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Eras - Medieval Age

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Tags: Gameplay, Buildings, Historic, GodsAndKings, Units, Wonders, Component, Technologies, Espionage, BraveNewWorld, Other

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Description

This mod reshapes the game parameters to let you experience a complete game in the Medieval age instead of few turns.

Features:

Tech tree wont progress after Medieval age (so you wont reach other Eras). Also, some adjustment have been made to the tree to transfert some of the fonctionalities that would have been locked otherwise.

Dates increments have been adjusted so that when you reach Medieval age, the date will increment much slower since its the final age (like Future Age in normal games).

Technologies cost have been adjusted to scale properly for a full game in the Medieval age.

If 'Time' Victory has been selected, then after the 1500 turn, the date will fit perfectly with the historical end of the Medieval age (around 1400 AD)

AI Civilizations choices have been restricted to civilization that have their unique unit in Medieval Age or fit in historically, allowing much more diversity for Warfare with unique units fighting each other. So when an AI is set on random, or when you dont go through advanced setup, Ai will always pick a civ that fit this era. No civ restriction is applied to the player, but i strongly recommend picking a civilization that fit in this era

All naval unit and embarked unit are allowed to cross ocean with the Compass tech (medieval) instead of Astronomy, so you can still play islands map.

The 'Great Wall' wonder has been transformed into a National Wonder (every player can build one) called: 'Fortifications'. It require Walls in every city and can only be built in your capital. Visual will apply to your border like the great wall. The idea behind this feature, combined with the Fort improvements and Citadels from great generals, is to recreate medieval landscapes and to force Siege battles when attacking Capitals.

The building is properly flavored and will be used by the AI.

Espionage is available at Classical age and you get an additional spies in Medieval Age (total 2 for the game).

'Barracks' and 'Walls' now also act as a counter-espionage building by reducing enemy spy stealing rate by 33%. (Also affect all unique Barracks and Walls like Krepost, Ikanda or Wall of Babylon)

Building 'flavor' have been adjusted for 'Barracks' and 'Walls' to add espionage flavor, so the AI will also use them as counter-espionage buildings. (Also affect all unique Barracks and Walls like Krepost, Ikanda or Wall of Babylon

1 additional trade route have been added to this era after researching 'Physics'. Also, 'Optics' now extend the range of sea trades routes instead of 'Compass'. (Brave New World Users)

Since no non-unique building of this era could host Great Artist Works, a Slot was added in the 'Garden' as well as removing the river or lake requirement. Included all unique Gardens. (Brave New World Users).

The Future Tech concept has been renamed to 'Mentoring' and transfered to Medieval age. A repeating technology that will increase your score and give +1 Culture and +1 Gold in your Capital each time it is researched.

Since you cant build a spaceship, scientific victory isn't an option, but having a high science can make you win Timed game from score and progressivly increase your Gold and Culture output when researching the Future Tech.

Notes:

I recommend using the 'Motte-and-Baily Fort' Mod from my utility collection along with this mod if you have Danemark DLC: Motte-and-Bailey Fort Mod
Enable only one Era mod at a time, depending on what era you want to play
Civilopedia is fully fonctional with the custom buildings and tech.

Compatibility:

Requires Gods and Kings Expansion
Compatible with Brave New World Expansion
You have to play with one Eras mod enabled at a time

Other Mods from the same author:

You can find all my 'Era' mods here, along with other collections:

Era Collection

If you want to rate the mod at the top of the page, it's always appreciated =)

Troubleshooting:

Here are the basics if you are a beginner with civ 5 Mods: Mod Install Tutorial [forums.civfanatics.com]
If you have a problem with a mod, the first step is always to test the mod alone before reporting any bugs.
All mods from all my collections are compatible together.

If you have troubles downloading the mod in game, it's a common cache issue, follow these steps to fix it:

1) Unsubscribe The mod, exit steam and civ 5 completly

2) empty your mod folder : C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME]\My documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS

3) Delete the 'Civ5ModsDatabase.db' file located at: C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME]\My documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\cache

4) Restart steam, subscribe, restart civ 5.

Popular Discussions View All (1)

21 Apr, 2020 @ 9:41am

Would it be possible

CanadianMustash

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Mr. Meeseeks 5 Jan @ 3:33pm

Hi! I LOVED your mod back in the day, question.. could it be possible to remove the fortifications building from being a thing for my game? How would you go about that?

BlouBlou [author] 9 Aug, 2023 @ 7:21am

@Alifas

Hi ! Glad you like the mod ! :)

For happiness in medieval era, i would suggest trying religion beliefs.

Using my other mod that extend their numbers would help in that regard :

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=81096622

Also try to control your cities population.

i think a repeatable +2 global happiness would unfortunately be a little unbalanced in long games.

When i play medieval era blocked game, I usually try to get little bits of available happiness from all possible source and using religion too and pop control. I usually end up with a happy civilization. But it is indeed one of the challenge of this era and its fitting, since its called the dark age ! :)

Alifas 17 Jul, 2023 @ 11:50am

Thank you very much, BlouBlou!
This is the great mode. Civ 5 with this mod is my best "for podcast game"!
And there is a little bit of a happiness problem at the latest stage.
Could you fix that? I don`t know programming magic, but maybe like
+2 global happiness for researching 'Mentoring'?

ZerKa 2 Apr, 2023 @ 12:33pm

possible to make it compatible with jdh mod manager for multriplayer ?

Guvenoren 7 Oct, 2022 @ 6:12am

Is it possible to make a mod where time flows 300% slower? I am using a mod that makes all reseaches cost 300% more. It feels odd when you are at year 1900 and you don't even have guns yet. So I wonder if it's possible to have a mod that does just that?

Thank you!

BlouBlou [author] 5 Jul, 2022 @ 1:36pm

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Glad you appreciate :)

Thank you for your comment !