EMPIRE 2 TOTAL WAR: Modders Have Achieved The IMPOSSIBLE!

It’s not often you see a mod in Total War that can effectively do what an ideal officially made game in the series could be like. In this video I’m going to show you all the reasons why, especially with the latest and final update released last week, the mod I’ll be covering today is pretty much the Empire 2 Total War we could ever want and desire.
While Empire 2 Total War might not yet match the stature of mods like Darthmod, Imperial Splendour or Pirates Uber Alles, this latest version modernises the game in so many ways while innovating with new mechanics and expanding faction rosters and replayability in ways that are so far beyond any other mod out there let alone vanilla Empire Total War.
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[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Empire 2 does a lot of really great stuff for the game that for me makes it one of the best mods you can play. The combination of lots of different mods here, the great changes to UI, unit visuals, various mechanics and scripts are super impressive. The only thing I'd want now is completely unlocked map modding to add more regions, cough France cough. Hopefully one day that actually happens. Also, seriously the installation is not easy, consult the doc in the download or ask for help in the discord or here in the video if you're having issues.

[@Odysseus1313]

I have an awful time of trying to get it to work on my pc

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

I got rid of it because my units run out of ammo before I can get anywhere in a battle.

[@Red13.0]

In my case I can’t replenish units, recruit new generals, or advance in tech

[@Orphydian]

They should add faction specific UI style like Imperial splendour. Btw how well it stacks against IS when comes to unit historical accuracy and graphics?

[@Leo-ok3uj]

It also does a lot of awful things I can only hope that when they finish working in it they release it in parts so that we can install the good stuff and remove the bad things

[@armandom.s.1844]

One of the most forgotten problems of Empire that must be solved: cities being depicted in the battlefield as two random farms and a town hall or just a hollow fort.

[@ppp-vz1mi]

There actually are bigger cities if you look outside of battle arena. I think it more represent battles near these locations. For example Battle of Vienna didn't actually took place directly in Vienna. Also from technical perspective, AI struggles at pathfinding, especially during siege battles.

[@armandom.s.1844]

@@ppp-vz1mi I know, and it makes actually sense as 18th century battles were mostly on the countryside, but the almost total absence of buildings in a game that included the revolutionary mechanic of garrisoning houses and firing through windows, makes sieges and city battles quite hollow. AI problems in sieges are evident but I think that does not justifies the lack of houses.

[@Rynewulf]

@@ppp-vz1mibut fort sieges and assaults were common, some of them extremely famous, and there were at least some major battles in urban areas so there should be something at least

[@Marshmobilise]

@@Rynewulfespecially in the napoleonic wars which I know falls out of the scope of empire but the problem persisted in NTW also

[@NYG5]

I cant think of a major battle fought in a heavy urban environment. I think they would just siege a city at that point.

[@MateusVIII]

Honestly one of the worst sides of Empire was always one province France. It just felt so horrible how easy it was to destroy France

[@Vlugazoide]

And how easy it was for you to be dragged into dozens of conflicts from turn one. Made playing big factions early on undesirable

[@Watanga10]

And England having like 7 towns and 5 ports

[@rc59191]

Yeah exactly at least Napoleon Total War did a better job at dividing the country into different provinces. Plus it's ridiculous how your troops have the same uniforms going into the 19th century. Rome Total War 1 at least updated the unit roster once you achieve the reforms.

[@Lagmaster33]

@@rc59191 Not to mention Med 2 where unit appearance depended on the armor upgrades they had

[@Sirvalian]

Does this mod add more provinces or was that impossible?

[@thesiberianproductions3748]

Also a note to add to this... I'm the creator of the Multiplayer version (Empire 2 Generals). I will be developing that up to version 1.0 (its currently 0.7) and then we will be merging with Empire 2. So eventually you'll have the best of both world, multiplayer and singleplayer.

[@xjuliussx]

your efforts guys is epic. No community would expect such a mod on such an old game but fine as times goes.

[@ankitsharma1983]

Thank you for all your hard work!

[@wilhelm992]

This is amazing news thank you!😊

[@Leo-ok3uj]

You have done something amazing, feel proud of yourself NOW

[@fastoldman16]

Do you mean campaign multi-player, or battle multi-player? I always wanted to throw down during a full campaign with a friend controlling another faction....

[@artoriuscasca424]

I remember putting in hours into this game when it launched. It felt surreal at the time to see that I could have an empire that spread from the Americas to India.

[@tillercaesar-kq4ou]

Yea me too. I did a basic Prussian campaign first of course lol

[@DannyPoet]

lol.. was a god game. i did the same ... after you got past a certain point though it just becomes unlosabl.. piles of money.. too easy & a bit boring. if only they had added a few extra twists to the endgame it could have been the best game ever ! just needed something to give the last added incentive

[@yolobuck2553]

i loved that buggy mess... then i loved napoleon even more

[@skush9146]

I really loved Empire total war, but it suffered from so many issues due to the technology that was available at the time. Now, when I look at the map size and different faction-mechanics, etc of Warhammer 3, I really hope we get an actual Empire 2 Total war sometime "soon".

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

I feel you man, hopefully it happens since the tech can basically do it now

[@komradematt8025]

same im tired of the magic/fantasy stuff hope they get back to their historical totalwar roots

[@ben-ben2366]

It's not gonna happen bro

[@ShantanuSuchil]

Hopefully, with the map modding now a thing, someone goes in Empire and finally makes it the map it should've been.

[@TheManofthecross]

one that is workshop defult added on to.

[@piotrcarafa7993]

Part of the developer team here! Glad you are liking our job!

[@RubCal96]

Your efforts are bringing a breath of fresh air to Empire! May I ask, as we know, the mod still suffers from a considerable amount of bugs and crashes, how is the team planning to overcome those issues?

[@piotrcarafa7993]

@@RubCal96 Thank you! We have a lot of beta testers, including me when we aren't working on something specific.(for example I wrote most of the factions descriptions and others). Some bugs get fixed even in a day max, depending on the urgency or importance.

[@IceniTotalWar]

Is the Ottoman end turn bug fixed ? Does it have copyrighted music ? Can it be run alongside other mods ?

[@piotrcarafa7993]

@@IceniTotalWar We have work around it a lot of times, and since we started from scratch. It's mostly solved. Although the game in itself is freaking difficult to mod and annoying to modify. But, respect to vanilla and older versions, yes, it had improved a lot. As far as we worked, I didn't work in sfx, I wasn't the one tasked, they were all copyright free tho. Since the copyright law doesn't cover stuff that are more than 40 years old after the death of the artist or composer. It's a whole overall, so as almost any of this type, won't work out with the mod. Since it modifies everything on a base level. But we have other optional mods that can be used. But you can always ask for compatibility patches and similar to the developer team.

[@IceniTotalWar]

@@piotrcarafa7993 Thanks for taking the time to answer and for giving us this great mod. I watched an install video for it last week as I'm just finishing up a Darthmod campaign. Darthmod is great but no longer supported.

[@jak00bspyr72]

If only they were able to miraculosly increase the number of provinces like the 1212AD team recently did...

[@Mordacitas7]

Lol, what, still cranky after over a decade that France is one province? (Me too)

[@5erase]

Seriously. Why the hell did they make France one province.

[@jak00bspyr72]

@@Mordacitas7 Yep, it's game breaking for me. Countries as huge as Spain or France that could be conquered in literally one siege, nott counting the colonies? That's ridiculous.

[@Mordacitas7]

@@jak00bspyr72, @5erase, I dunno what you guys are talking about, playing as Britain and wiping out France in the first couple turns is 100% realistic, France was basically an insignificant minor in the 1700s, no reason to buff it up at all, no sir, this does not bother me at all, and I’ve never found myself pointlessly mad about it late at night when I try to sleep…

[@nomooon]

Europe as the home continent need the same level of detail as all other total war games. The colonial maps (Asia Americas Africa) can be vast and sparse with fewer cities.

[@juanagudelo409]

I downloaded it yesterday. I've been playing with the Thirteen Colonies. I must say this is by far the best mod I have ever played for a total war game. There are minor things to be fixed. Some units cannot replenish, cant build walls in settlements and some generals and family tree are missing either their title, or their names. The mod is very playable, no lag and no crashes. I am already in 1720, which I love how each year takes 4 turns. The amount of new units is amazing. The sound of the shots for both land and naval are impeccable. Feels like a totally new game. 10/10 for this mod!

[@coloradoing9172]

Units should be able to replenish so long as you're using the submod, and settlements don't have walls by design. Forts, however, should have walls.

[@TheBonzol]

Units cannot replenish, it is part of the realism. They should be merged. However, generals can and ships can be repaired, as a contributor to the mod, this is a fact, not an opinion.

[@juanagudelo409]

@@TheBonzol Thank you!

[@coloradoing9172]

@@TheBonzol Incorrect and I was not stating an opinion. Replenishment can be enabled with one of the official submods that comes with the mod (not even a submod, just delete IT_norepl). Installation is meant to be customized to each players' preferences. And @juangudelo, you're welcome for the actual answer I bothered to give you.

[@Voron_Aggrav]

​@@coloradoing9172 Honestly no surprise, if it's unchanged the upgraded Walls ends up Useless for Defenders, and the regular ones doesn't give much either

[@asytippyy352]

All I ever wanted on this game was a map expansion to be honest. East Asian and South American input in particular are sorely needed to make Empire have the global feeling it deserves. That said, knowing that they solved the glaring gameplay issues to that degree is phenomenally impressive, especially considering how negligent CA have been with making their AI act effectively within the same parameters as the player.

[@Voron_Aggrav]

I fear unless we'll get a Full Exe hack/rebuild it'll never be accomplished, I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment it always has been my biggest letdown that Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands got shafted by not having their Colonial Holdings in full, especially the lack of Brazil is a major nerf to Portugal

[@347Jimmy]

Opening up East Asia for the Opium wars would be awesome

[@uanime1]

The big problem is the pathfinding.esf as it's impossible to make one without official tools. Unless you can backwards engineer the Shogun 2 tools you can't update it.

[@Atrus999]

I'm one of the people who actually liked Empire, before I saw how much Napoleon improved on it 😂. So it's great to see people are still working on it.

[@krixpop]

Good times: for me it was the APE-TI mod...

[@Dick_Sanormus]

Agreed. I wish could play Napoleon with the campaign map of empire. I just started playing total war again after years away. Started playing Nap for 1st time and steamrolled France n GB w/ Prussia before I got bored w/ limited map. Playing Empire for 1st time now as Sweden on hard but finding diplomacy annoying as everyone declares war for no reason yet on normal the other faction's armies too easy to plow thru..

[@vladdrakul7851]

Dude, I ALWAYS play on Extra hard and yet win as Sweden OR GB everytime. However playing Prussia is almost impossible on X HARD AS THE ENTIRE WORLD WANTS YOUR ASS. 'Empire's' biggest flaw IMHO is the overpowered Maratha Empire attacking the rest of the world by 1725/30. Rediculous but still my 3rd favorite game after TW Medieval II and Rome I. Napoleon is just less interesting to me being so less expansive and narrow focused.@@Dick_Sanormus

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

Napoleon is a shell of Empire, Empire is a far superior game in any way you can think of.

[@krixpop]

@@Dick_Sanormus "...Napoleon with the campaign map of empire...." 👍 THAT would be Awesome !

[@Jimbob7595]

Just installed after work and hopped into a custom battle. I immediately love how the formations are tighter and how the entire 3 ranks of line infantry fire a single mass volley

[@MrBell-iq3sm]

As long as a new map with new provinces cannot be created, we cannot speak of an unofficial Empire 2.

[@andrelourenco3752]

A Empire 2 with mixed naval/land battles , cannons +/ships defeding trading ports for free so block is hard, etc would be a massive hit

[@Jbird1988]

100% will give it a shot tonight. Also mad respect to modders that provide install videos

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

I can't explain this, but there's a charm to Empire that no other TW has, except maybe Napoleon but I'm not too sure

[@aethylwulfeiii6502]

Playing with tin toy soldiers sort of aspect on a Risk Board.

[@frenchmonk94]

Impressive work! Thanks for the heads up. Will be looking into this myself :)

[@clausbohm9807]

Great Video!!! Thank you for the update to my favorite TW (Other then Rome II) game. 75K views speaks for itself. You deserve more then 33K subs. Total War, Stellaris and HOI4 are all you need ... IN A LIFETIME!

[@elhowardo]

Those naval battles alone were next level back then. Happy memories!

[@GarmoGames]

Been playing it for awhile, it is amazing... empire is the best total war out there.

[@wtice4632]

Does this mod bring in all the improvements napoleon had over empire?

[@jessiemeisenheimer8675]

Unmodded it's mediocre crap. With mods it's great.

[@coloradoing9172]

Best Total War out there? Not even close. You need mods to even make it playable, lol. Napoleon was way better even if it lacked scale.

[@noblesseoblige7112]

​@@wtice4632no it doesn't.

[@wtice4632]

@@noblesseoblige7112 big sad

[@TheBranchez]

Another amazing video buddy 👏 I haven't had the chance to try out the new update due to life reasons, but I did install it and have played the previous version quite a lot. Can't wait to see what has changed. The thing I like the most about the mod is the fact that we finally got unique factions on the battlefield with the massive amount of units added, like you have mentioned. But everything about it is amazing and you are soo right. Just a little bit more work and it will be among the greats such as DEI.

[@TheBranchez]

A lot of time has passed since the game was released and many things have changed. Seeing what WH3 looks like I think they have the technology, the basis, to make an awesome ETW 2 game. But unlike WH3 I would like it to have old mechanics and features and not to be streamlined.

[@MrMrSpok]

I'm so glad you mentioned the instability of the mod now, because in the Empire II video a year ago I received information about an amazing mod (superlatives only), which I immediately went to try, to find out the mod is unplayable. I will try again and hope!

[@malteg8818]

So nice to have this. Downloading it right now, thanks for the work

[@xjuliussx]

that is just impressive, specially that you can build an Empire of the Pirates!

[@gurra63able]

There must be trading points for tar & timber some of the most important raw materials for sailing ships time period and some of the points must be around/at the Nordic & Baltic states it was a large part of trade during the 1600s-1800s can't believe the original game missed it altogether & the same with the modder guild.

[@mechwarrior83]

Nice video, I ended up watching a mod breakdown for a game I never heard of 😂

[@santi2683]

I really hope they manage to add a royal family mechanic like the previous games had and Empire had originally planned

[@anthonyklanke1397]

Awesome bud! Can't wait to play it :)

[@komradematt8025]

honestly this feels like a whole new game im trying to redownload and get the traveling between theaters to work.

[@ryzziktrognesou1]

Amazing !!!! My favorite Total War, I didn't even know that mod existed !

[@cryohellinc]

Sounds amazing. Always wanted a new campaign as Persia. Thank you!

[@dmcglone007]

Nice I'll have to check this out!

[@ZombolicBand]

Been playing nonstop since yesterday. I think it could use some changes but i made those myself instead. LOVE this mod... so immersive!!

[@NYG5]

What/how did you change?

[@masterofhydroponics]

I absolutely love how positive your videos are! Watching your videos not only helps me chose good mods but also enhances the gameplay for me as I'm more focused on all the positives!

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Aww thank you! Glad you enjoy the videos and glad to have broadened your awareness of amazing mods out there! :) more to come ❤️

[@zadumanzx]

@@TheTerminatorGaming If you compare this with DarthMod you would say It's worth the shot?

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

I would say so yep :)

[@pitermongol]

Platoon firing tech is missing, which unables to build Army staff school and proceed further with tech. Apart of this, I'm very impressed with result. Great job❤

[@cmdrpanorpa8631]

Just tried a quick land battle in this mod out, I put in the changed musket sounds submod that comes with it, looks, sounds and plays awesome, highly recommend trying it out

[@liama2846]

Great mod and video. Glad you captured all the bugs though as there are announcements practically daily on the bugs. Feels a bit like having a 5 year old telling you what they learnt everyday. That said, thank you to the modding team who have worked so hard to try and save a game that had so much potential

[@tonyweaver2353]

Mods mods mods! So many great wonderful mods coming out and just in time too. Not a fan of CA lately. Loved that feeling when playing this game, having my regiment be pulled off the line in Europe and send them to America's or India. Shift my different units around the world to fight in whatever theatre of war I'm in involved in

[@judechauhan6715]

Had to stop playing this mod because I had a weird glitch where my ships couldn't travel between theatres but I remember playing it for the first time after actually getting it working. The visual upgrade was the thing that hit you first but then technology changes, faction changes and map changes all came in and made such interesting game after game as I replayed each faction. I think this mod basically made the game what I would have wanted from Empire so i'm just glad that skilled and passionate people also had those ideas almost a decade before me to start working on the mod lol Might have to give it another go if it's been updated.

[@jensskjeld2598]

Yep, me too. A newly built trader ship could travel (it seems) but when it arrived nothing happend. Too bad, hopefully it's fixed now...

[@gumofix5704]

​@@jensskjeld2598Mam ten samy probem, mod je uzasny ale nemuzu cestovat lodemi mimo evropu coz je skoda a nevim jestli je to uz opravene? Max se muzu dostat do indie pres cely blizky vychod coz je utopicke valecne tazeni :D

[@MrSkillfish]

wow very cool i thought at first you were talking about darth mod which in my opinion was the best mod for empire but sadly outdated but that makes me want to play it again havent touched it in like 5 years now

[@bigotbanksy4590]

I spit my drank out when he so casually breezed by "4,000 units"

[@XAZTECXWOLFX]

I hope someone can add more settlements to the mod so we can have way more to conquer and build are empire

[@peterbray5383]

What I liked about Rome II, would have loved to have seen in NTW is NGFS (Naval Gunfire Support). For instance if I wanted to blockade the port of Cadiz, or send ashore a regiment of Royal Marines to take the port, particularly if it is unmanned. Or if I am engaging in a costal battle against the French and I have fleet nearby. Having some 32lb guns from HMS Victory supporting my army could be quite useful.

[@91plm]

Nice effort! This mod shows more love given than CA...

[@Umbaretz]

Thanks for the spotlight, I went and tried it, but, sadly, the number of units makes UI so cluttered that it became almost unplayable for me. And those are mostly just pointless same units with different name.

[@blackspiders741]

Sounds good. We should really need the original game creators to make a second game here including the entire world and maybe have provinces like EU4.

[@paulmorris5166]

Selling dreams again? I will wait for a year but thanks for posting.

[@compatriot852]

CA really should be taking notes. This is what an Empire/Napoleon II should look like.

[@microdosingchaos]

Empire has been, and might always be, my favorite and most played Total War. If been waiting, and may never get an Empire 2. Darth Mod was a great mod but my biggest frustration with Empire has always been the AI. Nothing sucked the wind out of me more than having the enemy throw their cavalry at me in the beginning then engage me with a broken formation. Many battles began and ended with me just creating a solid formation, even with inferior troops and numbers, and waiting for the enemy formations to just partially throw themselves at me. I had a handful of battles in my Empire Campaigns with Darth Mod that were truly nail bitters that came down to the last few army groups being paired with my general for the morale boost just to steal a victory. Those battles were few and far between but I will download this Mod.

[@LekkerRekkenYT]

All hail modders. The people who uphold the playerbase for CA and keep em intrigued in the games

[@looseleaf8859]

Durango's overhaul for empire is also really worth checking out that flies under the radar

[@Leo-ok3uj]

Cohesion is cringe

[@jumi9342]

I don't know who you are but thank you for appearing in my recommendations

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Haha you are very welcome ❤️

[@snoo333]

thanks for the review.

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

Would love to see this ported to Shogun 2 using the old world overhaul map mod

[@simonrigg8391]

If CA ever make a Empire 2 I think it should be set in the same sort of time period as Fall of The Samurai was. Somewhere inbetween 1850 and 1899

[@gammer0016]

MY GODNESS! :D The installation could actually be a bachelor thesis :D :D Its so maaaad!

[@drixmcdrixerson]

Great video as always Terminator. Would you recommend this over Darth Mod? I've been wanting to play a mod for Empire that has the same impact that DEI does for Rome.

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Thanks! I would recommend it over Darthmod, but a lot bugs and crash issues still need to be resolved

[@moose8128]

I’ve been playing this mod alot this week.

[@gorasul12]

Modders do great work and keep impressing me 😁

[@ostrowulf]

Man, I am busy with a few other games, but sounds like when I am done I will have to once again start playing Empire, the game that already has by far the most hours on my list of Steam games.

[@Darthvegeta8000]

Napoleon 2 is still the one I'm holding out for. Would love a Grand Campaig that lets you fluidly take Revolutionary France through the Consulate, across the First Empire and towards a fictional 1816 should France manage to endure.

[@sdtraider]

Hi guys, thanks for the great work. I enjoy playing skirmishes and wonder if there is a fix for not being able to load saved army setups? I'm able to save an army setup but cannot load it. Its a pain to create an army composition each time. Any suggestions?

[@MadMadCommando]

I just want a historical European gunpowder game based on fall of the samurai architecture

[@luk3149]

Yup I second that and I would not mind getting medieval 3 based on normal shogun 2. it is good enough to this day.

[@miceliusbeverus6447]

This material made me your subscriber. :-)

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Aww thanks! ❤️

[@dennishughes5727]

I really just want a total war game that covers the entire earth with a tech tree that goes all the way from ancient through to modern times with each faction having their own paths that seem authentic. Being able to take various factions of Native Americans, some long lost society from subsaharan Africa or the South Pacific into modern times with something that feels natural to their beliefs and rooted in history would be amazing.

[@floppypancakes9509]

Got banned from the discord for criticising the morale system, i wouldn’t recommend this mod

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Sorry to hear that mate :( Modders aside and the morale issue aside did you enjoy the mod or nah not really

[@floppypancakes9509]

@@TheTerminatorGaming I liked a lot of things they did with the mod (especially the graphical improvements) but the modders made the battle AI way more unbalanced then it should have been. A lot of the time I would have enemy militia units beat my regular line infantry in firefights and once I had 6 regular infantry units chainriute in a mele with a single unit of the AI. Also the mod performs a lot worse than other mods

[@ben-ben2366]

​@@floppypancakes9509what would you say is still the best mod for empire? Darthmod still?

[@moose8128]

The morale is the only thing I dislike about this mod. I’ve had similar situations to what you have described happen to me too. Indians throwing axes just walk up, toss and bunch of axes and before I know it my well trained infantry is broken.

[@jasonhansen]

I would say Imperial Destroyer with VDM is the best so far I would agree with floppy about the unbalanced combat with empire 2 and vdm also is not meant for it either it needs to be that extra help you need to survive with a mod like imperial destroyer

[@RainintheBrain]

Saga really needs to make a Empire 2 total war. Combine the best of Empire, Napoleon and Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai. It would be really nice to have battles where you can bombard an army with a navy like they had in Fall of the Samurai. I really liked the liberation option in Napoleon.

[@thegreatdodo5092]

I wish CA would fucking get their shit together and realize how many want a freaking Empire 2

[@adaw2d3222]

I will have to try this

[@ashleyburns6752]

Most annoying thing (other than random declarations of war like Prussia declaring war on the British), was that you were often forced to say, conquer France as the British to end the war, what you need is a Napoleon feature where you can make them a vassal.

[@luftwaffle173]

I think that the most important thing about this mod is that it's in a very active development

[@alexkudzin4980]

What about the melee AI? And musket units having to fully turn, reform and only then being able to fire? And siege battle AI? Has the number of battle maps (settlement & fort) increased?

[@eyelesstexas6318]

I love it when I'm trying to get a damn trade agreement, and then the ai ask for Georgia. STOP ASKING FOR GEORGIA AND TAKE MY MONEY

[@rogersantos1387]

It would be great for Empire Total War to expand the map of the Americas, Africa and Asia precisely to be able to colonize!

[@lonurad1259]

I've always wondered with the ships, can you even import your own models? I notice they did it for some cannons in several mods but can you upload your own models to the game?

[@alexandrepois]

Judging by the thumbnail of this video, I tought the point of it would be how they stole a LOT of things, from units to ideas, from a muuuuuch more fleshed out mod without even asking for permission, called Pirates Uber Alles. Check it out Terminator. You'll love it! :)

[@CheriShin21]

Glad I found the PUA mod after playing Empire 2. Almost everything that Empire 2 is being praised for, was taken from the PUA mod. Those modders deserve the recognition being given to this mod.

[@UlpianHeritor]

Yeah. Not to take away from the hard work of the modders, but we really need an actual Empire 2 (meaning brand-new engine). You can put as much cream and frosting on a pile of horse manure as you want, it's still a pile of horse manure.

[@ffzein]

One thing i would like to see is once a nation falls, the troops it has should not be disbanded and should become rebels, although they could be reduced in size due to some desertions and what not. Will try this mod asap, sounds like a great one! 😊

[@Captainkebbles1392]

Me and the boys on our way to discover the world

[@VL1975]

Me: "Diving into this game during my mid 30's years" .....lol Actually back in 2010 when I got a new computer, I saw this game on the shelf in Walmart and thought "oh cool"...bought it and went headlong into Total War....until Atilla. So it's not on Steam!?

[@nigel6351]

What an awesome mod, just installed it and its fantastic.

[@Hew.Jarsol]

How do you install it on the steam?

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Well done to the modders !!!!

[@josephwilkinson1610]

The Scale and scope of this game warrants such a mod.

[@TaylorPrem]

Empire Total War is the game that got me into grand strategy games and history. I've wanted an Empire 2 Total War for 13 years. I hope one day Creative Assembly and Sega realize we don't want these medieval and bronze age Total Wars and give us Empire 2.

[@dnash2131]

Remastered ETW to the same standard as Rome remastered would be amazing, imagine the map they could make.

[@jonathanstark4159]

While the installation video says drop the whole mod file into "common" I found that one has to select each file and interpose over the vanilla files for it to secure. Also, be careful to do the same with the script files. In addition, Hard / Hard (standard on Darthmod etc) can be disappointing, as your units break and run at first contact.

[@canadianbakin1304]

i ruled this game with bayonets and square formation and the sea with 4th rates all the time those should be your go to for early expansion, also the modder just put out an installer that just worked for me :)

[@aethylwulfeiii6502]

This was the sequel to medieval 2 total war. Dang empire was ambitious in a way that the total war series hasn’t really been since.

[@PuppetierMaster]

Empire TW was the precursor for Shogun 2 - by far the best game TW series made since Rome

[@blydchyld]

well damn, was playing empire yesterday after playing FotS thinking 'how great would it be if empire had a v2 made', just clocked off work and googled for it to see if CA have ever mentioned a sequal and here we go, CA not required. Just need to figure out how to get it on my deck

[@TheSpicyLeg]

Empire was the first time I was disappointed by CA. Not the last, of course, but it was the worst. Having the enemy general streak across the battlefield to go down in a hail of musket shot blew my teenage mind. I was so jazzed for naval warfare (even today, the ships rocking in the water after a broadside barrage gives me chills) only to find the rest of the game was so lacking. I will check this mod out. Maybe these modders can give me the experience I was hoping for at 17.

[@delfinenteddyson9865]

I do have a question on the mod: does it allow to force peace between your vassal and another faction or between two vassals of yours?

[@cesaralarcon5228]

Modders, doing “almost” everything we wish Creative Assembly would do

[@Z-1991]

Empire is back on the menu, boys!

[@gamebox3263]

Technology development. I just remember rise of nations. That game is so awesome back in the day.

[@vladimirvostrov3778]

Thank you for your work, Termi. Let me just express a bit of criticism here. I hope you don't get offended or something. As an old TW fan, I only want the best for this KZbin channel and TW community in general. So, my point is that I think the variety of the footage that you use in the video production can be increased. Those short video clips that the whole video is made of start repeating too early and sometimes are repeated too often. In my opinion, it makes the final product look a bit more boring than it should be. I know that it takes quite a lot of time to make it as it is. And I am grateful for whatever content you produce, my friend. I just want to draw your attention to this problem.

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Constructive feedback is always welcome mate, I appreciate it. I’ll work on a better variety of footage :)

[@umayyadball4126]

At 4:45 and for about a minute afterwards, every time you show the map, I see a Central Asia region, and then I also notice the Americas are all filled in. Like time I checked this mod, it did not have that, and only Imperial Destroyer had it. Does this mod finally fill in the empty regions like ID does? Does it include the Bajar Sultanate in the East Indies trade theatre like ID has? Do any other trade theatres have occupiable regions in them? Are all factions playable? Sorry for the many questions. I've Loyally stuck with ID for years because of the extra regions, and now that I see them here, I want to know more. But was thrown off that some parts in the video the campaign map looked like vanilla. Lastly, what's the orange circle in the Sahara at 4:45? Is that a new region as well?

[@noblesseoblige7112]

There's only the region in the west indies ID added.

[@umayyadball4126]

@@noblesseoblige7112 What are you talking about? ID added 5 regions in the Americas, a region in Arabia, a region in Central Asia, and a region in the East Indies.

[@noblesseoblige7112]

@@umayyadball4126 sorry all the regions ID added are also in this mod but the other trade theatres don't have occupiable regions.

[@umayyadball4126]

@@noblesseoblige7112 The "other trade regions" not having regions being Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar? Okay good to know. What about that orange Circle-looking area in the Sahara at 4:45?

[@A_Calm_Dragon]

I still wish people could properly mod the map. It would be nice to have more settlements in the world, or even a fantasy version or two.

[@TimeTalesTT]

Does it include UHD texture mode too?or we have to install it saperatley?

[@tlwhite0311]

I really hope they add the smoke and sound effects of the muskets and cannons from darth mod, and also get rid of the white streak tracer effect, I always hated that about vanilla.