Newbie to mods needs (extensive-?) help

[pevergreen]

Its a one way thing. If you play a campaign with the british on the normal game (called vanilla in modding terms) you can't continue it in the mod, so you create a new campaign as the french, but you can't take that outside the mod.

So quick answer: Yes, Yes.

All you need to do to switch between mods and vanilla is use mod manager, tick what you want, untick what you don't want.

[Obadiah]

Thanks, really appreciate the help.