

Many other mods exists, including quite of few "kitchen-sink" mods, as I like to call them. One interesting feature is the ability to gain slaves which are like temporary worker units, but can also be sacrificed to rush production in cities or join a city to gain bonuses. Reworked units and unique units and even Hero units can be achieved. PAE focuses mainly on Europe and Middle East of the time with a completely reworked tech tree that is more specific and detailed to the technology of the time. A very rewarding mod for fans of the Ancient World. It is important to note that RFC has several very good modmods that add so much to it like "RFC: Dawn of Civilization", which adds many more Civs, to several era specific type modmods like Medieval.Ģ) Pie's Ancient Europe - PAE is a more era specific mod focusing on the Ancient World but is nonetheless a mod with a large scope and many many changes to the game. Furthermore, RFC has specific Unique Historical Victory Conditions for each Civ, some of which are almost like a puzzle to solve successfully. RFC is almost an historical simulator and the RFC map is actually engineered to reflect is a smart map that makes certain changes during the game as well as city names and events. (Actually a little FFH game was included too but not the full mod).

The following two stand out to me:ġ) Rhyse and Fall of Civilization (RFC) - Just a fantastic mod which was actually included with the final Beyond the Sword expansion release. But probably the best way to play is a succession type game with other players.Ĭiv IV obviously has some fantastic historical based mods. I've played through the included scenarios twice, and several random games. With that said, I've played/tried quite a few mods over the years.Īs mentioned, Fall From Heaven is fantastic (if a bit unbalanced-in terms of AI).

BUG/BULL is great for forum games over on as it can be installed in such a way that shared games can be loaded without conflict. I highly recommend these mods for standard gameplay (many of the mods mentioned below include it as well) BAT is bug/bull plus special graphical enhancements and is the mod I use the most for personal games. These are graphical/ui enhancement mods that don't change the base game, which is extremely rewarding and challenging to play. I play mainly the base BTS game but use the BUG/BULL mods and Blue Marble, or the wonderful BAT mod.
