Small skirmishes were much more common in this era and it is impossible to get a small skirmish in darthmod. Line Infantry with 400+ men don't even function properly and the mod had to do away with platoon firing because it made it buggy. The numbers in darthmod are still no as much as the big major battles were and game mechanics and quality come first. Also darthmod makes late game naval battles unplayable because the AIs and their unlimited money build fleets of heavy first rates and heavy first rate bumper cars isn't exactly historical. Every battle in darthmod is some huge mess that means nothing while a big battle in vanillia is usually a turning point in a war which is by far more realistic then every battle being massive. Naval battles also get bigger, messier, more realistic, thats just one thing TW has never had, the sheer scale of a battlefield and armies. Major battles in 18th century with only around 4000 soldiers max? No thanks, I'll take my 40 unit saves and up that to 25,000 with two full stacks going at it. Originally posted by Semaj:Darthmod > Vanilla. Empire Total Factions is in the StartPos sub-forum of Empire Total War Hosted Modifications, the others are in sub-forums of Mods which remove gabionades, remove bomb ketches, rocket ships and steamships and remove extreme weatherĪll of these mods are available from the Total War Center. Either Swiss Halberdier's Additional Units Mod or the Minor and Emergent Factions Units Pack Empire Total Factions: unlocks minor and emergent factions
You might prefer a mod which moves the action into the 17th or 19th centuries, or a realism mod, or something else completely. I suggest taking a look at the full range of ETW mods here. The solution which worked for me is explained here. There are a number of similar reports in the DarthMod technical help forum:, so the problem of crashing is real, at least for some players. After uninstalling and reinstalling Empire Total War - even without using DarthMod - the save game corruption problem still happened. My second day was Total War hell - the game crashed when loading a save. My first day of playing DarthMod was like Total War heaven - so many new factions, new units, improved graphics and sound effects and plenty of options. You mentioned people complaining about crashes.