A World Of Ice And Fire Mod
While ACoK attempts to create a hard world with set paths for the player to follow, AWoIaF allows more freedom to the player to influence the world around them. If you would like to read more about the two modules and their difference, both developers have done an AMA on the subreddit in the past. A World of Ice and Fire - Winter is Coming to Civ Deluxe - ASOIAF The White Walker - ASOIAF The Night's Watch - ASOIAF Braavos 3. Go to Set Up > Advanced Set Up then find and select 'A World of Ice and Fire' map. Go back to normal Set Up screen. Check the 'Load Scenario' box under Map Type. Select your faction and difficulty.
UPDATED 8/17/2012: Fixed Naval combat problem with Krakens and Barbarian Battering Ram spawning.INSTALLING THE MOD
- Unzip the rar file to ...DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier's Civilization 5MODS
- Delete the contents of ...DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier's Civilization 5cache
- Verify the integrity of your game cache (via steam, right click on Civ 5 in the library, go to properties then local files)
- Open your GraphicsSettingsDX11.ini or GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini file located in ...DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier's Civilization 5
- Where is says: Whether or not to use static screenshots of leaders (this is the default for min-spec machines) UseScreenShots = 0 CHANGE UseScreenShots =0 to UseScreenShots = 1
- Open your config.ini file located in ...DocumentsMy GamesSid Meier's Civilization 5
- Where it says: Last Civilization Played, set LastCiv = 0
- Start Civ 5
REQUIREMENTS
This new version of the mod requires all the DLC including Wonders of the Ancient World and G&K. I know this will not make everyone super happy and I am working on making a vanilla version that is similar. However, to achieve the things I set out to do with this new iteration it was necessary to use all the DLC content available to me.
FEATURES AND NEW GAME PLAY
While last time the mod was focused more on putting out a scenario this time the mod is more about embracing the features of George R.R. Martin's universe inside the Civilization framework and realizing it more fully. The game is meant to be played on randomly generated maps just like normal Civ games now. To make the experience exciting and unique I have tailored all aspects of the mod towards achieving this objective. While you can still only play with the six leaders I originally created I hope to change that very soon. While you can only play with those leaders if you insist on playing with more than six Civilizations it will draw from a pool of Civilizations I have left unlocked for that purpose and give them one of the same six leaders again. However, I think those who have played this in the past will not be disappointed with the update to spite the lack of new leaders given the other changes that have been made.
- Altered Traits
- Customized Tech Tree (a long medieval period is the last Era)
- New units anyone can obtain
- New Wonders (now base game wonders)
- Custom art for tech, wonders, units, icons etc
- Wonder Units (you'll have to find out)
- No base game Minor Civs, only SOIAF Minor Civs
- Special Resources
- Religions
- Others...
FUTURE OBJECTIVES
As of now Dragon Eggs exist but Dragons are not yet in the game. This is because of an issue I am having with Nexus. To find out more about this issue please visit the thread, maybe you can help me out: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=395200&page=4 Once I sort this issue Dragons will be available as a late game unit (to those who can find the rare eggs) and Daenerys (who begins the game with three Dragon Eggs) will have only one Unsullied special unit.
Other objectives for future development include:
- New leaders
- Custom unit models
- An updated scenario and map
- Wildfire city defense animations
- New Policies
THANKS
I want to thank a few people. First off Anton Strenger for his advice and letting me dip into his Steam Punk Scenario Code. Also, Barry Caudill for taking the time to answer my questions. Kael for this modders guide, and the members of the community who have filled in where Kael left off. Also Jeff Williamson for testing and support, and Rodrigo Cano for helping me trouble shoot, letting me bounce ideas off him and playing Civ with me when I got angry.
With hundreds of characters, swordplay and sorcery, personal drama, and political intrigue, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is fantastic source material for strategy games and RPGs. The conclusion of HBO's Game of Thrones is nearly upon us (and presumably, at some point, we might actually see the next book in the series as well), so it feels like the perfect time for a roundup of mods that bring Martin's world to PC games.
Crusader Kings 2—A Game of Thrones
It's hard to find a better match between game and mod than Crusader Kings 2 and the full-conversion A Game of Thrones mod. It transforms CK2's medieval Europe into the continent of Westeros. With random events and your own decisions quickly entangling the characters you know and love (or hate), your game will quickly veer from the story you remember into a kind of bizarro-world fan-fiction.
We've written a few times about our experiences using the mod, with Rich McCormick playing as Ned Stark in Surviving Westeros, and my diary about playing as Littlefinger's next-door neighbor, Game of Checkers.
Mount and Blade: Warband—A Clash of Kings
Rather than playing as one of the main characters, you can get a view of the drama in Westeros from ground level with the A Clash of Kings mod for Mount and Blade: Warband. The mod adds thousands of custom items, naval battles, and a huge map of Westeros, plus plenty of notable figures from the fiction.
I made an attempt to align myself with both the Lannisters and Baratheons and had a nasty encounter with Gregor Clegane in my write-up of the mod here.
Minecraft—Westeroscraft
Westeroscraft is a Minecraft server with its own custom launcher and mod suite. While it someday hopes to become an open world MMORPG, it's currently in build mode, creating Westeros (and someday Essos) in blocks. And it looks spectacular so far. Anyone can join and explore the world but if you want to help build it, you'll need to apply here.
Civilization 5—A Mod of Ice and Fire
This is one of our favorite mods for Civ 5—it adds a sprawling map of Westeros and lets you play as a number of civs and leaders, like Robb Stark in The North, Stannis Baratheon in The Stormlands, Daenerys, of course, and even Mance Rayder of the Free Folk. Each civ has a unique trait plus special units and buildings.
Civilization 6—A Civ of Ice and Fire
Play Civ 6 as the Starks, Boltons, Greyjoys, Baratheons, Targaryens, and even The Night King representing the White Walkers. Maps cover both Westeros and Essos, and wonders include Casterly Rock, The Red Keep, the Titan of Braavos, and more. There's support for the Gathering Storm expansion as well (and it's required to play as the Night King).
Total War: Attila—Seven Kingdoms
This total conversion for Total War: Attila delivers over two dozen playable armies you can use to recreate the fiction's massive historical battles, plus it adds scores of recognizable characters from the HBO show.
Medieval 2: Total War: Kingdoms—Westeros: Age of Petty Kings
Rather than taking place amidst the current events of Game of Thrones, the Age of Petty Kings mod takes place a thousand years prior, though it's still based on George R.R. Martin's lore.
Ages of Empires 2: HD Edition—War of the Five Kings
This scenario for Age of Empires 2 recreates the devastating civil war in Westeros following the death of King Robert. Eight players can join the fray as the Greyjoys, Starks, Tyrells, both Baratheons, and the other major factions in the War of the Five Kings.
Skyrim—The Game of Thrones Adaptation
You can't play it yet—it's currently between versions, with the older version having been taken down ahead of the release of a new beta—but this is definitely one to bookmark. It's an overhaul that plans to transform Skyrim into Westeros, with dozens of locations and characters from the fiction and custom quests. Ambitious, to be sure, and there's no mention of a release date at the moment.
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While you wait, you can check out a trailer below, which is already looking pretty great.