Mod: Napoleonic Era 2.1.7b for Windows & Mac / Steam-compatible!

[tilanus]

Hey Steam people! Just half a month ago we released version Napoleonic Era 2.1.7b for Windows & Mac and we'd love you guys to give it a try and tell us your kind feedback as the great online players that you (hopefully :D) are. This version is compatible with Steam and ESO2 and can be played parallely with the complete collection (The WarChiefs+The Asian Dynasties). Our installers will detect the AoE3 Complete Collection in your Steam automatically can also be uninstalled from there. No backups are needed.

About
Napoleonic Era is and has been one of the most popular mods for Age of Empires III and its expansions for over 8 years (founded in 2006). It greatly expands and reworks the game with new units, buildings, maps, sounds, music, civilizations and a better AI. The Napoleonic Wars were chosen as the mod's theme because these count to the most influential military events during the time period of Age of Empires III, which did not cover Europe, Africa and Western Asia as historical spheres of interest.

FEATURES

New civilizations[www.ne.elpea.net]
The expansion mod adds 7 new and reworks 2 old civilizations with unique units, techs, politicians, AI personalities, unit sounds and homecities:

1. Americans[i.imgur.com]
   
2. Austrians
   
3. French (reworked)
   
4. Germans[i.imgur.com] (reworked)
   
5. Italians
   
6. Polish
   
7. Prussians[i.imgur.com]
   
8. Swedish
   
9. Swiss

New maps[www.ne.elpea.net]
Napoleonic Era comes with over 20 new random maps, for example:

• Alps
  
• Rhine[www.ne.elpea.net]
  
• Black Forest[www.ne.elpea.net]
  
• Malta
  
• Finland[www.ne.elpea.net]
  
• Sahara
  
• Barbary Coast
  
• Nile Flood[www.ne.elpea.net]
  
• Syrian Desert
  
• ..and more!

New natives
The new maps received new minor civs like:

• Bavarians[i.imgur.com]
  
• Barbary Pirates[i.imgur.com]
  
• Egyptians
  
• Finns
  
• Mongols
  
• Maltese
  
• Tuareg[i.imgur.com]
  
• Wurttembergers[i.imgur.com]
  
• Westphalians[i.imgur.com]

Unique units
Napoleonic Era adds plenty of new unique units to the game such as:

• Death Head Hussar (Prussia)[i.imgur.com]
  
• Mounted Rifleman (United States)
  
• Line Infantry (Austria)
  
• Grognard (French)
  
• Swiss Guard (Swiss)[i.imgur.com]
  
• Marine (United States)
  
• Chasseur (French)
  
• Grenzer (Austria)
  
• Lange Kerls (Prussia)
  
• Drabant (Sweden)
  
• Azap (Ottomans)
  
• Merchant (Italy)
  
• Pancerni (Poland)
  
• and many more ..

Shared units
There also new units that are shared with many civs like:

• Chevauxleger[i.imgur.com]
  
• Sharpshooter
  
• Fusilier[i.imgur.com]
  
• Swashbuckler[i.imgur.com]
  
• Conscript
  
• Hand Cannoneer
  
• Sapper

New gameplay elements

• Better AI - Our AI works with the new content, is much harder and bases on the popular Draugur AI developed for the original game
  
• University - Building offering powerful unique technologies and late game units
  
• Expanded Arsenal - Arsenal offers now more military updates for more unit types
  
• Expanded Saloon - Activities like gambling, whoring and drinking benefit Saloons and mercenaries
  
• Unit abilities - New and old units like Explorers, Marines or Nuncios received new unique abilities
  
• Late game units - Expensive, powerful units that can turn the tide of battle
  
• Ultimate techs - Each civ is now granted 2-3 powerful special techs
  
• Wild cards - The new civs can now play card games in the Saloon and win civ-specific prices ranging from military units to resource crates
  
• ...

SPECIFICATIONS

Requirements
Napoleonic Era 2.1.7b requires:

• Age of Empires III
  
• The WarChiefs (Expansion)
  
• The Asian Dynasties (Expansion) + latest patch
  OR
  
• Age of Empires III Complete Collection

Installation
Napoleonic Era 2.1.7b is available for Windows and Mac OS X can be installed with our beautiful automatic installers. Napoleonic Era also works with Steam. If you'd like to uninstall NE at a later point, please use the uninstaller.

Important: You can install NE 2.1.7b over your NE only if you did not install versions earlier than NE 2.1.6. Otherwise please install NE over an umodded and patched AoE3.

Special feature: Our unique file system allows seamless switching between Napoleonic Era and the original game and supports ESO2 for both, no uninstall required! Simply click either the NE or AoE3 desktop icons to choose your game.

Multiplayer
If you want to play against other NE players, you can join this NE Online Group on Facebook[www.facebook.com] and ask for matches. Napoleonic Era works with GameRanger, Hamachi and also ESO2. Homecities created with either Napoleonic Era or The Asian Dynasties should never be used in the other game though, otherwise progress might get lost. We recommend you to give your Homecities special names to separate them (i.e. NE Berlin or TAD London).

Download
You can download NE 2.1.7b and read the updated release notes on our downloads page[www.ne.elpea.net].

Contact
You can get in contact with us and receive the latest mod news on our official website[ne.elpea.net] and our channels on Facebook[www.facebook.com], Twitter, Google+[plus.google.com] and ModDB.

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Thanks for your attention!

The Napoleonic Era Team

[wowegoo]

Awesome!

[MCJim]

:D

[edergy101]

The last time i played the Napoleonic version, about half of the new countries controlled by the AI did not do anything.

[Da Bozz]

Originally posted by edergy101:

The last time i played the Napoleonic version, about half of the new countries controlled by the AI did not do anything.

When was the last time? About 5 years ago?

"Better AI - Our AI works with the new content, is much harder and bases on the popular Draugur AI developed for the original game"

I can assure you that you will have no chance against the new AI ;-)