WORLD WAR 1 TOTAL WAR: This Mod Is Honestly INCREDIBLE! 

What do you think about The Great War mod for Napoleon? Personally of all the mods I've played this one comes pretty close to the top. All the awesome playable factions, the incredible tech tree, the variety of units from tanks to flamethrowers to historically authentic looking infantry it all just looks so good! Of course there are some bugs and issues but overall I love it. It's also great proof a World War 1 Total War could actually work, hopefully something like it happens in the future!

CA could have made an easy £10m profit if they did this themselves. They really are a shambles, aren't they. Well done to the modders

Making Italy a minor faction is both harsh and hilarious.

Great to see this mod coming back to life! Around 10 years ago its development shut down until recently, if I remember correctly. Fantastic mod!

This is trully amazing, im not a fan of Total War Napoleon, played it the least of all total wars, but its amazing to see these mods that keep games alive. Possibly there will be a WW1 continuing to WW2 Total war in the future, that would be cool.

The game/engine limitations still make this to just be "Napoleon, but reskinned" in terms of combat. It's a really great mod with a lot of work and research put into it, but the limitations make it not actually feel like WW1 and that is unfortunately to its detriment.

i wish this mod was made on Shogun 2 engine. "fall of the samurai" period is a lot closer to WW1 than napoleonic times...

Expansion of the map is the most difficult thing ever. Hopefully at some point they will be able to bring U.S. in since they entered the war in 1917. A little late, but they were still involved.

I really wish someone would make either a late 1860s mod or ww1 mod for Empire Total War. Though it's outdated and the least liked between the two- being Napoleon and Empire- I still think that the map layout would facilitate a good mod of either time period. I will definitely have to give this mod a try though.

You are the goto guy for Total War ... a lot of work making these videos, much appreciated! You know, CA could have capitalized on the genre and made some money but instead modders had to do their job for them. Well now its free, their loss not ours!

You're doing a great job showing me all the different mods for total war that are top tier I didn't even know existed! Thank you!

Big fan of napoleon total war. Really glad these guys stuck at this mod. Thankyou for the body of work you've put in, the game looks fantastic. Reckon I'm gonna have to give this a go.

Controvertial take but this mod should've been made in FoTS, I feel like it's more refined and the ultimate version of gunpowder combat in TW. Though I'm not sure if the engine could take it.

Amazing mod, would be my favorite if it didn’t crash constantly

It's baffling how modders are fixing what CA fails to do. CA is done for me

I remember when you had a mere 8k subs. Look at you grow. I'm like a proud dad

I never understand why they always cut out northern parts of scandinavia out on the maps. I guess the world doesnt like top quality iron etc...

I wish they would make it longer turn wise. Unless it has changed it is such a short campaign. Id love it if they brought the start year to either 1890 1900 or 1910

Somehow my favorite mod but it keeps crashing during battles. Does someone know a fix? Its driving me insane

Theory: Bulgaria is not added, because it was too powerful, so the mod won't be balanced... :D

This mod looks amazing, like I have a reason to install Napoleonic wars now lol

I think there are too few regional parts & cities to really get the feeling of the beginning of the 20th century but in other parts it is really good.

This mod should have been made in Empire, the campaign map alone would guarantee it to be the biggest mod ever. A real World War One. It would include much more of Russia, opening bigger opportunities for Civil war. It would have Iceland and a large North sea, ideal for naval warfare between Germany and Britain. It would have North Africa, and Palestine, and there you have one front added. Balkans would have Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria, none of witch exist in Napoleon ("Balkans" region has Bosnia, meaning A-H never occupied Bosnia in 1878? And Bulgaria, one of 4 Central Powers is totally absent in this mod). And Germany controls Warsaw at the start!? What? Also, Ottoman empire would be an EMPIRE, not just one province. Then you get Caucasian front, Persian front, for much more dynamic campaign. India as a moneymaking factory for Britain open for raiding. Then you get North and South America, meaning you can have USA in the mod. And in the end, those trade zones around the world would make an ideal colonial-like fronts. All in all, the fact the map is so small is the reason I can't get into this mod, as I don't feel it is the real World War One mod. A missed opportunity. Shame.

Love this mod - any tips on avoiding crashes?

I tried it like 2 years back, was feeling it but the campaign kept crashing so I switched back to darthmod. And now big into 1212.

I mean Ottoman has a lot of key battles in the war. First is the Dardanelles campaing which caused the dissolution of the Russian Empire also the campaings in South Arabia which leads a lot of challenge for Ottoman Empire. I hope they will find a way around to mod the game to this point. And it would be amazing to see domestic events for each faction.

I don't understand why the Napoleon and Empire series is not continued, for example, as in Rome...

Would be amazing if they were able to make anatolia a traversable land, and give the ottoman and bit of extra strength

will have to give this a try. great video.

I always thought that the biggest challenge in developing a WW I or even WW II Total War game (the reason why one was never done before) was the use of aerial warfare and the role of planes in the campaign map. But since then, I thought that it could work if done similarly to the space battles of Star Wars Empire at War. Since our planes can't just hover in place when not being actively used, they could just fly in a radius (so for things like that to work, the battle map for aircraft battles should be at least 4x bigger than the current land ones). Other use of aircraft warfare such as bombing strategic places, could be executed similarly to how agents works, so it's not decided in the battlefield. That said, it's cool to see in this mod at least some use of aircraft warfare (the reconnaissance), which is something I have thought of too. It would be cool if there's anti aircraft artillery as well that can be built on the campaign map to counter the aircraft attacks. A similar element, used via campaign map, would be the use of long range missile, which started in WW I. And for modern warfare in general (from WW I onwards), the conquering of territory should be different from the traditional TW way. Instead of capturing a whole area when occupying a city of town, you should be acquiring territory bit by bit as you win (and vice-versa of course). With little, but important things like cutting supply lines, etc, a modern warfare TW game has potential to be the most strategic of all TW games and one of the best war games ever. And a overall addition that I'd like to see in a future Total War (any historical period) would be being able to access your towns/cities any time (not just when there's a battle) and be able to actually upgrade them from that map (like a city building game). I think you can be much more strategic when being able to choose where you place certain buildings and defenses in your towns. Finally, a dumb question: if you install the mod, it would work like the Game of Thrones one for Medieval II, where it completely overrides the base game and you can only play it again if you uninstall the mod, unlike an expansion which you can just choose to play whenever? Great video! Cheers!

Imagine if somehow you can manage include Napoleon as a General in this mod. His in game unit is a literal French Tank

This looks like a lot of fun. Any chance of sharing a battle or two with us?

The thing that's bugging me is the lack of Bulgaria as a playable faction. Other than that, it looks great.

I would be very interested, if they have the spanish flue in the game. A pandemic, that killed more people, than any other pandemic in history, but for the black death. All waring nations kept the outbreak under wraps, so spain, which was neutral, got the dubious honor of having the flue named after it, as they were the first nation to acknowledge, that there is a sickness raging through the world.

Looks good. Only Think I am missing is Machineguns and more Trenches.

No trenches = big nope for me, I think we'll get a closer-to-life WW1 "TW experience" from the folks doing the Ultimate General games, I played their Civil War game and its quite fun, you think the game looks kind of arcadey, and it is, but the scale of battles become immense depending on the map, you have to control vast fronts, and sometimes they're shaped like a V, and you're being squeezed on a hill with artillery and thousands of enemy troops, its really satisfying to beat them back.

a true total war connosseur, Terminator Can't believe they kept updating it, I played this 4 years ago, and it was nowhere near this fletched out

Gates of Hell has a fantastic WW1 mod called Some Desperate Glory you should check it out

You should do a review for The Great War: Western Front Its honestly insanely good.

Thank you. One small thing - the tanks 😂

Lol those gerry cans remind me of steam tanks from warhammer.

it has some issues. Like if France takes Berlin and you're an ally, you NEED to delcare war on them. Also, Germany always seems to steamroll France in my campaigns. The cargo ships are also limited to like 2. So it's just a slight tiny boost. It has a lot of greatness in it, but ut still needs a few tweaks.

I just wish they could find a way to change the actual naval models

But in the East I want to fight against Bulgaria. They were pretty important. Is it impossible to add new provinces when modding Napoleon?

It's a pretty mod but the deal breaker for me is no trenches. What is WW1 without trenches and the occasional gas attack.

The only thing I don't like about this mod is the map missing Anatolia and north Africa and the lack of cities. Playing campaigns only in Europe is boring.

We all know who I'm about to campaign.

the "where the shadows lie" lord of the ring mod for total war troy stopped development :(( BUT they opened assets and current progress for everyone, in case anyboy wants to pick it up WE NEED TO SAVE THIS GUYS THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST MOD EVER

Whenever I try to play a somewhat sizeable battle in the campaign, it crashes. Is there anything I can do? I want Le Petite Soldats to conquer Germany in open field. But i cant run a battle for more than 15 minutes without it crashing and the glorious victory never being achieved. (This is on 6.2, latest version)

This looks to be the absolute best WW1 game of all those games about the "War to End all Wars" that have come out recently. My only question/concern is that I didn't see the Unites States as one of the factions. I realize they only entered the war during the last 6 months, but still played a vital role in it. Does the U.S. become a "playable faction" toward the end, or do you know of any future plans for them to be eventually added? If not, then I don't think it can be considered to be totally historically accurate.

Was hoping for something new, this mod has been around for years, it's quite known already

The only problem with this mod is small campaign map, I would play it if it was also with india and America like Empire TW.. maybe bigger portion of Africa and some coastal areas of south america with new states... and ALSO JAPAN AND CHINA heheheh... just a dream...

No trench warfare. Zero stars. Still pretty cool lol

I want a Franco Prussian war :(

lol I just started playing it yesterday and am loving it

3:56 they have to. the german army of ww1 start was the biggest army in the world history so...

uh here advice for the mod u do half inf and the other half arty and thats it for campaign russia is bias human wave charges

I wish they would have ported the empire map into Napoleon, it just feels so small and makes the Ottomans weak

this must be epic. i will download it.

Do wish Creative Assembly would do The US Civil War.

i would like to see some WWI battles

Ok what's the catch??? 🤔🤨 I'm looking at this side eyed, like this sounds too good to be true. This is like a dream total war for me, and I never even heard of this mod!! Anybody played this yet? It is really that good? Can I get excited??

its working! thx

gonna try it

No trenches though

What do you reckon, Terminator, coul CA ever produce a historical total war in a modern context like this mod? I would love one

I got a question, last time downloaded the mod I got Trojan virus and the mod wasn’t working so I don’t really trust the mod (I have a gen 12th Intel cpu napoleon wasn’t working on 12th gen until recently I don’t if that caused the problem)

Where is my creative assembly folder, I dont have one...

It bothers me that theres so many incredible mods for Empire and Napoleon but CA focuses on the 4th Warhammer and random, uninteresting Troy and Egypt themed Total Wars. I once wrote them an E-Mail, suggesting instead of making boring Warhammer Total Wars, how about getting a Lord of the Rings Total War going. They actually replied to me with saying "We do not own any right of that"... yeah well... you don´t say.

Hey Terminator, I have started a fresh campaign on this mod, but I notice towards April 1918, in game the whole thing tends to crash, any fixes for this you suggest? I am playing an Ottoman Campaign and I am about to beat it, but the game crashes everytime I try to go beyond that date.

They miss Bulgaria...

The Great War of Bayonets 🤣 🤣

…. You CA for one more time for not giving us a map tools for NTW

what do you do if it crashes when you launch a campaign ?

Wait isnt this mod quite old or is this a new version or release? im confused

This looks impressive

that kaiser Wilhelm's lost brother in the thumbnail?

I badly wanna have a real total war from ww1 or an American civil war...maybe a "saga" title to test a new engine or something, because total wars biggest problem is the game engine

But then out of the sudden you play a naval battle and realize you are not in the era of WW1 but in the Star Wars era

So in your opinion Terminator, what would be the best individual mod for 1) Empire and 2) Napoleon?

Can you play the Kaiser as a single unit character? That would be awesome. Also, no spoilers please as to the outcome of the war, I might download this mod

Can't make this mod work for the life of me unfortunately

Check out the Grand Battle mod.

I have a question, what if you already have a mod installed? (ntw3)

heey we didnt mean to kill the duke. (im a serb)

Its fun and all, but the trenches never spawn for me, just my enemies. And I have trench warfare reseached

We need WWII mod.

hey one question: how do i deinstall the mod? i downloaded the mod without knowong the basic mecanis... now i want the normal game back and i dont know how... can you help me pls?

I can't accept that Bulgaria is not in the game.

Can somebody help me i have installed it but when the mod launcher starts the game it just closes and the laucher closes too.

WW1 without trench warfare and machine guns? No thanks.

So Switzerland is a faction in a WWI game but not Bulgaria? Really?

I really want play battlefield 1 nos

Can I still play the base game even if I have the mod downloaded?

Ouch... from Canada.

What about multiplayer campaign?

No Bulgaria though? 🤨

Can you use artillery without CTD now?

Couldnt install it with a pirate napolleon game. Do i really need to buy napoleon on steam?

Everything ok except for... that is not the flag of Spain at that time in history, they should correct that