Having initially dismissed it, I'm now playing through NTW. Finished it as the French, now trying as the British. Not going to be able to get Sharpe before I beat the French though. I like being able to liberate places instead of just subjugating everywhere in sight. And the feel of the battles is good, although the AI still does silly things in most battles.
I'm working on a mod for DF as well, but the raw files will be different for the next version (which is likely to be released within a week!) so I'm just creating a very big list of things that need to go in at the moment. And I'll want to try it vanilla first for a while, as looking at the new raws straight away I would probably spoil some of the new features for myself.
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