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The North Atlantic: The Boatbuilders

Part of The North Atlantic: a series of mods focused on the seafearing cultures of the North Atlantic and Circumpolar regions, particularly Norse vikings and the cultures contemporary to them.

Background:
The Classical Mediterranean is known for the trireme, but in Northern Europe, an entirely separate tradition of boatbuilding developed simulaneously. Clinker- or lapstrake-style boatbuilding uses overlapping planks that allow boat hulls to twist and bend with water currents, gliding through waves that would capsize a less flexible ship.

This mod features an overhaul of the early naval system, representing this separate evolution: from the hide and woodframe canoes that made life in the Stone Age Arctic possible, to the Viking era longships that raided Europe's coasts and reached as far as North America, to the cogs and cruisers of the Hanseatic League and Kalmar Union.

Content:
The mod adds 2 totally new units and 1 unit replacement:

• The Umiak, the hide canoe of the Inuit and their ancestors, is a naval equivalent to the Scout. Although having only 4 combat strength and 2 movement, they have the added benefit of being able to traverse ice tiles. Available at Agriculture.
  
• The Snekkja replaces the Galleass as the first naval ranged unit. It is weaker, but cheaper and available at Optics.
  
• The Skeid, the Viking age's largest longship, provides the Medieval Era with a piracy unit, possessing the bonuses of the Privateer but with stats equivalent to the now-nonexistant Galleass. Available at Compass.

The mod also re-skins 3 pre-existing units:

• The Karvi, the smallest longship of the Viking Age, replaces the Trireme. It has the same stats, but fully updated unit art.
  
• Caravels and Privateers are also updated to look more like their Northern European equivalents, which historically continued to use clinker-built hulls.

Credits:
All unit textures, icons, and flags by me except where otherwise noted.
Umiak unit art edited from TPangolin's Getanget unit (from the Colonialist Legacies: The Wabanaki mod).
Karvi unit art and icon slightly edited from Barathor's Galley re-texture (from the Galleys for Civs mod).
Caravel unit art edited from JFD's Gun Holk (JFD's Kalmar Union mod).
Snekkja unit art and Privateer unit art and icon duplicated from Firaxis' Danish Longboat and Dutch Sea Beggar, repsectively.
This mod was the first from this series I began working on and my first introduction to modding in general. It would not have been possible without the diverse and ubiquitous advice left for others by whoward69 and LeeS on the CivFanatics forums.

Other mods from The North Atlantic:
Ancient Era Buildings (Thule, Sami, and Norse buildings)
Pagan Religious Units (Shamans and Priests)