l'Aigle and Steph presents you Napoleon: Masters of Europe which merges their smaller mods Imperial Eagle and Vive l'Empereur into one! The goal of this mod is simple, to improve, and balance the gameplay. Currently it mostly focuses on custom battles, with factions like French Empire, Great Britain, French Royalist, Brittany and others playable in land battles, while the 2 former ones are also available in naval battles. As the mod is still in beta status, you can expect much more playable factions, and a proper grand campaign which runs from 1805-1815 to be available in future! Few changes have already been done to it, mostly focusing on 16 playable factions. Each of them have their own victory conditions, a historical leader, and for all factions region, and settlement names in the local language! Each of them also have a unique unit roster. Some units only appear in the beginning of the campaign, but aren't recruitable and if they are destroyed, there's no way to return them. So be sure to use them wise! By time new units become available, or disable, and new uniforms appear, at the proper date. The same happens to unit morale. For instance, French morale drops from 1812, while British morale increases. It mostly depends if you set early, middle or late period for your land battles. Time periods are a brand new feature which has never been used before! Recruitment has also been changed. National units are only available in your home regions, while in other regions you can only recruit local units, and if you send them far away from their homeland, they will replenish much slower. Both have their pros and cons. Local infantry is weaker, but has no limit, while national units are limited. So be sure to keep your empire safe, or the result can be fatal if you lose your core regions! Unit stats have been a big focus in this mod! Cavalry charges are more deadlier than ever, but weaker when they are stuck in melee, units are easier to break, and moral events have a bigger effect, while elite units have been made even stronger! A very welcome gameplay feature is that infantry's ranks will no longer stand idle, and will shoot as soon as they can! To see the full list of features pay a visit here!
Interface hasn't been left untouched too! New bigger, and Napoleon related battle selection UI army set up, unit panel, and loading screens have been included!
Now with increased zoom out, and zoom in you can take a bigger overlook of your great empire, or you can use it to easily select armies if many of them are close together!
| Napoleon: Masters of Europe Prussia update |
l'Aigle and Steph have released a new beta version for their Napoleon: Masters of Europe mod! This time focusing on Prussia, adding it as the 7th playable faction in the custom battles. Prussia has very well trained units, mostly due to its small size compared to other great powers like Russia and France, which can rely on their huge manpower pool. The new beta includes new units while historically correct uniforms are added to already existing ones. For example, musketeers are reskinned with new blue coat, white under vest and bicorne. Grenadiers are reskinned as well, with new hats which aren't quite finished yet and need few little touches, but they are still the most historical ones you can get! As this is a fresh release, you can expect much more in nearby future! To see the units I already mentioned and for more information about Prussia, pay a visit here!
The previous release focuses on mother Russia. Including loads of new units, along with new textures and uniforms for vanilla units like for Prussia. Unit and region names are in Russian, for example, Kazaks are now Kazachii and St Petersburg is Sankt-Peterburg. Even if Russia doesn't have top notch units, their size balances it out, and makes it as one of the strongest armies in Europe, with only few who can hope to compete with it.
Let's take a look at some of the new units:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read: Lifeguard heavy infantry (Late period, 1812):
Reskinned militia:
Guard Cossacks:
Especially Cossacks are deadly when led by the well known general Kutuzov, who has a big experience with them, and has shown their strength by fiercely fighting against the Ottomans and defending Russia from Napoleon's invasion in 1812. While we are it, let's take a look at historical Russian generals of this mod:
But if you decide to side against Russia, which probably wouldn't be a wise choice, or make subjects free, then 2 new emergent factions are included, Lithuania and Cossack Hetmanate. The latter one replaces already existing emergent, Crimean Khanate, but can emerge in other provinces like Kiev, Kursk and Novorossiya.
For more information and pictures about Russia click here!
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Written by: Twilight Sparkle. |
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