Napoleonic Era is and has been one of the most popular mods for Age of Empires III and its expansions The Warchiefs and The Asian Dynasties for over 8 years. The project was founded in January 2006 at the German Age of Empires site [You must login to view link] by Alexander Fleger and is being continued by Peter Piepenburg since February 2010. The mod intends to raise the historical, visual and technical quality of Age of Empires III and live up to the things that made the Age of Empires series great. It tries to do so by greatly expanding and reworking the game with new units, buildings, maps, sounds, music, civilizations and a better AI. Unlike the original game, Napoleonic Era also covers Europe, Africa and Western Asia as historical spheres of interest.
The mod's theme peaks in the year of 1815 that marks the end of the Napoleonic Era and Wars which rank among the most influential military events during the time period of Age of Empires III.

FEATURES

Napoleonic Era expands the original game with new civilizations, units, buildings, random maps, natives and gameplay features.

Civilizations
The expansion mod reworks 2 old and adds 7 new civilizations with unique units, techs, politicians, AI personalities, unit sounds and homecities:

Americans
Austrians
French (reworked)
Germans (reworked)
Italians
Polish
Prussians
Swedish
Swiss

For the next version NE 2.2 also a Danish and Persian civilization have been announced.


An US Colony

Random Maps
Napoleonic Era comes with over 20 new random maps covering popular sites in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. For example:

Alps
Rhine
Black Forest
Malta
Finland
Sahara
Barbary Coast
Nile Flood
Syrian Desert
.. and many more!


The NE maps Alpine Pass, Black Forest, Finland, Nile Flood and Rhine


NE Finland

Natives
The new maps also received new minor civilizations like:

Bavarians
Barbary Pirates
Egyptians
Finns
Mongols
Maltese
Tuareg
Wurttembergers
Westphalians

Unique units
Napoleonic Era adds plenty of new unique units to the game such as:

Death Head Hussar (Prussia)
Mounted Rifleman (United States)
Line Infantry (Austria)
Grognard (French)
Swiss Guard (Swiss)
Marine (United States)
Chasseur (French)
Grenzer (Austria)
Lange Kerls (Prussia)
Drabant (Sweden)
Azap (Ottomans)
Merchant (Italy)
Pancerni (Poland)
and many more ..

Shared units
There also new units that are shared with many civs like:

Chevauxleger
Sharpshooter
Fusilier
Swashbuckler
Hand Cannoneer
Conscript
Sapper

Gameplay elements
Apart from all previously mentioned features, Napoleonic Era also delivers the following gameplay elements:

Better AI - Our AI works with the new content, is much harder and bases on the popular Draugur AI developed for the original game
University - A building offering powerful unique technologies and late game units
Expanded Arsenal - Arsenal offers now more military updates for more unit types
Expanded Saloon - Activities like gambling, whoring and drinking benefit Saloons and mercenaries
Unit abilities - New and old units like Explorers, Marines or Nuncios received new unique abilities.
Late game units - Expensive, powerful units that can turn the tide of battle
Ultimate techs - Each civ is now granted 2-3 powerful special techs
Wild cards - The new civs can now play card games in the Saloon and win civ-specific prices ranging from military units to resource crates
etc.