NTW Moddability

Things that can be modded:

Units:

• Unit Sizes
• Unit abilities can be changed / swapped

Morale

• Unit costs, prices and campaign movement points.
• Unit accuracy and reload skill
• Unit formation spacing
• Size of unit's collision model
• Unit movement speeds
• Unit firing arc

Weapons and projectiles:

• Weapon apperance (skin only)
• Rate of fire
• Range
• Gravitational effect on projectiles
• New projectiles can be added, using old models and skins
• Explosions can be altered graphically and physically

Unit graphics:

• Unit skins and cards can be edited completely

Custom battles:

• Starting armies can be edited.

Models:

• Models can be made for Empire and imported into Napoleon, but this has many side-effects (unit card, faces etc.)

Battle equipment:

• Can be swapped among units; new equipment cannot be added.

UI:

• Appearance of UI can be fully changed
• All in-game movies are editable

(NOTE: UI BUTTON CHANGES CANNOT BE MADE WITHOUT SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF LUA)

• The effect of UI buttons can be edited.

Sounds:

• Sounds can be changed.
• Sound triggers can be modded, but little is known about them.

Animations:

• Animations corresponding to actions can be changed.

Scripting:

• NTW has a comprehensive scripting language, but requires a decent knowledge of Lua to mod successfully. It doesn't contain most functions seen in RTW/M2TW (such as spawn), but offers many workarounds.
• Region traits can be used to award building-like effects via script

Mapping

• Region ownerships can be changed
• Starting units can be moved anywhere on the map
• Building slots can be changed and added/removed
• Diplomacy can be changed
• Starting units can be altered slightly (size and actual unit. See below for more)

Technologies:

• New techs can be added (created from scratch)
• Tech effects can changed slightly.
• Tech research time can be changed.

Buildings:

• New buildings can be added and existing ones modified
• All building effects can be changed

Battle Maps:

• Battle maps can be edited using tools for ETW (which are compatible with NTW)

Naval Battles:

• Ship speeds can be edited.
• Ship crew and cannon can be edited
• Morale can be edited
• Ship skins and damage appearance can be edited.

Firing drills:

• Certain things such as two rank fire can be forced into the game, but the actual drills are hardcoded.
• The effect drills have on reload and accuracy can be edited.

Text:

• All in-game text is editable - units, buildings, tooltips, characters, settlements, UI text etc

Morale effects, fatigue effects, general "rules":

• The effect that certain factors have on morale and fatigue can be edited. (New ones cannot be added)
• In-game rules are editable. These includes projectile misfire rates, naval projectile incendiary rates, the effect that firing drills have on reload rates etc.

Campaign AI:

Campaign AI is fairly moddable. It appears that all variables influencing CAI behaviuor are exposed, and moddable, but you can't change the algorithms behind AI decision-making.

Things that can't be modded:

Models:

• Models can't be edited or added. A converter is being worked on.

Mapping:

• New regions cannot be added.
• Region borders cannot be added.
• Campaign map features (hills, rivers etc) cannot be edited

Animations:

• Animations cannot be added, created or edited (see above for more info).

Weapons + projectiles:

• New weapons (swords, machine guns etc) cannot be added.

Custom battles:

• Starting money cannot be edited.

Firing drills:

• Completely hard coded

Officers, flag bearers and drummers:

• There is only one slot available for each of these. New ones cannot be added but ordinary soldiers can be placed in the slots available.