Is there a Civilization 5 combat mod?

[cooldude1128]

To expand on the title's question:
Is there a Civ4 mod that adds Civ5's version of combat? (units take away chunks of HP rather than immediately dying/killing the other unit.) One of my favorite things about Civilization 5 is that combat isn't up to pure RNG anymore-- You can have units survive combat and pull away if they come close to dying, and it almost completely removes my urge to just reload until I win the combat rounds. So, I'd like to know if there's a mod with this functionality for Civ4.

 

[Archid]

I don't know of a mod that does this, but increasing iWithdrawalProb for all units would have a similar effect. I haven't played Civ V so I don't know exactly how the functionality works, but given that it is a simple change to make you could test it out to see it does what you want.

 

[f1rpo]

I haven't played Civ 5 either, but I think air combat in Civ 4 works the same way: a fixed number of combat rounds.

I've written something similar to Archid's suggestion. (Because I was tired of reloading combat, especially early on against Raging Barbarians.) In my mod ("Pyrrhic Victories"), if a unit would die despite superior odds, combat ends in a retreat instead. I've come to think that limiting the number of combat rounds would be a better solution. That said, having to adjust the calculation of combat odds is slightly daunting, and the combat AI may require some changes as well; so I don't know if I'll actually get around to do this.

On a related note, Civ 5's flanking mechanism sounds like the most promising way to incentivize smaller stacks in Civ 4. Implementing that would be an even bigger task though.

 

[Imperial Archon]

Seconding what Chirpo said: just implement a set number of ''rounds'' per combat, akin to the current air-combat system.

If its the RNG you're more worried about though, that's fairly easy to fix - just remove all random number elements during combat calculations.