Hi I have been working on a ”New Sweden” mod for a couple of hours now. This is my first real mod for any civ game but I have poked around in civ4 before this. I was just wondering if someone would be interested to work whit me on this… I just in the stage of getting the new country to work whit two new leaders so when I have that going people can start testing it.

Well that’s it from me at the moment pleas leave a coment.

Not to take you down or anything. But a better way to present this would be to actually show some progress of development before starting to looking for more people to join in.

Have you researched the Swedish history in the era of colonization? Is there something specific with this that makes this mod really interesting and/or funny to play?

Looking at Wikipedia I see that Sweden briefly owned the island of Guadeloupe (1813-1814). The British took it from the French and ceded it to the Swedes because the Brits and Swedes were allies at the time, then a year later it was ceded back to France as part of the Treaty of Paris.

Sweden also had Saint Barthélemy from 1784 until 1878 when they sold it to France.

And finally on the mainland of North America there was New Sweden itself. Here is the small description given on the "Swedish overseas colonies" page at Wikipedia: By the middle of the 17th century, the Swedish Empire had reached its greatest territorial extent. The Swedes sought to extend their influence by creating an agricultural (tobacco) and fur trading colony to bypass French, British and Dutch merchants. The charter included Swedish, Dutch and German stockholders. Once they landed they established, Fort Christina (now Wilmington, Delaware), named after Queen Christina of Sweden. Many of the settlers were Finnish; since until 1809 Finland was governed as the eastern third of the kingdom of Sweden.

The settlement was actually an invasion of New Netherland since it was Dutch territory. The first governor, Peter Minuit, died after returning from Stockholm by a hurricane while on the island of St. Christopher in the Caribbean. The colony would establish Fort Nya Elfsborg north of present-day Salem, New Jersey in 1643.

In May 1654 the Dutch fort Casimir was conquered by New Sweden. As a reprisal, the Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant sent an army to the Delaware River, which obtained the surrender of the Swedish forts.

And finally, a link to the full article at Wikipedia about New Sweden: New Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden)

Lastly, I'd like to say good luck, because I'm part Swedish, and I'd love to see Sweden in the game :king:

I'm thinking one of two Swedish leaders put in would be Cooperative and Disciplined. Cooperative because they were like the French in that they mostly cooperated and got along with the natives and Disciplined because of how they were able to beat back the Dutch so soundly at first.

If you use Peter Minuit, maybe he should have Cooperative / Industrious as he completed Fort Christiana the same year he landed with the Swedes (and some Finnish) in North America.

Hi yes I know this that is why I am doing ”New Sweden”… If Sweden didn’t have a colony in the states why would one make a Sweden mod there wouldn’t be any motivation to do so. Any way I am going to have Johan Printz and Johan Risingh as leders.

Johan Printz will be Cooperative and Industrius.
Johan Risingh will be Cooperative and Militaristic.
The settlements will be: Nya Stockholm, Nya Göteborg, Fort Kristina, Nya Älvsborg, Fort Casimir, Fort, Trinity, Swedesboro, Fort Uppland, Fort Nassau, Fort Nya Korsholm, Nya Vasa, Fort Mölndal and Torne.
Ship names will be: Kalmar nyckel and Gripen.

“But a better way to present this would be to actually show some progress of development before starting to looking for more people to join in.”
Yes that is a good point I and I will try to finish the first release today if I am not to hung over from yester day :P

Well any way as I said before pleas leave a comment and some people did thank you for that :) please do so agen.

Hi yes I know this that is why I am doing ”New Sweden”… If Sweden didn’t have a colony in the states why would one make a Sweden mod there wouldn’t be any motivation to do so. Any way I am going to have Johan Printz and Johan Risingh as leders.

Johan Printz will be Cooperative and Industrius.
Johan Risingh will be Cooperative and Militaristic.
The settlements will be: Nya Stockholm, Nya Göteborg, Fort Kristina, Nya Älvsborg, Fort Casimir, Fort, Trinity, Swedesboro, Fort Uppland, Fort Nassau, Fort Nya Korsholm, Nya Vasa, Fort Mölndal and Torne.
Ship names will be: Kalmar nyckel and Gripen.

“But a better way to present this would be to actually show some progress of development before starting to looking for more people to join in.”
Yes that is a good point I and I will try to finish the first release today if I am not to hung over from yester day :P

Well any way as I said before pleas leave a comment and some people did thank you for that :) please do so agen.

I have been reading more or less every book on the subject and I would like to make a small change.

Change around on the trait for the leders since Printz was very militaristic, there was even a small rebellion against him because he was so militaristic and the dutch was reluctant to get into a fight with him because it would take up too much troops. Risingh on the other and had great plans for the colony but never got around to put the plans into action because on the dutch invasion.

On some of the colony and ship names I will have to come back on that, Im not at home nor do I have any book on the subject at home.

I have been reading more or less every book on the subject and I would like to make a small change.

Change around on the trait for the leders since Printz was very militaristic, there was even a small rebellion against him because he was so militaristic and the dutch was reluctant to get into a fight with him because it would take up too much troops. Risingh on the other and had great plans for the colony but never got around to put the plans into action because on the dutch invasion.

On some of the colony and ship names I will have to come back on that, Im not at home nor do I have any book on the subject at home.

Hm really from what I have understood of what I read on the Swedish and English Wikipedia that is how the leaders should be but if you have more knowledge about this I guess you are right. After all it is only Wikipedia…
It is the same thing about the names, I got them from Wikipedia but there is a map of the colony also on the page so I think they are right and good…

Hm really from what I have understood of what I read on the Swedish and English Wikipedia that is how the leaders should be but if you have more knowledge about this I guess you are right. After all it is only Wikipedia…
It is the same thing about the names, I got them from Wikipedia but there is a map of the colony also on the page so I think they are right and good…

On the leaders then wikipedia gives only a one-sided picture, Risinghs capture of Fort Casimir was of necessity, If left untouched then New Sweden would be forced into submission as it cut of the colony from the ocean.

Printz lead the colony for a long time and made sure it survived through the very dangerous first years when many colonies failed due to lack of leadership. He even built a small warship and made wonders with his small and insufficient resources but he was first and foremost and officer, while Risingh was a trader and organizer.

Well Fort Nassau was a Dutch fort that existed there when the swedes arrived in Delaware bay but was abandoned when the indians prefered the swedes over dutch and because Fort Christina cut it of from the ocean.

Fort Casimir and Fort Trinity is the same place, just that the first was used by the Dutch the later by the swedes.

here is a list of the permanent settlements in new Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden#Permanent_settlements but I guess it is from this list you got your settlement names. And it would be best if you could decide if to use the swedish names or the english names out of the sake of consistency.

On ship names then I know of at least 2-3 more Swedish ships that was sent to New Sweden but but I can't recall their name right now.

Finely I have my first release of the Swedish colony mod done. Use the link and download it if you want to test it out.
Some graphic and civpedia text is reused at the moment but that doesn’t matter that much for it to work and be a first release… so enjoy and leave a comment. :D
http://www.filedropper.com/newsweden

Hi so I did a small change. I removed almost every new song that was in the mod only the new menu song is in now. This makes the mod a lot smaller and I can upload it to civfanatics database. So those who want to can download the new much smaller mod from here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10799

Some advice about getting people excited about your work.

Put some screenies in the first post.
Include all links, installation, and download info in the first post.

Yes that is good advice but I was thinking that I was going to do that when I had finished most of the work I am approthing that point so when I do I will do as you say.
I will release version 0.5 (Beta) soon whit some more new graphics and info about Sweden in the colpedia and the Swedish monarchy instead of reused text. When that is done there isn’t that much work left.

Im completely new to Civ4, were Im going to extract the .rar file? I cant find any info in the file about how to install it.

Im completely new to Civ4, were Im going to extract the .rar file? I cant find any info in the file about how to install it.

Hi I am sorry about that, the first release was a quick release... But I have released v0.5 now and you can download it at civfanatics download page as soon as it have been approved. But until then here is the text from the readme of v0.5.

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New Sweden mod v0.5 Beta Readme
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) INSTALLATION:

1.1 DOWNLOAD
1.2 INSTALL MOD
1.3 START GAME
1.4 LOAD THE MOD

2) NEW:

2.1 CIVILIZATION
2.2 GRAPHICS
2.3 LEADERS
2.4 SOUNDS

3) CHANGES:

3.1 NONE

4) MOD TEAM CREDITS:

4.1 ART
4.2 SOUND
4.3 XML CODING
4.4 TEXT

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1) INSTALLATION
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1.1 DOWNLOAD

Download the latest version of "New Sweden mod".

1.2 INSTALL MOD

Unrar/unzip the mod folder "New Sweden" in the mod folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\[Your name]\My documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Colonization\MODS

1.3 START GAME

Start Colonization.

1.4 LOAD THE MOD

In Colonization main menu go to "Advanced" and then "Load a mod" there you will se the new mod "New Sweden" select
it and then press load. The game will now load the mod and you will be able to play the new nation of Sweden.

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2) NEW
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2.1 CIVILIZATION

2.2 GRAPHICS

Leader heads and flags.

2.3 LEADERS

Johan Printz

Joahn Risingh

2.4 SOUNDS

Main menu music Swedens nationalanthem.

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3) CHANGES
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3.1 NONE

No changes so far.

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4) MOD TEAM CREDITS
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4.1 ART

Christer Landstedt

4.2 SOUND

Christer Landstedt

4.3 XML CODING

Christer Landstedt

4.4 TEXT

Christer Landstedt

I like the mod and use it with Ellestar's REF mod. Thanks for doing it. I must say I'm amazed with the limited number of factions in game.