.

    PROPOSED UNITS

    LAND UNITS

    USA
    US Marines Platoon (120 Marines)
    US Army Infantry Platoon (120 Soldiers )
    M3 Tank detachment ( 4 Tanks)
    M4 Sherman Tank detachment (4 Tanks )

    SEA
    Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier
    Sims Class Destroyer

    USA has of Strong Infantry but weak tanks with medium morale. The USA has access to the most powerful Naval Unit the Yorktown Air-craft Carrier, It has a strong navy




    IJ
    IJA Gun Regiment (120 Soldiers)
    Kempeitai Regiment (60 Kempeitai)
    Ho-I gun tank Reigment (4 Tanks )
    Conscripts (120 Conscripts)

    Koryu type Midget Submarine
    Amagi class Battleship

    Japan has weak tanks with strong Infantry and extremely good Morale and can be
    enhanced with the "BANZAI!" special ability given to all Japanese units
    The Japanese have a medium navy

    ANZAC

    land
    ANZAC Trooper Battalion (120 ANZACs)
    British Marines Battalion (120 Marines)
    Cromwell Tank squadron (4 Tanks)
    Matilda Tank detachment (4 tanks)

    Leander class light cruiser
    Bathurst class corvette

    The Commonwealth is genrally well rounded with medium strength infantry,tanks and morale.
    It has access to British Marines, highly skilled specialist Infantry
    It has a weak navy

    USSR
    Red Army battalion (220 Soldiers)
    T-26 Tank detachment ( 8 Tanks )
    Katyusha Rocket Launcher detachment (10 Trucks)
    Conscripts (220 Conscripts)

    Kirov Class Cruiser
    Gnevny Class Destroyer

    The USSR has weak tanks,moral and Infantry, relying on sheer numbers, it also has access the Katyusha Rocket launcher, It has inaccurate and long reload time but devastating nonetheless.
    It has a weak navy


    NAZI

    SS Sonderkommandos (50 Officers)
    Pazifik Korps conscripts (120 conscripts)
    Tiger II Tank squadron (4 Tanks)
    Maus Superheavy tank squadron (2 Tanks)

    Scharnhorst-class Battleship
    Handels-Stör-Kreuzer Raider

    The Nazi's have access to the SS Sonderkommandos tough Infantry with excellent morale, and the Powerful Maus Superheavy tank that can clear most enemies.
    However the Tiger Tank and Pazifik Korps have weak morale and strength
    It has a Medium Navy
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    So I would require some help to achieve these ends
    - Rename Towns to 20th Names on Campaign Map
    - Vanilla Replace Factions, with with factions listed above
    - Replace all Vanilla Units with units above and have working models
    - Have appropriate loading screens and graphics, unit cards ect
    - Create and Skin Models
    - Thematic Music

    If anyone wants to help feel free to contact my profile.
    Last edited by JulianFlavius; December 27, 2011 at 08:47 AM.

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    I'll admit... your eagerness is pretty damn commendable, but...

    We just don't have the tools to make this an authentic mod. For now, maybe.


    Some points of consideration:
    -Rename provinces and town-forts to 20th century names. This is just a text change; no problem there.
    -Replacing vanilla factions. Using a completely new faction from scratch may very well be possible, but it's tedious. In the startpos.esf file, for example, there are so many things you would need to catch that makes a few faction horrible work. But, if you are to move ahead with such a project, I suggest you consider what I have been doing: clan-swapping. You already have data for a bunch of clans in the startpos.esf; use it and just change out the things that the player will see. You want the U.S. and ANZAC forces? Use Kyushu clans as clan-swapping subjects. THAT is the more feasible rout.
    -Custom units/custom model skins. You are pretty much stuck with the meshes that are in the game files. You can tweak the numerous faces for the U.S./ANZAC forces to look a bit more pasty, but not a whole lot more. You would also be limited to the weaponry you have in the game. You can certainly be creative here, but most creativity would mean a sharp curve from historical information; monks in the American armies .
    -Loading screens, graphics, unit cards. You can replace this sort of thing without much of a problem.
    -Thematic music. Sure!
    -Banners. Unless I'm mistaken, I'm inclined to believe banner sizes are hard-coded, meaning it won't be touched any time soon. This means that while you can put some sort of historically-derived banner, it's length would be much smaller than its height. Not exactly historical for 20th century western heraldry, but hell.. it's doable.


    If you do this mod right now, chances are it won't live up to you and many others' expectations. If, after those points, you are still determined, then I wish you good luck. It may not be what everyone wants, but to certain extents it's completely possible.

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    I was aware of the challenge, but yeah I'm going ahead with it this is my first foray into TW modding having made minor mods for a few other games, I feel its time to do something big

    I already started with the esf file
    With the clans renamed and cities with 20th century names, and generals with appropriate names when its finished I'll put up a download link to the esf soon


    This is what I had in mind to create so far

    For a Base trooper model, a re texture of Matchlock Ashigaru or the seems to what is feesable, adding accessories such ANZAC hats or Trooper helmets would be the hard part

    For the Japanese, Soviet and Nazi conscripts a simple retexture of the flintlock monks will be done

    I had some success with the Fire Rocket unit to form the Katyusha rocket launcher, however getting a truck to put them on remains to be seen
    at the least I have an Immobile Artillery platform

    Thanks for the Info on the Banners, I'll take that into consideration
    As for the Banners, the Japanese used traditional style banners, so it does not take a leap of faith to say other forces might have used them mockingly
    Vertically placed flags sideways for the allies seem to be what

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    U would have the british, USSR and even Nazis but no Chinese?? Seriously WTF???

    all the british did was retreat from their far east colonies one by one (not talking about ANZAC)
    and the Soviets were only limited in Manchuria during the final stages of the war for like a few weeks
    and hell u would even add those Nazis???

    China had been fighting for eight years, longer than any other country at war, yet u wouldn't even mention
    her name?? WTH is wrong with u??

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    Don't wanna say it's impossible ,but you're either mad or crazy.

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    good idea!!! will want to fly some B-29's and drop some heavy stuff on the Japanese defences! hehehehe

    Still Il-2 does the job for me from a simulation game

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    If this actually was released and worked, I call you the man that did almost the impossible..

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShimazuClan View Post
    If this actually was released and worked, I call you the man that did almost the impossible..
    Not impossible. In many respects, as I have pointed out above, quite simple. There will be limitations, however, like no historical uniforms unless he can pull it off with the current meshes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sapped View Post
    U would have the british, USSR and even Nazis but no Chinese?? Seriously WTF???

    all the british did was retreat from their far east colonies one by one (not talking about ANZAC)
    and the Soviets were only limited in Manchuria during the final stages of the war for like a few weeks
    and hell u would even add those Nazis???

    China had been fighting for eight years, longer than any other country at war, yet u wouldn't even mention
    her name?? WTH is wrong with u??
    The ROC and Communist Party are rebel factions

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    If anyone would be willing to create some preliminary music files?, I want to go with period music so I would request the following

    American Patrol by Glenn Miller ( a favorite amongst ANZAC and US troops )

    Stars and Stripes forever ( US Military March)

    Ride of the Valkaries by Richard Wagner (one Hitlers favorites and associated with Nazi's - because its such good music to invade poland to )

    Katyusha (a Russian folk song ,sung by russian troops)

    Lets go! ( make sure its a Russian version, as this was later the Anthem of East Germany)

    Horst Wessel Lied (The anthem of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS )

    Kimigayo (IJN Marching Song)

    Warship March (IJN Marching song)

    Doki no sakura (IJA Marching song)

    Full credit for in the Readme and other applicable places
    Last edited by JulianFlavius; October 28, 2011 at 11:13 PM.

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    You would definitely wan't to make some sort of machine guns if possible because alot of the fighting later in the war was against defencive positions. Also the units would definitely need to have each soldier spread out and be very small, about 10 or 20 men for each unit. Also there was many types of artillery used like the Americans would use 105 mm howitzers, 75 mm pack howitzers. The Japanese used a range of different artillery like the Type 89 15 cm Cannon, the Type 96 15 cm Howitzer, there are many others but those were common. The Japanese had hand mortars aswell wich could be a unit using the Hojo hand mortars, they used the type 10 hand mortar and the type 89 hand mortar. They also used rocket artillery later in the war and heavy mortars like the type 98 32 cm spigot mortar.

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    You can do a lot of stuff similar to The Great War for NTW - they have mgs, tanks, everything, except its for WW1.

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    I think you have definitely done your research and the unit info are nicely done.

    But I have a question as to why use Shogun? There is other games that might be much easier to mod with already a WWII theme and models probably. Like Company of Heroes.

    Maybe you are trying to use the Total war style of campaign play & RTS battle?

    If you want to incorporate the navy I think you might make it too complicated with aircraft carrier and all.

    if you pull this off..you can sell it as a DLC....

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    Quote Originally Posted by AUG351 View Post
    You would definitely wan't to make some sort of machine guns if possible because alot of the fighting later in the war was against defencive positions. Also the units would definitely need to have each soldier spread out and be very small, about 10 or 20 men for each unit. Also there was many types of artillery used like the Americans would use 105 mm howitzers, 75 mm pack howitzers. The Japanese used a range of different artillery like the Type 89 15 cm Cannon, the Type 96 15 cm Howitzer, there are many others but those were common. The Japanese had hand mortars aswell wich could be a unit using the Hojo hand mortars, they used the type 10 hand mortar and the type 89 hand mortar. They also used rocket artillery later in the war and heavy mortars like the type 98 32 cm spigot mortar.
    The closest he will get to machine guns is just increasing the reload time to a crazy extent. Maybe the cannon meshes could be made use of for them, although they'd look like bloody weird MGs. Definitely not historical.

    The teppo weapons could possibly be re-textured using pre-existing meshes to look much more like 20th century weaponry. The gunshot sounds can be changed to enforce this change.

    Quote Originally Posted by kingtigertank View Post
    You can do a lot of stuff similar to The Great War for NTW - they have mgs, tanks, everything, except its for WW1.
    Not true for S2. No tanks.

    MGs... yes, however they would be ahistorical and the mod as a whole would not really reflect the period. But... as I noted before, it's possible to some extent.

    Quote Originally Posted by cloner4000 View Post
    If you want to incorporate the navy I think you might make it too complicated with aircraft carrier and all.
    The closest he would get to 20th century navies is the Nanban Trade Ship and the Black Ship. A lacking of woe to the hand that sheds some very creative re-texturing .

    All of this would may be much more workable in about a year or so. Maybe, just maybe, someone will create additional tools. But... I wouldn't assume it.
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    It would have to be a autoresolve job...but it sounds good, hell you dont even need to mod units just change unit cards, unit stats and descriptions, hey presto a world war 2 themed pacific campaign now where are those mod tools total war have promised for every total war...oh yeh napoleon only just got theirs :/
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    Prototype meshes are here!!!!!!!!
    US Marine, Mesh and Texture
    download link here

    Yorktown Carrier Mesh for Nanban Trade Ship with Enterprise or Hornet Texture unit
    download link here

    Katyusha Launcher (No truck-yet )
    download link here


    and finally the map, each faction has mons (banners) and start positions, Communist and ROC rebels. and music but has regular shogun units
    download here.

    next time I post I will have full auto-resolve version
    meshing is a long time coming, and is a painful process but don't fear! this mod will be made
    I am currently writing and researching unit cards

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    Interesting mod idea.

    Though, with your unit line up, I'm assuming you don't realize that the Germans only managed to manufacture two Maus superheavy tanks, and they never left the factory before the Soviets destroyed one and captured the other.

    And although they didn't have as large a naval presence in the Pacific theatre as the US did, the British navy did sport armoured aircraft carrier decks - which unlike their wooden decked American counterparts were less likely to be destroyed by aerial and kamikaze attacks.
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    Solex
    I am quite aware of that fact
    As this is a What-if scenario if the Manhattan as the US Did not Invade Mainland Japan, this is a assuming the Nazi's keept fighting well into 45 and the Maus plans got to the Nazi Embassy in Tokyo thus began safe production in Japan

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    UPDATE: With the news of the "Fall of the Samurai" Expansion Pack and many of its usable meshes this mod will probably be ready for release in mid April 2012
    For "Fall of the Samurai"

    If you have not seen the pictures and the trailers go see them you will see how fortuitous this is for the Mod!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JulianFlavius View Post
    UPDATE: With the news of the "Fall of the Samurai" Expansion Pack and many of its usable meshes this mod will probably be ready for release in mid April 2012
    For "Fall of the Samurai"

    If you have not seen the pictures and the trailers go see them you will see how fortuitous this is for the Mod!
    Yeah, then I read all your stuff, I was like wiat till the Fall.
    But COME ON a aircraft carrier, I really cant see how that will be done.

    But what I really Wish to say is why not tring to make it abit Fantasy, as in Idontknow, WWI Japs is fighting off a invasion from the Commenwealth and the americans, with the russian at the border and shiet.

    Its all most easy to make up stuff, But yeah I sounds like a good idea.
    Edited: Oki you do use your........Im a moron
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