New Units! New Units Parts! Unit Rebalance! Campaing Rebalance!

[Weierstrass]

Weierstrass Fots Mod

Note: I'm not native speaker so I may make some mistakes

Fots is really funny to play, but most of us feel how battles are just putting a few ranged units and cannons and make a nice massacre. A large number of units are unnusefull too. So today I present you a mod that have the objetive of making fots campaing more interesenting, making all units usefull, with longer combats. Also I changed the unkeep, making it very low, but the units and buldings are much more expensive, so you are going to take care about them.

New Units

NOTE: I couldnt make uniform colour constant

Shinsegumi Heroes: Recruiteables at Legendary Dojo. Needs Police Office

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Ishin Shishi Heroes: Recruiteables at Legendary Dojo. Needs Shikoyoku Office

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British Dragoon: Recruiteables at British Port. This one is an Hybrid, really good for dismount behind the enemy.

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US Cavalry: Recruiteables at US Port (colours shouldnt be the clan colours ) solved, photos later

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French Expeditionary Lancers: Recruiteables at French Port (colours shouldnt be the clan colours ) solved photos later

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Republican Hero: Recruitable at Army War College. Needs Secret Society. Just for balance, nothing special, a sharpshooter. I think that I will replace the uniform as soon as I have a good idea.

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Yojimbo Ronin
Unarmoured Katana Kachi
Unarmoured Bow Kachi
Battoutai

New Units Parts:

Special thanks to Manolops3 for the suport and tutorial. Recomended if you want to start doing 3d modeling for shogun 2 http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...9#post13700319

Ishin Torso

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Shinsengumi Torso

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British Toso

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British Legs

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Us Hat

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French hat (foraigners heads adapted)

Gloves

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Foraigner version (since foraigners have hands incorporated this ones fit over them .. was a hard work)

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Foraigner Short

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Japan Short

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Rebalances:

Battle Rebalances:
-Units are slower and get tired faster
-Melee units have much better performance in melee
-Defence and moral is much higher, so the battles last longer
-Bullets are less efective, that force you to use mixed armies
-The new stats makes the sieges easier for the attacker and harder for the defender (this is very unbalanced in vanilla)
-Cavalry is worthy
-Kisho ninja es now a hero tipe unit .. Expensive and with really low unit size. Designed only for killing strategical units

Economical Rebalances:
-Unkeep is much lower
-Unit are more expensive (and also slower to produce, you dont want to loose them)
-Buldings are much more expensive

Other Features:

Play with republican forces in custom battles! Also with british, French, and American forces

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Artillery Distribution and Added Units:

-Mortars
-Light guns
-Horse Light guns
-Napoleon gun

Special thanks to Weirdoascensor and Primergy for the Fots Artillery mod units http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-v-3-12-1-2013

-Gattling guns, and parrot guns recruitables at US port
-Armstrong guns recruitable at British port
-Napoleon gun recuitable at French port

NEW Buildings! http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-Building-Pack thanks to Weirdoascensor

Info For Modders:

Use the unit part as you want, only send me a pm when you do it and say in the mod you make that I made them. Also if you want put a link of this mod.

Also I can upload the 3dmax files if you want

Need Help!:
I'm new at this, so I need help. Here a list of issues:

-Unit colurs. The foraigners should have the same colour always but I cannot do it. solved
-How do I eliminate a bulding bonus? np with this
-French hat texture do not load properly .. Saving problems? I used photoshop
-Unit voices .. I cannot set the foraigners unit voices
-The mod only work as movie .. why? solved

Future Plans

-Continue rebalancing the game
-Inceasing fort health and towers damage (how do i do it?) by recomendation it's not going to be modiffied
-Making a replubican agent (is that possible?) yes but need time
-Making foraigners generals with their own skill tree
-Agent and bonuses rebalance

Records

21/03/14 V1.1 released (beta)
21/03/14 V1.2 released (beta)

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-Battle rebalance
-Building a nation added
-Uniform colours solved
-Started with diplomacy rebalance

26/03/14 Mod continue in development but is not a beta version.

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Minor changes, related to cai and recruitment

8/04/14 Almost a final version.

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Clan bonus modiffied, campaing difficulty modiffied, AI make better buildings and units, a few units added

Download

Needs 2 parts! (stats and models)

Part A (5mb)
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=4072
Part B (23 mb)
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=4086

Please download from steam .. Twcenter file will be updated less frequently
B:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...74&searchtext=
A:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=241969048
Need Good Units cards!
Looking for help!

[Chevalier IX]

Amazing! Excellent work friend,I have been waiting for such a Shinsengumi model since the game debuted!Bravo!

[manolops3]

hi Weierstrass ,

great work man,if i ever decide to play the FOTS-campaign then i will download and use your mod !

about the problem: " -Unit colurs. The foraigners should have the same colour always but I cannot do it. "

you could try to delete the colour_mask_texture,if there is one.

[Destin Faroda]

-Unit colurs. The foraigners should have the same colour always but I cannot do it.

Usually, every unit has a uniform entry (uniforms table). You can specify the colour in uniform_to_faction_colours table.

-How do I eliminate a bulding bonus?

Thanks to CA's bad game design, it is impossible to fix/mod several parts of the games. For example, I can't delete garrisons, magical special abilities and certain useless buildings.
The game uses the stuff from the pack files as basis and overwrites it with the mod files. Therefore, it is impossible to get rid of these problems. Maybe modifying the packfiles could solve all troubles, but then the mod size would skyrocket to several gigabytes.

-Unit voices .. I cannot set the foraigners unit voices

I too failed when trying to give my Portuguese Tercos Pikemen the foreigner voices.

-The mod only work as movie .. why?

Movie is the prefered format for mods.

-Making a replubican agent (is that possible?)

Impossible. There is no "allows recruitment of republican agent" ability. Thanks, CA!

[Weierstrass]

Thanks. I'll change a few things maybe later today (if I have time).

[Frodo45127]

Q:How do I eliminate a bulding bonus?
A: Just put the db table that give that bonus to the building in your mod with the same name than the original table, and change the table of your mod. This will make the game to load your table instead the original table, and the building bonus will be eliminated.

EDIT: If this don't work (it seems to happend with some tables) put that table (and, if there are other tables that don't work, put them too) in a separate pack file and save that pack file as "patch", not as "mod". That works.


Q:Unit voices .. I cannot set the foraigners unit voices.
A: I never tried, but my curiosity never ends. I will try lately.

Q:The mod only work as movie .. why?
A: First, movie are NOT the preferred format for the mods. The preferred format is MOD. Movie format is for pack files with files needed for mods (textures, music, videos,...). Second, mod pack files can't have spaces in his names. Replace the spaces with "_" and It will work.

Q:Inceasing fort health and towers damage (how do i do it?)
A: In the table "battlefield_buildings" there are 2 columns: hit points and ignition thershold. Change them as you want, but be careful: to modify this table with PFM can make your mod incompatible with multiplayer. Never modify this table with PFM.

Q:Making a republican agent (is that possible?)
A: In the table "agents" you can set an agent only recruitable for republicans in the "religion" column.

[Weierstrass]

Thanks frodo

[Destin Faroda]

Frodo's right! It is indeed possible to add a republican agent to the game. I have just now discovered the building effect "bos_availability_quality_republican_agent". The assembly kit recognizes my new agent! Miracles do happen, as it seems.

[Weierstrass]

wow that's great ..
hmm i think that it's possible to give ranged infantry an ability to throw grenades .. what do you think about that?

[Radzeer]

Moved to Overhauls.

[Weierstrass]

Mod is no more a beta version

[djangooo]

great mod1 are you planning on adding the western powersto the grand campaign?

[Weierstrass]

I dont think so, but It could be done .. Know I'm more interested in another mod (complementary to this one) .. Anyways I'll update the mod (know is well balanced)

[mhdsafwanindera]

wow..great very interesting..nope more unit part will make

[Weierstrass]

Sorry I did not understand well what you tried to say .. If you were asking if I'm going to make more unit parts the answer is not (at least for a while) .. but fell free to use and modiffy them