Special mentions to Empire 2 Generals, the Minor Factions Revenge mod & of course the American Civil War mod all which I'll also be covering soon! What are your favourite mods for Empire? And what other Top 5 Lists would you like to see for Total War games? Hope you enjoyed the video guys more of these to come!
Hi. You are so prolific. What's left to talk about? How about top 5 rosters that need work? For example, when a mod makes beautiful rosters for one faction but appears to completely ignore others (Compare Saxony in Darthmod: Napoleon with, say, Wurttemburg. A lot of mods are guilty of this.) Or how about 5 most glaring historical inaccuracies?
Can you please make a review of The American Revolution Mod (T.A.R. Mod for short). It is an insane recreation of the American Revolution, featuring multiple campaigns, offering many features and modes controlled by a cool launcher, 100s of historical units (Most of which have historical descriptions) and the ability to have 30 and 40-unit armies. The mod uses the UI and AI from Darthmod and can be considered the big daddy of the Regiments of the American Revolution mod with many custom campaigns. The mod also features a cool intro movie when you launch the mod/game (something, to at least what I have played, no other mod does).
I'm assuming most Total War fans would not be opposed to an Empire 2, I always played Napoleon when it came to this time period, but once I got into Empire I was actually shocked at how much better it was. My favorite part about Empire is being able to travel between continents which current total war games are currently lacking.
Seriously. If they made an empire 2 with napoleons battles and AI it would be perfect. Thats the main thing I love about empire is that I can go to all the places and have massive battles on the high seas. It’s amazing and whilst a lot of people don’t like empire I think it’s amazing
Completely agree. Encompassing half the globe! One of my fav games of all. I come back to play it every few years. 1,000's of hours in on vanilla alone!
I've been playing PUA mod since forever, glad it finally receive appreciation. The reason it's stable is because it has been polished for more than 10 years. The developers still active on forum and constantly release updates.
@@riven8226 Can you tell me what mod i should try but without decreasing accuracy? Because i tried darthmod and imperial destroyer, it took really long time to kill the enemy.
@@nugrohodarmawan609Just try PUA. The main launcher for that mod has settings and configurations that allow you to change to realistic battles or more sim-like battles.
I wished CA would give us an overhauled Version of some classics. Give some love to medieval 2 and empire in form of AI, UI and little graphics improvements, call it a "history edition" or something like that and I'd happily play these for ever.
I love long battles! It leaves more time for grand plans and strategic moves. With slow massive formations and infinite artillery ammo, I feel the game is talor made for the slower more strategic battles ❤
yes! my biggest gripe with vanilla empire is that i find myself playing battles on slow speed instead of regular, which is great because i can move units around more effectively, BUT you lose all sound which sucks. i find myself wishing that slow speed was the normal speed, or that the maps were just bigger.
This was my first total war game. It was the first game that somehow distorted the flow of time so i would somehow play for four hours when i felt as though i had only played thirty minutes. I love it for that alone.
@@soren633 when do you get ctd? Did you uninstall empire and delete the whole game folder (and the scripts folder in appdata) before installing the mod?
@@soren633 Did you download the mod from moddb? There is an error in the filenames of the moddb files. Rename all three parts into their correct filenames here before extracting: ETW-PUA-Steam.Part1 ETW-PUA-Steam.Part2 ETW-PUA-Steam.Part3 They are 3 parts of 1 archive. They should all extract into a SINGLE folder if you renamed them properly.
I've only got around 70 hours in Empire, mostly because I discovered TW late in my life and bought almost all the games in the spam of 4 years but it's definitely one of the setting I enjoyed the most. After all that's happening lately with CA I wanted to get back to the older historical titles and I'm so glad that I've discovered your video! I'm downloading Empire as I write this and I'll try PUA. Looks like a great mod!
Excellent work-these comparison videos are some of my favorites. I don’t have time to play all the mods, so it’s helpful to know how they are all different in their strengths and weaknesses
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you! (Absolutum Dominium for an honourable mention?) You did a really good job of pointing out the pros and cons of each. Though I felt you were a bit overly kind on Imperial Destroyer, there are sub-mods that can fix a lot of it's most glaring faults. Looking forward to your 'Pirates Uber Alles' review. Hopefully you will go into great detail about that confusing-looking options screen that it has, and what all those various little sub-mods do.
@@KitteridgeStudios They could make a good game. The question is if they actually would make a good game and the evidence from recent years is of a continued pattern of broken mechanics, DLC whoring and then abandoning loyal customers who've paid frankly too much for too little.
If Darthmod's battle improvements could be combined with the campaign improvements from the other mods and without gutting the tech and economy it would be perfect. We need compatibility patches.
These are all interesting mods . Darth Mod is classic as is Imperial Splender. Empire 2 is so buggy! BUT... I would say you left out one of the most important mods of all : Bran Mac Born's AI campaign and battle mods. He probably did more work on the the Empire Ai behaviours than any other modder. Look what he did with Darthmod Empire..well a complete overhaul of its systems! I think that is a major oversight Terminator. I wish something could be done with the campaign map in Empire to make it more realistic.
I play this mod too and in every country, at the start of a new game I have -100 anxiety, in every province people are rebelling and I don't know if it's a bug? do you have this too?
yeah,it crashes a lot for some,for me not that much...I really like that they connected morale to support by nearby troops,a left alone unit will break easily but supported will be hard to break even it has problems like if sending a single cavarly unit in the back of the enemy to attack artilery will rout before reaching the enemy but for me is not more unplayable than.darthmod...I forgot,I discussed it about exageration of support with Cece and he announced some modifications but I didn't play it,started another campaign in DEI and til I have enough,finished is when I say it is,not care about victory conditions,I won't play Empire
I was playing Empire 2, as much as it is one of the most ambitious mods, it has too many issues so I have abandoned it. Tried Pirates Uber Alles after watching your video, it is a fantastic mod. Very well polished. Looking forward to your full video on it.
I play this mod too and in every country, at the start of a new game I have -100 anxiety, in every province people are rebelling and I don't know if it's a bug? do you have this too?
@@KinG05059 That's by design. Those are regions that rebelled historically. You could try to fight to keep them, or just let them rebel and reconquer them. The unrest level would be back to normal unrest if you reconquered them.
@@CheriShin21 ok, thanks for the quick answer :D. just as I thought that the creators of the mod added something like that, but in my opinion it is completely pointless, I don't like it
I'd love to have an overhaul on the diplomacy of ETW. Like being able to negotiate peace treaties between other states and terms of alliance (eg: promising territory of a common enemy)
I’ve never put a mod in total war but I really want to play a mod that expands the experience and regions… this video convinced me finally to use Uber allis, thank you.
This was and I would still say is the most ambitious game in the Total War franchise. The fact that detailed naval battles were integrated and the campaign map scope and size is incredibly for the date it was released.
So I just saw this video and never heard of the last Mod. I downloaded Pirates Uber Alles and I have to say its the probably the most polished Empire Mod I've played so far. I done all of them and this mod so far is probably my favorite.
PUA is still updated. In the latest updates there will be emphasis on campaign 1772, France Louis 16 will be completely updated, famous ships, admirals, generals, minists of that era.
sadly I have a bug that never lets me play past turn 37. no matter what faction I played the same turn made the game crash. the game has potential. but the bloody bugs that even modes can't fix.....
i was checking moddb and find another Overhauls that look interesting its called ""Wind From the East"| and "Absolutum Dominiun"" . check the maybe worth making video review for them aswell
is there a mod that adds or modify an existing unique building that gives unique stats like accuracy or reload skill like in shogun 2? i always like to find the best provinces to create the most powerful units of the campaign.
I started playing Empire recently and my biggest issues with the game is unit attack orders. My line infantry keeps shuffling left and right and reorganizing when I give them and attack order, and then they start firing from a weird angle with like 30% of the troops. Do any of these mods tackle this issue? Or is there a mod specifically for this?
No, you just shouldn't use attack orders at all. You should just concern on placing your units on advantageous positions and closing distance until the enemy is at shooting range, the men will do the rest automatically and will stay where you left them.
It's a powerful launcher, all of those setting with just one click in the launcher, no fiddling with files or the userscript. It has a lot of options to customize your experience. It might be daunting at first, but there's a comprehensive guide for all the buttons and learning it is worth it.
could you make a video on how to install PIRATES UBER ALLES please ive followed the instructiond the best i can but cant get it to work i get to the launcher and it wont load the game a box in the corner comes up and says cant find the path to walli engine
Thanks for incentivizing me to give Empire another try. Loved the naval warfare but the rest was meh in the long run. PUA sounds promising, though, will definitely try it out to have some refreshing TW variety besides my Divide & Conquer evergreen that cost me half of my life.
I have been playing vanilla and darth mod for a year. It was in 2016. I'm very sad about the state of the TW series now. Which ETW mod do U recommend to play first?
Hi, I'm happy that Realistic Battles for Imperial Destroyer is welcomed. I was feeling the need to do it because I like much Imperial Destroyer, but to me the battles were lacking, specially compared to Darthmod which I think is the best one in this aspect.
Finally a video that is objective. When i watched the previous videos focusing on individual mods, it felt like you never actually played the mods and just read the changelog somewhere. But now you say what is true, these mods, at first glance amazing, in reality they are not so amazing and they have a lot of flaws.
To be fair, every mod has a ton of issues. Even the big big ones. My spotlights are as much about giving the mods a platform to reach new people as it is for me to talk about why I like them. Talking about why they’re bad more often than not just ends up turning people away. Appreciate the kind words :) More videos like this one in the works my man!
I play the Pirates Uber Alles mod and every country I start a new game in every province I have -100 anxiety, is this some kind of bug? is it supposed to be like that, because if it's supposed to be like that, this mod makes no sense, and the second question is why, as a Mugal Empire, you can't recruit ships?
Have you ever had problems with crashes in Imperial Splendor? It felt like it crashed every other turn for me when I played it. That was the major reason that i stopped playing it. Now on Empire 2, which I’m enjoying for the most part, although if does crash every now and then.
Honestly an Empire 2 with updated graphic and mechanics would be fantastic it has always been an excellent setting for total war games due to the nature of the warfare and I think we’re missing out a bit with not having head a proper line infantry game in some time. Warhammer three scratches that itch a bit but it has so much else going on and no naval combat. So while it’s still great it’s not what most total war gamers are looking for.
i just started playing age of bronze mod, and encountered a few crashes here and there....can you do an update video on that mod, and or news of when they plan to add more regions and factions? i think that mod has allot of potential, but even on easy mode i kept getting harassed and dominated from all sides when paying either Egypt or the Hittites, Ai seemed way to strong and aggressive lol.
Hello. Can you make a video regarding the installation of Pirates uber alles as none of the installation videos are in English nor up to date. thank you
Great video ! Do you know if there is a mod that makes the game 32:9 ratio compatible. I'm running at 5120x1440 on a Samsung G9 OLED monitor , and at that resolution the game just looks streched and magnified on the sides.
Empire 2 has way too many different units for sure. Was going to do a Russian campaign and my goodness. Have to tweak the sensitivity settings on my mouse to pick a unit for recruitment. Also, some units go prone which is weird and they end up shooting grass
I always found the longer drawn out battles to be more immersive and fun to play. At least the slow big battles. If it was you having to kill 3 units with a full stack and it took forever maybe I would understand.
I think Imperial Splendours battles are the very best. I like how fragile morale is, bad positioning and even on normal battle difficulty, your whole line can crumble. What I don't like about imperial splendour is the short campaign, 100turns and limited tech progression and sandbox. I love the units, the only problem is that small maps that give little space to manuever. Darthmod has a problem with too much death. It's not about breaking your enemies morale, it's about killing them to the last man and that is't fun. Empire 2 suffers from this too, you needing to kill rather than break units. The maps are huge which is alot of fun, but the units are a problem. There's just too much clutter and there is no focus or direction in the rosters.
I didn't even know that it is possible to add new regions in ETW. New territories in trade regions is real catch. I was hoping for a mod that includes new factions and territories. Definitely need to try out Imperial destroyer.
Darthmod is my go to empire mod, I want to check out imperial splendour and I’ve played the original colonialism 1600AD mod mainly for the pike and shot era
I love this game currently broken for me and I can't find a fix so I have given up ...I still love this game though I ll wait until the next update I guess as we had one to my surprise probably that was what broke my game lol but still I live in hope thar the next fix means I can play again
Hi Terminator i have a big question, i love empire i play it since i was 10 and finally i converted my friend to play total war games but there is no multiplayer campaing i watch some video and i didn’t find much can you tell if there are some mod or submod that include the multiplayer campaign?
I know this is very late, but, I am looking for a mod which the soldiers actually ram the rod just once. Yes, Im unhelpful, but I remember a mod like this, most likely amongst these mods, and would love to play it again.
I really enjoyed the Darthmod for empire shame I couldnt get it to work right with the jacobite mod for scotland but by installing that first I enjoyed my scottish campaign alot more.
why exactly is napoleon cosnidered superior to empire? all ive really heard thats different is that the time period is different and the campaign mechanics arent as grand-strategy-like, which tbh is the main reason Empire is my favorite: the time period and the campaign mechanics.
Napoleon fixes things like some battleformations, smoke effects on battles and is essentially a technically superior game due to less buggs and crashes. However most people do think that Empire has a much more interesting scale and scope. I hope they make a sequel to Empire that brings all the best parts togheter with modern improvements and a huge scale of the world into something truly great. I would also like if they made sea battles again. Empire is one of my favourite games in the franchise.
Hope that because CA seems unable to give more proper historical titles will release at some point a remastered version, like Rome. That would be wonderful because like Rome, with unlocked region creation, would give the modders the ground to build a proper world wide game.
Actually do we know if any of these mods work with Steam, and how? I have tried installing Darthmod but it crashes on launch. I even tried to delete the Local/Roaming data, and while the game launches this way, the mod itself is not working (it still is the vanilla version). Also, graphics are broken - higher resolutions above 1080p are unplayable due to UI issues.
I’ll never be able to play any of these though because you don’t show how to install and they’re way too complicated for me everytime I have trouble so I’ll just stick to steam workshop mods because yeah I’m not wasting hours trying to figure this out
I've never been able to finish a campaign on vanilla because of crashes. They should redo and church it up at some point. I would like a good pike and shot era on an empire scale.
The new Empire 2 (4.3) update is beyond broken. The AI doesn't upgrade military buildings so they are stuck in the Pike and shot era because they added a 1690 start date (??) and there is SO much research that even if the AI did upgrade their barracks they would be so far behind in Tech. There is also a huge issue with population growth.
I didn't managed to get into the Steam Beta, that's why Empire 2 is really amazing, it allowed me to play a co-op campaign with a friend@@KitteridgeStudios
finally someone wakes up and talks about the real deal with empire 2, i just played a couple battles and it seemed pretty bad, looks like the second coming of jesus christ just because he has put some shitty AI images on his banner and the menu background but its battle balance is all over the place. 300 men formations shooting point blank two feet away and delivering zero casualties, successful rear cavalry charges that end up in your cavalry unit wavering, general morale wonkiness all over the place with units randomly routing or enemy units encircled and withstanding fire to almost depletion, tbh battles is all TW is, if i want to play a campaign map game i go to paradox, that mod is completely unplayable, it ruined 60% of the game, no matter the amount of units, the amount of submods or the size of the units btw, not talking about the "borrowing" thing, bronze age for rome 2 is also a sketchy mod ive been told, me being a modder i have no problem with anyone using any of my assets or updating my mods as long as you dont claim its your own work or ask for money
Decided to give Pirates Uber Alles a try. After a 12+ gig download and slightly less-than-easy installation process I had it up and running. I started a campaign as Great Britain in 1703. As Great Britain you start off in a war with France and I could not find a single British ship on the map. Not a one, no navy whatsoever. Went to research a technology and under the Philosophy group you can start with Colonial Genocide and Slavery - it was at this point I it crossed my mind I wasn't going to enjoy this mod as much as I thought I would. Browsing through my territories I noticed that at the Moose Factory, in Canada I could recruit African Militia. I think I'll try something else.
Special mentions to Empire 2 Generals, the Minor Factions Revenge mod & of course the American Civil War mod all which I'll also be covering soon! What are your favourite mods for Empire? And what other Top 5 Lists would you like to see for Total War games? Hope you enjoyed the video guys more of these to come!
Hi. You are so prolific. What's left to talk about? How about top 5 rosters that need work? For example, when a mod makes beautiful rosters for one faction but appears to completely ignore others (Compare Saxony in Darthmod: Napoleon with, say, Wurttemburg. A lot of mods are guilty of this.) Or how about 5 most glaring historical inaccuracies?
Can you do a Top 5 for Napoleon?
@rodverangeloespera289 thats coming next! :)
Can you please make a review of The American Revolution Mod (T.A.R. Mod for short).
It is an insane recreation of the American Revolution, featuring multiple campaigns, offering many features and modes controlled by a cool launcher, 100s of historical units (Most of which have historical descriptions) and the ability to have 30 and 40-unit armies.
The mod uses the UI and AI from Darthmod and can be considered the big daddy of the Regiments of the American Revolution mod with many custom campaigns.
The mod also features a cool intro movie when you launch the mod/game (something, to at least what I have played, no other mod does).
When is your Pirates Uber Alles vid coming?
Empire, despite its flaws, will be my favorite total war for a long while yet.
Absolutely 👍
Warhammer 3 is better , it also has line infantry with gun
@@dutchjoran oof, I can't get behind that take
@@thesiberianproductions3748 but it has line infantry and cannon also......👀
@@dutchjoranits okay , but for some of us we don't have moster pc soo the empire are mostly the biggest maps vanilla for total war games
I'm assuming most Total War fans would not be opposed to an Empire 2, I always played Napoleon when it came to this time period, but once I got into Empire I was actually shocked at how much better it was. My favorite part about Empire is being able to travel between continents which current total war games are currently lacking.
I would definitely buy an Empire 2 total war game…the day it launches. Same period with Atilla graphics and mechanics.
Seriously. If they made an empire 2 with napoleons battles and AI it would be perfect. Thats the main thing I love about empire is that I can go to all the places and have massive battles on the high seas. It’s amazing and whilst a lot of people don’t like empire I think it’s amazing
Completely agree. Encompassing half the globe! One of my fav games of all. I come back to play it every few years. 1,000's of hours in on vanilla alone!
Thanks mate. Come on Creative Assembly give us Empire Total War 2!
I don't think they will it's a PR disaster waiting to happen. If they do they will have to take out the American and Indian theater
@@Dan-jj2vr Sadly in this present world of madness I think unfortunately you may be right!
@@Dan-jj2vrthey should increase the scale not reduce it
I've been playing PUA mod since forever, glad it finally receive appreciation. The reason it's stable is because it has been polished for more than 10 years. The developers still active on forum and constantly release updates.
How the multiplayer campaign works? Is it stabel without desyncs?
@@chelazar8895 no multiplayer campaign in PUA for now. Develepers are planning to integrate it in the next updates.
@@facethesun4764 and in the others like empire 2 are there multiplayer
Its very stable !! played yesterday
Tbh idk if I'm doing something wrong but I have been getting multiple crashes from time to time in PUA, most of them when playing early campaigns
Darthmod has always been my go to but Pirate Uber Alles looks really good and worth a try
Was it worth it? Is it as good as Darthmod? (Im thinking about trying it out)
Unfortunately, darthmod decreased the accuracy of muskets and cannons. the Indians defeated the infantry with muskets without any problem.
@@riven8226 Can you tell me what mod i should try but without decreasing accuracy? Because i tried darthmod and imperial destroyer, it took really long time to kill the enemy.
@@nugrohodarmawan609Just try PUA. The main launcher for that mod has settings and configurations that allow you to change to realistic battles or more sim-like battles.
I started playing Empire II a few days ago, its a great experience.
I wished CA would give us an overhauled Version of some classics. Give some love to medieval 2 and empire in form of AI, UI and little graphics improvements, call it a "history edition" or something like that and I'd happily play these for ever.
Atilla with Medieval 1220 mod is Medieval 2.
they... did? definitive edition improved the graphics of etw, ntw, mtw2 i think all for free
@hannahh1379 'Definitive Edition' didn't change anything except add the DLC of Empire and Napoleon for free.
I love long battles! It leaves more time for grand plans and strategic moves. With slow massive formations and infinite artillery ammo, I feel the game is talor made for the slower more strategic battles ❤
yes! my biggest gripe with vanilla empire is that i find myself playing battles on slow speed instead of regular, which is great because i can move units around more effectively, BUT you lose all sound which sucks. i find myself wishing that slow speed was the normal speed, or that the maps were just bigger.
Great vid. I've had DarthMod installed for years, but looking forward to your in-depth PUA gameplay as a possible alternative to mix things up a bit.
This was my first total war game. It was the first game that somehow distorted the flow of time so i would somehow play for four hours when i felt as though i had only played thirty minutes. I love it for that alone.
Mine was the first Shogun, but I know exactly what you mean. Amazing when it happens!
Great video! Finally the Pirates Uber Alles mod gets its deserved recognition. Hoping it will get more coverage in the community starting now :)
More to come!
@@TheTerminatorGaming Awesome!
Ive been playing a ton of Empire II and I heard about PUA but unfortunately I keep getting CTDs
@@soren633 when do you get ctd?
Did you uninstall empire and delete the whole game folder (and the scripts folder in appdata) before installing the mod?
@@soren633 Did you download the mod from moddb?
There is an error in the filenames of the moddb files. Rename all three parts into their correct filenames here before extracting:
ETW-PUA-Steam.Part1
ETW-PUA-Steam.Part2
ETW-PUA-Steam.Part3
They are 3 parts of 1 archive. They should all extract into a SINGLE folder if you renamed them properly.
I've only got around 70 hours in Empire, mostly because I discovered TW late in my life and bought almost all the games in the spam of 4 years but it's definitely one of the setting I enjoyed the most. After all that's happening lately with CA I wanted to get back to the older historical titles and I'm so glad that I've discovered your video! I'm downloading Empire as I write this and I'll try PUA. Looks like a great mod!
Excellent work-these comparison videos are some of my favorites. I don’t have time to play all the mods, so it’s helpful to know how they are all different in their strengths and weaknesses
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you! (Absolutum Dominium for an honourable mention?) You did a really good job of pointing out the pros and cons of each. Though I felt you were a bit overly kind on Imperial Destroyer, there are sub-mods that can fix a lot of it's most glaring faults.
Looking forward to your 'Pirates Uber Alles' review. Hopefully you will go into great detail about that confusing-looking options screen that it has, and what all those various little sub-mods do.
Empire is just the best ever entry to this franchise.
CA should just finally do a sequel already.
At this point I'm scared of anything that CA touches.
@@jaco6971 This so much. They just couldn't make a good game out of it. Same reason why it's better that Medieval 3 stays a pipe dream.
@@KitteridgeStudios They could make a good game. The question is if they actually would make a good game and the evidence from recent years is of a continued pattern of broken mechanics, DLC whoring and then abandoning loyal customers who've paid frankly too much for too little.
Im still running darthmod after all these years,if your new to empire go with darthmod.
I appreciate this comparative look at all the ETW mods!
I'm definitely downloading Pirates Uber Alles. Termi, you have become my favorite youtuber.
❤️❤️❤️
If Darthmod's battle improvements could be combined with the campaign improvements from the other mods and without gutting the tech and economy it would be perfect. We need compatibility patches.
These are all interesting mods . Darth Mod is classic as is Imperial Splender. Empire 2 is so buggy! BUT... I would say you left out one of the most important mods of all : Bran Mac Born's AI campaign and battle mods. He probably did more work on the the Empire Ai behaviours than any other modder. Look what he did with Darthmod Empire..well a complete overhaul of its systems! I think that is a major oversight Terminator. I wish something could be done with the campaign map in Empire to make it more realistic.
I play this mod too and in every country, at the start of a new game I have -100 anxiety, in every province people are rebelling and I don't know if it's a bug? do you have this too?
I tried Empire 2 but the mod was pretty much unplayable for me because it just constantly crashes and is still in such an unfinished state
yeah,it crashes a lot for some,for me not that much...I really like that they connected morale to support by nearby troops,a left alone unit will break easily but supported will be hard to break even it has problems like if sending a single cavarly unit in the back of the enemy to attack artilery will rout before reaching the enemy but for me is not more unplayable than.darthmod...I forgot,I discussed it about exageration of support with Cece and he announced some modifications but I didn't play it,started another campaign in DEI and til I have enough,finished is when I say it is,not care about victory conditions,I won't play Empire
Try the Pirates Uber Alles mod, it's the original and polished Empire 2 mod.
@@CheriShin21 I must try PUA too
@@riverblack565 yes do so, you won't regret it :) just be careful to follow the step by step instructions in moddb, in the comments.
Empire was my first Total War title and it will forever have a place in my heart.
I wish ACW mod was optimized and not abandoned. You could get iirc, 20ish turns out of campaign then endless crashes.
I was playing Empire 2, as much as it is one of the most ambitious mods, it has too many issues so I have abandoned it.
Tried Pirates Uber Alles after watching your video, it is a fantastic mod. Very well polished. Looking forward to your full video on it.
Exactly this!
I play this mod too and in every country, at the start of a new game I have -100 anxiety, in every province people are rebelling and I don't know if it's a bug? do you have this too?
@@KinG05059 That's by design. Those are regions that rebelled historically. You could try to fight to keep them, or just let them rebel and reconquer them. The unrest level would be back to normal unrest if you reconquered them.
@@CheriShin21 ok, thanks for the quick answer :D.
just as I thought that the creators of the mod added something like that, but in my opinion it is completely pointless, I don't like it
I'd love to have an overhaul on the diplomacy of ETW. Like being able to negotiate peace treaties between other states and terms of alliance (eg: promising territory of a common enemy)
I have just been shopping around for the perfect empire mod
Thanks for the updates Termi. It is nice there still is breath of fresh air with this game. Cheers!
I’ve never put a mod in total war but I really want to play a mod that expands the experience and regions… this video convinced me finally to use Uber allis, thank you.
This was and I would still say is the most ambitious game in the Total War franchise. The fact that detailed naval battles were integrated and the campaign map scope and size is incredibly for the date it was released.
So I just saw this video and never heard of the last Mod. I downloaded Pirates Uber Alles and I have to say its the probably the most polished Empire Mod I've played so far. I done all of them and this mod so far is probably my favorite.
PUA is still updated. In the latest updates there will be emphasis on campaign 1772, France Louis 16 will be completely updated, famous ships, admirals, generals, minists of that era.
sadly I have a bug that never lets me play past turn 37. no matter what faction I played the same turn made the game crash. the game has potential. but the bloody bugs that even modes can't fix.....
Does anyone know of a way that actually works, to stop the lag in city battles if you blow a wall? Thanks.
i was checking moddb and find another Overhauls that look interesting its called ""Wind From the East"| and "Absolutum Dominiun"" . check the maybe worth making video review for them aswell
i played Emprire Total War 2, with this mods, but my game keeps crashing when loading after turn 20, and i found no solution on internet
Mods brought me back, vanilla empire was.......ok but really it could have been SO MUCH better
Bro can you give the guide to how to install pirates uber alles?
is there a mod that adds or modify an existing unique building that gives unique stats like accuracy or reload skill like in shogun 2? i always like to find the best provinces to create the most powerful units of the campaign.
I started playing Empire recently and my biggest issues with the game is unit attack orders. My line infantry keeps shuffling left and right and reorganizing when I give them and attack order, and then they start firing from a weird angle with like 30% of the troops. Do any of these mods tackle this issue? Or is there a mod specifically for this?
No, you just shouldn't use attack orders at all. You should just concern on placing your units on advantageous positions and closing distance until the enemy is at shooting range, the men will do the rest automatically and will stay where you left them.
8:45 Woah, that’s too much “flexibility” lol
It's a powerful launcher, all of those setting with just one click in the launcher, no fiddling with files or the userscript. It has a lot of options to customize your experience. It might be daunting at first, but there's a comprehensive guide for all the buttons and learning it is worth it.
@@CheriShin21 hopefully terminator covers that aspect in his upcoming video.
could you make a video on how to install PIRATES UBER ALLES please ive followed the instructiond the best i can but cant get it to work i get to the launcher and it wont load the game a box in the corner comes up and says cant find the path to walli engine
I will be soon ❤️
thank you so much
@@TheTerminatorGaming
Thanks for incentivizing me to give Empire another try. Loved the naval warfare but the rest was meh in the long run. PUA sounds promising, though, will definitely try it out to have some refreshing TW variety besides my Divide & Conquer evergreen that cost me half of my life.
I have been playing vanilla and darth mod for a year. It was in 2016. I'm very sad about the state of the TW series now. Which ETW mod do U recommend to play first?
Try PUA see what you think :)
so Imperial Spledour or PUA mods would be a good start if u are bored at home & want to try out new mods for Empire?
Hi, I'm happy that Realistic Battles for Imperial Destroyer is welcomed. I was feeling the need to do it because I like much Imperial Destroyer, but to me the battles were lacking, specially compared to Darthmod which I think is the best one in this aspect.
plz show the link for 40 unit in battle mod for etw IMPERIAL DESTROYER
Finally a video that is objective. When i watched the previous videos focusing on individual mods, it felt like you never actually played the mods and just read the changelog somewhere. But now you say what is true, these mods, at first glance amazing, in reality they are not so amazing and they have a lot of flaws.
To be fair, every mod has a ton of issues. Even the big big ones. My spotlights are as much about giving the mods a platform to reach new people as it is for me to talk about why I like them. Talking about why they’re bad more often than not just ends up turning people away.
Appreciate the kind words :) More videos like this one in the works my man!
I wish we could someday have a combination of Napoleon and Empire with a worldmap!
I play the Pirates Uber Alles mod and every country I start a new game in every province I have -100 anxiety, is this some kind of bug? is it supposed to be like that, because if it's supposed to be like that, this mod makes no sense, and the second question is why, as a Mugal Empire, you can't recruit ships?
Have you ever had problems with crashes in Imperial Splendor? It felt like it crashed every other turn for me when I played it. That was the major reason that i stopped playing it. Now on Empire 2, which I’m enjoying for the most part, although if does crash every now and then.
Interesting. Opposite experience for me haha. Just goes to show for some its a very different experience
What settings would you use on the launcher for a slighty more realistic battles
Pirates Uber Alles is definitely the GOAT but An Empire Enhanced is what you need if you want only a vanilla enhancement mod
Hetmanat Total War is my favourite
Is there any update to this in 2024?
Honestly an Empire 2 with updated graphic and mechanics would be fantastic it has always been an excellent setting for total war games due to the nature of the warfare and I think we’re missing out a bit with not having head a proper line infantry game in some time. Warhammer three scratches that itch a bit but it has so much else going on and no naval combat. So while it’s still great it’s not what most total war gamers are looking for.
i just started playing age of bronze mod, and encountered a few crashes here and there....can you do an update video on that mod, and or news of when they plan to add more regions and factions? i think that mod has allot of potential, but even on easy mode i kept getting harassed and dominated from all sides when paying either Egypt or the Hittites, Ai seemed way to strong and aggressive lol.
No update on anything yet but I’m sure they’re working on polishing out the issues
I was thinking about trying Empire again since I didn't give it much of a chance back in the day.
My favorite mod and that I play very often and enjoy is darthmod, but that pirates uber alles sounds good.
Hello. Can you make a video regarding the installation of Pirates uber alles as none of the installation videos are in English nor up to date. thank you
I'll be doing a PUA spotlight soon I'll do it there :)
Great video ! Do you know if there is a mod that makes the game 32:9 ratio compatible. I'm running at 5120x1440 on a Samsung G9 OLED monitor , and at that resolution the game just looks streched and magnified on the sides.
Empire 2 has way too many different units for sure. Was going to do a Russian campaign and my goodness. Have to tweak the sensitivity settings on my mouse to pick a unit for recruitment. Also, some units go prone which is weird and they end up shooting grass
Try the PUA mod, especially with the 1703 Great Northern War Russian campaign :)
I always found the longer drawn out battles to be more immersive and fun to play. At least the slow big battles. If it was you having to kill 3 units with a full stack and it took forever maybe I would understand.
I think Imperial Splendours battles are the very best. I like how fragile morale is, bad positioning and even on normal battle difficulty, your whole line can crumble.
What I don't like about imperial splendour is the short campaign, 100turns and limited tech progression and sandbox. I love the units, the only problem is that small maps that give little space to manuever.
Darthmod has a problem with too much death. It's not about breaking your enemies morale, it's about killing them to the last man and that is't fun.
Empire 2 suffers from this too, you needing to kill rather than break units. The maps are huge which is alot of fun, but the units are a problem. There's just too much clutter and there is no focus or direction in the rosters.
I didn't even know that it is possible to add new regions in ETW. New territories in trade regions is real catch. I was hoping for a mod that includes new factions and territories. Definitely need to try out Imperial destroyer.
Darthmod is my go to empire mod, I want to check out imperial splendour and I’ve played the original colonialism 1600AD mod mainly for the pike and shot era
I love this game currently broken for me and I can't find a fix so I have given up ...I still love this game though I ll wait until the next update I guess as we had one to my surprise probably that was what broke my game lol but still I live in hope thar the next fix means I can play again
Last time I played was August 22
The game is fixed now, a fresh steam install would work fine.
Great video mate, thanks.
Great vid ! Just to say there is a late campaign in darthmod to
Hi Terminator i have a big question, i love empire i play it since i was 10 and finally i converted my friend to play total war games but there is no multiplayer campaing i watch some video and i didn’t find much can you tell if there are some mod or submod that include the multiplayer campaign?
ETW2 has a MP campaign submod but I haven’t tried it yet. Check it out
thank you very much
@@TheTerminatorGaming
I know this is very late, but, I am looking for a mod which the soldiers actually ram the rod just once. Yes, Im unhelpful, but I remember a mod like this, most likely amongst these mods, and would love to play it again.
I really enjoyed the Darthmod for empire shame I couldnt get it to work right with the jacobite mod for scotland but by installing that first I enjoyed my scottish campaign alot more.
What about Napoleonic Total War 2? How does it stand up to this list?
Inquiring minds wish to know.
I haven't tried it but I shall!
Isn't Napoleonic Total War II a Rome Total War mod?
@@sirpasta4927 NTW3 Should have been 3 not 2
@@samrester6254 that's a multiplayer mod for Napoleon Total War. This video is about singleplayer Empire Total War mods. Two separate games.
@@sirpasta4927 Oops. You are correct. Don't know why I mixed the two.
Thanks for the heads up.
any mods that Improve Spanish Unit visuals I hate that they have White coats instead of Yellow and red
why exactly is napoleon cosnidered superior to empire? all ive really heard thats different is that the time period is different and the campaign mechanics arent as grand-strategy-like, which tbh is the main reason Empire is my favorite: the time period and the campaign mechanics.
Napoleon fixes things like some battleformations, smoke effects on battles and is essentially a technically superior game due to less buggs and crashes. However most people do think that Empire has a much more interesting scale and scope. I hope they make a sequel to Empire that brings all the best parts togheter with modern improvements and a huge scale of the world into something truly great. I would also like if they made sea battles again. Empire is one of my favourite games in the franchise.
Hope that because CA seems unable to give more proper historical titles will release at some point a remastered version, like Rome. That would be wonderful because like Rome, with unlocked region creation, would give the modders the ground to build a proper world wide game.
Actually do we know if any of these mods work with Steam, and how? I have tried installing Darthmod but it crashes on launch. I even tried to delete the Local/Roaming data, and while the game launches this way, the mod itself is not working (it still is the vanilla version). Also, graphics are broken - higher resolutions above 1080p are unplayable due to UI issues.
Then you didn't follow the install instructions.
These 5 MODs... they're separate right? Not to be used together?
I’ll never be able to play any of these though because you don’t show how to install and they’re way too complicated for me everytime I have trouble so I’ll just stick to steam workshop mods because yeah I’m not wasting hours trying to figure this out
Biggest Battle of the Century CA VS EA
I put over 1,000 hours into the vanilla. I hate it’s bugs but it’s still a great game
Darthmod is great! I enjoyed!
Thanks! I'll give Pirates a try!
Empire and Rome 1 my absolute favorite.
I've never been able to finish a campaign on vanilla because of crashes. They should redo and church it up at some point. I would like a good pike and shot era on an empire scale.
The new Empire 2 (4.3) update is beyond broken. The AI doesn't upgrade military buildings so they are stuck in the Pike and shot era because they added a 1690 start date (??) and there is SO much research that even if the AI did upgrade their barracks they would be so far behind in Tech. There is also a huge issue with population growth.
there are some mod that include a multiplayer campaign in empire?
Is there any mod for Empire providing same graphics and battle visual effects from Napoleon? Can someone tell me please?
This mods canot be combined, right?
Nope
Can you use these all at the same time?
A really good point for Empire 2 is that it includes a multiplayer campaign just like the one in Napoleon
If you managed to get into the Steam Beta over ten years ago.
I didn't managed to get into the Steam Beta, that's why Empire 2 is really amazing, it allowed me to play a co-op campaign with a friend@@KitteridgeStudios
finally someone wakes up and talks about the real deal with empire 2, i just played a couple battles and it seemed pretty bad, looks like the second coming of jesus christ just because he has put some shitty AI images on his banner and the menu background but its battle balance is all over the place. 300 men formations shooting point blank two feet away and delivering zero casualties, successful rear cavalry charges that end up in your cavalry unit wavering, general morale wonkiness all over the place with units randomly routing or enemy units encircled and withstanding fire to almost depletion, tbh battles is all TW is, if i want to play a campaign map game i go to paradox, that mod is completely unplayable, it ruined 60% of the game, no matter the amount of units, the amount of submods or the size of the units
btw, not talking about the "borrowing" thing, bronze age for rome 2 is also a sketchy mod ive been told, me being a modder i have no problem with anyone using any of my assets or updating my mods as long as you dont claim its your own work or ask for money
Is Imperial Splendor compatible with Darthmod? Can you use them both?
Not compatible
So can I use all of these mods at the same time or will it crash my game if I use 2 or more simultaneously
Just 1 per game because each mod have different instalation, gameplay, Ai behavior
Decided to give Pirates Uber Alles a try. After a 12+ gig download and slightly less-than-easy installation process I had it up and running. I started a campaign as Great Britain in 1703. As Great Britain you start off in a war with France and I could not find a single British ship on the map. Not a one, no navy whatsoever. Went to research a technology and under the Philosophy group you can start with Colonial Genocide and Slavery - it was at this point I it crossed my mind I wasn't going to enjoy this mod as much as I thought I would. Browsing through my territories I noticed that at the Moose Factory, in Canada I could recruit African Militia.
I think I'll try something else.
Thank you my friend
Are there any of them that are stable and allow you to finish a campaign?
PUA, Darthmod, the Imperials are definitely stable enough
Why they removed city wall…😢
So good the computer handle applying all these mods at once?
You can't use these mods at the same time.That's not how they're used.
We need a new and polished American Civil War mod