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Modpacks » Age of Empires III: Napoleonic Era v1.0.0
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Age of Empires III: Napoleonic Era v1.0.0
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Alexastor (id: Kastor) |
Posted on 01/29/06 @ 03:24 PM (updated 09/29/06)
Overview:
Napoleonic Era is a revolutionary mod for Ensemble Studios’ latest RTS game, Age of Empires III. It is currently the most thorough and anticipated mod of Age of Empires III ever made.
Team:
The mod was originally created by game modder and Age of Empires gamer Alexander Flegler (Kastor), inspired by the idea of adding a Swiss civilization suggested by his friend, Jahn Hummel (Twister3). Napoleonic Era soon grew from this and was discussed frequently on the forums of Age of Empires III Heaven. After release v0.2, a very interested member of these forums, Fernando Barbosa (Walker), discussed many ideas to improve and balance the game, and was soon made balance lead. A while after the release of v0.8, Matthew Sher worked with modder Xentelian to complete the Unit Upgrades Modpack. Seeing Matthew’s texture work, Kastor successfully requested him to become Napoleonic Era’s graphics lead. David Rosehnal, having planned to make a campaign about the Napoleonic Era, has made and maintained this website, and interested forumers, like Peter Piepenburg (Tilanus Commodor) have made some valuable contributions to the game as well.
History:
The Napoleonic Wars were chosen for the game’s general theme due to the fact that these were the most influential military events during the time period Age of Empires III, next to its current theme, the colonization of the Americas.
Features:
Napoleonic Era features a great deal of new gameplay elements, returning a few well-missed elements from Age of Empires II, like removing the limit of builders working on one building, improving the arsenal, and new abilities for Explorers. It includes five completely new civilizations, the Italians, Prussians, Austrians, Americans, and Swiss. It also redesigns the existing French and German civilizations. These civilizations are very different from each other, most receive a new AI personality, new technologies, new cards, and the new ones receive their own Homecity. All of the new civilizations and most of the existing ones get many new unique units, in addition to several new standard units. All these new units have had amazing care put into them to make them as distinctive, realistic, and interesting as possible. The game also incorporates usage of Matthew Sher’s Unit Upgrades Modpack, so that the units from the original game upgrade for every age. To fit the new theme of the wars occurring in Europe, Napoleonic Era includes many new random maps, from Europe, and some additional ones from the Americas, and even other places around the world, many of which have completely new native allies, like the Wurttembergers or the Japanese. |
Author | Reviews ( All | Comments Only | Reviews Only ) |
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design and help |
Posted on 01/30/07 @ 03:44 PM
Additional Comments:
Really awesome mod. Come out with next version asap!
BTW, I am fleerz on the official site for this mod as well as on ESO. |
Legiondude |
Posted on 03/17/07 @ 08:27 PM
Playability: 3
It seems promising,but seeing as the AILoader can't be compiled by my Vanilla,I can't build ANYTHING,upgrade ANYTHING,and all I can use to fight the enemy(Who also can't do anything but sit around) is using my preset settlers,my explorer,and my minutemen.Also,when I play in a skirmish with Post Imperial Age selected,everyone is in the Post Imperial age but me.Which annoys me.
Creativity: 4
Nothing very new to the scene,but I think it's because of it's failiure to work on my game correctly
Art and Sound: 5
Very rich and detailed in artwork.Very original.
Installation/Instructions: 5
Very easy installation,which is what I like,now if only Strategic Objectives was as easy...
Story/Description: 3
Alright description
Additional Comments:
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alvaro_qc |
Posted on 04/10/07 @ 10:18 PM
Playability: 5
Really easy to play
Creativity: 5
Napoleonic Era... really creative special with the units but the Home cities are not so new
Art and Sound: 5
Really good
Installation/Instructions: 5
An auto installer =)
Story/Description: 5
All fits in the history
Additional Comments:
I think the other people rated it bad because the didnt read the instruction..You must uninstall the other modpacks and ONLY PLAY IT WITH THE PATCH 1.9! |
frodo_pl |
Posted on 08/14/07 @ 12:46 PM
Playability: 4
Alot of balance, alot of units, cool... Just cool.
Creativity: 3
It really needs mode custom things.
Art and Sound: 5
Great work!
Installation/Instructions: 1
Game runs only with original AoE3 without expansion pack and additionaly only with 1.03 patch.
Story/Description: 3
Nothing to say...
Additional Comments:
I feel like project is dead. It was so great when it was WIP... |
Null81 |
Posted on 08/21/07 @ 04:43 PM
Playability: 5
Awesome, i love the reloading Ani's And, i dont know, very Very playable
Creativity: 4
I like the expansion of civs, all great but not that creative.
Art and Sound: 5
Simply great, the units look awesome, buildings look great all together good.
Installation/Instructions: 4
Sugh, people this doesnt screw up CPU or AOE, all you need to do is have the latest patch, not have any expansions on or any other mods, this worked no doubt perfect for me
Story/Description: 4
Well, idk i think that a little more description would be good.
Additional Comments:
THIS DOES NOT SCREW UP COMP OR ANYTHING AND THIS DESERVES A MUCH HIGHER RATING THAN IT HAS!!!
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HGDL v0.8.2 |
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4.4 | Breakdown |
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Playability | 4.4 | Creativity | 4.0 | Art and Sound | 5.0 | Installation/Instructions | 4.0 | Story/Description | 4.0 |
Statistics |
Downloads: | 32,006 |
Favorites: [] | 3 |
Size: | 19.24 MB |
Added: | 01/29/06 |
Updated: | 09/29/06 |
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