Napoleon : Masters of Europe (MoE), a new mod by l'Aigle and Steph

[Dee Jay]

Hey Steph, just checking in on the mod, any updates ?

HINT: Notice anything about the colour of my name? Might notice a little badge under my avatar too

[Steph]

this is my very fist sound what i ever made, dont except professional sound, but it still took at least 15 mintues to sound like this the word means Grenadier in hungarian, its in singular not in plural. You can edit all of my files Steph what im gonna do for your mod. what file format do u want in the future? I saved this one what the program(Sound Forge) automatically suggested.

I can change the format if needed so it's not a problem. But it seems there is a lot of background noise, I'm not sure in game it will be easy to ear it.

[gary]

Really nice mod, just have a question regarding the musician... as to why the have different color sleeves/ arms... i am a stickler for detail so this is why i ask?
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Looks really good, i am playing LME_ NTW at the moment but i may give this a go... do you have a run down of the contents of the mod... unit etc.

[Steph]

Usually, musician had a coat with opposite colour to the troops.

For instance in the French cavalry (before 1812), if the collar and cuff of a dragoon regiment were yellow the the bugler had yellow coat instead of the green coat of the dragoons

The first pages contains details for the factions which have been finalized (France and Britain). Other factions will be completed in due time, once they are done

[gary]

Usually, musician had a coat with opposite colour to the troops.

For instance in the French cavalry (before 1812), if the collar and cuff of a dragoon regiment were yellow the the bugler had yellow coat instead of the green coat of the dragoons

The first pages contains details for the factions which have been finalized (France and Britain). Other factions will be completed in due time, once they are done

Hi mate yeah i see what you are saying, however i already knew that as i use to be a pro, 15ml Napoleonic figure painter, i know that before 1812 most line musicians but not all (as they did vary greatly from unit to unit) would have had reversed facings, apart from the guard, but after 1812 most if not all had a uniform green coat with imperial livery. what i noticed is that you have variants on the arms , sleeves where it looks like (fill color in photoshop has not been used... i know this as i have moded many units... I am just a stickler for detail. I notice they have the same in LME_ mod... this is not a criticism as the mods looks really cool rather a aesthetic observation. These are some of my figures...

My unit is the far left one based on osprey books research.

[Prince of Essling]

Hi mate yeah i see what you are saying, however i already knew that as i use to be a pro, 15ml Napoleonic figure painter, i know that before 1812 most line musicians but not all (as they did vary greatly from unit to unit) would have had reversed facings, apart from the guard, but after 1812 most if not all had a uniform green coat with imperial livery. what i noticed is that you have variants on the arms , sleeves where it looks like (fill color in photoshop has not been used... i know this as i have moded many units... I am just a stickler for detail. I notice they have the same in LME_ mod... this is not a criticism as the mods looks really cool rather a aesthetic observation. These are some of my figures...

My unit is the far left one based on osprey books research.

Despite the 1812 Bardin regulations there were still variations to the rules he set out on uniforms - one merely has to look at contemporary illustrations.

[Steph]

And the images I've shown were you can see the musicians are for Britain anyway, so the Bardin regulation doesn't really apply.

And there is another important thing to keep in mind : we are limited by the number of textures available in the atlases. So we have to do some compromise. L'Aigle is doing is best to fit many uniforms in our atlases, but it's not possible to include all the variations, especially for the musicians. We can include only 2 to 4 different musician uniforms on an atlas.

For Britain, l'Aigle managed to fit 92 different units (with officiers, troops and musicians) in only 2 atlases and a half.

And also, adding new uniforms take time. We could add all the variants of musicians, all the tiny details, all the regimental colors... But then the mod would require several DVD and years to complete. I'm not even sure the engine won't explode at some point.

So... we included some variations for the musicians, we can't put them all.

[Jean-Roch Coignet]

I can change the format if needed so it's not a problem. But it seems there is a lot of background noise, I'm not sure in game it will be easy to ear it.

If I knew how to delete the background noise completely i would do so, but i havent figured out it yet, though i can increase the strength of the sound.

[Sixt]

if needed i can help with danish...

[Der Einzige]

Wow, this looks great!

[Steph]

If I knew how to delete the background noise completely i would do so, but i havent figured out it yet, though i can increase the strength of the sound.

May be a question of microphone quality or settings when recording. I'm not really an expert in sounds, I also had some difficulties to record French sounds that were clear enough, and still there is a little background noise compare to the CA sounds.

[Steph]

I have almost finished remapping all the voices except the idles for France and Britian, including foreign troops. Soon I will make the "regional recruits", wearing French uniforms, but speaking Dutch, German or Italian.

[Andre J. Jassoch]

Gentleman,this look´s serious.Great work you do.If some testing in gameplay needed i´m in(have a lot of free time these days).Wish you the very best in hope of a soon release.

[Vivat Imperator]

This looks magnificent. If you could also incorporate accurate portraits for generals/politicians, it would make it amazing. Unfortunately, I don't think I'd be able to use it for quite some time until I have a decent computer, though.

[Steph]

We have some of them, like the portraits for the kings. I plan to extend portraits to at least the starting generals when we focus more on the campaign

[Andre J. Jassoch]

Hi Steph.
I´m very happy to see that still after years there are big interests in modding of this great game.(some do it as hobby for otherone is it more like sickness)but anyway thanks god for people like you.I would like to ask you some questions or call it ideas if you want.
1.What i really hate in the campaign is that every big nation has only one immortal general(Napoleon,Blucher,Wellington...).Understad that generals are very easy to kill even if you dont want to kill them one unlucky shot and his gone.So maybe it would be better to make more generals immortal at least the famous one.Are you planning something like this in your mod?
2.It would by a great thing if you can implement maps from historrical battles into the campaign map.Example if you are going to fight in the Moravia region you would fight on the Austerlitz battlefield and so on...
3.Sorry if i have oversee something in the first pages but what about the navy?Are there gonna be changes too?
4.Are you two thinking of implement 40 units in the recruitment for each faction?Would it be possible to implement the Albtraums unit cards mod which allows to see 20-80 unit icons on the panel.It would by great if you can use some of his work in your mod,such an effort is a crime to throwaway.
Thanks.Yours sincerely Andre J. Jassoch.

[madrush]

Cool!

Can you provide a Gaelic translation (or equivalent if there is no direct translationà of the basic military terms, such as:
- Grenadier
- Line infantry
- Light infantry
- Heavy Dragoons
- Light Dragoons
- Artillery?

grenadier- grenadier
line infantry- coisithe
light infantry- chos solas
heavy dragoons- Dragúin trom
light dragoons- Dragúin solas
artillery- (use weight of shell first then..)Canónta

[Steph]

Is that Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, or does it work for both?

[T.C.]

grenadier- grenadier
line infantry- coisithe
light infantry- chos solas
heavy dragoons- Dragúin trom
light dragoons- Dragúin solas
artillery- (use weight of shell first then..)Canónta

Solas means light as in the light that comes from the sun, not light as in terms of weight.

[madrush]

irish gaelic, both forms are the same with slight difference in spelling....sorta like unkrainian and russian, spanish and portugese