AEF (American Expeditionary Force)
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What is the AEF?
AEF(American Expeditionary Force) is a minor mod re-skin of the British faction for the vanilla Warband Napoleonic Wars. It replaces the British faction with skins that depict the United States Army as it existed mostly around the years 1813 and 1814.
War of 1812, Total Conversion Mod
Some of the textures in this minor-mod package are the same US faction skins that are being used for the War of 1812 total conversion mod for Warband Napoleonic Wars currently available for download at the following link: https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/index.php?topic=4567.0
What units will the minor-mod include?
The AEF will include no militia or volunteer infantry since they claim that the terms of their service prohibit them from serving outside the United States. See below for a detailed list.
U.S. Armed Forces of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force)
Infantry
1st US Infantry (early 1813 uniform) - replaces 33rd Foot
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Cavalry
Philadelphia Light Horse - replaces KGL Hussars
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Specialists
US Artillery (1813 uniforms) - replaces Royal Artillery
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Join the AEF and give the monarchists of Europe a lesson in liberal democracy!!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GROGAoBv7Y4[/youtube]
Installation Instructions and Download Link
Step 1. Highly Recommended! Make a back-up copy of your vanilla Napoleonic Wars module.
Follow the Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\MountBlade Warband\Modules". Then copy and paste the folder named "Napoleonic Wars" in the Module folder. The copied module should now have a name like "Napoleonic Wars-Copy". I would recommend you rename it as "Napoleonic Wars UK" so you know that this is a copy of the Napoleonic Wars module that contains the British Faction as it is in the vanilla game.
Step 2. Download the US Faction Re-skin folder.
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/6sgby9u42azypiu/US+Faction+Re-skin.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/download/6sgby9u42azypiu/US+Faction+Re-skin.zip)
The files will be in compressed .zip format.
Step 3. Installation
Once your download is complete extract the files. Open the folder US Faction Re-skin. Now open the folder labeled Textures. Copy the .dds files inside this Textures folder and paste them onto the corresponding Textures folder inside the "Napoleonic Wars" module with the above mentioned path. If prompted whether you want to replace a destination file with the same name, click yes. Do the same with the .brf files inside the Resource folder and the .wav files inside the Sounds folder. Now copy the factions, item_kinds1, strings, and troops .txt files and paste them directly onto the "Napoleonic Wars" module folder. Click yes to replacing the destination files with the same name. Installation complete. When you boot up the game the United Kingdom faction will now be the United States faction.
Impotant Note: When you would like to reinstall the British faction all you need to do is rename the module with the modified US files as "Napoleonic Wars US" and rename the module you copied earlier and named "Napoleonic Wars UK" as "Napoleonic Wars". Now when you restart the game it will recognize the vanilla version with the British faction as the standard module and the US faction will disappear. When switching back to the US faction do the reverse.
Improvements (Updates)
- US Light Dragoon plume added to helmet (see picture above). 04/03/14
- 21st US Infantry now depicted as their grenadier company (see picture above). 04/03/14
- Marine Lieutenant replaces US Navy Post Captain (see picture above). 04/06/14
- Lapel lace on the Philadelphia Light Horse and 7th New York Dragoons has been made more historically accurate (see picture above). 04/07/14
^ factions.txt file with "United States" was added to download package. 04/09/14
^ item_kinds1.txt file with proper names for US Colors was added to download package. 04/10/14
* Reflectivity of US knapsacks was reduced by changing Coeff field to 24.00 for the material US_knapsack_envmap. 04/11/14
- Added missing US_saddles_n.dds texture to download package. 04/26/14
* Added missing materials.brf to download package which contains US_banners_a.dds in DiffuseA field of banners_a material. 4/26/14
- US Artillery ranker facings changed to mid-war red (see picture above). 4/27/14
- Added shoulder wings to 7th New York Dragoon ranker uniform (see picture above). 4/29/14
* Added missing lod's to US Light Infantry ranker. 5/14/14
* Many US faction units and items have had their normals recomputed. 6/5/14
^ This change can be done manually without a download by editing the relevant text file.
* This update can be made without a download by using the Open BRF software if you have it installed on your computer.
**CREDITS** A special thanks to Hinkel for letting me use some of his sound files from the North & South modification.
cant wait for both of these mods!
also will it be available that i can download each unit individually (i like my highlanders)
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Some things I have noticed
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the US_sargent_sash is missing the sash texture ingame, the sash is static black atm
the U.S. Infantry Sergeant torso is static black for 16th, 21st, 15th Infantry regiments
the britain_colour_blues US_pennon material cannot be found, Horse Guard color static white in-game
the knapsack texture looks off
the bagpipe flag is white
the Post Captain torso is static black
bot typo U.S Line Infatry
but I am digging the pack overall
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the US_sargent_sash is missing the sash texture ingame, the sash is static black atm (fixed)
the U.S. Infantry Sergeant torso is static black for 16th, 21st, 15th Infantry regiments (fixed)
the britain_colour_blues US_pennon material cannot be found, Horse Guard color static white in-game (not fixed yet in-game)
the knapsack texture looks off (fixed)
the bagpipe flag is white (not fixed yet in-game)
the Post Captain torso is static black (fixed)
bot typo U.S Line Infatry (not fixed yet)