Empire & Napoleon now fully moddable!

[Maniacal]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/01/to-battle-empire-napoleon-made-moddable/#more-64733

A source of what could gently be called discontent amongst the Total War community of late has been the lack of modding tools for the most recent games. Empire, Napoleon and Total War have all been bereft of official utilities to alter and add units, maps et al, which was partly a result of the relevant files being compressed and thus tricky to edit. At last, the Creative Assembly have found a way to open things up a little more – releasing the complete, original, unpacked raw database XML (data from tables) and XSD (table structure and field properties) files for both Empire and Napoleon.

Which is, essentially, what modders have been waiting long years for. No sign of Shogun yet, but hopefully it’s incoming. The Total War games have a long, proud history of both minor mods and total conversions, and seeing what the most recent versions can be turned to will be a whole lot of fun.

 

[sophie]

The lack of the modding tools was a major reason I disliked Empire and the TW series in general. I'm glad to see they've finally got their act together. Better late than never, right?

 

[Traitorfish]

Finally we can add the right number of buttons to Polish Hussars.

Not sure if serious... -_-

 

[Maniacal]

I never use any of the formations for cavalry, I don't see the point TBH. They just take up more room and I always put them on my flanks anyway.