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.

Features

Map Overview

Complete unit statistics overhaul
Remade the unit regiment sizes, with each nation having their unique sizes, probably the most historically correct unit sizes
Redone general's unit sizes and some bodyguards
Redone unit ranges
Completely redone the barracks recruitment system
Added an 'Area of Recruitment' system (the first to do it properly to this extent)
Added new battle flags
Added campaign map, battle and main menu music
Adding a heap of units for all nations (major and minor, unlike other mods)
Added square formation to all elite, line, light and most millita
All skirmisher units can hide anywere (including buildings) and move without being seen
All elite units now inspire nearby soldiers
All units with bearskin grenadier hats, and the best elite units now frighten nearby enemies
All Nations now have their historical firing ranks for the line
Dragoons can now shoot from horseback
We are historially changing uniforms to their correct likeness
Muskets have their correct fire and reload rate and the accuracy of the musket has decreased significantly
Rifles are very much more accurate then muskets
Changed the names of all Nations to there proper names
Added realistic battle sound effects
Added smoke effects, thanks to the Battlefield smoke mod
Put a unit cap on all units except for some like militia
Deleted all wooden stakes from skirmishers
Moddified missile lethality
Changing naval statistics for more realism
Changing artillery statistics for more realism
Modified morale effects
Changed the amount of ammo each different regiment carries
Changing the campaign armies on the map
We have increased the some armor values
All militia and dragoons now have a policing bonus
Removed preset armies
Changing the campaign mode to July 1806 when the formed Federation of the Rhine is established
Changing ownership of some regions for it to be historically correct to the 1806 period
Change the miss fire rate to 1 out of 5
Im working on my own BAI & CAI, but in the mean time were using the Ultimate AI Mod
Lancers now use sabers in close meele combat, officers stand around with their hands behind thier back and look through a telescope (thanks to tiyafeh's animation mod)
Cannons now have gunpowder marks on the end of them (thanks to MB's cannon gunpowder mod)
We have our own intro movie, thanks to xHerzoGx awesome work
All equipment has been retextured thanks to pdguru's mod
Changed the capital of The Russian Empire to St. Petersburg
Added some battle maps, thanks to Baron von Beer's mod
Replaced loading screen quotes with parts of Sun Tzu's Art of War
Changed unit spotting range
All infantry and dismountable cavalry can now hide inside of buildings
All Chasseur-a-Cheval can dismount
You will now see the French Line and Elite troops marching in column attack formation ready to be deployed at your generals will (this is their default formation which the AI uses, you can choose whatever formation you want)
Replaced the loading screens with our own
The inspire ability that generals use now has a much greater effect on routing troops
Assigning all regiments to their correct names
Planning on making new and better unit cards for all units
Redone General's custom battle command stars, now the French have the most inferior generals on the field of battle
All cavalry except for lancers (because of a visual problem) can now dismount thier horses
Camera shake reduced
Nations have histroical amounts of artillery pieces in a battery or regiments
Were working on our own Tech Tree, but this will take a while to complete
Giving all nations thier correct file and rank spacings
No more Experimental Howitzers
Change the Unit Experiance stats
Units will usually retreat when they lose about half their regiment
New unit cards for all generals
Added horse howitzers, which CA missed for some reason, and many more artillery
Redoing the way a seige battle works; you dont have grappling hooks any more, and all cannons except for the new siege cannons can effectivly brake through a fortress wall.
Renamed the unit class "Artillery" to "Foot Artillery" and added a "Siege Artillery" class
Removed Rocket Ships and Bomb Ketchs because they were siege ships, not used for open Naval Warfare
Removed Ironclads because they wern't around during this period
Increased the size of battle maps, they are now twice the size
The bigger caliber of the cannon, the more shots there will be in a cannister shot
Cannister shots reload quicker than a round shot because it doesn't take as long to site thier target
Troops aim up their target for longer and naval cannons stick out of the hull a bit, thanks to oby's firing animations mob
New marching speeds, now your entire army will march at the same speed
Removed honour/unique regminets
French and British armies textures have had a complete overhaull thanks to L'aigles mod
The Austrian Army has had a retexture to have much more historical accuracy and detail