Comments - Smokedlce

Be careful to not talk as though you are Sacrebleu!'s boss. He's mentioned many times over the past few years the limitations of what he can/will and cannot/will not mod. As far as historically accurate unit inclusion goes, he's already gone above and beyond.

The best thing to hope for is that he focuses on ironing out bugs before releasing another huge update. For the past couple years, each update fixes issues in the previous one but introduces a lot of glaring new ones (I blame this on folks badgering him with requests and demands like your comments are comming off like). The end result is each update feeling like a very rough draft of the quality what he really strives to put out.

So, here's hoping he can do a tiny update someday that just fixes the music bug...the one where music ceases to play once the shooting starts (this happens during campaign battles; custom battles still have music during fights).

That's why I mentioned Napoleon Total War. The story campaign already has that war.

Well, other than shooting grapeshot at rioters in the streets of Paris or small skirmishes between republican and royalist forces, I don't see what you're expecting in regards of a Total War-style campaign

Slow naval battles are why so many ppl hate darthmod. Some of us gamers work 8-10 hours a day and cant devote a whole hour to battles that move as slow as molasses LOL

You're better off just installing Napoleon Total War then, since that is so so late in the 18th century

Very good update, but music is gone during land battles after fighting starts

People be mindful that this mod is being made by someone else solely out of his artistic and creative passion; he owes us nothing. Just grateful for such a modder that exists, who delivers an ornamental overhaul of such an old (but gold) game and does not fudge up the gameplay (like several other mods do)

If someone really really wants to see their favorite war of succession (which were very numerous in the 18th century) consider making it yourselves and become the modder you want to see!

Will try it tonight or tomorrow! Wanna give this mod a 10! (Gave it a 9 last year) is the music restored to vanilla by any chance?

Also I will message you screenshots if the low poly models on certain units still show up

Can't wait to try this tonight! Sacrebleu I'll let you know if the low poly french marines or pennsyl. and carolina infantry is still happening, I'll screenshot

If you take the time to research or even shoot an 18th century Brown Bess, you will discover that the "vanilla" musket accuracy is more suitable, dare I say, "realistic" than the mods that reduce in-game musket accuracy.

These guns are more than capable of hitting a man-sized target at 100 yards (maybe not the part of said man you aimed for), despite being smoothbore. Avoid any mods that reduce musket accuracy like the plague upon Empire Total War that they are!

It's crazy how many variations of uniforms the British regular had. Based off his regiments locality or theatre of deployment the button facings varied. I'm too used to seeing the redcoat with white, red, yellow, green, or blue facings. Havent seen the red-on-red facings too often!

Non-recruitable? Then how do you get this unit XD

Montcalm?

It does.

Pirates were never a nation. Even the fabled "pirate republic" in the Caribbean was a short-lived festering culture of crime, pestilence and degeneracy that hardly amounts to a footnote of history outside of silly movies and tv shows. They're literally just brigands on boats.

It still does not look right in the early to mid campaign.

Not a fan of the sideburns

Hmmmm not sure how seeing 1780s uniforms in the 1710s is "realistic"

Just download this mod by itself
Moddb.com
^link to the regular Absolutum Dominium mod

All the "modder" for this "mod" did was combine several already made mods by real modders who did all the work (some good, like absolutum dominium and some bad like "rEaLiSm") and he more or less takes credit for it (well in description he does say credit goes to the actual modders but then that just shows the lack of talent on his end)

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Honestly wish this wasnt in the complete mod...the music is nice and all...more immersive? Thats subjective, the vanilla music is more relaxing while this music can be a bit overly emotional and dramatic

Its because the latest file uploaded, the one that says Seven Years War, includes EVERYTHING. The entire AD mod and all its updates from v2 are included.

I am in love with this mod. The infantry models look near PERFECT

Only problems with the mod in its current state is this:
Some ships of the line (in my Dutch campaign the 3rd rate) shows up on the battle map as a first rate with 106 guns, but with 3rd rate number of cannon crew, so only 86 guns will actually be useable, one broadside is more powerful than the other.

Also

In the French and Indian War (chapter 2 of Road to Independence) the French marine infantry models are PS1 low polygon style. They look like the low polygon marines on French warships...dont know whats going on there, haha.

Beside those two issues, could we have the normal campaign music back? I tried installing without using the sounds_music file but some of the Civ soundtrack plays, just a little jarring LOL

OVERALL 9/10 mod