Darth Mod or Vanilla?

[Cloud Breaker]

Curious what people play these days. Do you prefer DM or is it fine vanilla?

[Bart Boutit]

Vanilla is still fun, but I'd recommend Darthmod. Especially if you're used to 40 unit armies from the more recent TW games. Also the extra unit types, better AI and graphics (increased smoke) makes it tough to go back to Vanilla.

[Cloud Breaker]

Thanks Bart.

[Adler4]

If you play darthmod, try the base mod first, there are the "bran mods" you can add.

[Wayz]

Darth is a good base to work on too if grab PFM. Can tailor things more to your tastes somewhat.

[dt Walter Robinson]

I freaking love Darthmod - the sounds of staccato musketfire, drums and flutes, the voluminous quantities of gunsmoke, the units of up to 500 men - it's all good.

[Ascawien]

As an alternative, maybe consider NTW 3? It's more recent than Darthmod and strives for even more realism. It's not just for MP battles anymore either, as was once the case.

[Wayz]

The best mod I have tried is MOE is like 11 gig and brings this title a lot closer to later titles in terms of campaign polish and provincial rosters for all factions and a massive tech tree for example but it is not finished and I kept having hard crashes with battles vs french so I assume a unit is naffed.
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Napoleon:_Masters_of_Europe
One to keep an eye on though.

[keedor]

I downloaded Darthmod several years ago and have not looked back since!

Having units of up to 600 troops or so is much more realistic than the 120 infantry and 45 cavalry in the Vanilla release - but it does make them more difficult to handle at times and running out of ammunition is a greater factor with these larger bodies of troops. Still, it does add another strategic dimension to the game as well.

[Cloud Breaker]

Yeah I've always used Darth mod with Empire on before on Napoleon but to be honest I never played Napoleon without it, so was curious if it was even necessary. A friend recommended a sub mod that gets rid of fire by rank which in turn makes battles (And stretches ammunition out a little longer) a little longer. I will probably give this a try but Im curious about NTW 3 now also.

I appreciate everyone's recommendations and input.

[Wayz]

Originally posted by Frost King:

Yeah I've always used Darth mod with Empire on before on Napoleon but to be honest I never played Napoleon without it, so was curious if it was even necessary. A friend recommended a sub mod that gets rid of fire by rank which in turn makes battles (And stretches ammunition out a little longer) a little longer. I will probably give this a try but Im curious about NTW 3 now also.

I appreciate everyone's recommendations and input.

I don't get the dislike for fire by rank in this title, I see this a lot in mod descriptions & in threads. Don't get me wrong here each to ones own tastes just curious as to reasons as it was the established tactic of the day etc and I quite like the rank fire effects CA and Darth did good work IMO in this area.

And yeah, NTW3 removed it and for me it was the main reason I removed that mod as they also couldn't hit the side of a barn so battles took way to long for my tastes but I loved the naval battles and the scouting elements to that mod.

[Bart Boutit]

Originally posted by The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rollah:

I freaking love Darthmod - the sounds of staccato musketfire, drums and flutes, the voluminous quantities of gunsmoke, the units of up to 500 men - it's all good.

Yes to this all day for sure. Also, apologies Ayatollah of Rock n Roll- I think I accidentally reported your post when I meant to hit the quote button, sorry...

[Tisroero]

Darth Mod for watching let's plays/etc, but vanilla for when I'm playing it. Sure wish all mp playable factions were available as vanilla campaigns though.