What Will You Mod

[Barkhorn1x]

Instead of upbraiding CA for this or that annoyance (what is the point anyway?), we will mod to our hearts content.

So, this is a thread about the little things that I will (attempt) to mod in order to give myself increased enjoyment. I am not talking about wholesale mods of, say, the Egyptians or the Barbarians, just some odd items. Items like;

1. Eliminate the flags = don't want, 'em, don't need 'em - the unit iconography below the battle screen tells me all I need to know about my forces, and knowing all about the enemy would give me an unfair advantage.
2. "No Flame" mod - the flaming arrows should be included as an option, right? If so, I hope the option is for battlefields and not sieges. I will rid myself of flaming arrows altogether if that is what I must do. Now to the catapults - what the hell are those GREAT BALLS OF FIRE anyway? They must go.
3. No Women, No Pigs, No Dogs (sounds like a sign outside a Jackson Mississippi Men’s Club, doesn't it?) - yea, I will attempt to get rid of all of these units because they are not in the least historical. I'll reserve judgment on the subject of Gladiators, suffice it to say that if they start turning up with regularity they will go too.
4. Elephant Limit = I will try to limit the # of elephants in each unit as way to limit their effectiveness since, historically, they were decisive like ONCE (which is one more than the flaming pigs, BTW).

That's about it at first glance - anyone have any others?

Barkhorn.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Anything and everything I can't wait http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Spino]

The first thing I will mod will probably be the AI build priorities for the various units and buildings. Adjusting these values drastically improved the gameplay in Medieval.

[Barkhorn1x]

Quote[/b] (Spino @ June 23 2004,13:18)]The first thing I will mod will probably be the AI build priorities for the various units and buildings. Adjusting these values drastically improved the gameplay in Medieval.
Now, I would like to hear more about that when you do it in R:TW.

Barkhorn.

[Boohugh]

About the flaming arrows. I think a dev said that it was an option for each individual archer unit during the battle, like changing a units formation. I may have mis-remembered it though.

As for modding, I'll wait to see what changes are needed to better balance the game after I have played it.

[Spino]

Quote[/b] (Barkhorn1x @ June 23 2004,15:11)]
Quote[/b] (Spino @ June 23 2004,13:18)]The first thing I will mod will probably be the AI build priorities for the various units and buildings. Adjusting these values drastically improved the gameplay in Medieval.
Now, I would like to hear more about that when you do it in R:TW.

Barkhorn.
Sure thing. But hopefully we won't have to do anything to RTW's build priorities... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

Anyway the result of such tweaks usually has the AI not building hordes of useless units, especially Peasants, Javelinmen (of all persuasions) and Archers/XBows/Arbs. It's refreshing to see an AI faction, regardless of size or its level of economic prosperity, with reasonably well balanced armies at its disposal instead of armies riddled with weaklings, skirmishers and nary a heavy cavalry unit in sight.

[Basileus]

make all the factions playable http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

[Spino]

Quote[/b] (Basileus @ June 23 2004,20:11)]make all the factions playable http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif
Geez, I completely forgot about that Yes, absolutely. It's officially at the top of my list. There is no way I'm going to sit through an entire Roman campaign before playing as Macedonia. And the opportunity to control minor factions like the Greek City States, Pontus and Scythia is too good to pass up

[Xiphias]

Change the royal bodyguard units. Nothing like an Elephant King.

[USMCNJ]

make the elephants really expensive to maintain

mod the flaming dead (you can see this in some of the videos. People that get hit with a flaming arrow are instantaneously set on fire for about 2 seconds before they die)

remove the end_game limit

[The_678]

The first things I'll be doing is removing the end_game limit and making all factions playable. I'll still play Romans first though http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

And honestly I have no problems with either flaming arrows or pigs. I think they will be fun units and everybody will have a ball using them. Also just think of the modding possibilities the pigs bring in.

[Rosacrux]

Everybleedingthing Absofrigginglutely Pronto

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[dessa14]

play with the factions.
create a new egyptian faction basically.
thanks, dessa.

[scooter_the_shooter]

i willl mod a middle earth vs ancient mod muhahahah no one better take my idea. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-2thumbsup.gif

[Basileus]

Quote[/b] (Spino @ June 23 2004,20:28)]
Quote[/b] (Basileus @ June 23 2004,20:11)]make all the factions playable http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif
Geez, I completely forgot about that Yes, absolutely. It's officially at the top of my list. There is no way I'm going to sit through an entire Roman campaign before playing as Macedonia. And the opportunity to control minor factions like the Greek City States, Pontus and Scythia is too good to pass up
thats how i feel aswell, i´ll propably play the romans later on but i do not want to start with them.

[scooter_the_shooter]

i am gonna do that too i modded mtw all factions. rome shouldnt be that much harder

[RisingSun]

Every http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-furious3.gif thing. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/ceasarno.gif

[The Wizard]

I'll just wait and profit from modding zeal. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif



~Wiz

[alman9898]

I'll sponge off everyone else's mods http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif