Pdguru's French and Allies: Uniforms, Artillery, Equipment and Sounds

[Pdguru]

1st Place Most Popular Mod and Sub-Mod

PDGURU's FRENCH & ALLIES MOD
http://www.gamefront.com/files/service/thankyou?id=24972313

THESE FILES AND IMAGES MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED, AMENDED OR RE-USED USED IN PART OR WHOLE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION.

NOTES on New Features on Release 10-3: The download contains the units below plus:

1. New sounds - musket balls will whizz by your ears, and the impact of hits on the soldiers will render appropriate sounds, rather than the wailing banshees of vanilla.
2. My European Equipment Mod with new brass drum, tricolor wrapped brass bugle.
3. Eagles on the flagpole for appropriate infantry units (many thanks to Bart07 for this new addition).
4. 2 completely new Hussar units, one "elite" with higher stats.
5. A quality, rousing Version of La Marseilles for Main Menu music - this is a French mod after all.
6. My original "Grouchymod" which replaces the in-battle music with the sound of distant guns and fighting; much more atmospheric - that looping music drove me crazy!.
7. Completely revised French artillery pieces with more realistic wood - previously illustrated but not yet released (these are new and not the ones in my separatemod).
8. Vanilla Line Infantry have the Campaign uniforms (separate veteran/campaign unit is recruitable as more skilled/experienced).
9. New saddlecloth for the hussar horses (in addition to the more realsitic horses from the previous release).

Pictures

Faces Volunteer or Early Infantry "Waterloo" Middle Guard Italian Grenadier Guards (Imperial Guard) Line Grenadiers (Early) Line Grenadiers (Late) Naples Departmental Fusilier Regiment Régiments de Artillerie de Marine 24th Equipage (Sailors) Campaign Fusliers Voltiguer-Chassuer Imperial Guard German Deserter Regiment 14th Legere Regiment "Preussen" Conscript-Grenadier Imperial Guard Fusilier-Grenadiers Imperial Guard Chasseurs de Ile de France Regiment Frankfurt Naples 2nd Chasseurs 110e Regiment Fusiliers (Projected Uniform) Walcheren Regiment (Spain) Wuttemberg Guard Grenadiers Wuttemberg Guard Jagers Batallion de Chasseurs de Flessingue Spanish Grenadiers - Regiment Princess Ancien Legere Infantry Carabiniers (7eme) Old Guard Grenadiers Reserve Naples Veterans of the Guard Gendarmes of the Imperial Guard Naples Securite Regiment Naples Marines Leggiero Toscano Conscript Regiment 113eme 'Voltaggieri' (Leggiero Toscano after French annexation) - Created here as a voltiguer regiment French "Peninsula" Fusiliers Napoleon and Staff Napoleon Alternative Version Carabinier Heavy Cavalry Cuirassier Heavy Cavalry Grenadiers a Cheval Imperial Guard Gendarme Cavalry Foot Dragoons French Departmental Regiment Dragoon Cavalry Regiment Sappers New Swords (blade and hilt) New Horse Head (new eyes and leatherwork/bit) Hussars (note some wearing jacket some on shoulder) 'Elite' Hussars Regimental Gun (add-on mod below) Brass drums, bugle and the eagle: Tirailleurs Corses

THESE FILES MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED, AMENDED OR RE-USED USED IN PART OR WHOLE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION.

**NOTE: Thanks go to Steph for the use of his pompom on select units!**
**NOTE: Thanks go to Bart07 for the use of his flagpole eagle!**
**NOTE: Thanks go to Prince of Essling for his input on which units would have an eagle**
**NOTE: Thanks go to Centaure for testing

Units:

1. Campaign Fusiliers: Full of variety and more realistic-looking field garb - experienced and more skilled fusiliers. Please note that fusiliers from vanilla or other mods using the vanilla unit name will automaticaly adopt these uniforms too.
2. Voltiguer-Chassuer Imperial Guard
3. German Deserter Regiment
4. 14th Legere
5. Regiment "Preussen"
6. Conscript-Grenadier Imperial Guard
7. Fusilier-Grenadiers Imperial Guard
8. Chasseurs de Ile de France
9. Regiment Frankfurt
10. Naples 2nd Chasseurs
11. 110e Regiment Fusiliers (Projected Uniform)
12. Walcheren Regiment (Spain)
13. Wuttemberg Guard Grenadiers
14. Wuttemberg Guard Jagers
15. Batallion de Chasseurs de Flessingue
16. "Waterloo" Middle Guard
17. Naples Departmental
18. Marine (not Guard) Infantry (re-released)
19. 24th Equipage (re-released)
20. Italian Grendiers, Imperial Guard
21. Combined Grenadier Companies (early)
22. Combined Grenadier Companies (late)
23. Spanish Grenadiers Princesse Ancien
24. Volunteer Regiment/Early Fusiliers
25. Conscript Regiment
26. Leggiero Toscano (later 113e)
27. Naples Marines
28. Naples Veterans of the Guard
29. Naples Securite Regiment
30. Legere Carabiniers
31. Gendarmes of the Imperial Guard
32. Old Guard Grenadier Reserve
33. 131e 'Voltaggieri'
34. "Peninsular" Fusiliers
35. Carabinier Heavy Cavalry Regiment
36. Cuirassier Heavy Cavalry Regiment
37. New Napoleon and Staff
38. New French Departmental Regiment
39. New Foot Dragoons Unit
40. New Dragoon Cavalry Regiment
41. New Sappers Unit (100 men combined from regiments into a small but strong assault unit)
42. New Grenadiers a Cheval Regiment
43. New Imperial Guard Gendarmes Cavalry Regiment
44. Hussar Regiment (based on uniform of 1st Regiment)
45. Hussar 'Elite' Regiment (based on uniform of 12th Regiment)

Red units have the new faces shown above.

NOTES on OG Reserve. This is a big unit of 395 men (2 unit recruitable). It's relentless, powerful and can be used to swing the battle just like my old cavalry reserve unit/concept. While it starts in a column, it is not like the colonne d'attaque - it's a normal unit with powerful firepower. It only costs "1" to buy and can be recuited with basic buildings - because where there is Napoleon there should be this unit! Maintenances costs are required, of course. This unit has been revised to improve the bearskin plate and now has the broader, earlier plastron, pre the reforms. Enjoy this new powerhouse!

NOTES on Sappers. This is an adaptation of an existing mesh which means the uniform has certain innacuracies and limitations.

2. Regimental Artillery Gun: This is a single gun unit to represent a period in 1812 where 3lb guns were asigned to infantry regiments to provide thier own support, psychological benefit, and increased firepower. NOTE: It only works with my main mod pack. Also use the latest text.pack for the name and description. Pack below.

3. Corsican Tirailleurs: Download contains a pack that will add the Corsican unit only, and also an updated names file so the unit name appears. Place the unit pack in the data folder and add to your user.script. Pack below.

I am done with modding for the foreseable future, and hope you all have enjoyed my work here!

[Pdguru]

OTHER MODS

Previous Unit Packs
30 of the Units Below Available at:
http://depositfiles.com/files/pfb1gl8bq
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30 Original units: A file with over 30 of my older units, in mainly individual packs. You can therefore choose which ones you want to avoid unit overload.

1. Vistula Grenadier Regiment
2. Vistula Fusilier Regiment
3. Reunion Batallion
4. Italian Light Regiment
5. Italian Line Regiment
6. Croatian Regiment
7. Late "on campaign" fusilier regiment
8. Heavy Cavalry Reserve
9. DeWestphalie Regiment
10. Colonial Batallion
11. Invalids Regiment
12. Hibernian Regiment
13. Legion de Midi
14. Legion de Midi Grenadiers
15. Mexican Infantry Regiment 1835 (inspired by a visit to the Alamo this year)
16. Naples 3rd Regiment
17. Naples 8th Regiment
18. Naples Velite Chassuers
19. Naples Velite Grenadiers
20. Naples Velite Voltageurs
21. Neufchatel Fusiliers
22. Paris Guard 2nd Regiment
23. Portuguese Legion
24. Real de la Guarda Walona Regiment
25. Catalogne Regiment
26. Sailors Artillery
27. Equipage 44th Regiment
28. Schaumberg Regiment
29. Suisse 4th Regiment
30. Westphalian 8th Regiment
31. Batallion Valaisan

Pictures

Late Fusiliers - Campaign Dress Italian Line Infantry (based on 15th Regiment) Italian Light Infantry Swiss Fusiliers (4th Regiment) Colonial Batallion Batallion Valaisan French Cuirassiers Regiment Catalogne Regiment DeWestphalie 2nd Regiment Garde de Paris Foot Dragoons (based on L'aigle's dragoon skin) Invalids Regiment Portuguese Legion Westphalian 8th Line Regiment Hibernian Regiment Vistula Fusiliers Vistula Grenadiers Colonne D'Attaque Neufchatel Batallion Reunion Batalion French Fusiliers "On Campaign" French Chasseurs The Old Guard Grenadiers Old Guard Grenadiers Version 2 (not in LME or Darthmod) Croatian Infantry (2nd 'Ottochaz' Regiment) Fusiliers in Greatcoats/French Conscript Unit Old Guard Grenadiers in Greatcoats Real de Guardia Walona Snow-Blown Fusiliers (Not in LME or Dathmod) Mexico Infantry 1835 Régiments de Artillerie de Marine Type 1 Naples Velite-Chasseurs Naples 3rd Regiment de Ligne Naples Velite Voltigeurs Naples Velites Naples 8th Regiment de Ligne Schaumburg Fusiliers Legion De Midi Fusiliers Legion De Grenadiers (100 men of merged Companies) Campaign Style French Version 2 (earlier period) 44th Equipage (Sailors) Marine Artillery Battery - manned by Marines and Matelots (Sailors) Regiment Hessois "Prince Heritier" Combined Leger Carabinier Companies Early French Line Infatry with Tarleton-Style helmet and revised bicorns for command unit.

Here are other mods for gameplay, visuals and sound. None are currently supported but most will still work if you want to try them.

1. Napoleon Flag Mod (over 60 new land-battle flags) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=379180
2. Grouchymod (replacing battle music with distant guns to add a sense of depth and scale to battles) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=384464
3. Napoleon Drum Mod (new skins for drums) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=382030
4. In-Game Loading Screens (using 25 select pdguru screenshots) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=372164
5. Menu Music Mod (a selection of music to vary your in-menu music enjoyment) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=385216
6. Bullet Hits Mod (hear the musketball hits and cries - without excessive squeals and wailing) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=389151
7. Barebones NTW3: Get the oustanding battle dynamics for NTW3 into your game! http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...06#post9993106
8. Dumbing Down the Rebels (rebellions armies are experienced and determined militia-based forces and without artillery instead of fully-equipped veteran armies) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=378923
9. French Fusilier and Officer Unit Variations (bringing 'uniform diversity' to the fore) http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=377482
10. French Campaign Flag Mod enables you to fly the battle flags of France in the 1805, 1812 or 1815 pattern over your cities and armies on the CAMPAIGN map http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=392497
11. Campaign Flag Mod changes most of the campaign flags to battlefield flags (this is a game about military matters, right?) and some new flags to provide fresh alternatives. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=400763
12. In-Battle Marching Songs enables you to hear one of your units singing French, British, Russian and Ottoman songs when marching into battle http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=392622.
13. The Veteran French Armies of 1805 is a startpos file [for the French European Campaign only] which provides experience points to the starting French forces to better reflect their campaign experience and prowess at the time, especially compared to coalition forces http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=394846
14. L'aigle's Imperial Eagle Sub Mod: Replace Napoleon, the vanilla Imperial Guard units, and six of the vanilla French line infatry skins with those of L'aigles excellent mod http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?p=8401401#post8401401
15. European Equipment Mod: Replaces bayonets with cleaner shinier, fitting and bayonet blade, and a new, open fitting showing the barrel and reducing the "blobbiness" of the vanilla bayonet fitting. Also adds more metallic musket barrels, shiny steel swords, wrapped lance pennons, and other tweeks including an authentic drum. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=413341

[ordoprinceps]

PDG,
Will number 13 (experience mod) work if I do not have all your unit mods? Also would there be any known conflcit with radious experience mod that lest the French earn experience faster?

[Pdguru]

ordoprinceps,

Mmmm. I have not had the problem you are describing, nor had the same feedback from others. I know that if I have a lot of mods loaded, the load bar can take a very long time, and have a long pause in the last part of the load bar. But it eventually loads. I am not aware of unit cards being a specific cause of crashes or complete file corruptions requiring reloading the game. Cannot imagine how that could possible happen by swapping .tga image files. Perhaps if some modder didn't compress the icon file and used a huge file image it might be a problem, but that's news to me.

I'd be surprised if my skin-only mods could cause such an issue - and certainly that they could require a complete reload of the game. Reloads are usually caused by modding the core files which these skin mod packs don't. I can only suggest that you return your data folder to vanilla only, and then add in ONLY my mods, and a user.script just for them, and see if that causes the problem, and then you'll know.

At this time I am using the above packs and many others and having no issues. I hope you can get it working, too! Thanks for the compliments etc and special thanks for taking time to give me feedback (even if it's not so good, lol).

Perhaps if anyone else has this problem, they could let me know.

With regards getting back to the core unit cards, I am not sure if it'll work but try deleting the "ui" folder in the mod pack. If that does not work, then replace the icon .tga with the original one.

Regarding the 13th mod, it's a startpos mod that changed only the units in the field at the start of the core campaign, so it it is independent of my mods. New units will be available for recruitment and base skins and unit cards should use my above mods - if you have them loaded. Not sure about interaction with radius' mod.

[lordargento]

The parade (and other pics from your link) are simply magnificent.

[ordoprinceps]

PDG,
Through process of elimination I have discovered the problem. It was not your files...GOOD NEWS! It is WOS3.1 the bar isn't hesitating its stuck I left it more than 20 minutes. I like the effects of WOS4 but too much dust. Too bad I guess I'll just have to miss those effects.
I do have one more question for you sir, I have loaded your startpos2 three times and it does not appear in Mod Manager as the other mods and patches do. Am I doing something wrong?

[Pdguru]

Lordargento - thank you.

Ordoprinceps -

PDG,
Through process of elimination I have discovered the problem. It was not your files...GOOD NEWS! It is WOS3.1 the bar isn't hesitating its stuck I left it more than 20 minutes. I like the effects of WOS4 but too much dust. Too bad I guess I'll just have to miss those effects.
I do have one more question for you sir, I have loaded your startpos2 three times and it does not appear in Mod Manager as the other mods and patches do. Am I doing something wrong?

Good news that's it not my mods - I was sure that was the case but it's good to have it confirmed, LOL.

The startpos file mod is not for the data folder or user.script.

Please check the mod's OP instructions:

Installation

For Files in Enclosures 1-3 (France): Place the startpos you want in the eur_napoleon folder - but remember to change the file name to just startpos and save your original startpos to a safe place!

For Files in Enclosure 4 (Coalition): Place the starpos you want in the mp_eur_napoleon folder - but remember to change the file name to just "startpos" and save your original startpos to a safe place!

PS: Did you try deleting the ui files in the packs to get the original cards back?

[andrewrowlands]

how do i download it
links?

[General George S. Patton]

I remember this mod. Why did you delete it?

[liamboy9]

where can i get a download link for all the units without LME or Darthmod

[Pdguru]

Revised OG for LME posted on OP.

Liamboy - some skins are on the OP, other are currently on available as part of LME and DMN.

[VENNONETES]

UAOOOO
Fantastic work!

I am bringing them back back "for a limited time only" to share the joys of the season!!!

I hope that will be true

V.E.

[Prince of Essling]

I am very pleased to see their Lazarus like Resurrection as I lost them following a hard drive reformatting. Looking forward to the publication of the link

[Andre J. Jassoch]

Fantastic news!Thank you very much for bringing these units back to life.

[gary]

cool mate can you make this a compatible with your add on for http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...06#post9993106

[panzerschreck]

awesome work!

[The Hedge Knight]

Gotta admin your work is stunning PD!

[Pdguru]

Thank you, Gentlemen.

Gary - the uniform packs will work OK with my NTW3 Barebones.

Additions made to opening post and to second post which now has a bunch of my other (now old!) mods.

Hope to post the uniform packs this weekend.

[Chevalier IX]

Awesome!thanks for filling the season with napoleonic cheer

[gary]

Well done mate looks very good.