What do you think about The Great War mod for Napoleon? Personally of all the mods I've played this one comes pretty close to the top. All the awesome playable factions, the incredible tech tree, the variety of units from tanks to flamethrowers to historically authentic looking infantry it all just looks so good! Of course there are some bugs and issues but overall I love it. It's also great proof a World War 1 Total War could actually work, hopefully something like it happens in the future!
this is truly amazing!! been following for years but haven't checked in on it in a long while they've done such a good job now I just need to find the time to jump in I'm so stoked though can't wait to give this a run
To be honest i feel the setting is difficult to fit to the TW battle engine and the campaign map is too simple for the complex frontlines of ww1, like there's no trench lines on the campaign map that stop your army just marching right into germany or france etc, but its still a great mod and fun to play if you can overlook that. What we need is the Franco Prussian war....
You can't expect a more than 20 years young start up helped by the UK government to pull this off for 70 € the unit while modders do this for free... You have to be understanding... 😁
@@TheTerminatorGaming Going to just reply down here, since I don't want to multi-comment: I think it is absolutely fantastic that this mod has been matured further. I remember it from years ago, when it was still slowly plodding along and more of a framework than actual gameplay. The fact that it has come so far is pretty amazing. Thanks a lot for spotlighting this forgotten/hidden gem from a title that is now well over a decade old.
@@miquelr2353 Italy had some hard and bloody battles against Austria in the Alpine regions between Italy and Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia and some fleet battles.
It didn't shut down so much as the rather small dev team hit a stage in modding where massive changes were being made. Being a non-professional venture, they had to take 4 years to slowly develop and troubleshoot the update. Once it was done, the delay was blatantly justified in a spectacular way. Since then, it's been mostly refinement. Tldr, the base frame was complete, but the complexity of filling in that framework took 4 years to work through. Then a couple years of refinement have refined it to where it is now.
The game/engine limitations still make this to just be "Napoleon, but reskinned" in terms of combat. It's a really great mod with a lot of work and research put into it, but the limitations make it not actually feel like WW1 and that is unfortunately to its detriment.
@@frederiknielsen6038 I'd disagree, especially if you modded examplewise say Shogun 2 you could make actual trenches you can occupy etc. (- Former mod developer for North & South, North & South 2 for NTW and SIITW)
@@Dennizjoon It's not just about trenches. It's the whole way war is fought that changes so drastically during WW1 that makes it unsuited for total war style gameplay. During all the time periods total war games cover, war is more or less fought in the same way, at least on a very superficial level that can be converted to gameplay. And that is that you have armies, led by generals, that go out, clash on the field of battle/ in sieges and win or loose. This is pretty much how the first few months of WW1 went as well, but after the race to the sea, and the start of trench warfare, this stopped being the case. Now the war was fought constantly, day to day, with "battles" lasting weeks or months. The way I see it, this just does not fit into the Total war gameplay loop. As the war progress further, the tactics also change more towards small units / squad tactics, which is also not very suiatable for total war battles.
Expansion of the map is the most difficult thing ever. Hopefully at some point they will be able to bring U.S. in since they entered the war in 1917. A little late, but they were still involved.
They are im multi-player. Still like 20 or so nations that participated that aren't represented due to the engines limitations. Although I remember on the dev discord there was a script that an American army would appear in France in 1917. But that's not in any actual builds of the mod. Edit: aha at the 5:00 min mark you can see what I me talking about
No reason the US should be on the map, nothing was fought in the U.S. - make them an emergent 'invading' faction like the Mongols in Medieval II, and maybe give GB and France some American troop unlocks in the same event.
This is trully amazing, im not a fan of Total War Napoleon, played it the least of all total wars, but its amazing to see these mods that keep games alive. Possibly there will be a WW1 continuing to WW2 Total war in the future, that would be cool.
I really wish someone would make either a late 1860s mod or ww1 mod for Empire Total War. Though it's outdated and the least liked between the two- being Napoleon and Empire- I still think that the map layout would facilitate a good mod of either time period. I will definitely have to give this mod a try though.
Big fan of napoleon total war. Really glad these guys stuck at this mod. Thankyou for the body of work you've put in, the game looks fantastic. Reckon I'm gonna have to give this a go.
I'm still mightily impressed by the level of quality in his videos. First time I watched one of his videos I thought he was a million subber. When I saw he was under 10,000 I knew I found a channel I would stick around for.
I always thought a WW1 Total War game wouldn't really work, I know this has been in demand for a while, but I just couldn't see it ... that was until I saw this mod, I believe it can be done. I am so downloading this mod.
Honestly in 2024 creative assembly is just like sierra. Their games from the 90‘s and early 2000‘s were great but except for a few gems all their newer games are just not the same. So it‘s up to the modders.
I wish they would make it longer turn wise. Unless it has changed it is such a short campaign. Id love it if they brought the start year to either 1890 1900 or 1910
Whenever I try to play a somewhat sizeable battle in the campaign, it crashes. Is there anything I can do? I want Le Petite Soldats to conquer Germany in open field. But i cant run a battle for more than 15 minutes without it crashing and the glorious victory never being achieved. (This is on 6.2, latest version)
This mod should have been made in Empire, the campaign map alone would guarantee it to be the biggest mod ever. A real World War One. It would include much more of Russia, opening bigger opportunities for Civil war. It would have Iceland and a large North sea, ideal for naval warfare between Germany and Britain. It would have North Africa, and Palestine, and there you have one front added. Balkans would have Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria, none of witch exist in Napoleon ("Balkans" region has Bosnia, meaning A-H never occupied Bosnia in 1878? And Bulgaria, one of 4 Central Powers is totally absent in this mod). And Germany controls Warsaw at the start!? What? Also, Ottoman empire would be an EMPIRE, not just one province. Then you get Caucasian front, Persian front, for much more dynamic campaign. India as a moneymaking factory for Britain open for raiding. Then you get North and South America, meaning you can have USA in the mod. And in the end, those trade zones around the world would make an ideal colonial-like fronts. All in all, the fact the map is so small is the reason I can't get into this mod, as I don't feel it is the real World War One mod. A missed opportunity. Shame.
@@jean-luclorussoThere are many reasons why it would be a bad idea. Napoleon is farther away from Empire than people realize. The AI is quite different and the graphics and effects are much better
No trenches = big nope for me, I think we'll get a closer-to-life WW1 "TW experience" from the folks doing the Ultimate General games, I played their Civil War game and its quite fun, you think the game looks kind of arcadey, and it is, but the scale of battles become immense depending on the map, you have to control vast fronts, and sometimes they're shaped like a V, and you're being squeezed on a hill with artillery and thousands of enemy troops, its really satisfying to beat them back.
you do realise only a small part of ww1 was trenches right? outside of the later end of western theatre most of it was rather mobile, with only smaller positions being dug and abandoned
@@thatorangeguy3646 but you see, without trenches its neither as fun nor as historically accurate since any battle involving trenches cant be accurately reenacted
@@thatorangeguy3646 You're telling me they didn't dig trenches lol, you don't stand around an open field in modern war or you get shot, mobile or not, you dig in.
@@DaniboyBR2 im telling you comparatively it was a smaller part, it was only as big a thing on the western front and a few other areas, vast majority of ww1 was fought on the move, especially eastern front. while yes, trenches were dug everywhere it was usually things like foxholes or shallow pits not a trench as we imagine it
I always thought that the biggest challenge in developing a WW I or even WW II Total War game (the reason why one was never done before) was the use of aerial warfare and the role of planes in the campaign map. But since then, I thought that it could work if done similarly to the space battles of Star Wars Empire at War. Since our planes can't just hover in place when not being actively used, they could just fly in a radius (so for things like that to work, the battle map for aircraft battles should be at least 4x bigger than the current land ones). Other use of aircraft warfare such as bombing strategic places, could be executed similarly to how agents works, so it's not decided in the battlefield. That said, it's cool to see in this mod at least some use of aircraft warfare (the reconnaissance), which is something I have thought of too. It would be cool if there's anti aircraft artillery as well that can be built on the campaign map to counter the aircraft attacks. A similar element, used via campaign map, would be the use of long range missile, which started in WW I. And for modern warfare in general (from WW I onwards), the conquering of territory should be different from the traditional TW way. Instead of capturing a whole area when occupying a city of town, you should be acquiring territory bit by bit as you win (and vice-versa of course). With little, but important things like cutting supply lines, etc, a modern warfare TW game has potential to be the most strategic of all TW games and one of the best war games ever. And a overall addition that I'd like to see in a future Total War (any historical period) would be being able to access your towns/cities any time (not just when there's a battle) and be able to actually upgrade them from that map (like a city building game). I think you can be much more strategic when being able to choose where you place certain buildings and defenses in your towns. Finally, a dumb question: if you install the mod, it would work like the Game of Thrones one for Medieval II, where it completely overrides the base game and you can only play it again if you uninstall the mod, unlike an expansion which you can just choose to play whenever? Great video! Cheers!
Planes could also work like the bombardment mechanic in Shogun 2 fallen samuraj. Battles needs to be nearby airfield etc.. Were fighter planes could work like an % if the bombardment will work or not. Enemy has 10 fighter planes and you have 5 bombardment planes which make it like 75% that the areal bombardment will work.
I mean Ottoman has a lot of key battles in the war. First is the Dardanelles campaing which caused the dissolution of the Russian Empire also the campaings in South Arabia which leads a lot of challenge for Ottoman Empire. I hope they will find a way around to mod the game to this point. And it would be amazing to see domestic events for each faction.
There's no melee button. Way to make cavalry useless since they can no longer charge artillery pieces or infantry. And the engine not supporting trench warfare it would be better to focus on the summer of 1914 leading up to the Marne.
it has some issues. Like if France takes Berlin and you're an ally, you NEED to delcare war on them. Also, Germany always seems to steamroll France in my campaigns. The cargo ships are also limited to like 2. So it's just a slight tiny boost. It has a lot of greatness in it, but ut still needs a few tweaks.
Hey Terminator, I have started a fresh campaign on this mod, but I notice towards April 1918, in game the whole thing tends to crash, any fixes for this you suggest? I am playing an Ottoman Campaign and I am about to beat it, but the game crashes everytime I try to go beyond that date.
Since you played the game till 1918, I'll have a question. Everytime I play the mod as any faction other than Germany, the allies always retake belgium and release it or it emerges on its own but for some reason germany always loses belgium after a few turns and it wont redeclare war on it wich is very immersion breaking plus it slows down the gameplay. And I've encountered this bug in the launcher version too. Did you encounter this bug?
hey one question: how do i deinstall the mod? i downloaded the mod without knowong the basic mecanis... now i want the normal game back and i dont know how... can you help me pls?
I got a question, last time downloaded the mod I got Trojan virus and the mod wasn’t working so I don’t really trust the mod (I have a gen 12th Intel cpu napoleon wasn’t working on 12th gen until recently I don’t if that caused the problem)
I would be very interested, if they have the spanish flue in the game. A pandemic, that killed more people, than any other pandemic in history, but for the black death. All waring nations kept the outbreak under wraps, so spain, which was neutral, got the dubious honor of having the flue named after it, as they were the first nation to acknowledge, that there is a sickness raging through the world.
Controvertial take but this mod should've been made in FoTS, I feel like it's more refined and the ultimate version of gunpowder combat in TW. Though I'm not sure if the engine could take it.
This looks to be the absolute best WW1 game of all those games about the "War to End all Wars" that have come out recently. My only question/concern is that I didn't see the Unites States as one of the factions. I realize they only entered the war during the last 6 months, but still played a vital role in it. Does the U.S. become a "playable faction" toward the end, or do you know of any future plans for them to be eventually added? If not, then I don't think it can be considered to be totally historically accurate.
@@TheTerminatorGaming It still looks like an awesome game, and your video does it justice by showing all the elements in a thorough and concise way. Keep up the great work, and thanks for taking the time and effort to make these entertaining, engaging, and informative vids!
the "where the shadows lie" lord of the ring mod for total war troy stopped development :(( BUT they opened assets and current progress for everyone, in case anyboy wants to pick it up WE NEED TO SAVE THIS GUYS THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST MOD EVER
Terminator - I need your help. I have Napoleon: Total War as downloaded and run through Steam. I downloaded the WWI mod and moved the data file no problem. I cannot find the Napoleon script folder to drop the user.script file into and overwrite. Can you help?
Its in your user appdata folder. Go into your user folder on your main hard drive, unhide any hidden folders, go into appdata and roaming then the creative assembly folder you should find it there
@@TheTerminatorGaming Yea. I always love to max out the difficulty and see how long I can hold it. When tanks pop out it gets insane. Also when Frostpunk 2 comes out look at that. Not sure if you're familiar with it, but essentially it's a city builder survival game where you have gradually make worse and worse choices in an attempt to save people. Amazing game that really makes you think.
The only thing I don't like about this mod is the map missing Anatolia and north Africa and the lack of cities. Playing campaigns only in Europe is boring.
@@TheTerminatorGaming that's disappointing. Napoleon was the only one I never played aside from everything after Rome 2 and this mod could be enough of a reason for me to get it on sale.
Italy lost 1 million and 200 thousand men in ww1, more than the British Empire in ITS ENTIRETY during the war. It is honestly insulting, and disgusting, to even just consider it a minor faction. It was a major European Powe, and played a major role in the war and in the interwar period up until the Munich agreement of 1938. Frankly, I don't know why am I even surprised, there are imbecilles in this comment section who even argue that Italy "cHangEd SidEs", ignoring that Austria Hungary betrayed the Triple Alliance TWICE, before Italy moved from neutrality into accepting the terms offered into the treaty of London. The anti Italianism instrinsic in the Anglosphere is just disgusting, but what do you exoect from intellectual subhumans.....
@@cmdrgarbage1895 I cry about how miserable you must be to answer an intellectually superior comment in such fashion. But what do you expect from a guy called garbage....self explanatory
The only problem with this mod is small campaign map, I would play it if it was also with india and America like Empire TW.. maybe bigger portion of Africa and some coastal areas of south america with new states... and ALSO JAPAN AND CHINA heheheh... just a dream...
Those factions could possibly be added as custom battle factions since Custom battles can have more factions than campaign. I wish Empire was more like napoleon. Napoleon is more polished and less buggy in terms of battles, but the campaigns suck. If only there was a way to Mod the campaign map in napoleon so the Developers could make the entire world for the mod.
@@TheTerminatorGaming looking for time period between 1600s-1820ish - best mod for each based upon those years. I’d like to be able to have actual general units with real names and actual accurate unit types to recruit.
Can you play the Kaiser as a single unit character? That would be awesome. Also, no spoilers please as to the outcome of the war, I might download this mod
Ok what's the catch??? 🤔🤨 I'm looking at this side eyed, like this sounds too good to be true. This is like a dream total war for me, and I never even heard of this mod!! Anybody played this yet? It is really that good? Can I get excited??
@@TheTerminatorGaming look at these ships dude, it’s a combination of star enterprises and pirate ships. They even have wheelbarrows on the sides, those are the cloud producers when they enter space
It bothers me that theres so many incredible mods for Empire and Napoleon but CA focuses on the 4th Warhammer and random, uninteresting Troy and Egypt themed Total Wars. I once wrote them an E-Mail, suggesting instead of making boring Warhammer Total Wars, how about getting a Lord of the Rings Total War going. They actually replied to me with saying "We do not own any right of that"... yeah well... you don´t say.
What do you think about The Great War mod for Napoleon? Personally of all the mods I've played this one comes pretty close to the top. All the awesome playable factions, the incredible tech tree, the variety of units from tanks to flamethrowers to historically authentic looking infantry it all just looks so good! Of course there are some bugs and issues but overall I love it. It's also great proof a World War 1 Total War could actually work, hopefully something like it happens in the future!
this is truly amazing!! been following for years but haven't checked in on it in a long while they've done such a good job now I just need to find the time to jump in I'm so stoked though can't wait to give this a run
To be honest i feel the setting is difficult to fit to the TW battle engine and the campaign map is too simple for the complex frontlines of ww1, like there's no trench lines on the campaign map that stop your army just marching right into germany or france etc, but its still a great mod and fun to play if you can overlook that.
What we need is the Franco Prussian war....
They still haven't fixed the ships?
It's great for a mod I wish we would fight on the trench maps they created for battles not just a grass field❤❤
amazing how do you install
CA could have made an easy £10m profit if they did this themselves. They really are a shambles, aren't they.
Well done to the modders
You can't expect a more than 20 years young start up helped by the UK government to pull this off for 70 € the unit while modders do this for free...
You have to be understanding... 😁
Making Italy a minor faction is both harsh and hilarious.
Hahaha I know right :D
@@TheTerminatorGaming Going to just reply down here, since I don't want to multi-comment:
I think it is absolutely fantastic that this mod has been matured further. I remember it from years ago, when it was still slowly plodding along and more of a framework than actual gameplay. The fact that it has come so far is pretty amazing. Thanks a lot for spotlighting this forgotten/hidden gem from a title that is now well over a decade old.
In ww2 they accomolished nothing 😂 dont know about ww1 tho
Last time Italy was a major faction in real life was Rome lol. They have been a meme since then. 😂
@@miquelr2353 Italy had some hard and bloody battles against Austria in the Alpine regions between Italy and Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia and some fleet battles.
Great to see this mod coming back to life!
Around 10 years ago its development shut down until recently, if I remember correctly.
Fantastic mod!
It didn't shut down so much as the rather small dev team hit a stage in modding where massive changes were being made. Being a non-professional venture, they had to take 4 years to slowly develop and troubleshoot the update. Once it was done, the delay was blatantly justified in a spectacular way. Since then, it's been mostly refinement.
Tldr, the base frame was complete, but the complexity of filling in that framework took 4 years to work through. Then a couple years of refinement have refined it to where it is now.
The game/engine limitations still make this to just be "Napoleon, but reskinned" in terms of combat. It's a really great mod with a lot of work and research put into it, but the limitations make it not actually feel like WW1 and that is unfortunately to its detriment.
WW1 combat, except for the fist few months of the war, is really not suited for the total war formula.
Well at least it wasn't empire
@@frederiknielsen6038 0.2 fps
@@frederiknielsen6038 I'd disagree, especially if you modded examplewise say Shogun 2 you could make actual trenches you can occupy etc.
(- Former mod developer for North & South, North & South 2 for NTW and SIITW)
@@Dennizjoon It's not just about trenches. It's the whole way war is fought that changes so drastically during WW1 that makes it unsuited for total war style gameplay.
During all the time periods total war games cover, war is more or less fought in the same way, at least on a very superficial level that can be converted to gameplay. And that is that you have armies, led by generals, that go out, clash on the field of battle/ in sieges and win or loose.
This is pretty much how the first few months of WW1 went as well, but after the race to the sea, and the start of trench warfare, this stopped being the case. Now the war was fought constantly, day to day, with "battles" lasting weeks or months.
The way I see it, this just does not fit into the Total war gameplay loop.
As the war progress further, the tactics also change more towards small units / squad tactics, which is also not very suiatable for total war battles.
i wish this mod was made on Shogun 2 engine. "fall of the samurai" period is a lot closer to WW1 than napoleonic times...
Fall of the samurai would be perfect for a civil war mod
@@stephengrigg5988Believe there is one, it's just hella outdated
@@cheesebandit6148Is that the one that only works on custom battles?
I am in total agreement with you. The naval battles doesn't work with Napoleon
Expansion of the map is the most difficult thing ever. Hopefully at some point they will be able to bring U.S. in since they entered the war in 1917. A little late, but they were still involved.
They are im multi-player. Still like 20 or so nations that participated that aren't represented due to the engines limitations. Although I remember on the dev discord there was a script that an American army would appear in France in 1917. But that's not in any actual builds of the mod.
Edit: aha at the 5:00 min mark you can see what I me talking about
Nah. Even as an American I want the Americans to appear as units in separate nations rather than a full on nation
netherlands turns into USA in 1917 through event
No reason the US should be on the map, nothing was fought in the U.S. - make them an emergent 'invading' faction like the Mongols in Medieval II, and maybe give GB and France some American troop unlocks in the same event.
@@RowanDrake47 And end game boss for the Central Powers would be pretty cool.
This is trully amazing, im not a fan of Total War Napoleon, played it the least of all total wars, but its amazing to see these mods that keep games alive. Possibly there will be a WW1 continuing to WW2 Total war in the future, that would be cool.
I mean it's a matter of taste but objectively it's one of the best Total Wars
Always been my absolute favourite of the total wars
You're doing a great job showing me all the different mods for total war that are top tier I didn't even know existed! Thank you!
Thank you!
@@TheTerminatorGaming This mod would have been better on the Shogun 2 total war engine or , Total war attlia engine
I really wish someone would make either a late 1860s mod or ww1 mod for Empire Total War. Though it's outdated and the least liked between the two- being Napoleon and Empire- I still think that the map layout would facilitate a good mod of either time period. I will definitely have to give this mod a try though.
Steam and Steel is pretty close to that. But it’s a mod for Medieval 2.
Big fan of napoleon total war. Really glad these guys stuck at this mod. Thankyou for the body of work you've put in, the game looks fantastic. Reckon I'm gonna have to give this a go.
I remember when you had a mere 8k subs. Look at you grow. I'm like a proud dad
Haha thanks man!
I'm still mightily impressed by the level of quality in his videos. First time I watched one of his videos I thought he was a million subber. When I saw he was under 10,000 I knew I found a channel I would stick around for.
I always thought a WW1 Total War game wouldn't really work, I know this has been in demand for a while, but I just couldn't see it ... that was until I saw this mod, I believe it can be done. I am so downloading this mod.
Honestly in 2024 creative assembly is just like sierra. Their games from the 90‘s and early 2000‘s were great but except for a few gems all their newer games are just not the same. So it‘s up to the modders.
I wish they would make it longer turn wise. Unless it has changed it is such a short campaign. Id love it if they brought the start year to either 1890 1900 or 1910
I never understand why they always cut out northern parts of scandinavia out on the maps. I guess the world doesnt like top quality iron etc...
Amazing mod, would be my favorite if it didn’t crash constantly
Somehow my favorite mod but it keeps crashing during battles. Does someone know a fix? Its driving me insane
Same, I can't run a major battle without it crashing, so whenever I do a campaign I can't go past August 1914..
Whenever I try to play a somewhat sizeable battle in the campaign, it crashes. Is there anything I can do? I want Le Petite Soldats to conquer Germany in open field. But i cant run a battle for more than 15 minutes without it crashing and the glorious victory never being achieved. (This is on 6.2, latest version)
I will second this comment
This mod should have been made in Empire, the campaign map alone would guarantee it to be the biggest mod ever. A real World War One. It would include much more of Russia, opening bigger opportunities for Civil war. It would have Iceland and a large North sea, ideal for naval warfare between Germany and Britain. It would have North Africa, and Palestine, and there you have one front added. Balkans would have Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria, none of witch exist in Napoleon ("Balkans" region has Bosnia, meaning A-H never occupied Bosnia in 1878? And Bulgaria, one of 4 Central Powers is totally absent in this mod). And Germany controls Warsaw at the start!? What? Also, Ottoman empire would be an EMPIRE, not just one province. Then you get Caucasian front, Persian front, for much more dynamic campaign. India as a moneymaking factory for Britain open for raiding. Then you get North and South America, meaning you can have USA in the mod. And in the end, those trade zones around the world would make an ideal colonial-like fronts. All in all, the fact the map is so small is the reason I can't get into this mod, as I don't feel it is the real World War One mod. A missed opportunity. Shame.
Agreed
@@jean-luclorussoThere are many reasons why it would be a bad idea. Napoleon is farther away from Empire than people realize. The AI is quite different and the graphics and effects are much better
in Empire France is just 1 region so it would be unbalanced
No trenches = big nope for me, I think we'll get a closer-to-life WW1 "TW experience" from the folks doing the Ultimate General games, I played their Civil War game and its quite fun, you think the game looks kind of arcadey, and it is, but the scale of battles become immense depending on the map, you have to control vast fronts, and sometimes they're shaped like a V, and you're being squeezed on a hill with artillery and thousands of enemy troops, its really satisfying to beat them back.
The total war engine isnt designed for trench battles, the closet thing would be Having them prebuilt into a battle map and putting units inside them
you do realise only a small part of ww1 was trenches right? outside of the later end of western theatre most of it was rather mobile, with only smaller positions being dug and abandoned
@@thatorangeguy3646 but you see, without trenches its neither as fun nor as historically accurate since any battle involving trenches cant be accurately reenacted
@@thatorangeguy3646 You're telling me they didn't dig trenches lol, you don't stand around an open field in modern war or you get shot, mobile or not, you dig in.
@@DaniboyBR2 im telling you comparatively it was a smaller part, it was only as big a thing on the western front and a few other areas, vast majority of ww1 was fought on the move, especially eastern front.
while yes, trenches were dug everywhere it was usually things like foxholes or shallow pits not a trench as we imagine it
I always thought that the biggest challenge in developing a WW I or even WW II Total War game (the reason why one was never done before) was the use of aerial warfare and the role of planes in the campaign map.
But since then, I thought that it could work if done similarly to the space battles of Star Wars Empire at War. Since our planes can't just hover in place when not being actively used, they could just fly in a radius (so for things like that to work, the battle map for aircraft battles should be at least 4x bigger than the current land ones). Other use of aircraft warfare such as bombing strategic places, could be executed similarly to how agents works, so it's not decided in the battlefield.
That said, it's cool to see in this mod at least some use of aircraft warfare (the reconnaissance), which is something I have thought of too. It would be cool if there's anti aircraft artillery as well that can be built on the campaign map to counter the aircraft attacks.
A similar element, used via campaign map, would be the use of long range missile, which started in WW I. And for modern warfare in general (from WW I onwards), the conquering of territory should be different from the traditional TW way. Instead of capturing a whole area when occupying a city of town, you should be acquiring territory bit by bit as you win (and vice-versa of course). With little, but important things like cutting supply lines, etc, a modern warfare TW game has potential to be the most strategic of all TW games and one of the best war games ever.
And a overall addition that I'd like to see in a future Total War (any historical period) would be being able to access your towns/cities any time (not just when there's a battle) and be able to actually upgrade them from that map (like a city building game). I think you can be much more strategic when being able to choose where you place certain buildings and defenses in your towns.
Finally, a dumb question: if you install the mod, it would work like the Game of Thrones one for Medieval II, where it completely overrides the base game and you can only play it again if you uninstall the mod, unlike an expansion which you can just choose to play whenever?
Great video!
Cheers!
Planes could also work like the bombardment mechanic in Shogun 2 fallen samuraj. Battles needs to be nearby airfield etc.. Were fighter planes could work like an % if the bombardment will work or not. Enemy has 10 fighter planes and you have 5 bombardment planes which make it like 75% that the areal bombardment will work.
I mean Ottoman has a lot of key battles in the war. First is the Dardanelles campaing which caused the dissolution of the Russian Empire also the campaings in South Arabia which leads a lot of challenge for Ottoman Empire. I hope they will find a way around to mod the game to this point. And it would be amazing to see domestic events for each faction.
Love this mod - any tips on avoiding crashes?
I tried it like 2 years back, was feeling it but the campaign kept crashing so I switched back to darthmod. And now big into 1212.
I think there are too few regional parts & cities to really get the feeling of the beginning of the 20th century but in other parts it is really good.
I don't understand why the Napoleon and Empire series is not continued, for example, as in Rome...
Imagine if somehow you can manage include Napoleon as a General in this mod.
His in game unit is a literal French Tank
This looks like a lot of fun. Any chance of sharing a battle or two with us?
Yeah I can do!
@@TheTerminatorGaming Nice! Looking forward to it.
It's baffling how modders are fixing what CA fails to do. CA is done for me
Same
Theory: Bulgaria is not added, because it was too powerful, so the mod won't be balanced... :D
will have to give this a try. great video.
Thanks! And let me know what you think of it!
There's no melee button. Way to make cavalry useless since they can no longer charge artillery pieces or infantry. And the engine not supporting trench warfare it would be better to focus on the summer of 1914 leading up to the Marne.
it has some issues. Like if France takes Berlin and you're an ally, you NEED to delcare war on them. Also, Germany always seems to steamroll France in my campaigns. The cargo ships are also limited to like 2. So it's just a slight tiny boost. It has a lot of greatness in it, but ut still needs a few tweaks.
Would be amazing if they were able to make anatolia a traversable land, and give the ottoman and bit of extra strength
Hey Terminator, I have started a fresh campaign on this mod, but I notice towards April 1918, in game the whole thing tends to crash, any fixes for this you suggest? I am playing an Ottoman Campaign and I am about to beat it, but the game crashes everytime I try to go beyond that date.
Not sure mate if you join their discord I’m sure they’ll be able to help you there :)
Since you played the game till 1918, I'll have a question. Everytime I play the mod as any faction other than Germany, the allies always retake belgium and release it or it emerges on its own but for some reason germany always loses belgium after a few turns and it wont redeclare war on it wich is very immersion breaking plus it slows down the gameplay. And I've encountered this bug in the launcher version too. Did you encounter this bug?
But in the East I want to fight against Bulgaria. They were pretty important. Is it impossible to add new provinces when modding Napoleon?
Yeah unfortunately the map is pretty hard scripted
Followed your instructions, but crashes on start up, any advice?
The thing that's bugging me is the lack of Bulgaria as a playable faction. Other than that, it looks great.
Since the regions are hardcoded, Bulgaria is pretty much impossible to include (unless the Ottoman empire is removed)
hey one question: how do i deinstall the mod? i downloaded the mod without knowong the basic mecanis... now i want the normal game back and i dont know how... can you help me
pls?
Wait isnt this mod quite old or is this a new version or release? im confused
I mean its not that old. 6.0 was released last year, 6.2 released around May I believe?
Looks like a fantastic mod!! WW2 is my favorite period of history. I hope a serious WW2 mod will be developed soon!
I got a question, last time downloaded the mod I got Trojan virus and the mod wasn’t working so I don’t really trust the mod (I have a gen 12th Intel cpu napoleon wasn’t working on 12th gen until recently I don’t if that caused the problem)
Couldnt install it with a pirate napolleon game. Do i really need to buy napoleon on steam?
It's not much
I would be very interested, if they have the spanish flue in the game. A pandemic, that killed more people, than any other pandemic in history, but for the black death.
All waring nations kept the outbreak under wraps, so spain, which was neutral, got the dubious honor of having the flue named after it, as they were the first nation to acknowledge, that there is a sickness raging through the world.
Controvertial take but this mod should've been made in FoTS, I feel like it's more refined and the ultimate version of gunpowder combat in TW. Though I'm not sure if the engine could take it.
Mod install at @7:30
Gates of Hell has a fantastic WW1 mod called Some Desperate Glory you should check it out
This mod looks amazing, like I have a reason to install Napoleonic wars now lol
3:56 they have to. the german army of ww1 start was the biggest army in the world history so...
This looks to be the absolute best WW1 game of all those games about the "War to End all Wars" that have come out recently. My only question/concern is that I didn't see the Unites States as one of the factions. I realize they only entered the war during the last 6 months, but still played a vital role in it. Does the U.S. become a "playable faction" toward the end, or do you know of any future plans for them to be eventually added? If not, then I don't think it can be considered to be totally historically accurate.
Not playable at the moment. Maybe in the future though :)
@@TheTerminatorGaming It still looks like an awesome game, and your video does it justice by showing all the elements in a thorough and concise way. Keep up the great work, and thanks for taking the time and effort to make these entertaining, engaging, and informative vids!
the "where the shadows lie" lord of the ring mod for total war troy stopped development :(( BUT they opened assets and current progress for everyone, in case anyboy wants to pick it up WE NEED TO SAVE THIS GUYS THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST MOD EVER
Can somebody help me i have installed it but when the mod launcher starts the game it just closes and the laucher closes too.
I have a question, what if you already have a mod installed? (ntw3)
You’ll to uninstall NTW3 and install the great war unfortunately :(
Looks good. Only Think I am missing is Machineguns and more Trenches.
Terminator - I need your help. I have Napoleon: Total War as downloaded and run through Steam. I downloaded the WWI mod and moved the data file no problem. I cannot find the Napoleon script folder to drop the user.script file into and overwrite. Can you help?
Its in your user appdata folder. Go into your user folder on your main hard drive, unhide any hidden folders, go into appdata and roaming then the creative assembly folder you should find it there
Thanks! I found it and am enjoying the new mod!
Is it safe to download this mod and other mods from mod db ?
What do you reckon, Terminator, coul CA ever produce a historical total war in a modern context like this mod? I would love one
Hmmm they could try, but don’t think it would be good given their current track record
@@TheTerminatorGaming It's a shame. I think it could be a very good way to revolutionize the historical total wars in a completelly new setting.
You should do a review for The Great War: Western Front
Its honestly insanely good.
I’ve been playing it lately actually I’m loving it!
@@TheTerminatorGaming
Yea. I always love to max out the difficulty and see how long I can hold it. When tanks pop out it gets insane.
Also when Frostpunk 2 comes out look at that. Not sure if you're familiar with it, but essentially it's a city builder survival game where you have gradually make worse and worse choices in an attempt to save people. Amazing game that really makes you think.
Can you use artillery without CTD now?
The only thing I don't like about this mod is the map missing Anatolia and north Africa and the lack of cities. Playing campaigns only in Europe is boring.
Where is my creative assembly folder, I dont have one...
a true total war connosseur, Terminator
Can't believe they kept updating it, I played this 4 years ago, and it was nowhere near this fletched out
It's a pretty mod but the deal breaker for me is no trenches. What is WW1 without trenches and the occasional gas attack.
what do you do if it crashes when you launch a campaign ?
Did you put the player.scripts into your app data folder for napoleon?
Lol those gerry cans remind me of steam tanks from warhammer.
Can the mod be played with every language option or do I have to switch to english?
Not sure about localization. I think its English only for now but I’ll do some digging!
@@TheTerminatorGaming that would bei very nice :)
I just wish they could find a way to change the actual naval models
I still cannot for the life of me get this to run, it always crashes and I can't figure out why
Is there some engine reason why they can't replace the ship models?
I believe there is yes
@@TheTerminatorGaming that's disappointing. Napoleon was the only one I never played aside from everything after Rome 2 and this mod could be enough of a reason for me to get it on sale.
Can I still play the base game even if I have the mod downloaded?
uh here advice for the mod u do half inf and the other half arty and thats it for campaign russia is bias human wave charges
Is this playable in 2024? I’ve seen comments on Moddb saying it crashes a lot. Can anyone confirm if that is true?
Italy lost 1 million and 200 thousand men in ww1, more than the British Empire in ITS ENTIRETY during the war. It is honestly insulting, and disgusting, to even just consider it a minor faction. It was a major European Powe, and played a major role in the war and in the interwar period up until the Munich agreement of 1938. Frankly, I don't know why am I even surprised, there are imbecilles in this comment section who even argue that Italy "cHangEd SidEs", ignoring that Austria Hungary betrayed the Triple Alliance TWICE, before Italy moved from neutrality into accepting the terms offered into the treaty of London. The anti Italianism instrinsic in the Anglosphere is just disgusting, but what do you exoect from intellectual subhumans.....
Cry about it
@@cmdrgarbage1895 I cry about how miserable you must be to answer an intellectually superior comment in such fashion. But what do you expect from a guy called garbage....self explanatory
cry about it@@giulianoilfilosofo7927
What about multiplayer campaign?
The only problem with this mod is small campaign map, I would play it if it was also with india and America like Empire TW.. maybe bigger portion of Africa and some coastal areas of south america with new states... and ALSO JAPAN AND CHINA heheheh... just a dream...
Those factions could possibly be added as custom battle factions since Custom battles can have more factions than campaign. I wish Empire was more like napoleon. Napoleon is more polished and less buggy in terms of battles, but the campaigns suck. If only there was a way to Mod the campaign map in napoleon so the Developers could make the entire world for the mod.
So in your opinion Terminator, what would be the best individual mod for 1) Empire and 2) Napoleon?
I mean depends on what you want?
@@TheTerminatorGaming looking for time period between 1600s-1820ish - best mod for each based upon those years. I’d like to be able to have actual general units with real names and actual accurate unit types to recruit.
Thank you. One small thing - the tanks 😂
Can you play the Kaiser as a single unit character? That would be awesome. Also, no spoilers please as to the outcome of the war, I might download this mod
Was hoping for something new, this mod has been around for years, it's quite known already
I wish they would have ported the empire map into Napoleon, it just feels so small and makes the Ottomans weak
Ok what's the catch??? 🤔🤨 I'm looking at this side eyed, like this sounds too good to be true. This is like a dream total war for me, and I never even heard of this mod!! Anybody played this yet? It is really that good? Can I get excited??
Its amazing but extremely unstable and unbalanced.
Also Victory conditions are glitched for me. despite winning, I dont actual win the campaign.
I want a Franco Prussian war :(
Agreed! The Shogun engine would be perfect for that. The maps would not be 100% but the battle experience would.
that kaiser Wilhelm's lost brother in the thumbnail?
Haha something like that 😂
its working! thx
We all know who I'm about to campaign.
Do wish Creative Assembly would do The US Civil War.
this must be epic. i will download it.
But then out of the sudden you play a naval battle and realize you are not in the era of WW1 but in the Star Wars era
😂😂 Why?
@@TheTerminatorGaming look at these ships dude, it’s a combination of star enterprises and pirate ships. They even have wheelbarrows on the sides, those are the cloud producers when they enter space
It bothers me that theres so many incredible mods for Empire and Napoleon but CA focuses on the 4th Warhammer and random, uninteresting Troy and Egypt themed Total Wars.
I once wrote them an E-Mail, suggesting instead of making boring Warhammer Total Wars, how about getting a Lord of the Rings Total War going. They actually replied to me with saying "We do not own any right of that"... yeah well... you don´t say.
No trenches though
The game has it's limits
@@cigercihakan5558 it does, that’s not to take away what the modders have achieved. I think it’s due more to the limitation of the games engine.
Can you form or release Poland? :)
No trench warfare. Zero stars. Still pretty cool lol
i would like to see some WWI battles
Check out the Grand Battle mod.
I will do!
How do I turn the mod off and on after downloading the mod
You would have to uninstall it, unless you have a mod manager
…. You CA for one more time for not giving us a map tools for NTW
Ok but what about trenches?
lol I just started playing it yesterday and am loving it
The mod for Empire (Empire 2)..every time I try to go to a campaign it crashes. Anyone know what's wrong?