Prelude to War mod for Empire: Total War

This mod is a complete overhaul for Empire Total War that aims to make combat more realistic and the campaign more interesting. Most aspects of the game are completely altered in some form or another. Gone are the constant siege battles, projectile trails and hordes of firelock armed citizenry. Larger unit sizes and vastly increased ranges gives a battlefield stretched across the whole map with numerous cannon, more impressive infantry and devastating cavalry. In campaign there are now 12 turns per year, giving you as long as you like to complete your campaign and decreased movement range on the map varying on unit type. Native American forces are completely overhauled and far more effective, platoon fire now works as an advantage and comes much earlier and no longer is the race to the Fire By Rank technology the primary deciding factor of the campaign. Garrisons are now made of proper soldiers instead of citizens and can be a potent fighting force. Naval battles are entirely altered, with boarding rebalanced and cannon ranges and reload times varying by size, making a more dynamic naval battle. Morale has been entirely reworked on sea and on land, as has fatigue.

Now included is my version of SwissHalberdier's AUM-EMP with his permission. His version of that mod can be found at Twcenter.net(AUM-EMP)-3-7-updated-14-3-18

AUM-EMP adds a huge number of units to the game and they have been rebalanced in this download to fit with Prelude To War's balancing. I strongly recommend his Optional Graphics Pack, it brings the game into a more current look and makes unit differentation from distance far superior. HUGE thanks to SwissHalberdier for allowing me to include this brilliant mod and for all his amazing work on the original version. You may also need .UCP to get AUM-EMP to work, some people do some dont but you can find it on the TWC link above or by looking at the comments on AUM-EMP's ModDB page, or simply by clicking Twcenter.net

Download the PreludeToWarOverhaul and put the .pack files in your ETW data folder and the startpos file in your data/campaigns/main folder (make a backup of the vanilla startpos first) and then enable the packs with Mod Manage (available on ModDB and elsewhere, if you dont already have it just google Mod Manager 1.5 Empire and youll find it extremely easily)

I have a discord server for all my TW mods, feel free to join to discuss or for assistance Discord.gg