Well I started attempting to mod this weekend because my buddies and I got to talking about the mod we would like to see.... And I have since discovered just how hard this modding stuff is and I doubt I have the ability to make the mod that we are wanting.
The core meat of what we want to do is create logical endgame unit family's
What sparked this discussion was how weak a Civ America is and its funny that all of America's best units are given out and generic units for everyone like Stealth Bomber, Modern Armor, MissleCruiser, Nuclear Sub etc..... is granted to everyone....
Well our concept is something that is more akin to the real world...
If you look around at the arsenals of the countrys in the world they tend to be divided up into families (Soviet/China, British/French, German, American) made units...
Thus the concept of how cool it would be for that to be in Civilization....
First we would divide up the Civ's into logical families
America - Shoshone - Egypt - Iroquois - Arabia - Aztecs - Inca - Maya - Polynesia - Zulus
Russia - Mongolia - Poland - China - Korea - Siam - Assyria - Songhai - Persia - Babylon - Huns
England - France - India - Celts - Greece - Portugal - Sweden - Carthage - Indonesia - Morocco - Spain
Germany - Austria - Japan - Denmark - Ethiopia - Netherlands - Rome - Byzantium - Ottomans - Venice
So there we have the Unit families created though as best we can granted its not totally historical lol but it has some logic ....
Next we need Iconic Units to comprise each family and no they dont have to always be equal....
Russian Units- T-34, T-62, Akula, Typhoon,OscarII, Kirov, Kiev,Mig-15, Mig-29,Tu-95,Tu-160,Mi-24,KA-52
American- M4,M1-As, Los Angelos, Ohio, Ticonderoga, Nimitz,Missouri, F-86, F-18,B-17,B-52,UH-60,AH-64
British- Char-B,FV4034,Trafalgar,Vangaurd,Type-45,
Charles DeGaul,Nelson,spitfire,Hurricane,Jaguar,EU Typhoon, AH-2, EU-Tiger
German- PanzerIV-TigerII-U-Boat,Type209,Deutschland, Graf Zeppelin,Bismark,Yamato,Zero,ME262,Panavia Tornado, JU-87Stuka, HE-111,A129,UE-Tiger
So this is a rough version of a unit list.... Obviously The German list is bit Older Tech but thats okay they just get an earlier period of dominance....
And lastly we thought that it would also be cool to have the ability to buy Units Via diplomacy so if you were say a country in one tree and you wanted a unit type from another you could make arraingements to purchase units to upgrade your force....
So would anyone be interested in trying to do what would probally be a pretty tough mod...???