Posted here since Dale had a whole to do with Asher over at Poly.

I have acquired a... er, "modified" copy of C4C and I don't see any mods folder at all. Under the C4C directory I can see Assets, Civ4gamecoreDLL, miles, public maps, resource, and shaders but nothing else. All of these sub directories have their own sub directories but none of them are named anything like mods so where should I unpack this mod?

You need to create your own mods folder. If you installed in default location, it's something like c:\program files\2k games\firaxis games\sid meiers colonization\mods

Then you unzip into that mods folder.

Thanks, will do.