Naval Units Mod

[Dagoril]

One of my big gripes about Civ4 is how marginalized naval war is. Part of the problem is that Ocean Tiles are so restrictive into relatively late in the game. Part of it is that the units are severely underpowered; Galleys and Caravels are extremely weak, while a Frigate is in essence a Sea Axeman, only weaker. Galleys can't transport much, and can't cross ocean, while Caravels can cross ocean, but can't transport any military.

This isn't very conducive to much fun with navies. It's also completely unrealistic historically, where naval battles dominated major wars all the way back into the BC era.

Are there any mods out there that anyone is aware of that have altered naval units? I couldn't find any via search, but I didn't read every mod looking for something that might have been added as an afterthought hehe.

If not, how hard would it be to beef up navies? I've never done any modding for Civ4, and don't really want to spend the next 6 months or whatever fiddling with something if it's going to be that hard

I'm looking specifically for earliest units completely confined to coastal waters, but with more attack, and the ability to pillage nets and bombard shore improvements and units. Enhanced Galley class units that do more attack, but can cross ocean. Transport units before Galleons that can carry 3+ land units. Frigate class units that arrive prior to 1 AD in an ordinary game. Basically I want to push naval warfare earlier, beef it up, and add more naval support to land wars. Throughout the game, not just at the very end when people have Battleships and Marines.

 

[bkwrm79]

Sounds very cool... if there is such a mod available, I'd also like to give it a try.

 

[Impaler[WrG]]

Dales combat mod alows for REAL bombardment and it works for Navel units, thus it is by far the biggest single improvment anyone has yet made to navel warfare. The only thing missing would be an ability for Navel units to actualy TAKE coastal Cities but this is more controvercial.