NAPOLEON ORDER OF WAR - ***v2 SECOND BETA RELEASED TODAY*** 7/4/2010

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NAPOLEON
ORDER OF WAR

BETA v2 Released on April 7th 2010

(NOW WITH A SEPERATE BATTLE AI PATCH DOWNLOAD)

Herald the Trumpets!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Generals and Privates, I present to you, the second, pre-release BETA of 'NAPOLEON ORDER OF WAR'

Napoleon Order of War is a overhaul modification for Napoleon Total War. Many of you who have been following me with the mod will know my ambitions for this mod!

Historical Accuracy and Gameplay where our ambitions. In this public beta, you will see new UI, heaps of unit stats redone, and other new textures, units, and unlocked nations!

Click on the grey content boxes to see the changelogs!

CHANGE LOG - BETA v1

-New Main Menu UI
-9 new countries unlocked for custom battles (SP and MP) 18 Nations in total
-Blood Added
-All Stakes and Grenades Removed
-Battle AI Improvments (Enemy now advance in thick lines or columns, helps keep co-ordanation)
-Numerous Unit Statistic changes, for a more historical and unique approach,
-Flags all redone (Thanks JFC)
-British now carry Regimental Colours instead of Kings Colours.
-Certain units unlocked for MP and SP Custom battles like Brunswick Line Infantry, Flankers, etc....
-New music, more epic music added.
-No more boring drumroll, awesome drum beats added (Thanks Brig old bean!)
-Old Guard now wearing correct bearskins. (Thanks Digby)
-Main Russian units have been retextured (Thanks Lord Mongsworth)
-No more dust kicked up by units as it was a FPS killer. (Thanks Radious)
-French flag remains vannila, for historical reason that if you fight in 1796 with an Imperial flag, its just not right! Until someone figures out how to create seperate eras, we must stick with one flag to repersent Imperial and Revolutionary eras.

Changelog NOW BETA v2

CAI
-AI devoted more money early to infrastructure so they can get bigger and meaner later.
-AI minors now a lot more improved
-AI creates a bit more cavalry
-Less small stacks, larger ones now the main goal for the AI.
-AI more aggressive after declaring war.

BAI
-AI Now more likely to try and outflank
-General stays behind army
-Reworked minor issues
-AI does not like to use melee, almost never! (So melee bug gone)
-AI does no longer face perpendicular to their enemy, they line up parallel.

GAMEPLAY
-New awesome and historically accurate drum and bugle sounds. Researched sounds of attack, retreat, charge, march, etc... (Thanks Srisiam)
-New musket and cannon sound, now the actual sounds of a musket and cannon fire, recorded live from a real musket and cannon (Thanks Srisiam)
-Blood added
-Dust decreased, does NOT kill FPS.
-Soldiers now fire by LINE OF SIGHT (LOS) which is historically accurate, so if a unit has a good sight on his enemy counterpart, he will fire.
-To make up for the more units firing, accuracy and damage for muskets has been reduced by about 40%
-Unit sizes now 240 for Line Infantry on Ultra, Lights now 180, Artillery now 32.
-Greatcoats added to Russian and Prussian Musketeers
-Bicorn and Shakos now both worn by French Fusiliers in the 1805 fashion
-Experience gains tinkered with.
-All units can now be put on 'guard' mode.
-Historically accurate flags added, set with the 1805 standards.
-British now carry a regimental flag.
-All grenades and stakes removed.
-French and Russian retextures to line infantry and some other units
-Main menu title changed, buttons now vanilla buttons.
-Unique cannon shots, canister size depends now on cannon pound size (e.g.: 12lb)
-Men now have about 5-15% MORE ammunition.
-Units now march slower by about 20%
-Charge bonus reduced slightly
-Grapeshot reloads a little slower
-Missile penetration tweaked. Cannons are more beefy in knockback.
-Cannon Long range lethality dialled sown a bit.
-Only the better units now are shock resistant (a morale bonus power)
-Ships accelerate a lot slower to vanilla
-Austrians now wear 1805 helmet
-Stats changed to suit the armies of 1805, like the French are more accurate, the British have more moral, Russians have more ammunition, etc....
-The French musician reskinned to historically accurate uniform.
-Fire Arch greater for player, lower for AI so it now will fight parallel to the enemy, instead of perpendicular.
-Loading screens changed to historical paintings
-Swedish now wear the Iberian Top Hat instead of the 1812 Kiwer shako.
-Moral and Fatigue stats tinkered with.
-No rank fire
-Certain units unlocked for SP and MP battles, like Brunswick Line Infantry, Dutch Flanquers, etc....
-Other various small enhancements all over.

In this second version of the Napoleon Order of War BETA, I have made many improvments to gameplay. This is more of a multiplayer mod rather than a single player mod, but the changes made to the AI and gameplay make singleplayer all that much better! I have been working dedicated for this mod for many weeks, and I hope you enjoy the second beta, I always kept in my mind, what do the TW community want, so I hope everyone is satisfied!

THIS MOD DOES NOT WORK WITH VANNILA MULTIPLYER, YOU MUST VERSE SOMEONE WITH THE SAME VERSION OF THE MOD

For BETA v3, I hope to get more units in, make more historical changes, more UI and music changes. But down to its basics, its a historical gameplay modification, and thats what I want the players to get out of it, I what them to think if they are ever losing a battle, what would Napoleon have done, or Wellington, or Archduke Charles, etc... Because that is the aim, to get people thinking tacticlly. The only reason I play TW, is because I want to go back, and take the role of the Emperor, Generals and Marshal, and command my troops towards victory, and I am trying to bring this game as close to that as possible!

TO DOWNLOAD CLICK BELOW:

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Napoleon Order of War BETA v2

208.83mb DOWNLOAD

AND PLEASE DOWNLAOD THE patch_NOW.rar file at the bottom of the page for a better AI (also works on its own) just place it in data file after you install Napoleon Order of War, as it is in 'patch' format, no user.script required. It does NOT interfere with your NOW MP compadability. I forgot to add this in NOW.

Installtion

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

1. Extract with WinRaR, place 'NOW_BETA_2.pack' in your data folder (Usually found at ...Steam/steamapps/common/napoleontotalwar/data).

2. Place the 'user.script' text file into; AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Napoleon/scripts
If you already have a user.script, then just copy this: mod NOW_BETA_2.pack;
and place it in your user.script

3.Or just use the Mod Manager instead of step 1 and 2

Simple, most of you already know how to do this.

Pictures! EDIT: Pictures added 7/4/2010

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AI Example

OUR SEPERATE FORUM FROM TWC IS: http://www.napoleonorderofwar.freeforums.org/index.php
OUR STEAM GROUP FOR THOSE WISHING TO PLAY MULTPLAYER WITH US: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/napoleonorderofwar

Attached Files

patch_NOW.rar (926 Bytes, 65 views)