[MOD] Ein Platz an der Sonne

Version 1.2 Released


Changelog Version 1.2
- Unitname Canon/Artillery changed to Machinegun
- New flags for England and France
- New units for the european troops (France, Germany and England)

Changelog Version 1.1
- New unit buttons
- Real city names
- New City-Management buttons

This is my first CivCol Mod called Ein Platz an der Sonne (a place in the sun).
It starts in 1881 when the german Empire wants to get "a place in the sun".

I added a scenario whit an african Map (Afrika)
You can chose Britain, France or Germanyto play

I made several new Units and have taken some Units from the Forum and from Civilization 4.

Screenshots:



Special thanx to
asioasioasio and Chuggi for the Unit Equipment
GeneralMatt and Xenomorph for the BRANDENBURG
Total Realism and Xenomorph for the Scharnhorst
GeneralMatt, The_Coyote, Wolfshanze, Xenomorph for the Blue Ocean Ironclad Pack
unknown, Xenomorph for the Modified Paddle Steamer
Bakuel for the King's African Rifles

I hope i haven't forgotten anyone






Download Link:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=12477

 

Sounds cool, a modern colonization mod.

 

I'm downloading this. I've always liked being Imperial Germany.

 

What's up with the title? 'Ein Platz an der Sonne' translates to 'A place at the sun'. Unter makes more sense (like Unter den Linden, a rather famous streetname in Berlin). Otherwise:

 

I took the name, beacause:

A place in the sun was a phrase coined by Reichskanzler Bernhard von Bülow on December 6, 1897 in a speech to the German Reichstag, to refer to Germany's colonial empire.[1]

We are ready to accommodate the interests of other Great Powers in East Asia, in the secure foresight, that our own interests will gain recognition in return. In one word: we don't want to put anyobdy in the shade, but we too demand our place in the sun, In East Asia, just as in West India, we will strive - following the traditions of German politics - to enforce our rights and interests without unnecessary antagonism, but also without unnecessary weakness.

—Bernhard von Bülow /wiki


It think this fits great to the Era

 

Can you give me featback if the downloadlink is ok?

Because the file is greater than 10 MB i've to take an external link

 

When I press "Download a file" button I have such message:

Could you, please, upload your file on rapidshare (.com or .de) or any other server from where we could download it without troubles. Thank you in advance.

 

ok, its done i have taken Rapidshare.com
you can download it from there now

 

Thank you for new link. Now all is OK.

P.S. Aber warum die Sonne ist "Silber"?

 

because i just began with the gold version (It will be great, new units, Leaderheads Movies etc...) but it will take some time until it will be ready. So everyone allready can play the Mod

and perhaps i'll get some featback, what i have to change or what could be better in this Mod

 

Hey, this looks pretty interesting. I tried downloading it, but the rapidshare page told me that it could only be downloaded ten times. Is there another link or something? Thanks.

 

DLed OK. (I know where the quote comes from, I was referring to the translation into German: in the sun = unter - or in - die Sonne, not an die Sonne. a place at the sun is nonsense.)

 

I'm using MediaFire for hosting now - it's quick. You can host files up to 100MB.

 

„Mit einem Worte: wir wollen niemand in den Schatten stellen, aber wir verlangen auch unseren Platz an der Sonne.“ place in the sun. Does not refer to a physical location inside the Sun but rather a place where the sun (small s) shines and the state would have a chance to bask in the warmth of colonial riches. Poor fool didn't pay attention to what being an empire was doing to Britain just about then.

 

Agreed
The rapidshare link can't be downloaded too.It say that the file located in the premium section

 

I stand corrected. (I still find it an odd use of an, though; never heard of it. But then, I've been away from Germany for quite a while now.)

 

Ja, so ist das gemeint... but i was amazed too when I saw the translation the first time. First I wanted to take "at the sun" too

Thank you, I am using it now. It realy seams to be good

@ i_diavolorosso

I have change the link to MediaFire. You can try the download link now, hope it works

 

Downloaded it, and i must say that i impressed.I just hope that you'll change the city name list to avoid an event below happened.Then maybe you should make some button, and maybe write some stuff in the pedia for the next version

 

Cool Pic Ups, I ' ve totally forgotten to do the Citynames but that is the next tghing i want to do

 

mod sounds cool.

just looking at the screens though and found some historical inaccuracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_gun

the machine gun wasn't invented until 1884. i'm a history major (for what that's worth) and i seem to recall that ww1 was the first extensive use of the machine gun. ww1 was of course the end of imperial germany until hitler.

im stoked you're modding though.

edit: it says the american government sold some early versions of the gattling gun to foreign nations, so loophole i guess