BTS Extended is a mod focused around being MP friendly while extending the original gameplay of Beyond the Sword. It is BAT MOD 2.0 at it's core with Next war added in to it. I've also added modern era, leaders and resources from Varietas Delectat and Quota Capita.
Lobby games should work as normal in current version 1.2. I have done extensive testing on the MP aspect and it works under the gamespy lobby. Please report any problems!
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All new installation and uninstallation complete with an icon.
Features
New Resources - Shrimp, Cotton, Salt, Bison, Tea, Apples
New Leaders - Dido/Carthaginian - Ho Chi Minh/Khmer - Sargon/Sumerian - Smoke Jaguar/Mayan - Sundiata/Malinese - Van der donck/Netherlands Charles I/Spain
New Promotions - Hunter, desert and tundra combat, next war promotions
New Units - Raider, Mobile Guard, Hammerhead, ISSCV Transport, Fighter Drone, Battle Mech
BUG Mod
Next War Units, buildings and tech
Limited Modern Era Expansion from VD
v1.6
This version brings in more tweaking and more fixes.
I've added ranged combat to seige and naval units. This is a very interesting and fun dynamic.
A lot of non vanilla bts units have been tweaked for performance and function to be more suitable to their role.
New Promotions, cargo expansion and sentry rank 2 and 3.
Tweak the terraforming to work faster and removed elevate/level terrain.
tweaked new resources further.
Adjusted the mercenary to have higher requirements in tech to match up with ironclad battleships and cruisers.
Many many graphical fixes for buttons and ethnic art.
v1.4
tweaked the new resources more.
integrated more promotions from QC, coast guard and urban tactics. changed crusader to require city raider 1.
upgraded to VD 7.5 and city styles 0.55
Added terraforming
fixed upgrading units so the upgrade tree is properly set
v1.3
Added a new corporation East India Company that takes over the aluminum company corporation.
Updated gamefont to display all the icons properly.
Tweaked the odyssey game speed time frame to be on par with the rest of the speeds.
fixed some various button graphics.
Added new events
Added a new pirate unit that upgrades from a privateer called a mercenary. these are modern privateers.
v1.2
reverted to bat mod 2.0
adjusted new resources to be more in line with the rest.
v1.1
Reverted city styles and unit art back to VD 7.0
v1.0
Added a BTS extended main menu screen.
Added a new game speed: Odyssey - A speed in between epic and marathon.
Added a new scenario planet map at 192 X 120 with no civs in place. 5 Scenarios including Carter Earth remixed and a HUGE Europe map as the ancient world or the new world.
replaced the egypt axeman with a more time period suiting art piece called the horus knight. It's a sickle bronze sword footman.
thanks to Bakuel http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=6145
v0.9
Added new units for the future era
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ISSCV transport and Hammerhead thanks to Refar http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=279658
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CF Sopot (Drone in my mod) http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=300997
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Warhammer battletech mech thanks to coyote!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=300033
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http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=291476
Added a new world wonder called the Fusion Plant. Model by JustATourist - http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=11885
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v0.85
rearranged units to techs and tech costs to even out the progress into the future era. This should also help keep culture victories in line with the rest of the game.
Units removed
Early Tank
Light Tank
Medium Tank
Early Destroyer
Pre-dreadnought
early jet fighter
light bomber
techs removed
Prototyping
Multiple Expansion
supersonic aerodynamics
v0.8
Added the latest version of BUG.
Added the Modern Era expansion from VD
Situated the research tree so it made sense (numerous things moved around to accomodate the mix of techs)
v0.7
Added several new leaders to the single leader civs there were there in vanilla bts
Removed the nextwar civs
V0.6
Added a new leader Khalid ibn Walid
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New unit called Raider (special arabian unit called Mobile Guard)
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v0.5
Cleaned XML for resources, civs and leaders.
Merged Next war (including civs/leaders)
Merged 7 leaders from QC/VD
Dido/Carthaginian - I updated the materials for Dido to make her look better.
Ho Chi Minh/Khmer - Updated materials to look better
Sargon/Sumerian
Smoke Jaguar/Mayan
Sundiata/Malinese
Van der donck/Netherlands
Charles I/Spain
Added 7 new resources to mingle with the rest.
Salt, cotton, tea, apples, bison, shrimp, and prime timber.
Please give feedback and help is never shunned.
-vulcan