[BTS] Ukraine Civ Module

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For your enjoyment, I've compiled various works into a new Ukrainian civ module. I hope you enjoy this work, and if there is anyone I forgot to thank, let me know!

agentsmith952's Ukraine Module v1.0 for BtS

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

1.) Unzip the .zip file.
2.) Copy the folder "Modules" to the "Assets" folder of Beyond the Sword or the Beyond the Sword mod you are using.

If you want the diplomacy music to play correctly, do the following:
3.) Copy Ukraine_Intro.mp3 from the Modules/Sounds/Diplomacy folder to Assets/Sounds/Diplomacy in the main Beyond the Sword directory.
4.) BACKUP Audio2DScripts.xml and AudioDefines.xml from Assets/XML/Audio in your Beyond the Sword driectory.
4.) Open Ukraine_Audio2DScripts_NEW.xml in the Modules folder and Audio2DScripts.xml in Assets/XML/Audio in the main Beyond the Sword directory.
5.) Copy everything from <Script2SDSound> to </Script2DSound> from Ukraine_Audio2DScripts_NEW.xml to the end of the Script2DSound section of Audio2DScripts.xml.
6.) Repeat step 4-5 using the AudioDefines.xml files in the same locations, copying the <SoundData> section from Ukraine_AudioaDefines_NEW.xml to the end of the SoundData section in AudioDefines.xml.
7.) Play away!

MOD TEAM:

agentsmith952 - main concept, xml, buttons, flag
GarretSidzaka - Yushchenko and Sviatoslav I leaderheads
Iloveplayciv - Yaroslav I leaderhead (using the Alexander Nevskiy leaderhead)
CivGold Team - Tymoshenko leaderhead
danrell - Kievan Rus units (Axeman, Spearman, Swordsman, Pikeman, Longbowman, Knight)
SnafuSmith - Modern Kievan Rus units (BMP-3, TU95, T84, Mig29, MI24)
C.Roland - Veche Hall (C.Roland's Inn)
xvector - main concept, Ukraine Civiliopedia entry

Ukraine Diplomacy music is the national anthem of Ukraine played by the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
All other Civiliopedia entries were taken from Wikipedia.

MODULE CONCEPTS:

The Ukraine Module provides four leaders. I wanted to use the as-of-yet unused leader trait combinations and I feel I made some good matches:
1.) Yushchenko (Creative, Charismatic) - AI should play like Frederick - Yuschenko is widely seen as a charismatic leader and head of the Orange Revolution. Creative seemed to fit because of his leadership, his challenging of the voter fraud in his presidential election, and because of his survival from an assassination attempt.
2.) Tymoshenko (Financial, Industrious) - AI should play like Darius I - Tymoshenko is one of the most powerful business-women in Ukraine. Financial/Industrious seemed like a good fit.
3.) Yaroslav I (Philisophical, Industrious) - AI should play like Hammurabi - Yaroslav I is credited with building many wonderful buildings in Ukrainian history, such as St. Sophia Cathedral and the Golden Gates of Kyiv. He is also credited with promulgating the first code of laws in the East Slavic lands. I'm aware that this trait combo is a little over-the-top, but it was a good fit and makes for a fun game (or a difficult opponent).
4.) Sviatoslav I (Organized, Protective) - AI should play like Julius Caesar - Sviatoslav I underwent constant military campaigns and eventually carved out one of the largest empires in Europe at the time. Although Aggressive seemed like a good fit, Sviatoslav had to br organized to undergo constant military campaigning during that time period, and once he reached a certain point he tried to hold on to his gains and protect his new found lands.

The Unique Unit is the Druzhinnik, a Knight replacement that is a little cheaper, has a 50% bonus against moutned units, and starts with the Flanking 1 and 2 promotions. Druzhinniks were bodyguard units for local princes that formed the backbone of any military ensemble for Kievan Rus and were elite horsemen that fought the other steppe horsemen of the time constantly, so it seemed to be an obvious choice for a Unique Unit.

The Unique Building is the Veche Hall, a Courthouse replacement that gives a +2 Culture bonus on top of the normal Courthouse effects. The veche was the tribal gathering that determined matters of importance. They'd often meet at the town square or a town hall, so a Veche Hall seemed appropriate.



If there are any questions or bug reports, feel free to contact agentsmith952 at the Civfanatics forums!
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Don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but this is more of a Kievan Rus' mod than Ukraine, the only things that make it Ukrainian are Yushchenko and Tymoshenko.
Otherwise well done! Love the national anthem!
 
0R4NG3 said:
Don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but this is more of a Kievan Rus' mod than Ukraine, the only things that make it Ukrainian are Yushchenko and Tymoshenko.
Otherwise well done! Love the national anthem!
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Well, if I remember correctly, Sviatoslav I was more closely associated with Kyiv than all of Kievan Rus, but point well taken ;) The early history of Russia and Ukraine are tightly joined.

I'm glad you like it though!

P.S. - I made the Kievan Rus artstyle for this in the Module, so you can easily make Russia use this art style as well to get the flavor units. I also didn't use all of danrell's flavor units for the Kievan Rus artstyle so that there is more of a defined line between eras, but you can get those other units from danrell's Kievan Rus unit pack.
 
Xenomorph said:
The UB is very similar in description, model and replaced building (though not actual abilities) to the Poland mod's UB. Could you possibly include an alternate UB in future releases?
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I had no idea. I haven't seen the Poland mod. But, I'll take a second look and see if I can come up with something else to include as an option in the future.
 
Thanks, great job!
But I do have a little correction: "Kievan Rus" should be spelled as Kyivan Rus, that is correct in Ukrainian pronunciation.
And other thing, early Ukrainian and Russian history is not as connected as some pseudo historians may say.
Wikipedia not always telling the truth. I sagest you to visit CIA World fact book that have short historical background of each country.
According to them Ukrainian history starts from Kyivan Rus, and Russian from the Muscovy about 200 years later.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html

Thanks :king:
 
Yeah... suddenly the CIA are better historians than actual historians (or as you say, "psuedo" historians). Muscovy was originally inhabited by the Rus people, was it not? Just because Kiev was the most important city, and that was in Ukraine...
 
Saim said:
Yeah... suddenly the CIA are better historians than actual historians (or as you say, "psuedo" historians). Muscovy was originally inhabited by the Rus people, was it not? Just because Kiev was the most important city, and that was in Ukraine...
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American people didn't trace their history from beginning of a Great Britain or Mexicans from beginning of a Spain. Russians, though, do trace their history from the ancient Ukrainian state of Kyivan Rus' calling it the beginning of their statehood, not even taking to account that principality of Muscovy never belonged to Kyivan Rus' at all.
Muscovites were mostly Rus' people before they mixed with other nations such as Mongolians, Finns and others. They build their country almost from a scratch starting from city of Moscow, and they can be proud of it. Taking the history of other nation for themselves is just not right...
 
You wanna say that Kievan Rus' is the ONLY UKRAINIAN history?? It is russian and ukrainian (and belarusian) ancient history that belongs to all of these nations.
 
Zerver said:
You wanna say that Kievan Rus' is the ONLY UKRAINIAN history?? It is russian and ukrainian (and belarusian) ancient history that belongs to all of these nations.
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you're not correct.
The view on the history that you provided was developed by Soviet pseudo-historians to unite 3 different Slavic nations.
In todays Russia this view is not popular though, old Tsarism's theory of the history of Russia is given to Russian children nowadays. It states that Russia is the greatest country in the world and that it began its statehood from great Russian state of Kyivan Rus.' Ukraine, according to their interpretation, was never a real country, but a part of Russia. Ukrainians, on the other hand, they teach, are whether confused Russians, or mix of Poles and Lithuanians.
This view on history makes Russian people really proud of their nation and country, but in reality they simply believe in Tsarism's propaganda that is based on lies.
For as long as Russians will be taught this view on history, they will have lack of respect toward other nations, and especially Ukrainian nation.

As Ukrainian though, I don't take big pride in the history of my ancestor's country, Kyivan Rus,' for it was created by a conquer of Kyiv city-state and surrounding Ukrainian lands by Varangians who ruled in Novgorod city. Even the very name of Rus' is not Ukrainian but has Varangian root, so current name of my country, Ukraine, that was used by simple folks in Kyivan Rus' times, suits much better. In Ukrainian it means "great land, or good country, " or simply land that one can call by the warm word "home." Ukrainians never liked their rulers and still don't like them much. They preferred to stay free if this was possible and serve no one (it's a blessing and a curse). Accordingly, any type of government or political state that was created not buy people, wasn't respected much. Only the government of Kozak's Hetmanate was well respected, for it was created by free people and for the people in a democratic manner.

All the best,
Victor

P/S:
Interestingly, when one compare written Ukrainian and Croatian languages, he will find many similarities. Croatian people moved to the coast of Adriatic sea before Kyivan Rus' was formed, but in many words Croatian language has same roots as Ukrainian language does. It's just the information to think about...
 
Just as well as I know, these two nations were always friendly towards each other, I m not saying that Ukraine is a PART of Russia. There should be no hierarchial difference between these nations. While having many friends from ukraine, I cant say that someone is lack of respect. The western politics just have to put these nations apart, to avoid their cultural and ethnic closing in. Croatian, just like other Indo-european languages, can have same roots with any eastern european nation you like, even russian.

PS
Im getting really sad that it is coming successeful for White House and his puppet Yushenko to bring apart the brother-nations.
And, if knew, Im reading not only Russia's position opinion, but also others pro- and anti-russian info. And so I have my own position to stay.
Sorry, If I dissapointed you too.
 
uaBird said:
For as long as Russians will be taught this view on history, they will have lack of respect toward other nations, and especially Ukrainian nation.
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Hope you realize how stupid this replie is. If it was true, russians would never travel a lot in the world, especially into Ukraine.
 
My grandfather was Ukrainian and I've been trying hard to find my Ukrainian roots, and that's what made me want to have Ukraine in Civ IV and makes this mod.

As for th history part, from an outside perspective, I think it is kind of a mix of what both of you are saying. Kievan Rus (or Kyivan Rus, sorry, it's hard to keep the different spellings straight some times!) was a uniting of different city states in Russia during a time where there was little cohesiveness. The capital and cultural center was in Kyiv, and there was obviously a different "ethnic" group of people there than the Rus from further north. I just used that as the basis for the Ukraine mod because it is a part of Ukraine's history and Ukraine is located and descended from that cultural center. It can jsut as easily be a part of the Russia's history, too, because they were the "Rus" portion of that combined area, although their portion was the northern regions of Muscovy. It wasn't necessarily that they were all "friendly" because the city states of the time all had their own interests at heart. It was more of the bringing together through conquest, which is nothign to be ashamed of because that's how the world worked at the time.

However, that being said, I really disagree with the notion that there is no difference between the two people. They have a different history and different lineage after their very distant Slavic relatives arrived on the scene (the Rus are, if I rememebr correctly, decsended from the local Slavs and Varangians (spelling?)). And, I know it's in the past, but there have been events where there were systematic attempts at "Rusification." That wouldn't have been needed or attempted if there were no ethnic and cultural differences to start with.
 
Kievan Rus' was a same medieval feudal system state, and like France and Germany, it was split into numerous parts (principalities, cities and their lands). Moscow was founded much more later than Kiev and Novgorod, so it's a mistake to treat Moscowy state as non-relative to Kiev
 
Zerver said:
Kievan Rus' was a same medieval feudal system state, and like France and Germany, it was split into numerous parts (principalities, cities and their lands). Moscow was founded much more later than Kiev and Novgorod, so it's a mistake to treat Moscowy state as non-relative to Kiev
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I meant to say Novgorod, not Moscow. Sorry! :(
 
Zerver said:
Just as well as I know, these two nations were always friendly towards each other...
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It's simply incorrect, Ukraine and Muscovy were never really friendly. In Rus' times Muscovy conquered Novgorod and forced it to become a part of a Muscovy, then it burned Kyiv to the ground. In the times of Kozaks Muscovite's tzar forced freedom lowing Ukrainians to serve his military needs. After Kozaks were united with king of Sweden and were defeated by Muscovy, the capital of a Kozak's state Baturyn was burned to the ground and all its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred. Following that most part of a kozaks was sent to build St. Petersburg and others were exiled to Siberia. Rural Ukrainian population was forced into slavery (kripatstvo) till the times of short lived Ukrainian independence from 1917 to 1921. All time when eastern Ukraine was under Muscovite rule, Ukrainian culture was suppressed and Ukrainian language often prohibited. In the Soviet times 7 to 10 million of Ukrainians were murdered by starvation. If it's a friendship then I must revise my understanding of it.
I wouldn't say that Yushchenko is a White House puppet, for he was supported by all Western world, not USA only.
In addition, if I would live in Israel, I wouldn't be so much hostile toward USA, for that country plays a big role in kipping Israel safe and on the map.

About Croatian language, the person I was speaking with, of Croatian nationality, told me that there are not much similarities between his language and Russian, but he did found a lot of similarities in written Croatian and Ukrainian.

Thank you,
Victor

P/S
I'm not against Ukrainian - Russian friendship, but against false historical views and theories that are based on those views.
 
agentsmith952 said:
My grandfather was Ukrainian and I've been trying hard to find my Ukrainian roots, and that's what made me want to have Ukraine in Civ IV and makes this mod.

As for th history part...
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All confusion about history of two countries comes from times when Muscovy adopted name Russia for itself. Name Russia was a Greek form of the name of Kyivan Rus' state. The name Rus' is most likely of Varangian root, for it was Varangian warriors who captured Ukrainian city-state of Kyiv and began to build their empire around it.*
After Kyivan Rus' fell down and its territories were incorporated into Lithuania, Poland and Muscovy, the tzar of a Muscovy adopted the name and a history of a Rus' for his principality in order to be accepted and respected between western nations (principality of Muscovy never belonged to Kyivan Rus'). That kind of Muscovite's history was widely accepted by western scholars, for there was no Ukraine for centuries, and accordingly, no contradiction. Only now it is changing, and western scholars finally learning a true history of two different nations.

*It's good to remember though that Varangians were ruling elite and mercenary military units only, so no mixing of two nations on a great scale took place. Varangian princes were assimilated into Ukrainian population, and Varangian mercenaries were replaced by Ukrainian ethnic people some times later.

All the best,
Victor
 
Zerver said:
Hope you realize how stupid this replie is. If it was true, russians would never travel a lot in the world, especially into Ukraine.
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It's just a simple language of digits. Couple months ago I seen statistics from independent polls showing that more than half of Russia's population dislike Ukrainians, and the number is rapidly growing. Most likely it's happening because of Putin's anti Ukrainian propaganda.
On the other hand, about 10% (or less than that) of Ukrainian population dislike Russians.
So no, I don't think my statement was stupid.

Thank you
 
It's not your business towards whom I am hostile. Who said that Im hostile at ALL? I'm Israeli-russian, got it? And I love both countries, and Im very sad that historically thanks to some unwise Soviet rulers these states must be in the different sides.
Yes - USA supports Israel, but only because there are a lot of rich Jews.

And stop saying bull%&*$ about anti-Ukrainian propaganda, looks more like you are a Squipe's homie, who also keeps here anti-Russian posts. I lived in Russia many years and came back to Israel, and I never saw anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Beter see how Yushenko under US' rapidly spread's his own propaganda (and unfortunatly not really Russian-friendly). How he's rapidly bringing apart the two Churches, the two NATIONS, moving his own (Althrough, I dont really think so) folk towards nations that never wished anything good to them.
And I dont know where you've got youre strange statistics (maybe you was travelling across whole Russia in your dream?)
So, please, stop veshat' lapshu na ushi ;)
 
Putin had a lot of business to do in place of anti-someone propaganda.
And the people (not only Russian, don't worry) regret his retriement.
Of course I expect a GIANT post with statistics about "How many VICTIMS of the BRUTUAL Putin's REGIME are happy that he's a president no more" from you, no wonder
 
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