Colonialism 1600AD: World at War mod for Empire: Total War

Mod Features

• Campaign's time frame: Starting date - 1618 - the beginning of the Thirty Years of War. End of the campaign - 1714 - end of the War of the Spanish Succession, which was the last war of Louis XIV. For Russia, Denmark, Sweden and Poland long campaign ends in 1721. Short campaign ends in 1648 for all factions.
• The geopolitical situation is as close as possible to historical realities.
• Unlocked many factions with victory conditions for them.
• The Kingdom of Bohemia and Circassia factions are emergent at the beginning of the game. There is also a fix of Hetmanat - it will appear in Ukraine instead of Greece (still, there will be flags of Greece). In the future, there will be more emerging factions.
• Activated the ability "sabotage army" for spies and assassins.
• New technologies for most factions.
• New effects from buildings.
• New interface: based on BaroqueUI from Quintus Hortensius Hortalus and interface from division7x.
• Improved graphics from the Terrestria Orbem sub-mod.
• New historical portraits and names (WIP).
• Rebalance of characteristics and number of units. Pikemen are the main ones on the battlefield, but without infantry cover, they are vulnerable to missile cavalry and artillery. Almost all cavalry have carbines, but they are inaccurate and not very effective. The accuracy and range of firearms depends on the type of weapon (matchlock of flintlock), as well as (to a greater extent) on technology.
• New recruitment system (WIP): now some units will be available only in a certain region, but they can be recruited by the factions that own the region. For example, Polish pikemen are available for recruiting only in Eastern Europe and can be immediately hired by Poland. Sweden, Russia, Prussia and Transylvania can also recruit Polish pikemen if they research the technology of mercenary armies and capture the region where these pikemen are available. In addition, Polish pikemen (like other home units) will have slightly less morale and a lower maximum number for all factions except Poland.
• Added new foreign units for other factions (WIP). Thus, Austria can hire Spanish infantry as mercenaries, France - Dutch musketeers, etc.
• Integrated sub-mods for new units: Hetmanat, Units of the East from adrian74, Warpath Natives in Grand Campaign, Historical Units for Iran, Afghanistan and Mughal.
• New icons for units.
• Fixed some bugs.
• Integrated VDM (PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION) Twcenter.net

Instalation

1. Unzip the files to the data folder of the game. Unpack VDM_Start and VDM_saves to the main game directory (NOT DATА). Unpack user.empire_script to AppData / Roaming / The Creative Assembly / Empire / scripts

Suggestions, problems and solutions

Suggestions

The difficulty level for campaigns is best set to medium or hard (if you are not a fan of full hardcore). For Great Britain, France and Prussia, you can set it to a very hard one. For battles, it is best to set it to a very hard - although the battles are quite intense, it will not be difficult even for inexperienced players to win.
I also recommend not to chase the enemy, but to end the battle after the message about the win. It's much more interesting to play this way.

I do not recommend playing for the eastern factions, as they are poorly developed yet.

The archive contains a settings folder with my graphics and gamma settings. There's disabled SSAO, because it distorts smoke, and HDR, because it looks bad. Also reduced some minor settings, because 400 pikemen can cause frame drops. In addition, there is a changed gamma which, in my opinion, gives the game an atmosphere of the 17th century. Also, there is disabled advisor, moves of AI in campaign map and enabled minimized battle UI.

I don't know why, but at the beginning of the game, VDM gives many countries huge inflation - taking into account that at that time the consequences of the price revolution were still felt, I think this is a feature, not a bug. However, remember that already at the beginning of the game your prices will be higher than they should. To remove inflation, click on the question mark near the head of the finance minister.

The disease script in the game is disabled, as some players wrote about crashes due to it. But this might not be the case because of the script, as because of my changes. Now they are not there, but I disabled the script anyway. To enable it, go to data / campaigns / main / scripting and write true instead of false next to DeseaseScript.

One more important thing - when you play for Austria - don't go to Bohemia and Silesia at the beginning of campaign, and DON'T BEAT REBELS - let them to capture both provinces and then you can recapture them. If you beat rebels before they capture Bohemia and Silesia, there will be more and more rebellions, but if you let them to capture their provinces, the happiness of population will stabilize and there will no more rebellions after you recapture provinces.

Problems and solutions

VDM doesn't work as it should. In the description, there is written: “When you make dip offer to AI, AI always looks at money offer, not for your military and economic strength. That's why you will get dip money (1 mln) that is used for script dip offers (when you see money offer with 1 mln). You can accept or decline these offers. Dip money that received AI will be taken from him." But in this mod, VDM simply offers all the money that faction has, and they do not receive. So if the mod makes such an offer, click on cancel. In general, I do not recommend agreeing to any deals that VDM makes because they make the game easier.

Before making a turn, you should open the icons in upper-left and choose some options. The effects of your choices will appear at the next turn. If you can't open these icons - click on the government panel (crown) and then click on the question mark near the head of your leader. There will appear the advisor, close him and then you can open the icons. If you can't click the question mark(s) - call the advisor and close him.

There can be a CTD during the turn. This usually happens during Georgia's turn. I don't know why is it happens, but after restarting even the same autosave, the problem disappears.

Crashes during the game are also possible. If this happens, go to data / campaigns / main / scripting and put false next to DeseaseScript. If it doesn't help, put false in front of all the options in the same column.

There is a folder Additional content, where are some sub-mods for smoke, blood, battle-map for 30 units, music etc. Just put them into data. The "Updated" folder will contain some new files, i'll write about updates.