Description

Napoleon: Art of War is the latest modification for Napoleon: Total War. It aims to give you a historically accurate portrayal of the Napoleonic era while still remaining fun and enjoyable. Napoleon: Art of War recreates all the aspects of the original game, making it as historically accurate and realistic as possible.

Change List

Map Overview

GENERAL CHANGES

Put a unit cap on all units, except for some like militia
All militia and dragoons have a policing bonus
Added some battle maps
For custom battle, French generals now have 1 more command star than all other nations
Camera shake reduced

CAMPAIGN CHANGES

Added an Area of Recruitment system
Changing the campaign armies
Changing the Campaign start date to July 1806, which is when the Confederation of the Rhine was established
Modifing the campaign for the new 1806 time
New campaign AI
Changed the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg
Working on our own tech tree

(our mod is only focusing on the custom battles at the moment and hasn't started on the campaign, but were planing it out)

LAND BATTLE MECHANICS CHANGES

Complete unit statistics overhaul, making it much more historically accurate;
The meele fights are much shorter
The ranged fights go much longer
The range of fire arms are much more realistic
The accuarcy of fire arms are much more realistic
Reload rates are much more accurate
Each unit has their correct amount of ammo
Modified some armour values
Unit sizes have been completely redone, with all nations having their historical sizes
Nations have the historical amount of artillery peices in a battery
Cavalry are now realisticly powerful
Modified missile lethality
Changed the miss-fire rate to 1 out of 5
Modified unit spotting range
The bigger caliber of a cannon, the more shots there will be in a canister shot
Canister shots reload quicker because it doesn't take as long to sight thier target
Modified marching speed, so your entire army marches at the same speed
Sieges have been overhauled, no more grappling hooks, and we have introduced seige artillery
New battle AI
All of the best generals now have thier elite bodyguards
Battle maps are now twice the side

Morale has been dramaticly overhauled
Most elite units inspire nearby allies
Certain elite units frighten nearby enemy units
Inspire ability is now much more effective

All elite, line, light and militia infantry can use square formation
All Skirmisher units can hide any were and move without been seen
All nations units have their historical firing ranks
All cavalry with fire arms can fire from horse back
All infantry and dismountable infantry can hide inside of buildings
All nations have thier correct rank deployment and spacing
All cavalry can dismount

Added much more units to all nations armies, for a much better variety and historical accuracy
Added many more artillery units, like 3-lber all the way to 24-lber, and horse howitzers

Deleted wooden stakes
Deleted Experimental Howitzers
Deleted honour/unique regiments

(As you can see, our mod at the moment is greatly focusing on recreating the battle mechanics for much more realistic gameplay)

NAVAL BATTLE MECHANICS CHANGED

Most of our naval changes are because of this mod included: CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT

Deleted Bomb Ketches and rocket ships because they were not used in open naval warfare
Deleted Iron Clads because they were not around during this time

VISUAL & AUDIO CHANGES

France, Britian and Austria have been completely retextured to look 100% historical and look much more detailed
New battle flags
Added realistic blood and sound effects
Added much better smoke effects
Cannons have gunpowder marks on the end of them
All equipment has been retextured

We have our own into movie
Replaced loading screen quotes with some very useful Sun Tzu Art of War extracts
Replaced the loading screen quotes with our own
New unit cards made from historical painting
Changed the names of all nations to their correct, foreign names
Renamed all units to their correct, foreign names