hey americo -
Okay, I was able to get the mod to work. I tried out several turns on a couple of Scenarios. I'm really interested in Welsh based scenarios since I love to play as them, so I tried out Wales and Roman scenarios. Below are a few observations, suggestions and questions based on what brief experience:
1) Overall, I like the look and feel of the mod. I love historical (Classical and Medieval) settings in CIV. I hope that with CIV that provide regular game options to limit the time period, i.e., stop at Medieval with it's on tech tree.
2) The unit graphics look very nice. As you fine tune your mod you may want to look into more specific units for each civ. For instance, I'm not sure if the Gallic warrior is great for Wales, although the guerrilla promo is certainly apt. There are other unique warriors for Wales.
3) The "invisible to all units" trait of the Welsh Longbowman is interesting but problematic. I do like the stealth aspect of the unit, but it defeats the primary strength of a longbowman which is defending cities or stacks. The English attacked one city and completely ignore the longbowman. Hmmm...not sure what to do here as each civ needs a strong city defender. Maybe provide the Welsh with to types of longbowman. The Saethwyr can be main UU and then another unit for more general purposes to a longbowman. (Also interested in your take on the invisible warrior unit - what was your intent with this one. Is there no counter to this unit. It could be fun but it is limited)
4) Invasion of Wales scenario:
-Welsh seem to start at a significant disadvantage in this scenario. English basically came right in with a huge stack and started to take over cities (the longbowman were of no use). I realize the Welsh will be the underdogs, but they start at war with 3 civs and have no allies yet - though Scotland appears to be someone to work on. Maybe need more lead time to prep for battle
-Are your scenarios meant to be played on Marathon? No problem - just want to know what is optimal and balanced.
- The production in Cardiff seemed disproportionate to the actual hammers worked. I couldn't figure out this was happening - buildings, bonuses, etc. Is the city coded by you to have high production. I'm cool with that but just curious.
- Barbarian cities undefended but could not take them over. I tried sending a longbowman up to the nearby barb island - nothing happened. ?????
5) I'm interested in what other mods are incorporated in this mod. Looks like Thomas War and Next War. I recommend including BUG or BUFFY to enhance the overall experience without changing gameplay.
6) Why the futuristic tech tree? I'd like to see techs that stick more to the era. I see things like clones in there.
7) I think the scenarios are missing a preview to set up the player. Maybe some text or a movie with some history to introduce us to what we're in for and to outline goals.
8) In addition, do you have something that explains the concepts of your mod - new techs, religions, wonders, etc. I realize that there are some civlopedia entries in there but something that pulls them together as a whole so we understand the game. I realize that you may not have gotten to all this yet.
9) Also, a more in depth overview of the changes/features of the mod.
Overall, I just want to note that I think this mod has a lot of potential. I think there are quite of few people out their looking for period specific type CIV games.
