Regiment and Ethnic Diversity for Civilization V
Description
- Rescaling : all human and mounted units have been scaled down, no more giant infantry against tank ! Of course, the relative scale is nothing close to realism, but it looks way better IMO. The sea and air units are respectivly better proportionned.
- Formation : most units are now multiple figure, and the number of figures is raised in all human and mounted units. Existing formations have been reworked to reflect the change in scale, and new (14) formations have been added.
- Diversity : hundreds of new unit models for diversity, no gameplay change. See newunits.xls or version history for details
The mod is a constant Work In Progress, the goal is to have ethnic units for each civilizations, but to keep the civ style and prevent any gameplay change..
installation :
- Important : delete previous version of the mod, else the VFS may cause bugs. Savegame compatibility is not assured, you should always finish your current game before updating.
- download the civ5mod file to your mod folder (..\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS).
- launch civ5, go to the mod browser and click "install mod"
- find the "R.E.D. Modpack" line and activate the mod.
- from the mod section, go to single player and set up a game
fix for fighter propeller and archer arrows position (optional) :
- copy the civ5artdefines_viseffects.xml file from "..\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\R.E.D. modpack\copy to Assets\" folder to the "..\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v\Assets\" folder
Add-on
The R.E.D. HotFix change the skins of the Roman and Japanese archers for those of you having an invisibility problem.
R.E.D. Xtreme is an Extreme Small Scale for R.E.D. Modpack, with more and smaller models per unit and adapted formations. This one MUST be installed AFTER the R.E.D. Modpack, else the formation won't be shown correctly. And if you update the R.E.D Modpack, you'll have to remove and reinstall this component.
see also Nutty's mods for Ethnic Diversity without change in scale and the Single Unit Graphic mod (W.I.P.)
Development
The complete mod's project is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/Gedemon/Civ5-RED-Modpack
Credits & thanks
danrell, bernie14, JTitan, Patum33, snafusmith, Wolfdog, asioasioasio, Coffee Junkie, nautil, Nuvoloblu, Oleg153, Rabbit White, Splinter13, Generalmatt and all other unit makers for the models and conversion
RTW unit makers that have allowed conversion of their models to civ5
seZereth and Porges who've done the initial regiment mod for civ4
Pazyryk for SQL corrections
all the great peoples at Civfanatics for their tools, tutorials and help
Firaxis
Note: You're free to use any part of R.E.D. in your mods, just remember to give credit.