My mod idea *WW1*

[Bob The Regular]

I belive, that a WW1 mod MAY be possible, and here is why I belive so.

WW1 Infantary
Unlike RTW, M2 has firearms in the game, if we look at WW1 rifles, they were bolt action rifles, meaning that you can only fire one shot then reload, if we look at the firearms in the M2 era, we can see the same, what I suggest is to change the animation so that it looks like they are reloading a bolt action rifle, and if you put the Firearms units in skirmish mode, they dont fire in ranks.

Tanks
Lets look at WW1 tanks, they are slow and not as good as WW2 tanks, how can we make something like them in M2? I say change the Elephants, we have artillary elephants which fire a cannon shot, if we can change the elephants into a tank, make the crew invicible, we can have a good looking tank tha fires and tramples over units, just like the real thing.

League of Nation
I know that the LoN was founded after WW1, but maybe you can replace the papacy with LoN.

Political ideology
Instead of religion, which lost its power of in this era, we can change the religions into idelogy
Catholic=Democracy
Orthodox=Communism
Islam=Facism
Heretic=????

American Invasion/Russian Revolution
Instead of teh Mongol or Timuriud, we can have the Russian Revolution, so that the Bolsheviks attack the Russian empire, and also we can have the American Invasion to show the Americans late entrance to the war.

Gas Warfare
We already have something similar in M2, we have the Cow Carcass, if we can make the cows carcass invisible or into a shell, and leave the gas effect, in can look good.

Flamethrowers
If you look the Kingdoms trailer, at the end you can see a flamethrower unit.

Artillery
Just make the cannon look like WW1 Arty, change the cannonballs into shells and the pile of cannon balls into crates with shells.

Gameplay
Merc System:You can conscript civilians
Devastation should cause more lose of money, much more
Bigger armies
No trench warfare sadly

Machine Guns
Perhaps the Ribioult can be modded into one?

So thats my idea, do you think its possible or Iam just a madman?
*If in wrong forum, please move*

[medivalmatt]

i think that it would be a cool mod...but it might be a little boring in battles without being able to get up close alot but the tanks would be cool. It would take alot of work but it might be able to be done...maybe.

[english tyrant]

great idea, but ww1, no trench warfare?

[BuchVecny]

for sure it can be done. However u would need new models for everything, with no reference (the truth is the so called new models in mods are usually just modified models from CA). U wud needs new animations (i think this needs to be hardcoded? not rly sure). Etc.

[gs4u]

Huh? There was Communism and facism during WW1?

[Goatbuster3000]

Huh? There was Communism and facism during WW1?

Lol, you're right to say "Huh?" gs4u. No nation involved in WWI was a fascist state, and communism came near the end and had no influence over the war. You're thinking of WWII my friend.

[Casluerj]

Huh? There was Communism and facism during WW1?

And to say that Islamism can be compared with Fascism is.... lets say.... racism!

[Lusted]

Moved to The Gathering.

[Miraj]

I never knew they fought in line formation in WW1. I guess I learnt something today. Neat.

[Bob The Regular]

I dont think you can make a trench warfare system in M2, but I may be wrong....

[Ataegina]

comunism on ww1 doesn't make sense, because the rise of comunism have appear after, if you say ww2, so comunism would make sense, not before

[Bob The Regular]

I think the Russian Revolution took place during WW1 or so, or you can just change the Ideologys with something else.

[Goatbuster3000]

I think the Russian Revolution took place during WW1 or so, or you can just change the Ideologys with something else.

Yes, the Russian Revolution occurred in 1917 with the fall of the Tsar, but Russia signed a non aggression pact with Germany in light of this, so I don't think it would make sense to add Communism as an ideology. Russia didn't immediately become communist either, seeing as how three factions that made up Russia fought against each other for power.

[boofhead]

I put an idea like this in Circus Maximus

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=95927

as a future game to be developed, rather than as a mod for MT2W. I just don't think it is possible really. If you are speaking of tanks, you are speaking of trenches and basically 1917-18. I don't know about modding the battle-maps to include trenches but troops movements being anything like realistic I just cannot see this happening.

Also, the campaign-map would be SO unlike reality, i.e. a trench system from the west coast to Switzerland.

I really like the idea, but don't think it is at all feasible as a M2TW mod.

I think about as modern as you could really get would be Napoleonic warfare (which has been done as a mod for RTW).....

[Samuel Adams]

Trench warfare=like a special ability equal to stakes for longbowmen;

Get up and close=Bayonet charges

machine gun units would suck it up though in the game...

[boofhead]

Well if anyone could come up with something workable and actually mod it successfullythey would be an absolute legend.

The campaign map would be a major headache - maybe just custom battles or scripted mini-campaigns like NTW?

[Douchebag]

Lets be honest here...any modern warfare games, using the total war system is simply retarded. It aint gonna work. Go play some BF2 or something.

[The Reb]

This would be awesome if it was done.

[Vlade the Impaler]

Trenches would be simply impossible. He does do a good job of comparing M2 with its WWI counterpart. However, they didn't march in neat battle lines in WWI all that often... And men would need to crouch and go prone to avoid fire, and take cover... so that is beyond the engine

PS. The Reb: cool, man...

[Bob The Regular]

Maybe instead of Political Ideology, you could do propaganda, you replace religion with Allies,Central, and Neutral support, you could built a propaganda agent instead of a priest.