Tactician Zhao
Lord Strategist
This is a Lovecraftian flavored civilization that I've created for Civilization 4.. I've always done this for myself in past Civilizations, renaming my nation and cities as I made them, but figured I would go the whole distance this time.. and, of course, thought I would share it here in case theres anyone else who is a big Lovecraft fan and would like to try it out
Name: Great Ones
Techs: Mysticism, Pottery
Leader: Nyarlathotep (Spiritual, Philosophical)
Unique Unit: Cats of Ulthar (replaces warrior, has +50% against archers and melee)
Flag: the Elder Sign
The Great Ones
As always, you can install it by unzipping it into a subdirectory under your Mods folder
The mod includes 32 Lovecraftian named cities, mostly from the Dreamlands, but several from the physical realm as well.. complete, multilanguage civilopedia entries for the Great Ones and Nyarlathotep are also included
The UU was originally going to be Shoggoths, but I could not find a suitable model to skin to represent them.. so I went with a generic panther model, and simply changed the colors of the eyes and claws
I chose Nyarlathotep as the leader because he is the crawling chaos, the soul and messenger of the Other Gods (not technically one of the Great Ones, I know) and I think he fits pretty well
Of course, none of this is completely true to the various stories of Lovecraft (Arkham, Dunwich, and Innsmouth are American cities in the mythos, not ruled by the Great Ones), but still provides the atmosphere
Once the SDK comes out I will try to do something better with the unique unit.. T_T
Name: Great Ones
Techs: Mysticism, Pottery
Leader: Nyarlathotep (Spiritual, Philosophical)
Unique Unit: Cats of Ulthar (replaces warrior, has +50% against archers and melee)
Flag: the Elder Sign
The Great Ones
As always, you can install it by unzipping it into a subdirectory under your Mods folder
The mod includes 32 Lovecraftian named cities, mostly from the Dreamlands, but several from the physical realm as well.. complete, multilanguage civilopedia entries for the Great Ones and Nyarlathotep are also included
The UU was originally going to be Shoggoths, but I could not find a suitable model to skin to represent them.. so I went with a generic panther model, and simply changed the colors of the eyes and claws
I chose Nyarlathotep as the leader because he is the crawling chaos, the soul and messenger of the Other Gods (not technically one of the Great Ones, I know) and I think he fits pretty well
Of course, none of this is completely true to the various stories of Lovecraft (Arkham, Dunwich, and Innsmouth are American cities in the mythos, not ruled by the Great Ones), but still provides the atmosphere
Once the SDK comes out I will try to do something better with the unique unit.. T_T
Good one. I'm looking forward a full "Lovecraftian" mod. 
