Conan: The Hyborian Era Mod

[Xen]

Howdy all! I'd like to put out there that I'm considering starting a mod project depicting the world of Conan, and his "Hyborian age" and that to sort of test the waters, get advice, and recruit people of knowledge and skill who can aide me in my efforts, I've decided to make a thread dedicated to it.

Goal
-Create a single player scenario depicting the world of Conan

Detailed Goals

Spoiler :

-19 playable out of 20 total civilizations [the picts will not be playable] each with a unique unit, unique building and leaderhead art. These do not have to be totally new, and in many cases preexisting playermade content will be used. However- Bakuel has volunteered to, over time at least, lend his hand to creating some absolutely outstanding units! And trust me, hes got an outstanding unit wating in the wings already!

-Changing the "Great General" leader into a "Hero" a unit- a unit representing a single powerful individual in service to a particular kingdom.
- As a subpoint of this, my view of this is that once the meter hits the point where a great general would be given a "Hero" spawns, and you are allowed to then 'upgrade' this hero according to weather you want a powerful melee offensive or defensive unit, cavalry, archer, even spy style "Hero"


-Changing of the quests to reflect things like heroic quests and adventures the "Hero" units would be helpful to accomplish.

-Create a new tech tree to reflect that the mod takes place in a single era

-If possible, adopting the Mercenary system unsed by Rhye in his "Rheys of civlization" mod.

-No time limit persay, but if certain times are reached then it may trigger particular events, if event scripting dose not prove too difficult. (glaciation of Asgard and Vanaheim, HUGE pictish surge at some point, ect representing the Hyborian era collapsing, and letting the player try to avoide that fate.)

Nations:
Aquilonia
Argos
Asgard
[The]Border Kingdom
Brythunia
Cimmeria
Corinthia
Hyperborea
Khauran
Khoraja
Koth
Nemedia
Ophir
[The] Picts
Shem
Stygia
Turan
Vanaheim
Zamora
Zingara

Map:
This is one topic of discussion that I'm very interested in. I'm considering two different maps- one a very small H36xW42 sized map, and the other a considerably, considerably larger H88xW104 suzed map. Here is how they compare-

I'm very, very interested in opinions regarding which map size I should use.

Now then, anyone who'd like to help -even in terms of lore (infact, I'll need major help in this aspect, as, having never read a conan story or comic, I'm in dire need of aide with more cities to place on the larger map) or ofeering up services to help me accomplish some of those goals feel free to say so here, or to PM me

 

[The_J]

I have no time to help, i only want to say, that it looks interessting .

 

[Fierabras]

You could use the Hyboria map by strategyonly

 

[strategyonly]

You could use the Hyboria map by strategyonly

Dang i wish i would have looked down on these post, i just spent 5 minutes looking for that, and thx for posting that.
Well at least i just put it in my map area.

 

[Fierabras]

I found that map when I had a similar idea for a Conan mod after Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures was released. There is some nice artwork there that could be used in CIV. Adding Amra's Conan leaderhead en units and other stuff from FFH and Warhammer, could speed up things.

 

[Xen]

You could use the Hyboria map by strategyonly

I considered doing a full Hyboria map, but decided against it because it would involve far too many civilizations...