History Rewritten is a mod for Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, created by Xyth.
Description
History Rewritten is an expansion and enhancement of Beyond the Sword designed for both Mac and Windows, single and multiplayer. Play as one of 55 civilizations, each with two unique units, a unique building, a unique wonder, custom city and unit art. Strive for dominance against 166 animated leaders, each with a unique combination of traits and customized personality. Found cities with names dynamically chosen to consider leader and era. Discover natural wonders, savannah, wetlands, reefs, islands, and many new resources. Select improvements to best match your terrain and keep pollution manageable - cottage spam won't get you far in this mod! Advance through a completely rebuilt and more detailed techtree. Earn faith and use prophets to found 18 diverse religions, trigger reformations and chose from 36 tenets to customize your state religion. Specialize your cities to independently generate different great people, and compete against 14 overhauled real-world corporations. Choose from 36 civics carefully... lest dissent rise high in your cities and trigger a civil war!
The philosophy of History Rewritten is that new content and new mechanics are great, but only when they are designed and integrated well; carefully balanced, using quality art, and with a unique role to play. Many aspects of BTS (and its UI) have been rebalanced or redesigned to accomodate this, some quite extensively. The mod is actively developed; there've been 23 updates since release back in 2010, and more are planned.
History Rewritten values historical accuracy, but equally strives for historical diversity and to avoid determinism. After all, you are not recreating history - you are rewriting it!
Features:
Civil War!
55 civilizations, each with 2 UUs, 1 UB, and a Unique Wonder
166 animated leaders with custom personalities and diplomacy
20 traits, a unique combination for every leader
36 civics, completely redesigned and with dissent ratings
36 tenets to customize your state religion
18 prophet-founded religions, faith, reformations, and inquisitions
14 real world Corporations, redesigned mechanics
140 technologies in a completely redesigned tech tree
23 new buildings, extensive redesigning of existing buildings
7 new national wonders, 6 new world wonders
18 new units, much rebalancing of existing units
6 new promotions
Doctors and Great Doctors
Separate GPP for each Great Person type
Culture spreads over trade routes
17 new resources, redesigned interactions with improvements and buildings
15 Natural Wonders
Orchards, Paved Roads, Highways
Savannah, Wetlands, Islands, Atolls, Reefs, Marine Reserves
Redesigned Climate Change system
Terrain graphics based on satellite imagery (modified Blue Marble)
Cultural city and unit art for each civilization or cultural group
City names dynamically chosen, considering leader, era, and conquest
Culturally linked starts option on all random maps
12 real world maps with accurate start locations and free leader choice
2 new map sizes: Giant, Massive
2 new gamespeeds: Saga, Odyssey
Enhanced interface and advisor screens
Multiplayer compatible
To install
Extract into „…\Beyond the Sword\Mods” and activate in game’s menu.
- Last update: Wednesday, December 15, 2021
- Genre: Strategy
- File size: 675.9 MB
