Pazyryk
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As a long-time player of FFH (played it continuously from 0.23) and a FFH modmodmodder, I thought I should tell folks here about happenings in Civ5 modding.
Updated list on September 19, 2013. I'm just adding all the new ones (or ones I missed before) at the top of the list. I don't know much about these, but some look very good...
There is also a major "community mod effort" with Chronicles of Adea. Hopefully we will have an alpha for that soon. Sadly, Age of Mythology has gone inactive.
On a technical note: there has been a series of major breakthroughs on modding Civ5 3D art assets. This has been the major hurdle for Civ5 fantasy mods. So if you want to make a modding impact, go make some Civ5 fantasy units!
Jun 5 update: Yay!, we finally have a fantasy unit! (Well, not quite the first, but the first of a lot to come, I hope...) Current tutorial thread for how to do this is here.
None of these mods will ever replace FFH, of course. There's no way any of us will ever match Kael's detailed and compelling lore. But who knows what will develop over time? I always think it would have been cool to play FFH1 back when it had Washington as a leader.
Updated list on September 19, 2013. I'm just adding all the new ones (or ones I missed before) at the top of the list. I don't know much about these, but some look very good...
- A Mod of Ice and Fire
- Civilizations of Warcraft.
- Heroes of Might and Wisdom.
- Lord of the Rings (1650,2950 scenarios).
- The History of Three Kingdoms. This one has been out for a year but there was a big update recently.
- Faerun Scenario. Finally a Civ5 mod that is starting to add new fantasy units: mages, druids, giants, assassins, clerics, paladins, demons and.... dragons! Has an interesting map (of course) and replaces the Civ5 social policy system with schools of magic. It is the most "complete" fantasy mod for Civ5.
- Éa. This is a fairly ambitious project of mine (read: lots of new mechanisms to debug and balance). We are on v15+ of the alpha now, with the early to mid-game playing quite well (imho of course). Almost everything is different than base Civ5. It differs from Civ1-4 in several ways too: your civ name is gained based on your achievements or geography specific to each game (you only pick race at game start), and your leaders are derived from great people and can be replaced over time. The lore and logic of Éa are initially hidden from player and only revealed through game mechanisms like prophecies and meeting gods.
- Land of Aramwyen. This is a new one that prompted me to update this post. I don't know much about it yet. One thing I like in concept is that Zaelon appears to have discarded the tech tree. That's pretty daring, but if you think about it, the tech tree is a major "flavor breaker" for fantasy Civ games (including FFH imho). It forces all civs to compete for tech advancement when, really, your orcs should be out smashing skulls instead. So I'll be interested in how this plays out.
- Game of Thrones. I don't know much about this except that Kwadjh made some of the earliest fantasy units for Civ5 (Dragon and others). I believe the mod is active and working, though there are not many posts in the last few months.
There is also a major "community mod effort" with Chronicles of Adea. Hopefully we will have an alpha for that soon. Sadly, Age of Mythology has gone inactive.
On a technical note: there has been a series of major breakthroughs on modding Civ5 3D art assets. This has been the major hurdle for Civ5 fantasy mods. So if you want to make a modding impact, go make some Civ5 fantasy units!
Jun 5 update: Yay!, we finally have a fantasy unit! (Well, not quite the first, but the first of a lot to come, I hope...) Current tutorial thread for how to do this is here.
None of these mods will ever replace FFH, of course. There's no way any of us will ever match Kael's detailed and compelling lore. But who knows what will develop over time? I always think it would have been cool to play FFH1 back when it had Washington as a leader.