Blogs - WARMONGER56

• Hi to all! Welcome to my second mod news article for 2024. I deleted all of my past articles so we can get a fresh start on up-to-date news on my mods for 2024. I would like to say thanks to my fans and the mod db community for all of your support over the last 3 years. Your support for my work is greatly appreciated.
• Today, I am going to start with the WM56 ETW 1700S mod and the many addon mods that I have added to my mod db download page. If you download the 1700S mod, it comes with my addon music vol 1, which is the sound tract music from the patriot movie and some songs from the TAR mod 10th anniversary edition. Over time you will get tired of listening to the same music over and over, I know I did. You can download my addon music vol 2,3, and 4. that should keep you going for a while.Music vol 2 is music from ETW, TAR, and Hi Fi Mastersounds. Music vol 3 and 4, is mostly music from Royality free music, Hi Fi Mastersounds, and the TAR mod. This is the very reason that I do a lot of addon mods, so you can simply download and swap out files with the model manager 1.5, to create different mods to enhance your gaming experience, plus you don't have to mess with the script file because the MM 1.5 does that for you. In conjunction with the four music vols, their is a new CAI BAI that makes wheeling and dealing with governments a lot easier. If you so choose, you can now try to purchase territories if the price is right, from friend or foe without fighting for it. Your spies have a higher success rate of completing their missions.
• In the BAI, if your unit retreats, they can regroup and rejoin the battle. The units are more balanced, so don't think, because you have more units that you are assured of wining the battle. All of the eastern factions now have muskets instead of bows and axes.
• I made this change in the Napoleon mod that I am still working on now. If it turns out to be a popular move for the 1700S mod, I won't change it. Another popular addon is, High-Definition Graphic Pack by Terrestria Orbem. I got his permission to offer his graphics mod as a download for your convince. Another addon is a dry weather patch, which is in a movie format, so you just drop it in your ETW/ data folder and thats it. 90% of the time it gives you dry weather for battles. Last but not least! I replaced the ETW blue movie with the original Creative Assembly movie for the grand campaign screen and menu screen.
• Below I will post some images of the different addons that you can use to enhance the WM56 ETW 1700S mod, Plus a new 1700S mod video. The same addons that I have mentioned in this article, works for the Pirates Gate mod, as well. As I stated in past articles, The Pirates Gate mod is the 1700S mod. In PG V1, The Netherlands are now a pirate faction and in V2, The Netherland and Spain are both Pirate nations. The Netherlands fly a black Pirates flag, While Spain flies the Red pirates' flag. In conjunction with the addons that you can implement for the PG Mod, I have plans to reskin some more pirate uniforms to implement into the game at a later date.
• I am currently working on the Napoleon mod. I am about halfway finished reskinning the eastern factions. I hope to finish the Napoleon mod eastern factions addon sometime this year. As soon as I do, I will start work on the civil war mod. This mod will be in 2 parts, as I stated in my last article. I cant wait to finish the Napoleon mod and get started on the civil war mod. Until the next article, happy gaming from WM56.

1. If you don't have Model Manager 1.5 you can download it here.

2. The Path you need to use is C/ Program Files x86/ Steam / Steam Apps / Common / Empire Total War / data. WM56 ETW 1700S MOD has 25 files for download. Click on the WM56 MOD preview PICTURE, open my mod page. When the page opens, go to the right side of the page and scroll down until you see addons and click on the number 25 to the right of addons. When the page open you will see all the addons that are for download on the left side of the page. Scroll down and pick which addons you want to download.

3. Now unzip the mod you just downloaded and put your new model pack files in C/ Program Files x86/ Steam / Steam Apps / Common / Empire Total War / data.

4. Open the MM 1.5, on the right side of the screen below the launch button, put a checkmark in the white square box that says: show all pack types and below that put a checkmark in the white box that says: show all vanilla conflicts and wait on a list of files to appear on the left side of the screen. Now! uncheck both white boxes on the right and wait on the list of pack files to appear on the left side of the screen. The mod pack files that you downloaded from me will have a WM56 at the beginning of the file name. Put a checkmark in the white box next to each file that starts with WM56. Go to the right side of the screen below the launch button and give the mod a name like WM56 ETW 1700S MOD and click save. now click on the launch button and the game will load.

4A. The two main reasons I use the model MM 1.5 to install and load ETW is that 1. It creates the script file for you, so you don't ever have to mess with script files. 2. you can place as many mod pack files to other mods as you want as long as you repeat the instructions above for each mod that you install with MM 1.5. For example: Say you have two mods installed and you save both mods in MM 1.5 , all you have to do is choose which mod you want to play and the MM 1.5 will load and all you have to do is click launch button. You can't get any easier then that.

5. WM56 ETW 1700S MAPS : When you download and unzip this file you will see a boot .pack put it in your data folder and if you want to keep the old boot pack just make a new folder in data files and name it old or original Pack files and put it in C/ Program Files x86/ Steam / Steam Apps / Common / Empire Total War / data. The other file you will see is the WM56 ETW 1700S MAPS file. Open it and you will see ESF 10 Million file, open this file and you will see a file named campaigns. If you want to save the old file just put it in the same folder with the old pack files in Empire Total War / data. Now just copy and paste the new campaigns folder in Empire Total War / data. Now open the WM56 ETW 1700S MAPS file and you will see campaign maps file. To save the old or original maps put the file in your old or original pack files folder in Empire Total War / data. Now copy and paste the new campaign maps file to Empire Total War / data. Now all files are installed and now it is time to launch the 1700S mod with the model manager 1.5 mm1.5 for short.

Hi! All! First you need to download and use model manager 1.5 to launch the 1700s mod. I have 11 pack files and 1 music file for download for the 1700's mod. All Pack files go in the Empire Total war data folder. Next the ESF file and the map file are in the WM56 ETW 1700S Map files download. If you want to keep the old ESF File then make a new folder called Old ESF and put the old ESF file in it and put it in your ETW/data folder. Open the ESF 10 million file you downloaded and open the campaigns file and copy and paste the main file in to ETW/data/campaigns folder. To install the maps go to ETW/data and make a new file called old maps. Put your old campaign maps in this folder. Open the ETW 1700S MAPS you downloaded and copy and paste campaign maps to ETW/data file and you are done. I hope this was helpful to you. If not let me know.

Hi All! I thought I would explain how WM56 ETW 1700S MOD is setup.

#1. The ESF starting position file is edited giving each major faction 10 million in cash to start the game mainly to purchase
generals with. As of now their are more then 150 different generals that you can recruit. For example: At the start of the
game you can recruit as many generals as you like. What I like to do is buy say 10 or 20 generals and pick how ever
many generals I like and discard the rest. I may use some of them and house the rest in a city until I get ready to use them.

#2. Another reason for the 10 million is so you can finance larger battles plus you can buy just about any land from another
faction if the price is right. I also found that the other factions will try to buy land from you instead of demanding that
you trade your land for there's. This to me is more realistic of real life. Just like in American history the Louisiana purchase
where the United States Purchased Louisiana from France for 25,000 dollars. It is not realistic at all to say that a major or
minor faction is going to have 7,500 to 10,500 in the bank. For starters the monarchy's of Europe were very wealthy because
they owned any and everything of any value while the citizens starved just to pay taxes. What was the American Revolution
fought over. Taxation with out representation. So to me it is more realistic for a faction to have plenty of money plus you can
spend more time on battle tactics and economic strategy of the game.

#3. In the 1700S Mod all major factions have 10 million while the minor factions have less money. What this does is
cause the minor faction more out to sell land to you because it needs the money. It is best not to go around buying up
all the land because you could go broke while your enemies get rich off of you. You have to use the money wisely and
you still have to run your factions economy in the black.

#4. I know in past post that I said this game is for fun which it is but it still has a historical value to it. The uniforms that I am
redoing in the 1700's mod are all historical uniforms. from the colors to the buttons. On some of the uniforms I have
made a few minor changes but nothing drastic. I am constantly looking for images of good looking uniforms to put in the
1700's mod. I am doing uniforms from different periods so you can have fun fighting some historical wars and battles.
For example: I did the uniforms for Russia and Sweden for the great northern war so you can have fun playing as Sweden or
Russia if you choose. After the great northern war in 1721 Sweden was no longer a major power to contend with.

#5. I have Been playing ETW for the last six years. I have played the Darth mod ETW, Brother vs Brother, TAR and countless other mods.
One thing that I have found to be true is that no matter how many times you restart a campaign it never plays the same which is good.
My bigest objective to the 1700S mod is to create a mod that plays realistically, historically and has good looking graphics. Those are
the 3 things that keep me playing ETW.

#6. This is my first mod and I am flying by the seat of my pants on it. So I hope after these next four months and
hopefully finishing the 1700S Mod that I will be a little more organized for the next mod waiting in the wings which
is WM56 ETW Napoleon. My aim here is to create these mods for Empire Total War so you can play all 3 mods with the
whole world map and not just part of it. To me that is more realistic and true to real life. To me when you can use the
world map it makes your options endless. I will close by saying that if you have any suggestions or things you would like
see in one of my mods just post a comment for me and if it is anything that I can do I would be glad do it. Anything to make
the mod the best it can be. Happy Gaming!

Hi All! The WM56 ETW 1700S MOD is now updated. The two files that you need to download if you already have the mod downloaded is the WM56 ETW 1700S Models and the WM56 ETW 1700S Graphics P 2 files. The WM56 ETW 1700S Mod will be update at midnight tonight US Central time. You can still download the 1700S Mod file You just have to download the Models file and the Graphics P 2 file. Once I update the 1700S Mod file you will only have to download the 1700S Mod file and the 1700S Models file. In this update you will be getting all the uniforms that I have posted which is about 80 uniforms in all. In the Graphics P 2 file you will be getting some new campaign icons and patch file that contains icon changes to four ships and a couple of units . The uniforms are for both the early and late campaigns. Over the next four months I will be working on more uniforms plus I will be working on a late campaign ESF file which each major faction will start off with 10 million. The starting year will be changed from 1783 to 1770 or so to allow for the start of the American Revolution. I will be adding new generals to the game that are comprised of US Gens plus various other Gens for other factions. I hope to have the last major update to this mod released in late January 2021. For those of you who like my mod and download it ; I hope you have lots of fun and enjoy playing the game more. If so then I have done my job. Enjoy and Happy gaming.

Hi All: I finally got WM56 ETW 1700S Models pack done and uploaded . This models pack is for the early campaign. As soon as I get threw with the late campaign uniforms I will upload it in a update. I am working on a new load screen for this mod plus I am trying to get the video that I uploaded the other day to work in this mod so you will have a new load screen, and a short video to enjoy before you start playing ETW. Once I get this mod up and running so I can just do a update here and there I will be back to work on ETW Napoleon. I hope to have Napoleon released by June of 22. The Napoleon mod won't have quite as many download files to contend with. I am going to do it in a part 1 and 2 download. After Napoleon is up and running then comes the TACW Mod. TACW standing for The American Civil War. I hope to have it released by Dec 22 . I have not listed these two mods on mod db yet. You can follow there progress in the videos that I post on the 1700s mod page for now. A lot of work goes in to making the video and advertising each mod and being that I am just one person without a team behind him things may take a bit longer but I prefer it that way. This way is simple and a lot less headaches. . If you are having problems uploading files to mod db from your computer then you need to download Waterfox browser. Mod db told me to use firefox browser which is good but it only uploads files from 100 to 500 mbs. If you use Waterfox browser you can upload 1.5 gig or better. I have win 10 / 64 bit which takes 10 hours to upload a 1.5 gig file but I have a slow internet while my computer speed is fair. Some people my like site like Dropbox but I don't. I all ways prefer the easiest way of doing things and to me Dropbox is not easy when you can upload straight from your computer threw your browser. I hope the update and info was helpful. Have a nice day !

WARMONGER56: Hi All!

I would like to fill you in on how to install my mods with out having to uninstall other mods that you already have and want to keep. So lets get started: The first thing I want to discuss is the fact that you already have a mod installed that you like to play and you just want to try out a new mod.

1. Empire Total War is the mod that you currently have installed . So to install a new mod without uninstalling your original mod you need to right click on it and scroll down to the bottom of the box and click on rename . Now give your original mod a new name . Your mods new name should look like this.

Example: Empire Total War to Empire Total War ORG Now you need to make a new folder called Empire Total War or if you are installing a fresh copy from a disk then it will ask to make one for you. It is better to make one yourself . Now you have two files Empire Total War ORG and Empire Total War of which you are going to install your new mod. Once the a fresh copy has been installed in your new Empire Total War folder you are now ready to install your new mod.

2. Install your new mod like the read me says and you will now have two mods and you did not have to remove any mods at all.

3. When you get ready to play the Original mod again rename your new mod like you renamed the original mod. Example: Empire Total War New Now you have ETW ORG and ETW NEW . To play the original ETW MOD again just remove the ORG from the end of ETW name . Now when you go to load ETW MOD you will be playing the original. If you want to play the new mod just put the ORG at the end of ETW and remove NEW form the other ETW MOD and now you are ready to play the new mod. Now you can try out a lot of different mods without having to uninstall anything unless you want too. You mite want to get the model manager 1.5 if you don't already have it. It makes it easier when you are trying out a lot of different models like I do. I hope this info has helped you out when it come to trying out a lot of different mods.

" alt="WM56 ETW NAPOLEON MOD IMAGE" title="EMPIRE TOTAL WAR PHOTO 1" width="1429" height="768" /> is one of two mods that I am currently working on. I always Wanted to play the Revolutionary war , Napoleonic and the American Civil War all in the original Empire Total War mod. That is why I am doing the 1700s, Napoleon and ACW mods . I think by playing with the whole world map you can still play historically but also your options are limitless on playing the type of strategic game you want to play. The video that I am posting with this article depicts some of the work that I have done on the uniforms, unit icons, ships icons and generals portraits. I still have a lot of work to do on this mod and the ACW mod but I am going to shoot for releasing both mods some time in 2022. Once they are released my dream will be reality. I hope you will enjoy playing them as much as I will. The video Posted is actual game play. I will be updating the 1700s mod from time to time along the way while I am working on the other two mods.https://www.moddb.com/mods/httpswwwmoddbcommodswm56-etw-1700s-mod/videos/wm56-etw-napoleon-video.

WM56 ETW 1700S MOD ARTICLE:

The main concept of this mod is to hire and fire as many generals as you want to lead your army. For example: You go to a city or where you have troops and say you need a general to lead them. You can hire say five generals and you only need one you can then keep one and discard the other four. This way you have control over what generals you want instead of having to settle for the generals the game gives you. I have never been in favor of the way the game plays in this respect. Now you can set up your chain of command at the beginning of the game. I am using the 13 colonies ESF from mod db of which I edited it giving all the major factions 9 million in cash to start the game with. All mj factions are playable. If You start off with a fresh copy of ETW the game will play as the original. When you download my mod you should be able to add other model packs to it as long as you use model manager 1.5. In my mod I have recolored all maps, replace all generals and almost all portraits have been replaced. I replaced most all of the European unit icons as well as ship icons. This should make the game seem more realistic. WM56 ETW 1700S BSM: This BSM mod that is from imperial splendor is one of the most realistic BSM mod that I have played with in Empire Total War.