Africa Mod!

[Nwoll]

This is a mod of Africa. It uses a 256x256 map of Africa with 17 African civs(including Arabia) in approximately real starting locations. None of the rules are changed; however almost all the unit graphics were changed to a more African style as well as the city graphics. Also chariots were removed because a) they didn't really fit with the African theme and b) it helped make Egypts UU a little more powerful.
All of the civs have a unique unit and an era-specific leaderhead (except Ethiopia on the leaderhead - not era-specific). The civilopedia is up to date, and credits are included. My biggist thanks goes to Civarmy - I used his map, as well as several units and leaderheads by him.
There is also a 100x100 map included for Multiplayer games and those who like smaller maps.
Here is the download link:
http://www.3ddownloads.com/civfanatics/civ3/modpacks/Africa.zip

Because it has almost all era-specific leaderheads it's a pretty big file (242mb).
These are the civs:
Abyssinia
Angola
Arabia
Basutoland
Carthage
Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kanem-Bornu
Mali
Matamba
Morocco
Nubia
South Africa
Swahili
Zululand

Everything should be extracted to you Conqeusts\Scenarios folder

Screenshots a few posts down.

Here's patches that fix the Boer Rifleman, Marine, and Kwanhama: Just extract to same folder and say yes to overwrite.

 

[Lachlan]

Unplayable

 

[Nwoll]

I added the installation instructions Lachlan, could you tell me why it is "unplayable"?
If there is a bug I'll try to fix it.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

I'm glad someone did an Africa mod at last. Out of curiousity, did you use any of the era-specific African leaderheads that I did? There were also some popheads and (very recently) an African settler.....

I'll definately download this soon and give it a whirl. Sounds great!

 

[Nwoll]

R8XFT - I did use several of your leaderheads - thank you. I haven't added the settler or popheads yet but I may later. Thank you for your contributions.

 

[CivArmy s. 1994]

Nwoll, thanks for the comment of the 1st post I'd suggest u post some screen shoots, I'm curious to see the Mod
BTW, I have plans to do more stuff to Africa in the future, maybe they could be usefull to u in a expansion pack.
I 'm curious: u said u have used a single-era LH for Ethiopian, but this country has three different era-specific LHs, one done by me, other by R8FXT and other by Sween, why did u use a single era one for this civ?

see you!

CivArmy

 

[Nwoll]

Civarmy - the download links didn't work for Sweens, yours i used for Abyssinia (i think thats the one you were referring to) and R8xft's is the one I used - His Candace is single era.

I'm still trying to figure out how to do screenshots.

Edit- I'm actually trying to figure out how to post screenshots, I've taken several and have them saved in bmp. format so if anyone could tell me how to post one I would be glad to.

Edit- When I try to post a screenshot it tells me the file is too large it can only be 500kb, but that would be like a screenshot of one unit by time I got it that small.

 

[Nwoll]

Ok I figured out I have to save as jpeg format.
Here's a screenshot of the Ethiopians on the 100x100 map.

 

[Nwoll]

Here's a shot of the 256x256 map:

 

[Corvex]

Looks awesome, but why did you put 'Arabia' in Iraq?

 

[Nwoll]

There was room over there and Arabia seemed like a somewhat African civ that shouldn't look to out of place over there. Most of the starting locations were placed with more emphasis on gameplay than realism; but if you know of a better civ to put over there, and could tell me a good place to put Arabia, I'll be happy to change it.
Also, thanks for the input.

 

[Lachlan]

Too big map ==> unplayable

 

[Nwoll]

LAchlan - thats why there is a 100x100 map included.

 

[Lachlan]

ok, i just wait that this mod be more "africa themed"

Replace Wonders, Units, and Improvments

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Other than Egyptian, Arabian and the Carthagean wonder, I'm not sure what would constitute an African wonder....

 

[Nwoll]

Comments and suggestions are welcome. If you've had a chance to play this mod, please post.

 

[Corvex]

Other than Egyptian, Arabian and the Carthagean wonder, I'm not sure what would constitute an African wonder....

Great Zimbabwe

 

[elmoro]

Cool Mod... it is really great to see a good Africa mod finally.

the bigger map is a bit slow to load the turns, the smaller one is much faster.

One comment though, why don't u add African Wonders, may be The Castle of Zenzibar for Swahili or the Sahet Djemma El Fanaa for Morocco...just a thought.

 

[Nwoll]

I don't really know a lot about any African wonders but if people would post some ideas , I'd be happy to include them. If you could post a wonder, and tell me what wonder it would replace or where on the tech tree it would go, and also a link to a graphic that looks similar I'd be happy to include it. I noticed that there is a Nubian pyramids wonder in the graphics forum, but I don't know what it should do.

 

[elmoro]

It is The Pyramids of Meroei in Nubia, check the below link for more details:

http://www.crystalinks.com/nubia.html