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Denmark Exploration

Requires Denmark DLC and Brave New World
Also available on Civ Fanatics[forums.civfanatics.com].

Rebuilds Denmark to make it focused on exploration. This changes the trait, the unit, and replaces the other unit with a building. Although all three parts are meant to be used together, this is modular, so if you do not wish to use one of the three parts for whatever reason, just delete the folder for that section.
Using all three gives Denmark a very unique "explore the world and write about it" play style that no other civ has.

Trait: Viking Sagas
Embarked units have +1 Movement and pay just 1 movement point to move from sea to land or when moving along rivers. Exploration earns Great Writer points in the Capital.
- Compared to Viking Fury, this is a loss of free pillaging for land melee units, but you now move faster along rivers and earn Great Writers just from exploring!

That last part is a unique bonus that I've been very careful to balance, especially considering the other aspects of the trait are already useful. Here's how it works: every time you discover a new panel for the first time, you'll gain points toward a Great Writer in your Capital. Panels are worth different point values based on their type (land is worth more than water, but coastal land is worth the most. Rivers get a bonus and Natural Wonders get a large bonus), and this value is then divided using the size of the map and multiplied using the game speed's great person cost setting, so this fully supports mod-added world sizes and game speeds. For balancing reasons and so there's no loss for exploring immediately, it does not care what your Capital's great person modifier is. The final value is balanced so that (on most map settings), if you never built a Writer's Guild, exploring every tile on the planet will generate enough points to get five Great Writers, but only barely.


Unit: Viking
Berserker was given a new exploration-based promotion and renamed to Viking. The word "viking" translates to something like "expeditioner," so it's a more fitting name for the unit's new purpose. The Viking may now construct Motte and Baileys, but this expends the unit. Viking still unlocks a bit earlier like the Berserker, but now it also obsolesces a but later too, at Rifling.
- The Longboats promotion allows defensive embarkation over Ocean with +2 Sight while embarked. This promotion remains upon upgrading the unit.
- Motte and Bailey is a unique improvement only a Viking may build. Construction is instant, but the unit is consumed. It claims the tile underneath it for your empire and provides +50% defensive strength to any unit stationed in the tile. Enemies that end their turn next to it take 10 damage. This makes it a weaker Citadel that can be built far away. Ideally, you'll use a wounded Viking to establish a "temporary colony" from which you can conquer or clear out barbarians, then settle a proper city later. Motte and Baileys do yield +1 Production, but should probably be replaced with something more useful once a city is there. Please note that this is not a third unique for Denmark (none of my mods ever break the 2-unique-per-civ rule), as the Motte and Bailey is not restricted to Denmark. It's part of the Viking unit. Any civ that gains a Viking from a militaristic City-State will be able to expend it to make a Motte and Bailey.


Building: Runestone
Ski Infantry was removed and instead Denmark now receives an Amphitheater replacement called Runestone. Compared to the normal Amphitheater, it has +2 Culture and +1 Faith. Perhaps a bit boring after the other two, but this is a welcome bonus that fits historically.


Credits: Ryan F. Mercer/Whys for SaveUtils[forums.civfanatics.com]