Chinese Unification for BtS 3.19

isenchine

Empress
Joined
Oct 18, 2010
Messages
1,774
Location
Brussels, Belgium
Chinese_Unification: Civ4 Warlords Mod now updated to Beyond the Sword 3.19

Download at CFC Database

Uploaded on 29 April 2016

Author: FIRAXIS Games (Jon Shafer)

Additional credits:
Platyping: Text Reader (CTRL-F12: displays the help text in a scrollable screen. Useful when encountering a huge army!)

Jon Shafer:
Despite its place as one of the world's oldest civilizations, China has never seen a common ruler. The year is 450 BC and a fragmented nation seeks a powerful leader to unite the people and bring glory to East Asia. Commonly referred to as the 'Warring States' period, this era saw a flourishing of culture as well as war - it would not be for another 2,200 years in the Napoleonic Wars that the world would see nations bring such massive armies of millions of men into battle.

A number of changes took place during this time that would shape China and the rest of the world far into the future. A number of philosophies and religions developed, including Daoism, Confucianism and Legalism. Sun Tzu wrote his masterpiece, The Art of War, outlining the road to victory in battle. Society and political organizations were reformed with government offices being given out based on merit rather than family ties. Massive public works projects yielded the fields necessary to feed the largest population in the world while in the north what would become known as the Great Wall was under construction. Still, China was not brought together by cultural or engineering achievements, but through warfare. There was a shift towards massive infantry armies, mounted soldiers, crossbows and the logistical methods required to field the largest armies ever seen. In the end, it was the state with the biggest and best army that was able to defeat all of its rivals.

The seven Chinese powers which have a shot at victory at the start of the Warring States period are the Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei. Each of them seeks to unify China by any means necessary. While war is the direct route to success, winning through diplomacy is also possible. Should the only surviving civilizations - if any - be among your allies or vassals you will be first to ever take the name: Emperor of China.


Installation:
Unzip in BtS/Mods folder (Charlemagne, etc).
Load BtS, then the Mod or double-click directly on the file Chinese_Unification.CivBeyondSwordWBSave in the PrivateMaps folder.
Note that there is an underscore in the name of the Mod.
 
Wonderful! :) I've been looking forward to this ever since I heard you were working on converting the built-in mods for BtS. I'm playing it as soon as I get the chance!

Good job! :goodjob:
 
Thanks. :)

Tell me if it lives up to your expectations.
 
Thanks again isenchine, it's great to have the vanilla mods working in BTS.

PS: I just opened a new thread for a PBEM using the mod, if anyone is interested.
 
Great! :goodjob:

Perhaps I should mention here that the only additional Python code in this Mod is to give some randomness at the start of the game to the relations between the 7 states with "Attitudes" varying from -3 to +1.
 
I love it.
 
Good. :)
 
Happy to play this mod for bts!

Although, after a game I made a rudimentary Spring and Autumn Period alternate by adding Lu, Song, Wu, Yue, Cai, Zheng, Wey, Ba, and Shu.

My alternate is not perfect, but I am satisfied. Thanks for converting The Chinese Unification mod!
 
Too bad this mod never recieved any sort of community update or further work on it. It was one of my favourite mods when it came out.
 
I downloaded the mod, went to play it, the game loaded - and before I made any moves, I got "You have been defeated".

What am I doing wrong??
 
Isn't this scenario officially in Warlords? Or is this made for those who don't have BTS/warlords?
It's annoying to switch to Warlord when you're so used to BtS.
 
Top Bottom