Recommended Civ4Col mods?

[Selden]

Hi, fellow civilizators!

I played Civ4 a little in times when it was released and found it not to my liking but I never tried Civ4Col for serious, just started it a couple of times and quit quickly.

As it seems, vanilla Civ4 Colonization concidered by community as rather lackluster game if played without mods. What mods can be recommended for a newbie?

- We the People
- Religion and Revolution
- Age of Discovery II
- maybe The Authentic Colonization

These mods seem like the most popular. Which one should a newbie choose?

Thanks in advance.

 

[PlanarFreak]

Did you play the original colonization? TAC (The Authentic Colonization) recreates that experience in Civ4Col. It's an immense improvement to the base game (which was honestly quite disappointing) and a worthy successor of the original Col! It improves balance, pacing, AI, and resources, to name a few, and at this point it is time-tested and polished. This is what I'm playing right now and probably where I'd recommend to start.

I also play WTP (We The People), which is a work of passion on a whole new level. It's a monumental overhaul with extreme changes to game systems throughout - and it can be overwhelming at times. It came out of R&R (Religion & Revolution, which is no longer gets fixes) and continues development (including balance and bugfixes and the like). If you like lots of systems and crunchy mechanics (and don't mind the in-progress experience), this is where to go. Right off the bat, you'll notice that the game is a lot more dynamic with wild animals and weather, Africa and the Pope, tons of resources and units. I haven't played in about a year, but once I finish my warm-up TAC run I'm jumping back in!

I can't say much about Age of Discovery or Dawn of a New Era (and Medieval Conquests, which is like a different genre) except that I ought to try them some time. If anyone else stumbles on this thread and knows their interesting points, I'd like to know!

Edit: I saw a good suggestion elsewhere that if you want a half-way point between TAC and WTP, you can play WTP 2.7.1.1 which is R&R plus bugfixes. I might have to do that myself.

 

[Selden]

@PlanarFreak , thanks for such a thorough answer. I think I will try TAC and R&R.

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