Land combat mod

[Odina]

Hey, is there any land combat mod now? I mean, how hard can it be, designing capital nr 2 as a fortress inside middle of the island???. Add sum units, and go toe to toe with infantry, cavs, motorized etc. IF there is any information I want it. Would love such a mode, it would 100 complete this game.

[CPT Pepe]

This is not that game.

[Odina]

Originally posted by CPT Molnar:

This is not that game.

I know, thats why its almost perfect. Almost.

[Glorium]

sadly there is none

[Primigenia]

Land combat would make no sense in this game honestly, there is nothing to conquer or invade, only islands to buyout or trading posts to attack with the navy

[Master.J]

Same..it would be nice like the old Anno 1602..like how hard can it be to add this in 2024

[Smokerbait]

I think it's a mistake to assume it would be easy to mod something like that into the game.

There are no pre-existing assets to be used as a template, nothing to "mod", so nearly everything would have to be made from scratch.

Maybe there are three or four total soldier and police models in the game. None of them ever fire a rifle. So now the modder has to animate that themselves. The horse mounted soldiers never gallop, they have to animate that.

When it comes to combat, the modder has to code how damage works (and units will need a death animation, going to have to do that, too). They need to figure out and add in firing, delay of bullet travel time, damage calculations, etc. Want your cavalry to charge into an enemy line? Going to have to figure out collisions, damage, and of course custom animate all that.

And then movement. They have to make these new units move across a map that was never made with the intention of having anything be controllable and able to move anywhere along the ground except you in first-person mode, and even then there are invisible walls everywhere. The pathfinding alone would be a chore.

I feel any modder to make such a thing would have to be commissioned.