(5.x Dwarf) Guns, Smoke & Spectacle
!!WORKS ONLY ON ULTRA VFX SETTING (on low/mid/high you get no effects)!!
Don’t forget to enable "Smoke Transparency Fix" mod that I listed in dependencies.
"Guns, Smoke & Spectacle" Overhaul aims to bring gunpowder units to another level, initially inspired by Shogun’s 2 great portrail of guns and artillery + thinner and shorter bullet trail.
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State of WIP
Perfectly playable, core units have effects finished and now it’s mostly siege weapons that needs new effects, and many of those have effects done. You can check more details at the bottom of the page.
Recommended Mods
Reloading Animations – With great effect comes great reload, immersion to 11
Shorter Trails & a bit more – I highly recommend, I always use it
Submods
SFO Submod – Small tweak so thunderers use correct effect, and fixes Streltsi (Bardiches)
Performance
Biggest concern people have is that these effects look taxing, they really aren’t and performance was on top of my priorities. If you can run game on ultra vfx setting, you can run this mod.
Compatibility – It’s pretty good
This Mod doesn’t change any stats and works with mods like SFO. Most of the time works with new units, but not always. Sometimes more complex units are missing effect, I know of Southern Realms mod where cannons for example have some issue.

List of units for organization and what might come in future. If section is WIP underlined units are finished ones.
- Empire:
Handgunners, The Silver bullets (Hangunners RoR)
Outriders, Amethyst Outrides
War Wargons
Hochland Long Rifles, The Hergig Jaegerkorps (Long Rifles RoR)
Nuln Ironsides, Amethyst Ironsides - Empire Campaign units: Gundersman’s Surefires (Handgunners)
- Dwarfs:
Thunderers
Master Engineer (Hero)
Thunderers (Grudge-Rakers), The Grimdelvers (Grudge-Rakers RoR) - Vampire Coast:
Zombie Pirate Gunnery Mob (Handguns)
Deck Droppers (Handguns)
Gunnery Wight (Hero)
Rotting Leviatan (Only crew)
Necrofex Colossus and RoR (Only Crew) - Kislev:
Streltsi
Light War Sleds, Heavy War Sleds (Crew Uses Rifles)
- Empire:
Free Company Millitia, Stirland’s Revenge (RoR)
Pistoliers - Empire Campaign units: The Noble Sons Abroad (Pistoliers)
- Dwarfs:
Slayer Pirates, Long Drong’s Slayer Pirates (RoR) - Vampire Coast:
Zombie Pirate Gunnery Mob, The Black Spot (RoR)
Sartosa Militia
Deck Droppers - Kislev:
Armored Kossars, Armored Kossars (Great Weapons)
- Dwarfs:
Miners (Blasting Charges), Ekrund Miners (Miners – Blasting Charges)
Ironbreakers, Norgrimlings (RoR Ironbreakers)
- Vampire Coast:
Zombie Pirate Gunnery Mob (Handcannons)
Rotting Promothean Gunnery Mob (Uses Handcannons), The Lamprey’s Revenge (RoR) - Grand Cathay:
Iron Hail Gunners
- Empire:
Outriders (Grenade Launcher) - Dwarfs:
Irondrakes, Irondrakes (Trollhammer Torpedo), The Skolder Guard (RoR Irondrakes) - Vampire Coast:
Zombie Pirate Gunnery Mob (Bombers)
Deck Gunners, Shadewraith Gunners (RoR) *Uses sniper effect - Vampire Coast:
Deck Droppers (Bombers), Salt Lord Scuttlers (RoR Bombers) - Grand Cathay:
Crane Gunners "Snipers" *Uses sniper effect - Ogre Kingdoms:
Maneaters (Ogre Pistols), Powder-Guts (RoR) *Uses handcannon effect
- Empire:
Mortars
War Wargons (Mortars), The Black Lions (RoR Helblaster Volley Guns)
Great Cannon, Hammer of the Witches (Great Cannon)
Helblaster Volley Guns
Land Ship, The Wonder of the Age (Land Ship RoR), Amethyst Land Ship (Unit has some vanilla bugs, so I added only the basic version as it was easy to fix)
Helstorm Rocket Battery, The Sunmaker (RoR Helstorm Rocket Battery)
Luminark of Hysh, Templehof Luminark (RoR Luminark of Hysh)
Steam Tank, Steam Tank (Volley Gun) - Empire Campaign units: Sootson’s Guns (Mortars), The Emperor’s Wrath (Steam Tank)
- Dwarfs:
Cannons
Organ Guns
Flame Cannons
Gyrocopter, Gyrocopter (Brimstone Gun)
Gyrobomber, Skyhammer (RoR Gyrobomber)
Thunderbarge, The Spirit of Grudni (RoR) - Vampire Coast:
Mortars
Carronades "Great Cannons"
Queen Bess
Necrofex Colossus, Gallows Giant (RoR uses flamethrower) - Grand Cathay:
Sky Lantern (Crew are Crane Gunners "Snipers")
Sky Junk (Crew as well are Crane Gunners "Snipers")
Grand Cannon
Fire Rain Rocket - Kislev:
Little Grom - Ogre Kingdoms:
Ironblaster
Leadbelchers "Cannon in Hands" - Chaos:
Skullcannon
Hellcannon
- Infantry:
Infernal Ironsworn + RoR - Rifles:
Chaos Dwarf Blunderbusses + RoR
Infernal Guard (Fireglaives) - Artillery, Machines:
Magma Cannon
Iron Daemon + RoR
Deathshrieker Rocket Launcher
The Soul of Damnation (Hellcannon RoR)
Dreadquake Mortar

