Peninsular Mod v1.01 (requires Road to Wagram v1.5)

[gunship24]

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Peninsular Mod for Road to Wagram
This is a mod for Road to Wagram that adds a new nation, Great Britain and her allies, and new french and allied units to the game. This mod focus' around the French invasion of Spain and Portugal from 1808 to 1814.

There are several OOBs; Rolica (1808), Vimeiro (1808) and Albuera (1811). Patch v1.02 (see installation instructions) also adds Corunna and Talavera.


New in v1.01:

SPOILER: SHOW

1st August 2012
1) Light cavalry can now form skirmish line
2) Cavalry formations are now more centrally located around the flag for small units
3) New Map icons (if you dont like them just delete Map_Icons.tga in Graphics\Screens
4) All OOBs updated to resolve a courier bug

New in v1.0:

SPOILER: SHOW

French:
1) New updated French fusiliers
2) Swiss infantry
4) Vistula lancers

Great Britain:
1) Line and KGL infantry
2) Light infantry
3) 95th Rifles
4) Kings German Legion light
5) Cacadores
6) Foot artillery
7) Horse artilelry
8) Portuguese infantry
9) Spanish infantry
10) Hussars
11) Light Dragoons

Sounds:
New music and sound effects

Install:
1) Download the Road to Wagram main mod FOUND HERE and put it in the Mods folder. See the forum sticky for details.
2) Download the Peninsular mod v1.01 FOUND HERE and put it in the Mods folder.
2a) Download the v1.02 patch FOUND HERE. Extract it to the Peninsula mod folder. select 'yes' to overwrite files.
3) Activate the Road to Wagram and the Peninsular mods. Ensure the peninsular mod is below the main Road to Wagram mod in your mod list (this can be changed using the arrows on the Mods page)
4) If you want to go back to the Road to Wagram mod simply disable the Peninsular mod

[william1993]

I played with the Vimiero OOB and I was the British and I barely whipped the French. All I had was Rowland Hill and Miles Nightingale's brigades against the French 1st Division and they had the high ground and some veteran troops. I ended up capturing a whole battery and inflicting about 2100 to my 1800 casualties but it was close and at the end a lot of my regiments were shot up and wavering.

I also reduced the musket ranges to 90 to make it somewhat realistic, as musket fights were at close range.

Oh, and one more thing, the 5/60th and the 95th rifles are armed with smoothbores for some reason. Do you know how to fix it?

[Jack ONeill]

William,

You'll have to change the weapon type in the OOB. The correct weapon, (Baker Rifle), is in the Rifles.csv file. Just delete the Brown Bess entry in the OOB and type in the Baker Rifle. Pay attention, but, since you know how to change the ranges and such, should be no problem.

Jack B)

[gunship24]

Yes they should have the baker rifle, IDS_ARSN_Baker_Rifle, thanks for the heads up i'll make the changes.

There arent any engine changes i can think of. Im going to create more OOBs, Corunna is next follwed by Talavera, then take a look at the cavalry issue again. Im also wanting to reduce the amount of casualties suffered per side to more realisitc levels.

[william1993]

You mean overall casualties to realistic levels or cavalry-based casualties.

[Saddletank]

Im also wanting to reduce the amount of casualties suffered per side to more realisitc levels.

Gunship, have a talk with Marching Thru Georgia about that. He's been doing some work on the ACW for the HITS group that attempts to address the 'too many casualties' effects of the basic game and we now have our units down to under 50% losses on average at which the collapse and rout point is reached.

What he has done is reduced the rates of fire but increased the morale effects of each casualty. Thus firefights last about as long but units fall back with fewer casualties. We think this suits the type of ACW warfare where units would waver, fall back, rally, hold on and return to the line - up to several times - before finally breaking and heading for the hills.

The problem is, this isn't the kind of behaviour I think Napoleonic troops exhibited where these, due to draconian discipline would hold the line far longer and when they did break and run, that was pretty much it. Even so, with some shuffling of the numbers, MTGs work may still be of use, so perhaps drop him a PM.

[Hancock the Superb]

Well, I just downloaded Road to Wagram and the Peninsular Mods. Although my heart still lies in the Civil War, I must say that everyone who worked on this mod has done an excellent job. It was impressive to say the least when I watched a French Brigade in all their fancy uniforms march around the flank...to run into one of my English Brigades hiding behind a hill.

Good work to all again. By the way, in the OOBs, you should either keep the units as complete battalions or turn them into companies. It doesn't make a lot of sense to split them into two, militarily speaking, even though they would be super large with 900 something men.

[Tacloban]

Oh Joy! Rapture!

This mod release has put a rose on an otherwise thorny day for me.
Thank you!

[gunship24]

Hi Tacloban, was it you that did the peninsular OOBs for TC2M?

For the ones that are split ive done two versions just to see whats its like. These OOBs are fairly small that i could get away with it, i wouldnt do that for the large ones and dont intend to do anymore unless for special occasions. Alot of the peninsular fights later one were fought with depleted battalions so i will be able to do normal sprite ratios. You are right, i do prefer the 'one unit' OOBs. What would you say about cavalry units? Napoleon said that the cavalry squadron was akin to the infantry battalion, in the Albuera OOB the cavalry remain as regiments which seems rather big, and i was thinking about splitting them up into squadrons.

Thanks saddletank, will do. In all my fights the unit casualties do seem high compared to actual reports. I might be able to tweak it so the units behave a bit more realistically.

I am back tonight at my home so will be able to look at more OOBs.

[william1993]

Squadrons are better than full units, because sometimes they would be detached or held in reserve