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Halo - The Flood

Adds the Flood parasite from Halo into Civilization V as a fully playable Civilization, ruled by the Gravemind.

The Flood are a terrifying parasitical lifeform from the Halo games, now welcomed into Civilization V as a Civilization revolving around numerical superiority, much like their tactics in the games themselves. Their uniques allow them to produce more units faster and with less strain on their economy, allowing them to build up a sizable force much quicker than other Civilizations and to use their numerical superiority to overwhelm their enemies, with little need for tactics. Especially good for brute force campaigns, a Flood army is easily able to quickly replace its casualties.

In terms of the personality when controlled by the AI, the Flood Civ is very warlike and hostile, almost guaranteed to declare wars on their neighbors with the intent of infecting the entire world. In addition, they are very fond of denouncing their opponents quickly, a feature that I implemented with the hopes that it will allow other AI players to join together against the Flood tide, negating some of their numerical advantage. Do not attempt to make friends with the Flood, only terminate them as quickly and as efficiently as possible, because they will try to assimilate you.

====Unique Ability - The Great Tide====
No maintenance cost for land Units, (Does not extend to civilian units,) but 50% more experience is required to earn your next promotion. This serves to allow players to field large armies without being concerned about their economy.

====Unique Unit - Tank Form====
The Flood Tank Form, replacing the XCOM Squad, is an Information Era Unit that is geared towards the Flood's playstyle of numerical superiority. Despite being much weaker than its vanilla counterpart and lacking a paradrop ability, the Tank Form's Production cost in a city is much lower than any Information Era Unit, allowing it to be built and sent to the front lines in rapid succession. Coupled with the lack of maintenance, an army consisting purely of Tank Forms can be constructed very quickly, for an situation.

====Unique Building - Hive====
The Hive, replacing the Military Base, is a building that may be constructed in Cities to bolster land unit production by 25%, allowing an Information Era Flood to produce their armies that much faster. It does not provide any city defense, and is more designed to fuel an offensive campaign by the player or the AI, whichever one may be controlling the Flood.


!!!!As usual, the mod totally requires Brave New World but is not actually set to require Brave New World, allowing those without the second expansion pack to play the mod, however broken it may be. I have not tested this mod on Gods & Kings, but it's likely that the mod should work without most of its functionality for those that do not have Brave New World.


====Credits====
Usernamehere, for creating the mod.
Bungie, for creating an amazing franchise.
The respective creators of all featured images and music.

Music used:
Halo: Combat Evolved OST - Lament for Pvt. Jenkins (Dawn of Man audio)
Halo: Combat Evolved OST - What Once Was Lost (Peace Theme)
Halo 3 OST - Gravemind (War Theme)

====Known bugs====
No bugs are known at the moment. Report any you find here.