Hey Everyone:
I thought that there might be some interest in this, as HephMod is based to a large extent on Dearmad's NewBalance.
For Warlords 2.0 (not tested for 2.08)
This mod, like most, is designed to enhance the Civ4 experience across the board with a great variety of gameplay changes. Many changes were also incorporated to enhance historical realism and bring some of the dynamic, vivid feel of history to the game experience. In the end, many of these changes come down to my own dissatisfactions with the game -- moments when playing the game I said to myself, "What? Why would they do that?" ("they" being the game designers), and almost all of the solutions are ported from or at least based on other mods. Many thanks to everyone whose code and ideas I've used, especially Dearmad, Armandeus, jdog5000, the Lopez, and WesW.
This mod is based on Dearmad's New Balance mod -- it uses this mod and its files as the skeleton on top of which all these other changes are made. I've incorporated several other mods more or less wholesale, though some of the config files for configurable mods have been tweaked according to my preferences from playtesting (these can easily be changed by other users in the HephMod config file). Other mods incorporated include jdog5000's Revolution mod, TheLopez's updates of SupremeOverlord's Enhanced Foreign
and Enhanced Military Advisor mods, the Lopez' Enhanced Tech Conquest, a modified form of the unit stats from WesW's Medievial Mod V, and a Civics schema that is a blending of Dearmad's, Armandeus', and my own
ideas.
No new units, buildings, or civs are added in this mod. This mod only seeks to deepen the experience of the vanilla game, and while the creativity and work that goes into multiplying units, buildings, etc., in the game is admirable, I've always preferred a more straightforward and balanced strategy game experience. More is not always better.
Please post with any bugs/oversights/suggestions.
HephMod thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=192879
Enjoy!
Download:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=3628