Napoleonic Total War 2 is out now!

[Emperor[1G]]

Any chance of balance alterations as things go? Ive never modded before and I have no idea how difficult it would be. Examples are the Old Guard morale and damage seemingly is underpowered compared to counterparts, cavalry being vastly underpowered, etc. The game in an of itself is great, but I question why Guard units rout in hand to hand combat with normal Russian Grenadiers 4 out of 5 times in a straight melee fight, or lose a firing dual against Musketers 3 out 5 times in the same situations. A friend and I have been experimenting pitting units together in 1vs' to see outcomes to see if we were hallucinating or not.

I plan on giving a run down on my radio show this week. Expect some serious public kudos, Napoleonic minitures games are what alot of us have been waiting for!

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

Only issue is a number of typos or clumsy grammar

It seems to annoy you, as this is the only comment we get from you after every preview so far.

I can send you all our text files, if you want to hunt for spelling and grammar errors.

It would help us a lot. As I doubt we will ever have time to do it.

Just PM me, if you feel like helping.

Cheers,

LZoF

P.S. For the units stats, an update is underway, we puzzled with them for over six months now, it is what modding is all about.

Build, break, puzzle and start again...

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

i am not to great with computers, and i downloaded the mod but i don't know what to now can some one tell me. Thanks

Sorry missed this, could you be a bit more specific what part causes you problem, this is more like help I bought a car, but I cannot drive.

I want to help, but what is it you have problems with.

LZoF

[Incongruous]

Finally managed to play Borodino, but only if I dont play on the very hard setting. But I still get a near run thing of it anyway.
Great MOD, can't wait to see how you will re-create Waterloo, and perhaps Quatre-Bras and Lingy?

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

Quatre Bras, Waterloo and later Ligny, Plancenoit are on our internal wish list.

The British for MP together with an update on the first release are only a couple of weeks away.


LZoF

[Andejar]

i downloaded the file and i double clicked on it and it doesn't do anything do i need to put it in a folder or something

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

You need WinRar a compressing program as WinZip to open and get to the installer:

WinRar

LZoF

[Incongruous]

awsome can't wait to hold the thin red line lol.

So can you give us any clue how the Prussians will be dealt with in Waterloo?
Will you perhaps have an alternate version in which Grouchy reaches the field in time?

Oh yeah another one, are you going to increase the selection of troops? Include more of the Guard unit types?
Also will you increase the range of rifles?

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

First the historical battles we have on the list that is more than enough for now.

-French Middle Guard and Red Guard lancers units for Waterloo are on the list as we need them for Waterloo.

-Yes, Rifles get longer range, more accuracy, slower reload speeds and are smaller units.

LZoF

[Andejar]

Thanks a lot this mod rocks

[Yoko Kono]

first rtw mod ive tried and im very impressed
i was a huge fan of imperial glory until i fought my first battle (lol) and realised it was a no morale fight to the death
this good be just what im looking for
very impressed with the unit graphics and animations but my only gripe would be to have the men stay in the aiming gun position a fraction longer as they appeare to aim a little quickly but then im a picky bugger
will there be a campaign?
if so this could really take off

[The Spartan (Returns)]

they didnt put a campaign because they said the AI has no way of using Napolenic tactics whatsoever.
however i believe this is untrue as there are modders that can mod the descr_formations_ai.txt
such as Darth Formations and Sinhuet's Formations.

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

they didnt put a campaign because they said the AI has no way of using Napolenic tactics whatsoever.
however i believe this is untrue as there are modders that can mod the descr_formations_ai.txt
such as Darth Formations and Sinhuet's Formations.

It will change not a thing or better the problems we see with the AI, be my guest and show us how, by changing formations, this would solve the RTW AI shortcomings I summed up briefly here:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=60843

We are very curious within The Lordz how you see that.
I can tell you we looked at it intensily and some of the best modders of the TW commmunity do not see how it can be done without hardcoded changes only CA could provide, but people simply refuse to accept it or believe we looked hard enough. Or we do not know what we are talking about or simply do not see the solution. You say it is untrue what we stated so please show us the light.

LZoF

[The Spartan (Returns)]

heh, im not capable of doing that.
i thought the Lordz didn't check it out already so if you guys already did, then it is probably impossible that the ai can use the games tactics.

[monkian]

heh, im not capable of doing that.
i thought the Lordz didn't check it out already so if you guys already did, then it is probably impossible that the ai can use the games tactics.

Yes, because they wouldn't have thought of that

[Lord Adherbal]

formations can improve AI army cohesion and timing, but they are not magic things that make the actual use of units any better. It might work for roman themed mods, but not for ours (too much missile units).

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

The Borodino pack is completed, but that didn't mean we took a break. We're working hard on the British faction now, and have started on the Northern Europe climate. Here are some teaser screenshots. We hope to complete and release this update in approximately 2 weeks.

British Unit Cards


The British unitroster:

General/Officer & Staff

Infantry

British Militia
British Line
British Light
KGL Line
KGL Light
British Rifles
British Highlanders
British Foot Guard

Cavalry

British Light Dragoons
British Hussars
British Dragoons
KGL Light Dragoons
KGL Hussars
British Life Guard
British Horse Guard

Artillery

Rockets
Howitzers
9-pounder
6-pounder
British Rocket Artillery


WIP N-Europe Terrain


New Northern European terrain & buildings


British Dragoons and Rocket Artillery




In other news: A private update is now available to the Lordz members, meaning we can start beta testing the British faction. Hopefully that'll allow me to post some nice action screenshots with the British soon.

More Waterloo stuff





More villages. We will soon be able to start working on new maps, and once we have a hand full of these the update should be ready for release.

[Emperor[1G]]

Great update and glad to see the Brits coming along quickly. I do have a quick few questions that you may have answered, but Ive not found. im planning on doing a run down on my show this Sunday and Id like to know the following (if you can tell us)

1. Are you planning on releasing other factions such as Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Spain and the like?

2. Will the French get extra units in the next release like the Middle Guards, Empress Dragoons, Red Lancers etc?

3. WIll these all tie together, meaning factions will be chooseable in Multiplayer with russia, france, britian etc being in the same game, or will these be stand alone mods?

[Lord Adherbal]

1. Prussia is planned for a distant future, Dutch and Brunswick will be released in October.

2. Middle Guard and Red Lancers will be added

3. it's an upgrade, you will need the Borodino pack. All factions will be available in MP.

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

Here some progress on the Prussian infantry:

Prussian Landwehr:



Prussian Musketeer:



Prussian Fusilier:



Prussian Grenadier:



Prussian Schutzen:

[Ciaran]

The Borodino pack is completed,

How fitting a news for today, the 194th anniversary of the battle of Borodino (as well as that of the battle of Arsuf, but that´s another mod )

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

British, Western European vegetation, climate and buildings work in progress. Release of this in about a week to ten days, included an update/patch for the 1812 Borodino release and some extra maps.


Bouncing cannonballs


Highlanders in reserve


British 9pounder battery


British Line Infantry


Heavy Dragoons charge


Horse Guard charge


British Line overwhelmed


Footguard repells a russian charge


And to finish: a peacefull chateau


LZoF

[Joel]

hello my nome is Joel and I come from Itlay, I love rtw, so I saw some fotos about ntw 2, I think it is really great but I have some problems to install it, Coan somebody help me? I downloaded patch 1.3 and 1.5, then i installed them and downloaded ntw 2 but I don't in the file I doenloaded there were only photos... Now I am searching for Ntw2....can someone helpme? :D

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

The file should be about 130 MB, there are some mirrors on our website, who are out of bandwidth, but there are seven download mirrors. Try some like Rapidshare or Xema or one of the others first. You just had a bad or temporarily bad mirror.

LZoF

[Joel]

Thank you

now I downloaded the file wuth mega... I hope it will start. :D

[Joel]

IT works, great.... Fantastic game, many beautiful units, now I must only find my strategy... :D

[GiantMonkeyMan]

holy moly i'm gone for a week on holiday and come back to even more amazing surprises like this... seriously, i got back and thought 'let's check the email and the .org before drinking some cheap lager i brought in france' then cancel all plans i'm donwloading this right now.... i am even considering uninstalling Oblivion (my new favourite game) just to play this but we'll see how it goes flippin heck.... you have actually got me exited about downloading something

[Cheetah]

Congrats Lordz!!!

Brilliant mod, brilliant.

The units, the maps, everything. Best TW game (and best MP battles) since Shogun.

Keep up the good work, cannot wait for the Brits ;)

[dclare4]

Hi Lordz,

First off congratulations on releasing the mod. It looks superb, a whole new game practically.

Problem though, I've been trying to get it started and the game keeps hanging when it loads up. Says that certain terrain files like the redoubt are not found. It happens in both the Borodino battle and the custom battles.

Anything I'm doing wrong here? I've got the game installed to E drive but otherwise its in the regular place.

Thanks,
Clare

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

We had some problems with corrupt downloads try this first:

-Install on RTW v1.5 preferable
-Download a new NTW2 version from another mirror. It should be around 130 MB.