1648 - Der dreissigjährige Krieg

[Gigantus]

To start of with: this mod will only be published in German. Anybody having the urge to translate the mod has our blessing.

The mod 1648 is settled in the period 1618-1648 of the wars in Central Europe better known als the '30 years war'. The battlefields of this conflict are all located in the area of the Holy Roman Empire, therefore the map encompasses it's dominion and the directly neighboring areas (Copenhagen-Udine / Reims-Riga). The level of detail is guaranteed through 198 provinces and 24 factions. The pivotal aspect of the mod will be the struggle of the Kaiser with the counter reformation; protestant leaders being his main adversaries.
Foreign powers enter the game as spawning factions like Siebenbürgen or as invaders like Sweden and France. Poland-Lithuania (the Western areas), Denmark, Swiss Union and the United Netherlands have their part on the map as well, although their influence in the beginning will be more passiv. The eighty years war between the Netherlands and Spanish Habsburg will also play a role in the overall war of that period.

The mod has followed new paths to make the game experience more intensive: new music and sounds, new textures, new units, new animations, new stratmap elements and more.

Our German Forum with more details can be found here:

Total War Forum and Total War Zone

Enough words, pictures say so much more:

Faction List


Faction Map


Improved gunpowder effects


View down the valley


Bridge and ships


Drummer and flag carrier


Grapeshot, for a better impression watch the video

YouTube Video

Hussiten Wagen (wagon fort), for a better impression watch the video

YouTube Video

More battle action

Our thanks go to the following teams, individuals and organisations:
- The teams of TWZone and TWForum for their friendly assistance and providing a moding 'home'
- Both communities for their support, ideas and friendly critic
- Musculus Maximus for his help with the forts and ground textures
- Dimitri Harkov and Addi for their ideas and help
- Rheumafuzzy and team SuS\OuO as well as repman and team DLV for ideas and help
- King Kong and Team TA for ground textures and those plush trees on the stratmap
- Banzai! for his groundwork on the wagon forts and the beheadings
- Xeryx for providing the AI mod
- Argent Usher for the horses
- the countless modders of TWCentre for their brilliant groundwork
- Wikipedia for the public pictures and text
- German television ARd and ZDF for their documentaries "Wir Deutschen" and "Die Deutschen"
- The authors of the books "Deutsche Volkslieder", "Deutsche Hausmärchen", "Deutsche Soldatenlieder", although this will be most likely posthumous
- The Housekeepr and team Machiavello for their idea of the named forts
- Team HRE and their inspiration for a "Reichs-Mod"
- AlphaDelta for the mod fKoC that taught us a lot

[Automatix]

very nice to see a mod from 30YW age. Is this mod done or how much procents is done?
PS: fortunately my german is very good sehr gut

[Gigantus]

Well, this is the WIP (Work in Progress) forum, so it is still being worked on. Would be nice if we could release a beta before Xmas, but can't make any promises.
For more detailed development, please visit our German forum either at Total War Forum or Total War Zone.

[S-te-Fan]

Zupah geil! . Aber mein Haus steht under Wasser auf der Karte .

[Monguntiacum]

We hoped to release the mod for christmas 09. But unfortunaly we got a crash last days. so i would say, in the beginning of 2010. status is ca. 95% of v1.0.

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Also some little points:

1) edited
2) also, the brigde at the delta of the weser, only appetizer not final
3) some great rivers like danube, rhine, memel, weichsel, oder, elbe, weser, spree/havel are "sea" so you are able to use ships to transport your canons
4) Catholic Liga and Protestant Union are non-player factions, they represent the "factions" who are to small to be a real player faction.
5) we know, there must be a little part of southern sweden a the map, if it be a "real" map. But we decided to stint this countryside. Its not necessary for story,so we use the "free slot" of a province for areas in HRE.
6) the little cities Alzey, Bingen, etc. are named forts with new Stratmap/RTS Models
7) the ships: Admiral Richard represents the ships in 1648, Admiral Karl the Vanilla...
8) We have a very big script, so we will tell you in Game two storys, the real story and the story that will be write new by the player.

9) I´m sorry, my english is getting worse in last years, since i must read more latin and ancient greek books than english.

[Gigantus]

Replaced the drummer pic, added the battle scene.

[irishron]

That, sir, is a lot of hard work. I like it.

[Monguntiacum]

I see, on these screens are the old model of the cities. here comes the new one: example Visby (Gotland)

[Swagger]

awesome gigantus


is it your own mod?

you took some stuff from FKOC didn't you?

[Gigantus]

It is not "my" mod, I am just a proud part of it (mapping, scripting, some strat modelling). It just so happens that I am fairly conversant in English and so had the pleasure of introducing this mod.

- AlphaDelta for the mod fKoC that taught us a lot

[Beorn of Carrock]

great stuff!

[Víkingr]

Wow, now thats what I'm talking about! Love the map!

[Paradigm]

xcellent work here! The last picture looks terribly fun and the campaign map looks intense (No rebels!!! So its a all out brawl). Also love the new units especially the rifle men and pike men. Great way to play a mod of Empires totalwar without having to buy the disc

[Lord of Lost Socks]

please, someone translate! I've been dying for a thirty years war mod forever, especially after the last one died.

Does it require kingdoms?

[Gigantus]

To start of with: this mod will only be published in German. Anybody having the urge to translate the mod has our blessing.

You have our blessing my son.

And yes, it requires kingdoms, preferably 1.5

[druvatar]

finally

[weissnicht]

Nice to see you here in twc
I can't wait for Release

And I think maybe I will understand the mod

[Lord of Lost Socks]

Bummer I'll get it anyway, I studied german for 9 years in school. (now I wish I had paid more attention)
Gives the mod an authentic feeling aswell

[Friedrich Barbarossa]

Super die Mod jetzt auch hier vertreten zu sehen

nur warum ist der link vom tw Forum über dem der Total War Zone?

[Point Blank]

Awesome!!