Joebles' Civilizations

Leader: Borborygmos.

Unique Ability: Unruly Masses - No Unhappiness from number of Cities. Unhappiness from number of Citizens increased by 50%. Pre-gunpowder melee Units move twice as fast through Hills and Forests.

Unique Unit: Rubblehulk - A powerful Renaissance melee unit that replaces the Trebuchet. Excellent at sieging cities.

Unique Building: Stomping Grounds - Gruul Barracks replacement. In addition to the bonus 15% XP, it grants you 15% Production towards training melee units, and all melee units trained in the city have the Bloodied promotion, increasing XP gain by 25%.

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Known Bugs as of v2:

Author's Notes:

A while ago, just as I was starting to get into modding Civ 5, I saw Silly's Innistrad civ pop up on reddit, and suddenly I realized that I really wanted to make the guilds from Ravnica into civs. I feel a bit awkward posting this now as he's started to work on the Azorius guild himself, but since I was essentially done with this I figured I would post it anyway and just hope I don't come off as stepping on anyone's toes.

This is the first completed civ mod I've ever done, so there isn't a lot of technical trickery here. Instead I simply tried to build up a fun and synergistic civ with just XML. My next ideas, however, are definitely going to require some lua trickery, which I am already brainstorming about.​

Version 2 - Change Notes

Leader: Prophet Skeram

Unique Ability: Whispers of Madness - +1 Faith per 8 followers of your Religion. Your units have +15% attack strength while near an enemy city following your Religion.

Unique Building: Obelisk of C'Thun - + 2 Faith, +1 Happiness. Shrine replacement.

Unique Unit: Conqueror - 25% bonus combat strength outside of friendly lands, -25% combat strength inside of friendly lands. Mustketman replacemant.

This mod also adds a religion to the game, "Madness of C'Thun", for players and AI to use.

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Known Bugs as of v1:

Author's Notes:

The first in a hopeful series of Warcraft civs, Ahn'Qiraj is a Religion-based civ, a mechanic I felt could represent the spread of corruption surrounding the Warcraft Old Gods quite well. Gameplay wise, the Qiraji play best with a wide-reaching empire to take the most advantage of their powerful Shrine replacement, building up a strong religious base before a powerful mid-game offensive push, if you're going domination. Their UU supports being very aggressive, and with the right Religious beliefs, you can stack up a strong combat power advantage for your units!

Flavor-wise, Skeram was chosen instead of the Twin Emperors for two reasons: the Religious light AQ's UA casts them in, and, frankly there wasn't much artwork beyond the one promotional image of Skeram to work with.

Ahn'Qiraj is a little more complex than my previous venture into the modding world, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Please let me know what you think!​

Dimir
Focus: Spying! and a little bit of Tourism, to sow unhappiness and discord among your enemies.
The leader can be Szadek or Lazav, whoever you think is better
UA: Spies start out as Agents, and also give +2 Tourism when placed in foreign cities. Diplomats also provide a Tourism modifier even before you adopt an Ideology.
UB: Duskmantle - Replaces the Constabulary. Has no gold maintenance. Trade routes with cities that have Spies on them give you 10% Culture and Tourism.
UU: Specter - Replaces the Lancer. Much more expensive to build, but ignores terrain movement costs. Also, when it kills a unit, it steals a promotion from it.

Golgari (is this possible? I think it will be hard to code, but I was trying to think of something that fits with their scavenging nature.)
UA: Units killed on Golgari borders provide food equal to a portion of their Combat Strength. This food is sent to the nearest city. Can see Hidden Antiquity sites even without completing the Exploration Policy Tree.
UU: Shaman - replaces the Archaeologist. Much more expensive to build, but is not consumed upon use. It also has a Combat Strength of 25, and can create unique Improvements. Shamans also receive +1 Combat strength per exisitng Overgrown Tomb.
UI: Overgrown Tomb - replaces the Landmark improvement. Aside from the culture bonus provided by Landmarks, the Improvement also gives +2 Food and +1 production to both the landmark owner (if any) and the closest Golgari city. (does not stack if within Golgari lands)

Leader: Prophet Skeram

Unique Ability: Whispers of Madness - +1 Faith per 8 followers of your Religion. Your units have +15% attack strength while near an enemy city following your Religion.

Unique Building: Obelisk of C'Thun - + 2 Faith, +1 Happiness. Shrine replacement.

Unique Unit: Conqueror - 25% bonus combat strength outside of friendly lands, -25% combat strength inside of friendly lands. Mustketman replacemant.

This mod also adds a religion to the game, "Madness of C'Thun", for players and AI to use.

Steam Workshop | Dropbox

Known Bugs as of v1:

Author's Notes:

The first in a hopeful series of Warcraft civs, Ahn'Qiraj is a Religion-based civ, a mechanic I felt could represent the spread of corruption surrounding the Warcraft Old Gods quite well. Gameplay wise, the Qiraji play best with a wide-reaching empire to take the most advantage of their powerful Shrine replacement, building up a strong religious base before a powerful mid-game offensive push, if you're going domination. Their UU supports being very aggressive, and with the right Religious beliefs, you can stack up a strong combat power advantage for your units!

Flavor-wise, Skeram was chosen instead of the Twin Emperors for two reasons: the Religious light AQ's UA casts them in, and, frankly there wasn't much artwork beyond the one promotional image of Skeram to work with.

Ahn'Qiraj is a little more complex than my previous venture into the modding world, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Please let me know what you think!​