Napoleonic Total War 2 is out now!

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/files/hussardahl5_868.jpg

The Lordz are very proud and pleased to announce the first release of NTW2: The 1812 Borodino Scenario. As an extra we have added the last trailer, so you can come into the right mood.


Infantry Trailer

All movies require Quicktime to watch:

Apple Quicktime (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html)

http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/files/inf_pic_111.jpg (http://www.eggdisk.com/files/7484_tsykb/NTW2_INF-Trailer_800x450_48Mb.mov)

High quality (http://www.eggdisk.com/files/7484_tsykb/NTW2_INF-Trailer_800x450_48Mb.mov)

(right click > save target as...)

Before downloading, installing and playing NTW2, we strongly advise you to carefully read our previous previews as they hold some vital usefull tips and information.

You still can view the older previews here:

1. Infantry Preview (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6157&start=0)
2. Cavalry Preview (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6236&start=0)
3. Artillery & Command (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6306&start=0)
4. Gameplay & Tactics (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6385&start=0)
5. Singleplayer & Multiplayer (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6489&highlight=)


Install Instructions

Make sure you have a clean copy of Rome Total War patched to version 1.5 or Rome Total War + Barbarian Invasion with the 1.6 patch installed, ready on your computer, download the installer and follow the instructions.

Tip: Napoleonic Total war 2 cannot be used with any other modification

Tip: Rome: Total War Gold edition and Total War: Eras already use RTW v1.5 and BI v1.6 so installation using those TW products should give no problems


Download Links

You can find all our products on The Lordz website:

-The Lordz website (http://www.thelordz.co.uk)

All our products and downloads can be found in the download section on that site:

-The Download section (http://lordz.thelordz.co.uk/index.php?id=37,0,0,1,0,0)


Support

We provide full support on The Lordz forum, we strongly advise to visit and register here first:

-The Lordz forum (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/index.php)

For download, install or gameplay problems please post in here:

-The Surgeon`s Room (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=5)

For your most immediate and most frequently asked questions about Napoleonic Total War 2, go to the NTW2 FAQ section on The Lordz forum:

-The NTW2 FAQ section (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=78)


Organising Multiplayer Games

For MP games gathering please visit The Lordz Forum, we have a special room for all MP related gameplay:

-The Council of War (http://forum.thelordz.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=14)

Enjoy!

The Lordz

[paullus]

Its like a birthday! Congrats on getting it out. Your laborious work has paid off, and you can breathe easy. So now I'm off to smack the baby!

EDIT: have you put up a torrent?

[Incongruous]

Every time I download it it says its corrupted.

[Duke John]

Which link did you use? The lordz server is down at the moment so try these links:
http://rapidshare.de/files/31322874/NTW2-public-v0.1.a.rar
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EYSXH2M3

[The Spartan (Returns)]

big thanks Lordz!
know you guys worked on it for a long time so I must try it out.

[Incongruous]

I used both of those links, but not the Lordz Forum.
I am now and hopefully it will work, otherwise I'll cry~:mecry:

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

I have added one more download alternative, try that.

Our server just crashed because of the rush on the mod, we hope to have things more stable soon.

LZoF

[Incongruous]

Yay It Worked!
I Want To Have You're Babies!

[Monarch]

Awesome game, only played two team games so far though, 1 somebody got con problems half way through and the other well, I was up against people from LGA, what do you think happened loll. But still great =D

Thank you :)

[Incongruous]

Hm for some reason my Borodino battle always crashes at different points in the scenario, can someone help me?

[Duke John]

Are you 100% positive that you installed over a correct R:TW installation? On what did you install it?

We have tested the map dozens of times, so I would be very surprised if there was something odd going on (could always be but still).

[Moros]

Now let's kick some Russian ***!

Thank you guys for an incredible mod!

[Incongruous]

Hmm I have re-unstalled RTW but it still crashes, ill try again.

[Pewe]

At last! It's out! Champagne and fireworks!

[Dooz]

Best birthday gift I got today. Thanks Lordz. I can't wait for it to finish downloading.

[Lord Adherbal]

did you get patches 1.3 and 1.5?

[Dooz]

Hmm... problem. Are custom battles supposed to be working properly? After setting up the armies and clicking the button to continue, the screen goes back to the battlefield choice and doesn't continue from there. Any ideas?

*edit*
My mistake, it actually goes back to the faction selection screen, not battlefield selection.

[Incongruous]

Yes I have installed both patches.

[Mount Suribachi]

I will be d'loading it in the next week or so - I want to uninstall my RTRPE and start with a clean install of RTW so I can use the mod switcher.

[Lord Adherbal]

Hmm... problem. Are custom battles supposed to be working properly? After setting up the armies and clicking the button to continue, the screen goes back to the battlefield choice and doesn't continue from there. Any ideas?

*edit*
My mistake, it actually goes back to the faction selection screen, not battlefield selection.

what version for RTW do you have? 1.5? is it the Gold edition?

what shortcut are you using to launch the mod?

[Dooz]

I'm using BI. The original shortcut didn't work for some reason. I made a BI.exe shortcut, copy pasted the - commands from the NTW shortcut and it worked fine. But yeah, the custom battles don't work. The Borodino one did however. Are custom battles working for everyone else?

Let me take this opportunity to thank the Lordz again, this is truly an incredible piece of work. Very professional, I almost can't believe it when I wat playing. It's a whole new game.

Btw, has the camera angle and movement and such been changed? It seems to be rotated a bit, looking down more.

[Pewe]

Great mod! Still, my units don't always do what i tell them to do... But.. wow! This mod really takes rome total war several steps further, the battlefield sounds, (I like the music also) the soldiers, the surroundings, everything!

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

I assume you are talking about the Borodino scenario, this is because units are not avaliable right from the start, more and more when you progress the scenario.

Also when crossing bridges, villages the units width have to be smaller than the width of the obstacle you want to cross or pass.

As the Lordz forum is down we have set up a temporarily forum at TWC, there is a FAQ stickied thread overthere with some more explanation.

LZoF

[Emperor[1G]]

The camera angle is easy to fix. Goto game options I beleive and select the camera for RTS mode. For some reason its defaulted to a different view. Solid mod, a few things I find annoying or puzzling and the crossing rivers/villages part is rather annoying especially as no one knows about it, but a decent mod overall, thanks.

[cunctator]

Thanks and compliments for the excellent and professional mod. I hope you can consider a M:TW2 version with a campaign mode, and of course that the Waterloo pack will came soon.

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

a few things I find annoying or puzzling and the crossing rivers/villages part is rather annoying especially as no one knows about it

I understand, but the problem is the RTW pathfinding that is, and we are polite here: not really great.

So we had a choice or create challenging tactical maps with a lot of crossings, bridges, swamp, villages etc... hat add up to the MP battle experience, and hope people would pick up the fact that they now have to resize units to cross them. Or use the rather dull featureless RTW maps, where the units can move without problem as there are no obstacles that can provide more tactical challenges.

We decided to go for the first option, NTW2 cannot played the same as RTW, but once you get the swing of it, we believe it is much more fun and challenging now.

Good news is that CA also admits there was a problem, and what I read they have changed much for the better in MTW2, concerning challenging battle maps and much better unit pathfinding.

LZoF

[Lord Adherbal]

I'm using BI. The original shortcut didn't work for some reason. I made a BI.exe shortcut, copy pasted the - commands from the NTW shortcut and it worked fine. But yeah, the custom battles don't work. The Borodino one did however. Are custom battles working for everyone else?

you need to use rometw.exe.

[Pewe]

I assume you are talking about the Borodino scenario, this is because units are not avaliable right from the start, more and more when you progress the scenario.

Also when crossing bridges, villages the units width have to be smaller than the width of the obstacle you want to cross or pass.

As the Lordz forum is down we have set up a temporarily forum at TWC, there is a FAQ stickied thread overthere with some more explanation.

LZoF

I see, yes that was the problem with those bridges, thank you.

[Andejar]

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

[Geoffrey S]

Wow. I've barely had a chance to play yet (taken that first village), but this is incredibly slick. The music is perfect, the graphics in general are great, and in particular I love the drawn art such as the splash screen. Extremely impressed thus far.

Only issue is a number of typos or clumsy grammar, but that's hardly a problem with the rest being so good. I'm definitely looking forward to that Waterloo expansion!

:2thumbsup:

[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.:laugh4:

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...:idea2:

[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:balloon2:

[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 (http://www.rarlab.com/)

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 ~:rolleyes:

[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
https://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4841/rosterpg0.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

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
https://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1743/rocketswq4.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

WIP N-Europe Terrain
https://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8076/watrloomn9.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

New Northern European terrain & buildings
https://img342.imageshack.us/img342/311/waterloofj3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British Dragoons and Rocket Artillery
https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5572/scotsgreyss7.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5825/rocketsqy6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

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

https://img118.imageshack.us/img118/4325/villagese5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img118.imageshack.us/img118/3241/lineyv8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

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.

https://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2784/villagexh6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3382/churchqv5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

[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:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_landwehr.jpg

Prussian Musketeer:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_musketeer.jpg

Prussian Fusilier:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_fusilier.jpg

Prussian Grenadier:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_grenadier.jpg

Prussian Schutzen:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_schutzen.jpg

[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 ~;) ) :2thumbsup:

[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
https://img363.imageshack.us/img363/8243/battle1rt1.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Highlanders in reserve
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5377/battle2re9.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British 9pounder battery
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7275/battle3yj7.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British Line Infantry
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9968/battle4ao3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Heavy Dragoons charge
https://img377.imageshack.us/img377/1363/battle5vs1.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Horse Guard charge
https://img363.imageshack.us/img363/1795/battle6lo8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British Line overwhelmed
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1693/battle7kc6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Footguard repells a russian charge
https://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7489/battle8ic9.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

And to finish: a peacefull chateau
https://img377.imageshack.us/img377/8012/chateaumu5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

LZoF

[Joel]

:laugh4:

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?:2thumbsup: :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 :2thumbsup:

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

[Joel]

:laugh4: IT works, great.... Fantastic game, many beautiful units, now I must only find my strategy...:book: :D

[GiantMonkeyMan]

holy moly :dizzy2: 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 :jawdrop: 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 :juggle2: flippin heck.... you have actually got me exited about downloading something :sweatdrop:

[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.

[ByzantineKnight]

Which mirror, eveytime I download it and open it with WinRAR it pops up an error "unexpected end of archive" or something like that and I only have 3 pictures for my trouble (the fourth does not work). Please help

[Lord Adherbal]

have you tried using a download manager?

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

The British pack is scheduled for this weekend.

British artillery

https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/605/brit8ug8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

French lancers charge a weak point in the british line

https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8751/brit7ul3.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Light dragoons cut a unit of chasseurs to pieces

https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6299/brit6sc6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British footguard charge

https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4232/brit5gf4.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British foot guard holds cuirassiers charge

https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1238/brit4wy5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Cavalry battle

https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/5104/brit3qd8.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

British hussars charge

https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9307/brit2uc4.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Melee

https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1561/brit1ij6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

[ByzantineKnight]

Adherbal']have you tried using a download manager?

We have Net Vampire but I can't find a link to give it.

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

What are those collumns in the distance? Is it Grouchy? No, it's... it's the Prussians!

Prussian Cuirassiers

https://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6549/prussiansfu4.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Prussian cavalry models in production.

Prussian Landwehr Cavalry:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_cav_landwehr.jpg

Prussian Hussars:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_cav_hussar.jpg

Prussian Uhlans:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_cav_uhlan.jpg

Prussian Dragoons:

http://www.awrate.com/chrishogg/images/prussian_cav_dragoon.jpg

PS: No, they won't reach the battlefield yet for atleast a couple of months.

[Fate]

Wow guys, im new to these forums, but this mod looks like the best yet, the only downside is no campaign, but i think ill be happy enough with these battles for now.
Pretty apt actually,as ive been reading the sharpe books, so i cant wait for some napoleonic battles :D

[excalibur356]

Hi, I installed the mod (at my original RTW directory) with v1.0 patch. I tried to run it but it suddenly closes. is it because that I havn't patch the game yet or is it something else?