Re: Mods to install/follow
The goal of this mod is to make ETW more historically accurate, so if your not interested in 18th Century history its probably not for you.Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
The main area affected are the battles.
I find the troops behave more appropriately, and the uniforms, weapon capabilities and weapon effects are more accurate. For some reason this seems to affect the way the AI plays the game and generally speaking it does a better job than I remember it doing in vanilla. Suicide charges are quite a rare occurence for instance.
In the campaign game TROM limits recruitment of certain units whilst adding additional regional units. So, for example Sweden can only support so many Line Infantry Regiments but if it captures Denmark then it is able to add a number of Danish Volunteer Regiments to its battle line. My Swedish army currently has Danish, Polish, Prussian and Russian volunteer units in its battle line.
Artillery had been given more historically accurate ranges and the trajectory of fire has been flattened to make them more historically accurate. Likewise musketry now has it poper range and effect. Fatigue effects have been increased to reduce the amount of rushing around that both you and the AI can get away with. I find cavalry needs to be rested after every major charge, which is as it should be.
The biggest problem with the TROM_NAVAL_SUB_MOD is that the ships now rapidly run out of sea due to the arbitary limits set by the game, and that gets a bit frustrating as your constantly having to modify your tactic's to avoid the edges of the ocean.
There is nothing in TROM that I would prefer not to be there, in some cases I would have liked it to go even farther than it has, but in most cases I've got round than by downloading another small mod to provide the additional changes.
Generally, I would say that were it not for TROM I would no longer be bothering to play ETW, as the vanilla game is really just a joke.
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