This mod is perfectly legal as if you don't have the content (I don't) it does not unlock them/

Lambretta said:

This mod is perfectly legal as if you don't have the content (I don't) it does not unlock them/

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Out of curiosity, what happens? Since I have the pre-order from Steam, I can't test what occurs when you load it not having the Scots Greys.

I will be doing other Historical Battles as well, and I'll be making different versions for dlc vs. non-dlc.

Also, I am considering making different unit size versions, as I know alot of people complain about the small unit sizes in some battles.

I'm not really sure. I'll check and see if I notice any difference.

OK, note that I am not very good at this game, but here's what happened.

If you watch the intro, the troops in Papolette fire immediately. Anyway, D'Erlon charged straight into the stakes, the artillery aimed at my houses and did nothing, but I still lost. (I never played it before though, maybe a better player should try it?).

Oh, and all the troops change apart from the Scot's Greys, so you're cool.

Lambretta said:

OK, note that I am not very good at this game, but here's what happened.

If you watch the intro, the troops in Papolette fire immediately. Anyway, D'Erlon charged straight into the stakes, the artillery aimed at my houses and did nothing, but I still lost. (I never played it before though, maybe a better player should try it?).

Oh, and all the troops change apart from the Scot's Greys, so you're cool.

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Ahh, perfect; so it didn't crash on you? I haven't changed any of the actual scripting of the battle, so the troops will act as CA intended them in the original battles.

Do you recall (or could someone tell me) the British cavalry lineup if you don't have the Scots Greys? I figured the game would crash without the Scots Greys, but it doesn't. Does it fill in a generic unit or leave them off the field?

It just uses normal Dragoons for me. But all the French units were there, Empress Dragoons and stuff.

Anyway, I like this mod, I'll rep it tomorrow when I'm able to rep (I think)

Lambretta said:

It just uses normal Dragoons for me. But all the French units were there, Empress Dragoons and stuff.

Anyway, I like this mod, I'll rep it tomorrow when I'm able to rep (I think)

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Oh thats fantastic, the Dragoons are what the Scots Greys replace. This means I needn't create a 2nd version for those without them, thats a nice bonus for me!

I have a new version ready that replaces the French artillery with Artillerie a Pied and Artillerie a Cheval. I played a quick few minutes and they weren't overpowering at all.

I'm thinking I should do a version that uses Ultra-sized units as well (200 line, 90 Cav etc)...

Good start, I hope that some day the mod may go as far as editing the battles themselves

Great mod,thx!

You're welcome! Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions.



Austerlitz is 95% re-done! I'll try to have it uploaded this evening.

I have swapped out Guard cavalry for much of the French, put Davout (as a unit of 60 Cuirassiers rather than a General's Bodyguard [though I could make him a 60-man General's Bodyguard too, but I want him to actually fight with those Cuirassiers]) at Tellnitz, put an artillerie a pied in place of the 12lb'er closest to Napoleon. For the Russians, I have changed their cavalry to be more diverse (Cossaks, Hussars, Cuirassiers & Dragoons) as well as put in a 10lb Unicorn on Pratzen heights in place of one of the 12lb'ers. I haven't changed any of the Austrians yet.

I got the oob info from here and here.

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Austerlitz is 95% re-done! I'll try to have it uploaded this evening.

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Before I upload this, I need to have some testing done.
Can you PM me if you would like to help test this and DO NOT own the Scots Greys & Elite Regiment pack.

It should take all of about 2 minutes for you to test.

Thanks.

Very nice, sir.

A very good idea. I myself was quiet dissapointed about the battle arangements in historical battles. The guys from total war
certainly didn´t make historical accuracy their prority because surely it would have been too difficult to realize, since it would among others require way more unit slots.

I´ll give your mod a try at once and give you a feedback in time. Thank you for your work.

Good idea recreating all battles in ntw, to make usable square formation and for "epic-movie" aspect of the game i see it like 400 men per unit and 160 per cavalry, my favourite is Borodino theme but would like to see all battles recreated in one pack.
greetings!

I could definitely redo Boroino with that scale of unit sizes!

No one has PM'ed me to help to test, so this mod is pretty much on hold until I can get a tester to help.

Berezyna 1812 beautiful dramatic battle not included in vanilla what a shame....

If this was addressed already i apologise for repeating it,but were the unit counts changed at all for your modification???for as it stands right now the numbers are dreadful small when looking at the scope and impact of the battles here represented

Hi,

I have been so busy lately, I haven't even thought about Napoleon:TW. Life can get crazy sometimes.

Anyway, to answer your question ChevalierIX:

These battles are set up in an interesting way; each unit is placed by a script and the size of each unit is changeable. So, you could, in theory, make one army have units 2x the size of the other, or make everyone have units that are 3x the size of vanilla.
Or really, any combination thereof. The plan here was to go through and change all the battles I wanted, then to go back through that list making huge unit sized versions. I have a paltry rig to play on so I use large unit sizes only (160-man line), but I know some folks like having 500 man infantry units. That's really quite easy to do.

Hi everyone!

Well, I'm back fiddling with NTW again, and this time I have a new computer! I will be going through this mod again and making a version that is for extra large unit sizes.
I currently play with a 2.5 unit modifier, so my units look like this:

General: 60
Artillery: 5 guns, 30 men (all other variations leave you with spare artillery crewmen running around, unless you go with something crazy like 10 guns/60 men per arty unit).
Cavalry: 150
Skirmishers: 200
Grenadiers: 300
Line: 400

I've already tried Waterloo with this setup and it works great! I will however have to redo some of the deployments as the extra men force some weird deployment shapes.

I also have redone Austerlitz as well.

Eventually I would like to create some brand new Historical Battles, but that is very ambitious at this point.

That's great, the small unit sizes are quite silly in the battles. I assume they did it to keep them short.

Even 160 infantry and 60 cavalry would be better!

Proposal - battle- Wagram 1809 massive cavalry artillery and infantry masacre 35000-french/36000-austrians dead during day/night battle, deadly meeting -polish cavalry on french side fighting austrian ulans (in many causes poles too but incorporated in austrian units from regions in germano-austrian occupation of poland - so we have brother killing brother example) map needed and recreation hehe, very curious and fascinating battle in my opinion.

Well gents, I am at it again. I have a v1.2 almost at the ready!


I've made all the historical battles use huge unit sizes, 400-man line, 300 Lights, 200 Skirmishers, 150 Cavalry. This is basically a 2.5x unit modifier from vanilla large unit sizes.

I have extensively touched up the Waterloo battle as played by the French. I figured out the placement system for units and have adjusted them all to be juuuuuust right. Sloppy British cannon placement on the hills, huge unit sizes overlapping at initial deployment etc. I've also included a surprise which may or may not be enjoyed by all. I dig it though, so it's in for this version. If you people like it, I'll probably include it for all battles. Hint: it's a French-only thing.


The rest of the battles might suffer from weird deployment phase pre-placements until I have a chance to get to them all. Not a big deal though, as you simply have to move around a bit when you're given control of the units.


What sucks is not being able to flesh out the unit rosters with all the unique DLC units where applicable. I have a few DLC packs and I have to remember not to include many cool units because others might not have them and I dont have a real good understanding of how the game replaces them (it does, as seen when the game reverts the Scots Greys to Dragoons if you dont own the DLC). More testing required here. What might be cool is if I can figure out how to include the various DLC units and manage that they be replaced by reasonable substitutes when the player doesn't have access to that unit. I wouldn't want the Brandenburg Uhlans to be replaced by Militia or something.

I have redone the Borodino as you remeber i have tell you that some time ago.I can upload you the files and lets see if you can do more on it as i did.It was quite a work to do it and it would be very sad for me to throw it away.

In NTC I modded the battles for larger units sizes (x2.5) but nothing else, perhaps we could add these to the NTC at future date

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