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Hey REMcPhail, Creative Assembly's Empire Total War and Napoleon Total War are epic strategy games! If you play LME4 for example you'll get a deep immersive experience as I did with all the unique units etc. I have over 1,000 hours played of NTW. I love that game but what it lacks is the Paradox map as a framework. What MotE lacks is the NTW battle immersion, basic trade and buildings. How I wish for a combination of these two games! But never the twain shall meet I guess.
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Mods certainly have made a difference, but I disagree that they are "epic" strategy games. I bought ETW from Steam after the last patch was released from CA and it was still so freakin' buggy that it was simply annoying to play. And I'm not talking about game design decisions, but actual bugs in the game - such as selecting a land unit and having the audio response be that for naval units.
There's a often-referred to quote from an employee of CA who said he wouldn't give the game away, it was so bad. The AI was atrociously bad. Playing Great Britain was piece of cake. It is well-accepted on the TW forums that Empire was so buggy upon release that it could barely be played. Granted, NTW was definitely better and improved.
For a long time I defended CA, and even on their forum, back when they were still promising to release "mod tools" so we could mod the game and fix the bugs ourselves. Then after waiting for more than two years, we were told these tools were not going to come. We still cannot mod the campaign map, and some people have spent hundreds of hours trying. People have made some improvements, and it does remain a fun diversion for anyone not terribly interested in historic accuracy.
Some mods, like Darthmod, have made ETW playable and for that I'm grateful. And it does have sea battles, which is cool. Thankfully, the other CA titles have been fun games, and I'm looking forward to the release of Rome II.
I just had a look at the game files. I own it but haven't played it. You could mod the historical regiments and strengths if you wanted to. The game is basic in its design in that each "brigade" has 2400 men. You could change these to regiments and have regiments of 1 battalion - 4 battalions. With the appropriate strengths. Its a case of modding the historical regiment sizes for each country in the common/units and common/brigades folders. I haven't checked out the 1792 mod but maybe they did something like this. If they haven't - then I will probably try and do something like this. But then you need to have balancing issues tested etc. But you are right the game was one step from a brilliant immersion experience.
As a spaniard i like to use this as a guide: ESTADOS MILITARES 3w's(dot)aulamilitar(dot)com/pagiht09(dot)htm?ID_SESION=DDTIZNDNGMGGYBWIQXFC
Here you can see that units are "Regiments" instead of Brigades. More or less same units that are on Spanish history\OOB\ file.
Most units of that time where demi-brigades (half- brigades or a bunching of regiments). So you are quite right.