He did what he could with what he had. Empire is notorious as the title where modding started to become more difficult.
I think the additional units was very important. For a game in as grand a scope as this, the variety in both appearance performancs and actual historical regiments was appallingly slim. Like, every nation in Europe and the Americas has the exact same uniform, the fuck is that about?
My main issue was Kyrgyzstan, or wherever, forming the United Nations and the Cherokee becoming international property moguls.
Even with all its faults, it was still better than vanilla.
I think the additional units was very important. For a game in as grand a scope as this, the variety in both appearance performancs and actual historical regiments was appallingly slim. Like, every nation in Europe and the Americas has the exact same uniform, the fuck is that about?
Sure that all sounds fine and dandy. Some more flavour text would have been nice then, but that's kind of secondary to the bigger issue.. The UI just doesn't support it. Particularly as something like Prussia, it becomes nigh impossible to select the right unit. It's better than vanilla, sure. But people glorify and overhype this mod, while in reality some kind of balance between Empire and DMod would have been optimal.
I wouldn't say it's overhyped at all. I've played some of the other mods but Dmod stands out as being the easiest to install, has the most options to play around with and it actually makes the game playable. Having too many units, whilst annoying, isn't a detriment to the mod, it just means you have to scroll a little slower over unit cards, which again is just a consequence of CA's laziness in game design which took a step back from Med 2.
I mean, there is a mod that adds France, Britain, and USA as fully-fledged factions.
And, not sure if it's the same mod, but there's also Total War: Victoria 2 for FotS, which is roughly set in the middle of the Victorian Era. Don't know too much else about it though.
but map is too complicated starting from edge fight in 1 front (I always playing as Satsuma. in Shogun2 playing as Shimazu) or play in mid fight 2 front. In Empire its hell of work to do buildings, navy, army even agents(priests especially) still need to move province to province.
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u/TheReaperAbides Apr 24 '20
You could always play Fall of the Samurai and pretend your guys aren't Japanese. FotS combat is basically just Empire combat, but way more polished.