SCENARIO: The Napoleonic Wars

[Jon Shafer]

A few screenshots of the map posted over at the CFC thread here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=535160

[Jaguar]

It looks like this Scenario is coming along nicely. I don't really know anything about the Napoleonic Wars so I can't help you much, but I would like to give you some encouragement.

[Jaguar]

Just some thoughts on the unit stats: would it be better to have Infantry get 2 moves and Cavalry 3 or 4? Moving around a giga map of Europe would take a long time.

[statusperfect]

OK. I'll modify the guard.
Do you have any time schedule for the mod? I'll be quite busy for a week (importans gig with my band next weekend) ... so shop's closed for a week

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
Just some thoughts on the unit stats: would it be better to have Infantry get 2 moves and Cavalry 3 or 4? Moving around a giga map of Europe would take a long time.

Thanks for the support.
I changed the map size from giga down to huge. Before when it was giga I had 2 vs 4 movement points, but giga was just too large and unmanageable. So don't worry, the movement VS size problem isn't one any more.

Status: the only timetable is sometime after PtW is out. I need the diplomacy options it includes, along with the 'scenario pack' option to have all the graphics in one spot (this scenario will be so huge in the graphic mods department it'll be necassary to have them bundled... my Civil War scenario didn't have as much external stuff). The culture flip off will also be very useful, along with a couple other things I can't think of at the moment. Basically, you have all the time you need to work with (within reason ).

Here's the immediate priorities for units when you have the time:

- New excellent quality generic musket/rifleman base (same shape as you've been working with, just make it easy to change the uniform around for custom configurations for each country... that will make it so that we (I) don't have to modify Smoking Mirror's unit pixel by pixel)

- Swedish Musketman (to see how the base works when you expand add a full uniform, and also since that's one you want to do ... remember to use the base and keep the hat the same as the rest of the units, not the colonial hat)

- Eastern/African/Turkish Musketman

That should keep you busy for a while. Just post again in here (or talk to me in the chat if we're both around) if you need anything else beyond that. Soon I'll have good, excellent quality uniform images for you, so mainly work on the musketman base and Swedish infantry (since you know what they look like exactly), for a test run.

[statusperfect]

here's a new version of the trooper please tell me what you think... have nice weekende

(and for the colonial hat I'm quite sure they were used for a long time here in sweden... I'll look into it)

[Jon Shafer]

Cool, that should work pretty nicely for a base, though that cross-stripe may have to go later on, but many countries have it. Now all you'd have to do is smooth it out, add a more detailed skin, and shrink it.

Have a nice weekend.

[Myrddin]

Ship naming:

How about th Royal Navy approach

First Rate/Second Rate/Third Rate etc for 100/80/60 guns

or Three Decker/Two Decker/Frigate for 100/80/40 as 60 gun ships were mostly obsolete; out-gunned by 80 gun ships and too slow to deal with Frigates

[Henrik]

Originally posted by statusperfect
(and for the colonial hat I'm quite sure they were used for a long time here in sweden... I'll look into it)

No they wheren't infact they changed about 50 years before the napoleonic wars

[Jon Shafer]

Myrddin, excellent idea!
Though I was aware they called them that, I had never really thought of that. The current 60g SotL is pretty useless (or at least has less of a place) (unless you have a smaller naval power, i.e. Austria or Prussia, and even then they're easily outgunned by the French/British 80/100g vessals), so I think it's fine where it is.

And thanks for that info tibit as well Henrik.

[statusperfect]

i got two hour off to finish things up. here's a finished 3 pounder and a debugged version of the 6 pounder. ENJOY

[statusperfect]

ooops

here's the files.

[Jon Shafer]

Great work. Can't wait for you to get back to working again, I can't wait to see how your first infantry unit looks.

I'm currently re-working the entire unit list, so don't take what's up now as gospel at the moment.

[Jon Shafer]

One thing I'd like to know if someone has accurate info is how each nation's cavalry stacked up. I have a very good idea of how good each nation's infantry was, but on cavalry I'm a bit sketchy, so if anyone knows more than me I would appreciate if they would inform me.

[Jon Shafer]

New update for the first post. Remember to refresh to see the new mini map, otherwise it'll look the same.