Quebec MOD - Quebec as a playable civ

[yacco]

Quebec civilization Beta 1

Civilization
Name: Quebec
Techs: Hunting, Fishing
Leaders: Lucien Bouchard, René Lévesques
Unique Unit: "Coureurs des bois" ("Runners of the woods" - as i didn't find any better translation)
Flag: (current using France)

Leaders
Lucien Bouchard (industrious, financial)
(currently using Napoleon leaderhead)

René Lévesques (philosophical, creative)
(currently using Caesar leaderhead)

Unique Unit
Runners of the woods (replaces scout)
(uses scout art)
- 15 cost
- Attack and defense same as scout
- Movement: 3 (one more than scout)
- No movement penalty
- starts with 'Hunting'

General Notes

- all the work is based on what wyz_sub10 does with the canadian Mod - great work by the way and thanks for the great tutorials!
- all civ, leaders, unit have Civilopedia entries (English appears for all languages and sometimes French as his own translation)
- used TXT_KEYS for everything except city names
- leaderheads, icons and unit art are simply reused icons. I will gladly make the changes if I can get the art.
- A copy of my civ4techinfo.xml (xml\technologies) is include in the assets, the only modification i made is slowdown the tech progression a bit... if you want the regular game just delete it.
-Also i modified civ4unitinfo.xml (xml\units) so cannons are available sooner in the game (gunpowder instead of steel)... Also the attack value have been decrease from 12 to 10.... But it's up to you to put the ancient values.

Remember this is just a game, i just made it for fun. No offense to everyone (especially canadian people - as i am by the way )

In the future, it could be fun to put togheter the canadian mod with this one... it's up to you!

To use, install to your 'Custom Assets' folder.

 

[DeathCyclops]

nice work! im going to try this as soon as i can.

 

[Corvex]

I'm going to have to try this as soon as I get my new graphics card installed. Eventually, I hope someone will bring this mod and the Canada mod together and I can play Canada and Quebec against each other.

 

[Tarkhan]

lol, someone should create a "what if the Oui side won the referendum" scenario

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Looks good, but I just can't help but input my constructive criticism.

A Quebec civ should really have Samuel de Champlain.

And Coureurs des bois were smugglers. If you want a better scout unit, try the Voyageur.

 

[userqwerty]

Oui side did win the referendum, the results were cheated

 

[ibcoltscrew]

The OUI won, but lot of "non-french" people have the right to vote so we lost by less than 1%... the fact is... 68% or french Canadian vote OUI... you see where is the problem now...
Quebec should be part of Civilization if Washington is part of it...
But Sid Meier is american and lot of people think quebec isnt important but if you look at the map... Quebec is bigger than France+UK together... Canada is the second biggest country on earth and we arent in the game.. if you think about it... it sucks cause we deserve at least a little place in this game.

I'm french Canadian... in other term... Quebecois and i will not change this even for a trillion dollar... so proud to be what i am, another reason to vote YES at the referendum

 

[MichaelBlondin]

Haha, i'll try your mod ! I am also working on a Quebec mod ! I was thinking about Duplessis and Lévesque, "coureur des bois" as the unique unit.

The referendum of 1995 wasn't cheated because a "lot of non-french could vote". It is because the governement gave the status of "quebecois" to a really high number of immigrants that were just arriving when they should have wait some years before getting it.

PM me your MSN adress, maybe we could both work on one mod..

 

[Quetzalcoalt]

Your mod is kinda fun but i think you are really too proud to be a Quebecois.

I am a french canadian too living in quebec but i dont understand, beside the language and the poutine, why you think you are sooooooo different. In a era of countries trying to live together and opening borders, I think its pretty selfish to think about separation.

anyhow, if it makes you happy tant mieux!

Quetzalcoalt

 

[MichaelBlondin]

No comments about the last post.

 

[Wyz_sub10]

I think there is a lively Canada thread in the general section where we can engage in a civil and coridal discussion about who sucks more.

As for the mod, great work. I like your choices for leaders, but I think a throwback to Frontenac would be cool too, or an early governor like Belleau.

 

[Wyz_sub10]

Woops. Duplicate.

 

[MichaelBlondin]

Every souvrainists don't think Canada and english people sucks. In fact it is a quite stupid point of view.

 

[yacco]

Well thanks everyone for all the comments!

As some of you mention, it would be great to have an early leader like Champlain or Frontenac. Personnally, i was thinking of one of the patriots who tried to rebel themselves againts the english autority... any suggestion? Leader's traits?

 

[MichaelBlondin]

Chevalier de Lorimier ?
Louis-Joseph Papineau ?

 

[Wyz_sub10]

Every souvrainists don't think Canada and english people sucks. In fact it is a quite stupid point of view.

I agree 100%. That's why I'm being sarcastic about it - for those who want to have a "bashing" session on sovereigntists or federalists, do it elsewhere.

Wouldn't you agree?

 

[MichaelBlondin]

Agreed. But I guess they will be discussing without us !

 

[R-A-N-M-A]

I would suggest you delve a little further into Quebec than it's modern leaders. Samuel de Champlain and General Montcalm would be good leaders for Quebec. I have never hread of "coureurs des bois" is that another term for "Voyageurs"? Some one should make mods for the rest of the Provinces then you could have a cross Canada Brawl.

 

[yacco]

Here's a description for "Coureurs des bois":

New France established its subsistence on the economic foundation that became its first and main source of revenue: the commerce of furs.
This commerce generated an attractive and lucrative economic activity based on barter, namely the fur trade. The Natives traded pelts and fur skins for trading goods manufactured in Europe and offered by the French.

The activities of the coureurs des bois contributed to the rapid expansion of the territory of New France, north of the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. At the end of the XVIIth century, they journeyed regularly on the main rivers in northern Québec and Ontario, as well as to the south and southwest. Long before they were named, several large American States, such as Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana had been visited by the coureurs des bois.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

And two excerpts from a book on Canadian history, showing that Coureur de Bois weren't really encouraged.

"Coureur de bois was not a complimentary term - it meant an illicit trader, a smuggler in the woods."

"In 1681 the royal officials acknowledged that this traffic had successfully undermined Montréal's role as the place where French and native traders would exchange beaver pelts for garments, muskets, copper pots, and other trade goods. Offering amnesty to the coureurs de bois, the authorities established a system of permits, called congés, for these trade voyages. This legitimization of the coureur de bois created another figure in the trade: the voyageur. Holding a congé, or allied to a Montréal merchant who had one, the voyageur made the western trade a profession. Recent immigrants, failing merchants, and perhaps even habitants headed west to try and make a living carrying trade goods over the canoe route to the Great Lakes and bringing beaver pelts back. Far from being threatened by this development, Montréal prospered. It was the established Montréal merchants who supplied the voyageurs with trading goods - as they had, less openly, the coureurs de bois - and so the furs still came to them."