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.

Caveman to cosmos civ 4