JFD and Janboruta's Civilisations

[Viregel]

Is Prussia not ready? I was unable to find it in the Steam CiV Workshop

It's just being tested, but out soon!

 

[JFD]

Stalin updated:

• Added new effects of the UA, UU and UB.
• Added new artwork for the Commissariat courtesy of Janboruta.
• Added new civ icon and colour scheme, to distinguish from Leninist USSR.
• Added internal support for Tomatekh's Historical Religions, Ethnic Units and Gedemon's YnAEMP.
• Added new peace and war themes.
• Added unique soviet spy list (before it was just using the Russian spy list).
• The mod no longer deletes or removes in anyway the vanilla Russia.
• Added expanded diplomacy text.

Stalin - The Soviet Union (BNW) Download Subscribe

Spoiler :

The Soviet Union - Stalin

Warsaw Pact: Enemy units may take extra damage inside your territory, or in the territory of your allied City-States or civilizations with whom you share an ideology. Earn Influence per turn with City-States from which you could demand tribute.

Levy: The Levy is the unique unit for the USSR. It gains an extra attack whenever it is fighting in friendly territory, including territory belonging to allied City-States or within the borders of civilizations with whom you share an ideology. This makes defending your sphere of influence much easier.

Commissariat: The Commissariat is the Soviet replacement for the Caravansary. Whenever a city with a Commissariat is connected to a City-State, it gains a copy of any unit created by that City-State. Maintaining a close sphere of influence will guarantee a steady flow of military units for your empire.

Credits:

JFD - Author
Janboruta - Artwork (Stalin, Levy, Commissariat, Soviet Map)
danrell - Graphics (Levy)
Peace Theme - James Hannigan Journey to Pugachev
War Theme - Call of Duty 5: Soviet Song

Includes internal support for: Tomatekh's Historical Religions Mod, Ethnic Units, Gedemon's YnAEMP.

Also slightly updated Lenin:

• Added unique soviet spy list (before it was just using the Russian spy list).
• Changed the civ adjective to Leninist from Soviet, to distinguish from Stalinists.
• Fixed an issue where the Levy couldn't pillage.

Prussia will be updated next, as well as minor updates to Armenia and Italy. Roosevelt and Lithuania are next on the list after that to be updated, but I expect I'll be releasing a "new civ" or two before them.

And if no one had noticed, Nicholas II and Peter were updated recently so that they have different colour schemes by default.

 

[JFD]

Prussia updated (and to the Steam Workshop):

• Buffed Death's Head Hussar effects: change for enemies to take extra damage is now 50% and reduced combat strength for nearby units is now 10%. Also added the ability for the Death's Head Hussar to ignore enemy zone of control.
• Added new map which removes references to the Teutonic Order, courtesy of Janboruta
• Fixed an oversight with the coding behind the UA which would have skipped giving certain promotions to verteran units when units gained enough XP to cover different thresholds at once
• Included Cavalry units to the Golden Age from kills from the UA
• Fixed issue with text on the General specialists for military buildings

Frederick the Great - The Kingdom of Prussia (BNW) Download Subscribe

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The Kingdom of Prussia - Frederick

Königgrätzer March: Military Buildings possess unique specialists that yield experience and increase the generation of Great Generals. Veteran Infantry and Cavalry Units earn progress toward your Golden Ages from kills.

Death's Head Hussar: The Death's Head Hussar is a unique replacement for the Cavalry, for Prussia. Unlike the Cavalry, the Death's Head Hussar can cause enemy units to take damage before battle simply by entering the tile adjacent to that unit. Additionally, the Death's Head Hussar reduces the Combat Strength of any enemy unit within two tiles of it; these abilities are lost on upgrade, however. It also ignores an enemy's Zone of Control. It is excellent at causing chaos on the enemy's front-lines.

Landwehr: The Landwehr is a Rifleman replacement, unique to Prussia. Unlike the Rifleman, the Landwehr can move after attacking, allowing it to withstand ranged attacks, and gains a bonus in combat strength when adjacent to another military unit.

Credits:

Janboruta - Artwork (Frederick the Great (including Leaderscene), Maps, Unit Icons, Unit Flag Icons, Civ Icon, City List)
SuperWaffle247 - General specialist idea
bernie14 - Graphics (Landwehr, Death's Head Hussar)
Peace Theme - Creative Assembly Napoleon Total War Credits
War Theme - Andrea Waldetoft Battle 5

Includes internal support for: Tomatekh's Historical Religions Mod, Ethnic Units, Gedemon's YnAEMP.

 

[regalman]

Prussia is an absolute gem!

 

[janboruta]

Wow, Stalin is out! This will be the first time I play the Soviet Union in civ, hopefully from start to finish.

 

[Hoop Thrower]

It may be only me, but I believe that Totenkopf Hussar sounds better than Death's Head Husssar.

As for the Soviet civs, this is only a suggestion of course, but I've always liked using the same song for both peace and war as it was in the original game, and for the soviets there's such good options to do that, for example:


Link to video.
Peace


Link to video.
War

 

[SuperWaffle247]

Oh no...I can't decide which Soviets to use...I'm leaning toward Stalin. Huge amounts of synergy. But also Lenin has unique gameplay too...

Does the new Nicholas colors imply new Mussolini colors? And perhaps a more dramatic update?

 

[JFD]

It may be only me, but I believe that Totenkopf Hussar sounds better than Death's Head Husssar.

Death's Head Hussar is more specific; Totenkopf is just the skull and bones. Plus, I think Death's Head Hussar is much better known.

Does the new Nicholas colors imply new Mussolini colors? And perhaps a more dramatic update?

I think they're different enough. Especially in-game. (Mussolini's) Italy has finished being dramatically updated for the foreseeable future. I feel they have everything they need to fulfill my vision of them.

 

[Hoop Thrower]

Err... Totenkopf is Death's Head in German, so they both are just as specific.

 

[SuperWaffle247]

Ah I see. I'm on my phone so the colors aren't well represented.

 

[JFD]

Hm, I glossed over the proposal of Totenkopf Hussar. In which case they are the same general idea, yes. Death's Head Hussar is more familiar to me, anyway.

 

[Smolkrov]

First of all thanks for the great work, many great civs, gotta love both urss civs. But wouldn´t it be better to change Stalin war song? i honestly think and actual russian patriotic war, preferly one about stalin, like Katyusha/Катюшka would feel more acurate. Anyway great mod, and sorry for my bad english

 

[JFD]

Honestly, I don't think Katyusha is nearly dramatic enough. Most themes befitting that drama will come from fictionalised scores that sound soviet russian. I'm willing to switch out the war theme, certainly, but others will have to suggest something, - and something that is on par with the rest of the game - as I don't really have the time or desire to search myself.

 

[Inawordyes]

How about something not necessarily Russian but Russian-sounding? Two Steps From Hell is a Swedish music production company that does a lot of orchestral trailer scores (Asoka's War Theme in the More Civs India split is a TSFH song from the first album, for reference), and if I had more of an understanding of what Soviet-sounding music is, I have all of their CD's and could look into possibilities on that front for you; there are more than a few that I've found actually sound like Civ peace and war themes, though they may not necessarily be attuned to Stalin and Soviet Russia.

But anyways, if the war theme is the cause of slight contention, then I'm gonna download Stalin (it isn't like I wasn't going to in the first place, haha) and see if I can find something to match up to the peace theme.

 

[Hoop Thrower]

I still vote for Polyushka Polye, maybe I could convince you with an instrumental version?

Link to video.

 

[JFD]

The Instrumental version does sound a lot nicer, but it still doesn't feel intimidating enough. This is Stalin, for starters, and in-game, he is a terrible foe to face.

How about something not necessarily Russian but Russian-sounding? Two Steps From Hell is a Swedish music production company that does a lot of orchestral trailer scores (Asoka's War Theme in the More Civs India split is a TSFH song from the first album, for reference), and if I had more of an understanding of what Soviet-sounding music is, I have all of their CD's and could look into possibilities on that front for you; there are more than a few that I've found actually sound like Civ peace and war themes, though they may not necessarily be attuned to Stalin and Soviet Russia.

But anyways, if the war theme is the cause of slight contention, then I'm gonna download Stalin (it isn't like I wasn't going to in the first place, haha) and see if I can find something to match up to the peace theme.

Yes, Viregel pointed me to them. One of their songs will feature as Victoria's war theme, in fact.

 

[JFD]

Okay, I just had to update Stalin to fix a serious oversight on my part, whereby all units would be liable to receive the Levy attack bonus in friendly territory. If you manually downloaded, please re-download (unless you're in the middle of a game), but if you are subscribed don't worry about it.

Direct link for convenience: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0ob0k1ax7l3knt/JFD's The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (v 11).rar

 

[TPangolin]

The only concern for me is that the Stalin UB is a modern building with modern graphics in the Classical era. I know the Krepost as is the Jaguar is also somewhat guilty of this, but it's a bit more contrasted here (around 100BC building for a 1930> building).

Love everything else though. Prussia is my new favorite civ of yours (sorry Armenia).

 

[Pouakai]

I don't think it's an issue. You've got plenty of Anachronistic tech icons, not to mention the Courthouse and some other buildings. Then there's the wonders, many of which are thousands of years out of place (the Temple of Artemis is one that comes to mind), so I don't think the icon is that much of an issue

 

[TPangolin]

It's still a highly anachronistic institution though. It's kinda like giving a Convict Worker to Australia as a worker replacement, a minuteman warrior replacement or putting the Empire State Building in the Medieval era. It's just somewhat immersion breaking as IMO uniques should be restrained within reason to the time period or scale of technological advancement, but UAs should be timeless.