Swiss Confederation: Need help making a civ

[danuese]

As the title indicates, I want to make the Swiss Confederation for Civ5. The plan is to represent as many different times in the history of Switzerland as possible with a single Civilization. (compare Germany) See below for specifications.

I have never made a mod before and I'm slowly getting into it. With ModBuddy I made my mod and can load it in the game, but it doesn't do anything. I made a placeholder Civilization using a random UU and a random UB and a random leader and gave it the swiss name, adjectives and everything, but it doesn't show up in the pick civilization screen. What could be the reason for that? Is it impossible for the same leader to show up twice in the list? Are the Unique Abilities tied to the leaders or do I have to specify one for my new Civ? And could that be the reason?

Swiss Confederation

Unique Ability - People of Brethren
15% Bonus when fighting in Swiss Territory.
+2 per Trade Route

Unique Unit - Reisläufer (Swiss Mercenary - uses Landsknecht graphics, replaces pikes)
Strength 18 (instead of 16)
Adds per Unit killed.

Unique Building - Tourism Bureau (replaces stadium)
+3 (instead of +4)
+ 5 from Mountain Tiles

Starting Bias: Hills

Thoughts? I'm not sure what Leader to use yet, Tell was fictional, but then I guess so is Dido...

Moderator Action: Moved to the main forum and adjusted the title.
Because the new civs subforum is only for finished civs, not for questions about how to make them .

 

[KnelRivendare]

not sure what is your problem, but i got a hint how i came across such problems with modding,

just look out for a mod that does something close to what you want to do and use it as template, sure you cant do big breakthru things like this but its easy to start like that.