Imperial Splendour
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Imperial Splendour attempts to create the best Empire: Total War experience possible without destroying the essence of the game, with an eye towards expanding and enriching the experience, while adding to the game's realism whenever possible.
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Overview
Imperial Splendour is a game enhancement mod which attempts to improve on various aspects of the original Empires game. The main aspect is differing the factions from each other, to allow for a different campaigns with different factions.
Features
- New Rosters for each faction. Unique to the faction and different from each others.
- New Colonila Recruitment system
- New Artillery System
- Re-worked AI, redesigned to provide a sustainable challenge to the player.
- More tactical land battles, with unit cost and stat changes
- Revisions to building cost and availability.
- Reskinned several different factions, and even reworked some others completely
- Naval combat completely overhauled
- Many campaign map changes (buildings changed / added / removed)
- Included cavalry standard bearers
Submods
Nec Aspera Terrent
There is currently a work-in-progress submod for IS, named Nec Aspera Terrent. It focuses on the Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg, also known as Electorat of Hannover. The mod added 4 new Ministers, Reworked portraits of all historic starting characters, added new building chain to represent Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, reworked the tech tree Army and Artillery. It also added 33 new units and 2 unique buildings.
Tricorn To Helmet: Fall of the Imperial Splendours
Tricorn To Helmet: Fall of the Imperial Splendours is a official work-in-progress submod for IS. It was officialy announced on July 27, 2012 by the mod-leader, Flikitos. It focuses at far late 18th century during the Revolutionary wars and will provide late units for every faction. Players will be allowed to choose between old Monarchies, and New Republic which will try to broadcast the Revolutionary ideas so as to lead Europe to the Fall of the Imperial Splendours.
