Khorin's Mod Recommendations

[Ninja_Khorin]

Herro!
I've been an avid Total War player for many years now, I owned Shogun and Medieval, which I played a little, but they never really hit it with me. Then Rome: Total War came and changed me forever. Been a small history geek ever since. I believe I've spent at the very lest around 3000 hours in to playing Total War games(only campaign though) My favourite title nowadays is Medieval 2, for the rich variety of mods, but enough about me. I've posted this list in the other thread, but I thought it'd be nice have a thread for mods in general 'round these parts, so here we go.

All of these mods are complete mods. By complete mods, I mean that they are mods that change tons of things in the game with one install. Feel free to add your own mod recommendations in this thread and discuss or ask questions about some of the mods. (If you're going to discuss one mod at length, then starting another thread might be a winning option)

Here we go:

For Medieval 2: Kingdoms(order of badassery, top 3 are equal):
Stainless Steel - Enhanced native campaign, basically.
Third Age - Lord of the Rings.
Broken Crescent - Eastern Roman Empire to Hindus. Medieval time period.
The Last Kingdom - Dark ages mod. British Isles.
Deus Lo Vult - Enhanced Native
THERA - Completely made up mod mixing many different cultures in to one map. Quite amusing.
Paeninsula Italica(beta) - Start of the Roman empire. Situated on the Italian Peninsula, in case your stupid.

Rome: Total War:
Roma Surrectum - Epic mod, nuff said.
Europa Barbarorum - Also an excellent mod. Both of these are enhanced native in essence.

Empire: Total War:
Darthmod - Enhanced native mod. Adds a ton of new troops 'n stuff.

Shogun 2: Total War:
Darthmod - Copy pasta. Enhanced native mod. Adds a ton of new troops 'n stuff.

Darthmod also exists for Napoleon: Total War, but I haven't got around to trying that yet.

Oh, 1648 - 30 years war is supposedly good, but it hasn't been translated yet. So waiting for that. They got deployable cannons on walls. For Medieval 2: Kingdoms

Just hoping that some of the mods I'm waiting for would be released at some point. Like:
Shizoku no Sensō (development cancelled, custom battle mode released)
Westeros: Total War
Dominion of the Sword (development cancelled)
Europa Barbarorum II

And this is just badass

And I've probably played Total War waaaaaaaaay too much in my time.

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You've miss some epic mod

Hyrule: Total War - Epic Legend of Zelda Warfare
www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=421448


Call of Warhammer: Total War" МOD v. 1.5
http://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-warhammer-total-war

Europa Barbarorum is the best mod I've played for any Total War game, hands down, and probably one of the most impressive full-conversion mods for any game out there.


Three other high-quality mods I think deserves mention:
 
For King or Country (MTW)
Historical mod set during the English Civil War (17th century).


The Fourth Age (RTW)
Lore-accurate (as in based on the books not the movies) mod based on Tolkien's Fourth Age material.


Viking Invasion II (RTW)
A community-remake of the critically acclaimed Medieval (I) expansion 'Viking Invasion', now running on the Rome engine.

Bellum crucis is better then stainless steel Imho. Stainless steel looks like an huge and messy compilation of mods to me. Bellum crucis have better graphic, less demanding on hardware, better balance and historical accuracy.
Nobody knows it because it's in italian and they don't even have a subforum on Twcenter, but it's awesome. There is an english translation so feel free to try 

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=3643 mod

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=3639 english translation


About the arcade thing, yeah vanilla RTW was really silly in the historical accuracy and balance. 1 minute long battles and all factions messed up with silly units, balance and anachronistic things like LOLSPARTANS and xerxes persians with purple pijamas.
But i think they are improving over time, Etw and shogun 2 are  more historically reasonable for example.
I'm not satisfied with their last titles just because they keep releasing them bugged as shit and they turned more and more commercial (less support for mods and all those silly units and factions DLC that should be avaiable for free with the main game). Probably we will never see something like Europa Barbarorum for shogun 2 or Etw, they are too hard to mod.
Anyway, now i just wait 1 year after they realease something. I tried shogun 2 yesterday and it's awesome without bugs and with all expansions and dlcs  .

[Loar Avel]

You've miss some epic mod

Hyrule: Total War - Epic Legend of Zelda Warfare
www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=421448


Call of Warhammer: Total War" МOD v. 1.5
http://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-warhammer-total-war

[Angantyr]

Europa Barbarorum is the best mod I've played for any Total War game, hands down, and probably one of the most impressive full-conversion mods for any game out there.


Three other high-quality mods I think deserves mention:
 
For King or Country (MTWII)
Historical mod set during the English Civil War (17th century).


The Fourth Age (RTW)
Lore-accurate (as in based on the books not the movies) mod based on Tolkien's Fourth Age material.


Viking Invasion II (RTW)
A community-remake of the critically acclaimed Medieval (I) expansion 'Viking Invasion', now running on the Rome engine.

[Ninja_Khorin]

I had forgotten about "For King or Country". It's a great mod. Mainly because it was set in a time period that I had no idea about and playing it sparked a small interest in checking up on it.

[Angantyr]

I hope it's ok we use your thread to link other mods? 

[Jarlek]

Nice. Gonna check them out

[Teeth]

Just hoping that some of the mods I'm waiting for would be released at some point. Like:
Dominion of the Sword
Europa Barbarorum II

Hoping as hard as I can for these two aswell, but progress is so slow.

[Angantyr]

And hear hear, Khorin, like a majority in the WB community I'm a TW fanboy too, this series used to be my main games until I stumbled on Mount&Blade back in 2005, though I'm a bit disappointed at where CA seem to be heading.

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I still think the first Medieval is the best in the series (especially the Viking Invasion expansion) and the first Shogun was awesome too (especially the Mongol Invasion expansion), though I'll readily admit RTW is superior with mods, and the most sleek engine in the series so far (and Barbarian Invasion was really good). Medieval (1) just had a more in-depth campaign map with more RPG, events and dynasty politics a la Crusader Kings II, and the series were more focused on historical accuracy back then, which has gone the wrong direction after RTW and Sega becoming increasingly Hollywood, pop-history inspired, 'Gladiator' Roman(philia) period (naked barbarians throwing heads at lorica segmenta wearing, pilum-machine-gun-shooting romans etc), the US as a World-scene player in ETW and the new Tom Cruise samurai BS as cases in point. The current generation of mods are mostly for MedievalII which has never been a really good engine, despite the obvious success of mods like Broken Crescent, The Last Kingdom, Third Age etc. Let's hope the EBII team can make up for its shortcomings.

I have admittedly not played Total War games much since M&B became an option (some NTW and ETW and mods like EB and The Last Kingdom), for action I go on WB servers, for strategy I go to Europa Universalis or Crusader Kings, and I'm frankly disappointed over the arcade direction the official series has taken (and utterly retarded AI in all the games, even with Darth mod, perhaps with the exception of increased ambushes in Shogun II, over-expensive on-release DLCs, completely buggy and desynchronized multiplayer battles in all the recent installments, general lack of community support from the Creative Assembly and non-working multiplayer campaigns despite announcements to the contrary).

Except for that the new games are quite impressive visually (nice and largely correct uniforms especially in Nappytw) and audibly and I think the transition to the gunpowder age and the sea battle inclusions have worked pretty well for CA (though sea battles quickly get boring in MP and artillery-spam could be considered unbalanced). The only really nice new campaign feature I can think of is army attrition, though this was 'inspired' by the modding community. And yes, some long-waited improvements in diplomacy and more 'full-stack' battles than the consistent stream of skirmishes the older installments suffered from.

[Ninja_Khorin]

I hope it's ok we use your thread to link other mods? 

Of course it is.
And I know how you feel, man. It has turned a little more arcade-ish, but then it just appeals to a different side of me now, so I'm not too worried about that.
Few games offer me the same scale as this:

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[Jarlek]

Of course it is.
And I know how you feel, man. It has turned a little more arcade-ish, but then it just appeals to a different side of me now, so I'm not too worried about that.
Few games offer me the same scale as this:

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Is that.... modded? Or are the unit sizes that big by default? Anyway, ME LIKES! Reminds me of Darthmod for Empire

[Sharky]

Bellum crucis is better then stainless steel Imho. Stainless steel looks like an huge and messy compilation of mods to me. Bellum crucis have better graphic, less demanding on hardware, better balance and historical accuracy.
Nobody knows it because it's in italian and they don't even have a subforum on Twcenter, but it's awesome. There is an english translation so feel free to try 

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=3643 mod

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=3639 english translation


About the arcade thing, yeah vanilla RTW was really silly in the historical accuracy and balance. 1 minute long battles and all factions messed up with silly units, balance and anachronistic things like LOLSPARTANS and xerxes persians with purple pijamas.
But i think they are improving over time, Etw and shogun 2 are  more historically reasonable for example.
I'm not satisfied with their last titles just because they keep releasing them bugged as shit and they turned more and more commercial (less support for mods and all those silly units and factions DLC that should be avaiable for free with the main game). Probably we will never see something like Europa Barbarorum for shogun 2 or Etw, they are too hard to mod.
Anyway, now i just wait 1 year after they realease something. I tried shogun 2 yesterday and it's awesome without bugs and with all expansions and dlcs  .

[Tor!]

Paeninsula Italica(beta) - Start of the Roman empire. Situated on the Italian Peninsula, in case your stupid.

Cant get this to work, but want it really bad 

[Havoco]

Heres a good one for Napoleon total war.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11111236#post11111236

can play as (almost) any faction, changed units and their stats, more realistic battles that include not being able to see an enemy until a friendly unit spots them (they added scouts too), new historical battles, better AI, as well as a few things i cant remember. Its for both multiplayer and single player

[Ninja_Khorin]

Cant get this to work, but want it really bad 

Can't really help, if you've followed the instruction. Best option is to post in their subforum and maybe you'll get an answer. Or maybe someone has had problems like you already. Also make sure that you have the latest version of Kingdoms. (1.5 or 1.05, I think)

[Lobster]

All the mods listed by the ninja dude are awsome mods. Im looking forward to Europa Barbarorum2 but im starting to feel that it never get released

Anyone played the Call of  warhammer mod ?  http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1377 has to be up there with some of the best TW mods