Great Empires Total War Released

[Axe-Battler]

Great Empires Total War:

This is a very minor mod, there will not be any further updates of this, (unless people demand it), this is not for historical accuracy, so I don't want to hear any complaints about it not being accurate.

Mod Description: This mod is aimed at getting rid of the lesser factions, and making it a clash between giant powers. There's only 9 factions in this, all start out with huge empires, the pope is not in this, to allow clashes between catholics to be just as common as other factions. Thi starts out in the late era, with lots and lots of buildings and techs built, all settlements are completely different, they all have tons of variety between them in what's built for each.

Mod Features:

Campaign:

Sicily, Milan, Papacy, Portugal, Scotland, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, mongols, timurids have all been taken out of the campaign.

Late era campaign, 1317 - 1453.
Alot of high techs built and higher level cities with high population.
Lots of variety between buildings.
No rebel settlements anywhere.
Increased character/agent/army movement distance by alot.
Dismounted Gothic Knights now recruitable.
Venice is now known as "The Italian Empire", they own the entirety of the italian peninsula.
The factions in this mod 9 of them, all start out with large empires.

See it here...



Battle:

A revamped battle system, does the following:

Slows unit movement speed down by alot.
Increased defense and lowered kill/hit ratio for way longer lasting melee battles.
Decreased cavalry charges by increasing mass of infantry and lowering the charge of cavalry, this prevents them from wiping out an entire unit of inf in one charge.
Elite units will now decimate non elites very easily, and not losing barely any casualties while doing so... as it should be... basically, to win against elites, you need elites.
Morale tweaked for only elites to have good and excellent morale, lower units have very low morale.


Installation: Make sure you have 1.2 patch installed, then download the mod, then extract the files to your main mtw2 directory.

Download from here...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1337

Use the batch file "GreatEmpires.bat" to use the mod.

Any questions or concerns, or comments post in here... though, I don't want to hear anything about historical accuracy.

[medivalmatt]

Awesome, ill download it when i have the chance......too many mods to choose from....

[Axe-Battler]

Also I forgot to mention about the battle system...

There is no more spear wall!

All pikes and halberd now fight with only their pikes and halberds... they do not have secondary weapons, or spear wall, they are much more useful now, and effective and mobile, they are also more fun to use.

[Goatbuster3000]

Jeez, ramtha. You're a modding beast aren't you? How many mods have you bestowed upon us so far? Anyway, this looks good if you love large and long feuds between massive nations. Nice job!

[jaklei]

Wait... What did you say about pikemen again!?

[medivalmatt]

Wait... What did you say about pikemen again!?

"
Also I forgot to mention about the battle system...

There is no more spear wall!

All pikes and halberd now fight with only their pikes and halberds... they do not have secondary weapons, or spear wall, they are much more useful now, and effective and mobile, they are also more fun to use."

[EzE]

This looks great - I cannot wait to download it.

[Axe-Battler]

keep in mind there's no pope, so I don't know how many of you had the need to have a pope in the campaign, with excommunications and stuff... I just thought the purpose of the mod "clash of titans" would be best without him.

Wait... What did you say about pikemen again!?

They no longer form spearwall, it was a useless and inefficient thing that they used...

they now start out with long pikes,(just as long as the ones with spearwall), and they can march, run just as fast as sword infantry...

they no longer have their front row kneel, they always stand.

They can be used as an offensive unit now, attacking and fighting with their long pikes and halberds... they do not take out swords, they are so cool now.

[medivalmatt]

keep in mind there's no pope, so I don't know how many of you had the need to have a pope in the campaign, with excommunications and stuff... I just thought the purpose of the mod "clash of titans" would be best without him.

Actually i always thought that the pope held christian factions back alittle.

P.s. how did you take him out of the game.

[Woad-Warrier]

Actually i always thought that the pope held christian factions back alittle.

P.s. how did you take him out of the game.

I shot the Pope!

But I did not shoot the Papacy..

[war91]

I shot the Pope!

But I did not shoot the Papacy..

And they said it was a worldly offense

[Axe-Battler]

P.s. how did you take him out of the game.

make sure that all papal faction texts in the descr_strat are lined out, or put a ; in front of them...

then give all his settlements to another faction, and delete his armies/characters.

Where you see

faction papal_states, comfortable napoleon
ai_label papal_faction
denari 1000
denari_kings_purse 100

though the money might defer... put the symbol ; in front of each line, thus...

;faction papal_states, comfortable napoleon
;ai_label papal_faction
;denari 1000
;denari_kings_purse 100

[medivalmatt]

thanks ramtha, ive always tried to take out the pope but i always screwed up my game.

p.s. i had an idea about a mod if you wanted to try it. It would be a mod where each faction started in a place that was almost the opposite of their own. EX. denmark in the moorish desert and the moorish in the danish lands.

p.s.s I dont know if anyone has already done this.

[Axeman]

Looks good, but is this for the 1.2 patch*the officaly released one*

[medivalmatt]

Looks good, but is this for the 1.2 patch*the officaly released one*

Yes

[Axeman]

Good job Ramtha, and thanks ill be sure to own people with my cammel gunners as moors=p

also you should do reconquista or another themed mod*100 years war, mongol invasion, ect*

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...63#post1730563

thats my idea

[Axe-Battler]

thanks for your feedback everyone.

but actually about...

"Looks good, but is this for the 1.2 patch*the officaly released one*"

It was built on the 1.2 unofficial, but using it with the official 1.2 should work as well... I'm pretty sure it will work with either.

[JuliusCaesar83]

Are there any new skins in the mod or only the vanilla skins?

[Axe-Battler]

vanilla skins but you could use a skin mod.

Great empires - skins/textures mod compatible

[Axe-Battler]

Actually I'm kinda pissed that this mod is more popular than my mtw classic mod, which is 10 times better!

guys go here...
http://twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=97076