19-12-2002 04:22									#1
	The America MOD Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

This MOD explores the seperation of the several factions that have,over the years, combined to create North America as we know it. It may seem like a pain to download and unite all the peices required, but i assure you that the quality is sufficient to make it worth your while.

Credit Must be given where it is due:

The Map, and Sioux City/leadernames, are compliments of Jason
The Resource Graphics are compliments of Harlan
The Fidel Castro Leaderhead is compliments of sween32
Dark Sheer's Bandit Unit, as well as his Musket Infantry is also to be thanked for
recon1591 made the Grant-Lee tank

Everything else came from my own toil.

Added Governments:
Confederacy:
Nuisance Corruption, Paid Labor, Immune to steal Plans.
Comes with Education

Oligarchy:
Problematic Corruption, Draft Limit 3, Forced Labor, All Units Free.
Comes with Fuedalism

Theocracy:
Draft Limit 4, No War Weariness, Immune to Propaganda, Problematic Corruption.

Added Units:
Musket Infantry:
Available to all but Sioux and U.S.
(4.5.1)
Requires: Millitary Tradition

Minute Man:
Replaces Musket Infantry for the U.S.
(4.5.1) ZoC (To simulate guerrilla runs) (costs less than MI)
Req: Millitary Tradition

Grant-Lee Tank
Available to the CSA and USA
(18.10.2)
Req: Radio

New Ironclad Stats:
(2.6.4)

New Privateer Stats:
(4.3.3) (6.1.3)

Added Resources:
Timber: Strategic: Required for Middle Ages Naval Units (Frigate, Galleon etc)
Cotton: Luxury: Found only in the South, nar the CSA and Texas
Tobacco: Luxury: Found predominantly in the South
Walrus: Luxury: Found near Alaska and the Yukon, fairly random.

Civilizations:
Russia (You know them)
America (Them too)

Republic of Texas
Leader: Sam Houston
Industrious Expansionists
Replaces Romans
UU: Republican (5/7/1) Zone of Control, Replaces Rifleman.

Wild West:
Leader: Anne Oakley
Millitaristic Expansionists
Replaces French
UU: Bandit (7/2/4) Zone of Control, Replaces Cavalry.

Mexico:
Leader: Emperor Maximillian
Religious Commercialists
Replaces Greeks
UU: Revolutionair (7/5/1) Replaces Rifleman

Deseret:
Leader: Rev. Bringham Young
Religious Industrious
Replaces Babylon
UU: Fanatic (5/6/1) Replaces Rifleman

Confederate States:
Leader: President Jefferson Davis
Industrious Commercialists
Replaces India
UU: Volunteer (6/6/2) Replaces Rifleman

Cubans:
Leader: Presidente Fidel Castro
Religious Commercialists
Replaces Zulu
UU: Submarino (7/6/4) (7/1/2) Replaces Nuclear Submarine

Canada:
Leader Prime Minister Pearson
Industrious Expansionists
Replaces Iriquois
UU: Blue Cask (5/12/1) Replaces Infantry

Hudson's Bay Company:
Leader: Governor Charles Bayley
Commercial Expansionists
Replaces England
UU: Man-o-War remains appropriate

Quebec:
Leader: Samuel d' Champlain
Commercial Industrialists
Replaces Persia
UU: Musketeer remains close enough for me

Oregon:
Leader: Meriwether Lewis
Industrious Expansionists
Replaces Aztecs
UU: Mountaineer (7/6/1) Ignore mountain restrictions, pay no support Replaces Rifleman

Sioux:
Leader: Cheif Red Cloud
Industrious Expansionists
Replaces No-one
UU: Mounted Warrior (Old and Fammiliar)




Version 2.4 Now Uploaded
The Graphics required for new Resources

The new Graphics will in no way mess up regular Civ graphics, and are in my opinion nicer. They must replace the old graphics wherever they lurk though, and i suggest the creation of backups. I wish I could tell you how to install them, but i don't know by what miracle i managed to.

Fidel is easy to install, unzip him into the Flics folder.

Units:
Download all the Units in one hit from The America MOD forums
New Version Screenshots uploaded.

Last edited by SKILORD on 17-02-2003 at 22:33

	19-12-2002 04:43									#2
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I'm working on getting the Units up

	19-12-2002 04:56									#3
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Skilord,

What about the Indians that lived most of the centuries on the american continent? Don't they have role? They were the biggest challenge for the western colonists.

By the way: what is the time-period your scenario is based on? Is the early colonisation in the 18th century included, then you could add the Dutch who who were one of the first countries colonizing the continent though they lost the Dutch-English war on the North-American continent. The French and Spanish were colonizing there too by the way.

If your mod goes back to only th nineteenth century, perhaps you could then include France. Their role was a little one but the territory they sold was about one fifth of the current area. As I mentioned the Dutch were defeated in North-America, so they don't play any role anymore in the 19th century. The Spanish have even been in war with the US.

Consider this though as some humble critics on a great mod.

- Aidun

	19-12-2002 07:08									#4
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I didn't include the French because i included the Quebeqois. I'm really rather unsure as to adding European civs. This mod doesn't really have a timeframe (it began a random thought and a bunch of nonsense) The civs it incorporates for the most part are factions of the same nation and few coexisted.

The Indians are represented as barbarians (later versions may see more camps) as i said this began as nonsence and only includes nations that are, for the most parts, Modern.

A Suoix civ may be added, just to take up space.

	19-12-2002 07:26									#5
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Yeah, the mod is a great idea. The Wild West, Confederacy etc were nice ideas to split up America.

There are some things I would like to see changed IMHO:

-get rid of Russia (totally kills authenticity of the mod)
-add in native indians Apache, Sioux and Iroquois and possibly Dutch
-make the map smaller so it runs on older computers and reduces micro-management
-add in resources: lumber & cotton. Lumber is +4 production, cotton is needed for higher level musketmen
-give lumber/cotton only to more advanced civs like americans/canada/quebec. Others have to trade/take-over to get them.
-download varieties of musketmen and sailing ships from civfanatics unit creation forum. Some of the age of musketry units are incredibly well done.
-download a better graphics mod

Also I think tech should start/stop in age of musketry so there are only pikemen, indian warriors, cavalry, cannon (crank up the stats a lot to make them useful), mounted warriors, many types of musketmen, and varieties of frigates. I doubt you'll agree with most of what I said here so I'm gonna make my own mod this christmas like this and delete out all the techs and make no tech requirements for the units. For me, the tech race kills a lot of enjoyment of the game and skips over important eras as if they never happened.

	19-12-2002 07:35									#6
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How can i make the map smaller? The size of the map has been the driving force of this MOD and has brought about half the civs into being. My past attempts to add graphics have consistently ended up screwing things up, if i could learn to make my MOD it's own seperate folder (like the british isles MOD etc) i could do it succesfully i think.... but i dunno how.

Why the better Graphics?

	19-12-2002 08:42									#7
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My goal here is to learn as well as submit this modpack, i hope to eventually include in this MOD:

New Buildings:
The Saloon, Statue of Liberty (Not replacing Collossus a seperate thing)
The Cotton resource
In addition to the other things that foot mentioned.
Any help would be appreciated.

	19-12-2002 09:49									#8
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Making a new map is big job, but kinduv interesting. I made my own normal-sized world map before based on a real world map which could fit 16 civs and never caused a computer slow-down like the huge maps do. I'm thinking of making a normal-sized north america map using a geographical map as a model. That map you got looks like it may be too big for my computer to handle. Is it a huge class map?

I haven't seen any creation forums since early summer, but back then there was a cool graphics mod made by snoopy and one other dude I forget his name, Mugwamp or something. Snoopy included a well-done winter terrain mod with snow-covered trees - excellent for northern Canada. The orginal civ graphics are far too dull, poorly done. I prefer the graphics of Sid Mieir's Colonization much more than civ3.

	20-12-2002 05:48									#9
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It's pretty big, i used Jason's colonization Map. I think it's large. As i said, several civs were added mostly to conqure the large map's size. I have tried to get someone to make me a smaller map, but have gotten no response.

	22-12-2002 19:36									#10
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I had a few more ideas I'm gonna use in my colonization mod and thought I'd mention them here if you are interested:

-use wagons for settlers (new unit)

-make ironclads only available to the confederacy (or as a ludicrously expensive tech) and not sea-worthy; instead, make them expensive, slow, and give them a nasty high defence (they were pretty-much unsinkable) and no bombard (they couldn't do it) so they are basically a ship-killer used to defend vital coastal areas.

- I'm toying with the idea of including a few techs with hugely increased research points (like 30 times the original) but I doubt it. All other techs and modern units/buildings are deleted and musket-age units and buildings have no tech requirements.

-indian civs start out only with warriors (altered aztec jag's or some new warrior-type units) and mounted warriors (stats increase and available to all indian tribes), not musketmen. They must steal or trade for gunpowder/cotton/metal to make musketmen and cavalry. Indian warriors have 2 movement and lower Attack/def/cost than musketmen of course, but higher that the original jags. Europeans can build pikemen for last ditch defence if they are cut off from all resources.

-add in new resources: lumber, cotton, coffee & tobacco
-include both north & south america on a normal sized map like in the game colonization. Plenty of islands as well for some good maritime sailing ship fighting.

-add civs: aztecs, maya, dutch, inca & spanish for a nasty big fight. There are some cool leaderheads which can be used for them in the civfanatics creation forum.

-make pirate ships useful by increasing stats/price.

I'll probably have more ideas later so if you want me to post them here let me know. Basically I'm planning to create a cool, new version of Colonization.

	29-12-2002 10:17									#11
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I think he included Russia at first because up until a few years after the American Civil War Russia owned Alaska. Right?

	30-12-2002 02:46									#12
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quote: Originally posted by unscratchedfoot -use wagons for settlers (new unit)

I tested this on my own a few versions back, it worked nicely (I gave them defense too as they did defend themselves)
[quote
-make ironclads only available to the confederacy (or as a ludicrously expensive tech) and not sea-worthy; instead, make them expensive, slow, and give them a nasty high defence (they were pretty-much unsinkable) and no bombard (they couldn't do it) so they are basically a ship-killer used to defend vital coastal areas.
[/quote]

I like this idea.

quote: - I'm toying with the idea of including a few techs with hugely increased research points (like 30 times the original) but I doubt it. All other techs and modern units/buildings are deleted and musket-age units and buildings have no tech requirements.

This means it starts at the musket age, which would be good. I'd rather keep Modern though, as it allows such things as the Cuban Missle crisis.

quote: -indian civs start out only with warriors (altered aztec jag's or some new warrior-type units) and mounted warriors (stats increase and available to all indian tribes), not musketmen. They must steal or trade for gunpowder/cotton/metal to make musketmen and cavalry. Indian warriors have 2 movement and lower Attack/def/cost than musketmen of course, but higher that the original jags. Europeans can build pikemen for last ditch defence if they are cut off from all resources.

If i were to add any Native civs this is how i'd do it

quote: -add in new resources: lumber, cotton, coffee & tobacco

If only i could do this easily, so the resource pics were only used for this MOD. I know it can be done, but niot how.

quote: -include both north & south america on a normal sized map like in the game colonization. Plenty of islands as well for some good maritime sailing ship fighting.

I know of no such map, and cannot make a map of my own (no artistic skill)

quote: -add civs: aztecs, maya, dutch, inca & spanish for a nasty big fight. There are some cool leaderheads which can be used for them in the civfanatics creation forum.

This isn't a colonization MOD, but I'd gradly play (contribute if you need help) such a MOD.

quote: -make pirate ships useful by increasing stats/price.

I'll implement this.

quote: I'll probably have more ideas later so if you want me to post them here let me know. Basically I'm planning to create a cool, new version of Colonization.

I'd love for you to.

	30-12-2002 03:18									#13
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	01-01-2003 20:38									#14
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Yeah, Russia having Alaska is reasonable if you want to include it. I found out about it while researching to make my own mod. I finished a new map of North & South America but I can't upload it because its so completely modified with various graphics changes.

Skilord, if you want to add resources try downloading this excellent new set: new resource graphics

Unzip it, and you'll see a couple of picture files called resource. Open up civ3 folder, go to art, find the same 2 files near the bottom and take those out as a back-up. Then put in the 2 new ones. Click on your mod bic file, go to rules/natural resources and add in whatever ones you want. I put in lumber, cotton, coffee, seafood, potatoes, oasis, fruit, and tobacco. I also use Womok/Snoopy terrain graphics with a few other additions. It looks a million times better than the depressing original civ3 look.

Also, you can find great animated leaderheads in civfanatics graphics modpacks forum. I got animated heads for all my indians and europeans from there including a redneck hillbilly for the confederacy. There are also sexy chicks you can have as advisors or leaders. I'm using a hot amazon woman in the rainforest for the Mayan leader.

Good luck with it. I might post a screenshot of my map if I can find a free paint program to download sometime.

	01-01-2003 22:14									#15
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quote: including a redneck hillbilly for the confederacy

I hope you get that map up.

	02-01-2003 05:20									#16
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I'm adding the Suoix right now. By the end of this i hope to have the America mod as a rule unto itself.

My filfthy buggy computer is causing duifficulties right now, so this could take a while.

	03-01-2003 12:18									#17
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I've found the resources a great deal better, thanx.

Rge only thing i wish they had is buffaloe.

All is done but the Americanisation of the Wonders (ie: Maggellan's Voyage becomes Transcontinental RR)

	03-01-2003 12:20									#18
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Btw: should i add a vinland nation?

	03-01-2003 21:08									#19
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The first tests with the new resources/wonders are good.

I'll have the next version done soon.

	05-01-2003 12:35									#20
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I tried to attack a screenie of a battlescene from my Americas age of musketry mod but the sucky server as-per-usual refuses to let me post screenshots here. I suggest everyone head on over to civfanatics where screenshots can actually be posted, and you don't get 11 pop-up ads when you go there either.

	05-01-2003 12:48									#21
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Actually, I just checked civfanatics and they reduced their attach size to only 102 kb!! About the size of one city on a screen. So scratch that idea.

Ski, how did you attach your screenies?

	08-01-2003 11:58									#22
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I had them on CFC and used the Image Code.

I'm working on Modernising my old geocities page So i can just upload there from now on.

	10-01-2003 04:56									#23
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Version 2 will be up as soon as/ if it decides to upload to the internet.

	10-01-2003 05:22									#24
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Version 2.0 is up!

Must be leading a good life, the file uploaded quickly onto CFC.

	11-01-2003 12:14									#25
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I forgot to add a link to the Fidel Castro leaderhead didn't I?

	12-01-2003 01:29									#26
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The first feedback of the new version ha come in, by the way of a second vote for rather a virus....

btw: screenshots of the new version are up.

	12-01-2003 02:04									#27
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damn.

I need to update it again soon, the Sioux ended up having all Units, and i forgot to add the Ironclad/Privateer stat changes.

	12-01-2003 02:36									#28
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2.4 up, most bugs removed. Units added (Musket Infantry, Minute Man, Grant-Lee tank)

	13-01-2003 23:43									#29
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Any feeedback, or are the d/l quantities too daunting?

	15-01-2003 01:39									#30
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I have collected the units The zip is 14 K, which is more than I can manage to upload anywhere.

However i'm going to reconfigure the files so that I can fit it on my geocities site (though it will likely take up my allotted 11k)

wish me luck!