State of Israel

[Murphy613]

Adds the Israeli civilization to the game and removes the City State of Jerusalem. Contains custom leader music.
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Adds the Israeli civilization to the game and removes the City State of Jerusalem. Contains custom leader music.
Trait - Aliyah - Small chance to get units from foreign cities following your religion. Units can be Settlers, Workers or soldiers, or Great People once you enter the Industrial Era.
UU - Palmach - Replaces the Marine. Gets the Marine's amphibious bonuses and earns promotions 50% faster, and gains strength when fighting in Israeli lands. It can also upgrade (to a Paratrooper), unlike the Marine, allowing you to keep your promotions further into the game.
UB - Kibbutz - A Kibbutz is sort a super farm, providing faith and defensive bonuses in addition to food. However, Kibbutzim must be built at least two spaces apart.
Thanks to the trait bonus, spreading your religion will reap enormous dividends. The faith from the Kibbutz should help.
Please post any comments, bugs, suggestions, complements and complaints, and I will reply as soon as possible.
The War song is Hatikva, and the Peace song is Shalom Aleichem.

Credits:
All artwork for this mod was made by the very talented Davey_Henninger. Check out his workshop for more great work.
The Lua file (Aliyah.lua) for Israel's trait, Aliyah, was made by Keirathi through weeks of posts on Civfanatics. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out.
The Kibbutz model was originally posted by Whoward64.
Everything else in this mod was made by me, Murphy613.

PLease check my other civs: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. Also check out Davey_Henninger's workshop.

 

[Verified_Confection_Being]

Props to you for making a civ.

But this was not a clever thing to put on the internet...

Peace talks guys, peace talks. We don't want conflict in this thread.

 

[ori]

Moderator Action: This is the point at which any discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stops in this thread. If you want to have that kind of discussion move to a subforum suitable for this. I'd suggest History for actual historical discussion, else one of the off topic sections would be the way to go.

I deleted comments that did attempt to start the above discussion.

 

[Murphy613]

Moderator Action: This is the point at which any discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stops in this thread. If you want to have that kind of discussion move to a subforum suitable for this. I'd suggest History for actual historical discussion, else one of the off topic sections would be the way to go.

I deleted comments that did attempt to start the above discussion.

Thank you. Whatever your political affiliation, that was the right move to keep things clean and friendly.

 

[Shadowdweller]

- Change Israel symbol to a Menorah, the jewish candle, the Star of David is already used for judaism religion and in the game a Israel player may want to change history using another religion that is not judaism, or another player may have already created judaism, and the menorah blend into jewish and Israel identity as good as the Star of David.

- The characteristics of the leader is too linked to zionism, it may give the idea that all Israeli Empire is based only in zionism. I would change the last part of the intro to something as.

"David Ben-Gurion, your people need you to help to protect them once more.Can you make the dream of a people for it's own land real once more? Israel fate will rely on the words of diplomacy or the winds of war? Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?

- Maybe a good trait for a Israeli Civilization would be "Promised Land", with the same bonus.

- The special unit and building is perfect.

It's just suggestions, not critics, in fact I imagined Israeli Empire and how I would make it in the game, I make them in good faith and you can use them if you want. I always thought that it's needed to have an official Israeli civilization in the game, but maybe with King David himself as the leader (with focus in Ancient Israel, but I find your choice for Ben-Gurion good too).

 

[Murphy613]

- Change Israel symbol to a Menorah, the jewish candle, the Star of David is already used for judaism religion and in the game a Israel player may want to change history using another religion that is not judaism, or another player may have already created judaism, and the menorah blend into jewish and Israel identity as good as the Star of David.

- The characteristics of the leader is too linked to zionism, it may give the idea that all Israeli Empire is based only in zionism. I would change the last part of the intro to something as.

"David Ben-Gurion, your people need you to help to protect them once more.Can you make the dream of a people for it's own land real once more? Israel fate will rely on the words of diplomacy or the winds of war? Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?

- Maybe a good trait for a Israeli Civilization would be "Promised Land", with the same bonus.

- The special unit and building is perfect.

It's just suggestions, not critics, in fact I imagined Israeli Empire and how I would make it in the game, I make them in good faith and you can use them if you want. I always thought that it's needed to have an official Israeli civilization in the game, but maybe with King David himself as the leader (with focus in Ancient Israel, but I find your choice for Ben-Gurion good too).

The star of david is most closely represented with zionism, for no apparetn reason. Perhas in a later update I will make the symbol of Judaism a Menorah insted. I'm almost done a new version wich will improve the trait and change that part of the DOM. And this mod focuses on the early Zionist/Socialist period of Israel. Other people have made ancient Israel (click here to see them), all my civs are modern.

 

[Dark Paladin X]

-Have the Israeli AI have it's forgiveness rating as 1
-Let them establish their religion as Judaism as their priority, but make them not prioritize on spreading it (since most Israelis are Jewish and Jews are least likely proselytize). However, have them declare war on you if you spread your religion into their cities (on Prince difficuluty or higher).
-Include the Merkava tank (I think you were the one that suggested or included this unique unit in the patch).
-Finally, make them have their unique Giant Death Robot unit.

Also, for some reason, when I start to play as the Israelis, they don't have their own cultural music start to play after the loading screen is finished. Usually, most civilizations are given their own cultural music start after the loading screen is finished.

 

[Murphy613]

I havent yet uploaded the new Israel version on Civfanatics; you can get it on steam. I added the Merkava not as a unit but as a skin for the Modern Armor. This mod focuses more on the earlier years of Israel and it isn't supposed to be militaristic. So putting a tank as a UU wouldn't work. Also, I have not added custom leader music yet. I have a playlist ready, but I haven't put it in yet.