Eagles Rampant Mod

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This is an alt-history mod where a more powerful United States is allied to Germany in 1914. The basic premise is that the British and French meddled in the American Civil War. This caused the US to spend much more on defense in the remainder of the 19th Century, and to cultivate Germany as an ally. It's playable as either side, and I think it makes a pretty good Ironman mode for the Allies.

If playing as Germany, I recommend using the CP version of this mod. It includes a small anchorage for the USN in Iceland that serves as an arrival point for American warships. As a house rule, you should only transfer ships from it to Germany by sailing them from it during the operation scenario. I've tested it and it is possible to run a battle squadron at 16 knots from the new base to Wilhelmshaven along with cruiser and destroyers.



If playing as the Allies, use the allied version of the mod, as it avoids this step in order to keep the AI from getting flummoxed.


It's based on my Oceans of Gore mod, so the Allies are stronger as well, but the USN will greatly help in leveling the odds a bit.

To install, I'd make a backup copy of the 'designs' file, as I do recommend replacing the vanilla one with mine for the purposes of my mod. It shouldn't be a problem, as I didn't really fiddle with the vanilla ship designs, but it's better safe than sorry. Aside from that, unzip the 2 folders into the SAI main folder, and the other files into the campaign folder under 'scenarios'

Good luck and Good hunting!

Dropbox Link: www.dropbox.com/s/33fszyuinwuttje/Eagles%20Rampant%201.1.zip?dl=0

[randomizer]

Impressive campaign and a considerable amount of effort so well done you. However, I submit that there is one major problem with Eagles Rampant and that is the American forces appear to teleport over the British Isles and straight into Wilhelmshaven as if by magic. It might have been more reasonable had you created an American port in say, eastern Iceland which would better reflect catching the RN between two forces, a consequence of an America allied to Wilhelmine Germany. From what I recall, you can specify the spawning location for reinforcements in the Campaign Editor.

For what it's worth I used John Scones Generic Mod Enabler to activate the campaign as it is so much easier than mucking about with saving originals, overwriting and then trying to restore the stock (or in my case edited) design files. You need to make a few changes in the download to make it JSGME friendly but it takes only a few minutes to do.

So good show and thanks for still tinkering with the classic SAI.

-C

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May 9, 2020 12:08:01 GMT -6 randomizer said:

Impressive campaign and a considerable amount of effort so well done you. However, I submit that there is one major problem with Eagles Rampant and that is the American forces appear to teleport over the British Isles and straight into Wilhelmshaven as if by magic. It might have been more reasonable had you created an American port in say, eastern Iceland which would better reflect catching the RN between two forces, a consequence of an America allied to Wilhelmine Germany. From what I recall, you can specify the spawning location for reinforcements in the Campaign Editor.

So good show and thanks for still tinkering with the classic SAI.

-C

Thanks! Also: that is sort of what I had in mind for how they would get to Germany, but I've added it in for German players!

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I've just released a mini-update with some name corrections.

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I've been working on an update central powers campaign in this mod: mostly, it boosts the Entente to make it more of a a challenge (the Allies should have qualitative and quantitative superiority). If anyone's interested, I can post it as well