[PREVIEW] XX Century Mod

[AndyTerry]

Currently I'm working on XX Century Mod. It's an addition for Civ4.

Overview
Mod illustrates the world modern history, adding the most powerful civilizatoions, the most famous leaders and units of XX Century.

Civilizations
The first version of mod includes following civs:
The USSR, the USA, Russian Federation, Great Britain, France, West Germany, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, India, Japan, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina.

Leaders
Every civ has its own leader (1, 2 or more). Most notable names are Vladimir Lenin, Iosif Stalin, John Kennedy, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Charles de Gaulle, and, of course, animated by Firaxis: Mao Zedong, Roosevelt, Gandhi.

Units
I've tried to include the mightiest troops af all the century - Panzer, T-34, several types of WWI infantry.

Technologies
There's an addition to tech tree - two techs, which are Cinematograph and Television.

Your opinion?
What would you like to see in such mod?
Give me an advice about UU for China, Italy, Latin America, please.

 

[Brancaleone]

Interesting.

Only two techs? Everyone agree that the modern era is too fast, few techs and when you get in there those techs are researched quiclky. If your mod takes place only in the modern era, you should have more than just two new techs.

USRR and Russia, West and East Germany? You could put other nations in there, someone from the middle East, etc. Oh Brazil is in there so its ok

 

[AndyTerry]

If your mod takes place only in the modern era

Not only. You can start even in ancient times, by desire.

Well, so what techs can you offer?

 

[AndyTerry]

Lord Olleus
I think, it doesn't matter. Mod adds some details of XX century. You can just start in ancient times and play until modern, and you can start on 1900.

How odd.

What does it mean? I don't understand.

 

[Haarbal]

it means something like "how strange"

 

[Schee]

Leaders
Every civ has its own leader (1, 2 or more). Most notable names are [...] Charles de Goll [...]

Argh. Charles de Gaulle please.

Other than that, this mod seems interesting, but the most techs in the modern era, the better... only two new techs seems a bit small to me.

 

[AndyTerry]

Argh. Charles de Gaulle please.

Thank you. I didn't know

only two new techs seems a bit small to me.

So what can you offer? I'll try to remember some extra techs

 

[Half Fast]

Air superiority has been a big thing since the the start of the 20th century, how about some more techs having to do with air power? Fill in the gap between spitfires and F-16s.
We might figure out a way to have radar researched at primitive and more advanced levels. You could tie it in with guidance systems that allow for cruise missiles and such (somewhere in this forum there was a discussion about modding cruise missiles into the game).
In a normal game from 4000bc.-2050ad. modern sea power plays a small role and needs few units, but a game based on the 20th century could be more fun if it had more naval units (like in Exavier's mod). Make sure to give submarines a big bonus against large naval vessels, and distuinguish between old and modern naval units. Lots of people would like to see AEGIS cruisers and nuke subs back the game, and one of my old favorites was the privateer.
Military techs are often the first to come to mind, but it would be good to balance the tech tree with techs based on the general welfare of your people.

 

[AndyTerry]

Will show some screens tomorrow...

Half Fast
Thank you. I'll try to realize those ideas. What is AEGIS cruiser?
I think now an amount of new techs will be in region of 10-15.

And what about UUs for China, Latin America, Turkey? Can anybody remember smth about it?

All offers are welcome.

 

[Haarbal]

well, there have been a huge number of medical breakthroughs in the 20th century. also a lot of things that have to do with lifestyle/luxery. put some more of that in, with wonders/projects that give stuff like great movie/great hit single and stuff like that

 

[AndyTerry]

Yes, I thought about such wonders, but I don't lnow if I can not to paste a movie for it bexcause I don't know how to do it

 

[Haarbal]

i don't mean putting in ingame movies, but giving luxery resources, like hollywood does, which gives +5 great movies. this way, you can create something like pop music, giving +5 great pop singles (new resource needs to be created for this)

 

[AndyTerry]

Haarbal
I understood
I mean that I can't make a movie which is playing when the wonder appears.

So, first two screens

 

[AndyTerry]

So these are screens

 

[Haarbal]

Haarbal
I understood
I mean that I can't make a movie which is playing when the wonder appears.

So, first two screens

well, i know i can be a bit unclear myself, so i thought, ill explain myself
for ingame movies, check this
it has a new ingame movie inplented

 

[AndyTerry]

One more screen

 

[Elhoim]

A world map with these nations in the XX century would be great!

 

[NeverMind]

A world map would be great, but it's not easy to place there both The Soviet Union and The Russian Federation

And what about Germany? Do you plan to make separate civs for German Empire, Weimar Republic, The Third Reich, German Democratic Republic and Bundesrepublik?

 

[AndyTerry]

NeverMind
I'll make several variants of world map.
About Germany - in 1st release of mod I'm planning to make only West Germany and united Germany, but later maybe will divide it into Third Reich, German Empire and Federative Republic of Germany.

 

[Half Fast]

Will show some screens tomorrow...

Half Fast
Thank you. I'll try to realize those ideas. What is AEGIS cruiser?


The Aegis cruiser is just what civ games used to represent the modern destroyer. The Aegis system involves radar instalations in the four sides of the superstructure to give a constant 360 degree radar scan. Theres no way a civ unit can represent this ability (except maybe a higher chance of interception) so Aegis cruiser may not be the best name for it, especially since many modern cruisers and destroyers with modern weapons don't have the Aegis system. A better name might be rocket destroyer or guided missile cruiser.
Some one who knows more about modern warfare and advanced radar systems than me might tell us whether or an Aegis cruiser would a better chance of intercepting aircraft, becuase of its constant scan. I don't know.