NAVAL GROUP

Realistic Naval MOD for NTW - Grand Fleet
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rnm Grand Fleet v 2.01 (01/06/10)
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Changes included in this mod!

• New ships added:
--- Old bomb ketch;
--- 50-gun Ship-of-the-Line with Carronades;
--- 74-gun Ship-of-the-Line with Carronades.
Ship of the line with carronades has more durability and short range firepower but less long range firepower.
• Add ships for fractions:
--- Russia – 122, 106, rocket ship;
--- Portugal – steam 38;
--- France – 64, 50;
--- Ottomans – 122, 96, 84, 74;
--- Dutch – 80, steam 38, rocket ship;
--- Sweden, Denmark – steam 80, steam 38, rocket ship.
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• Speed of the wind:
--- ships can't sail directly against the wind but have to sail tacks;
--- ships are not sailing directly against the wind (accept steamships and galleys):
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• Ship specs rebalanced:
--- strength ships;
--- round-shot, chain-shot and grapeshot damage accuracy;
--- speed and maneuverability;
--- accuracy;
--- range: grapeshot – 100, chain-shot – 300, round shot – 500:
--- guns of a different caliber have different reloading time;
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• Established the limits for each type of ship in multilayer game:
--- ironclad: 1 units;
--- steam ships 80 guns: 3 units;
--- first rates: 3 units;
--- carronade ships: 4 units;
--- rocket ship & bomb ketch: 2 units.
• Changed the icons of naval units: (For easy searching and management)
--- White – Small ships (Sloop, Brig, ...);
--- Black – Specific ships (steamships, Ketch, carronades ships);
--- Red – Battleships 4-3 rate;
--- Green – Battleships 2-1 rate.
• Deployment zones are placed differently:
--- distance between opponents is 500 meters (like in ETW);
--- deployment zones of allied forces have common space of 300 meters;
--- attacker's deployment zone placed 300 meters above downwind.
• Changes in the gun:
--- 32, 36, 42 lb. cannons(clicking "grape-shot" cause firing 2 round shot with range 100m.);
--- only 32lb. carronade cannons (clicking "grape-shot" cause firing bombs with range 100m.);
--- 24 lb. bomb (clicking "round shot" cause firing bombs with range 150m.);
--- 6, 9, 12, 18 lb. cannons and 24, 32 lb. carronade cannons can use chain-shot, other cannons can not;
--- bug that allowed to kill the guns with chain-shots is fixed.
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• Appearance:
--- new 22 skins (damage panels of ships) for each factions;
--- each faction has it's own ship skins;
--- ironclad colored in realistic way;
--- visualization of Ship's damage is altered;
--- flags of all major factions are changed to historical ones;
--- visual result of repairs is removed;
--- added effect of blood;
--- gun black.
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STEAM group GRAND FLEET <http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/Grand_Fleet>
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Team Members
Sharp – Creator
McSeem, Bo_74 – Historical Information
Bethencourt – Idea (from ETW)

Thanks my friends, & testers:
Torpedniy Kater, Morfeus, Aizenkur, ARGAR, Joker, ZardoZ, Sokol

Major Contributions
The Vicar, erasmus777 and husserlTW - releasing the first workable NAP-PFM
LtChambers and Alpaca - their masterpiece tools DBEditor, Pack File Manager and Mod Manager.
Mech_Donald – Blood Mod for NTW

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