Sukritact’s Abraham Lincoln Rework

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Author: sukritact

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I will admit I was a bit disappointed by Lincoln’s unique ability as added in the Great Negotiators DLC. The loyalty bonuses and penalties felt underwhelming, and are ignorable if you happened to not spawn near any Plantation resources. His free units made the civ best suited to external conquest. He receives no bonuses to either diplomacy or culture: two of America’s greatest in-game strengths. This mod hopes to change that, and makes dealing with separatists the central feature of Lincoln’s gameplay.

Abraham Lincoln

Unique Ability: A House Divided

+2 Amenities from Industrial Zones. Upon constructing an Industrial Zone or its buildings, receive a free Melee unit, and your cities within 6 tiles receive a burst of -10 Loyalty for each Plantation or Farm in their borders.

Conquered Free Cities provide +1 Diplomatic Favor, receive +1 Culture, +1 Food from Plantations and Farms, and are immune to this ability’s Loyalty penalty. +7 Combat Strength against Free Cities.

Instead of a per turn loyalty malus from Plantations, Lincoln gets a single massive burst of negative loyalty from Plantations and Farms whenever he builds an Industrial Zone. This allows you to either actively plan to avoid, or to purposefully trigger revolts depending on when you choose to complete those buildings. Adding Farms to the ability also makes the loyalty malus much harder to simply ignore if you happen to get a Plantationless start.

Why would you purposefully trigger a revolt? With Lincoln, losing a city to revolt isn’t necessarily a bad thing (I actually forward settled a city with the intent to let it revolt in one of my test games). Retaking that city via loyalty pressure or military strength will give you a nice boost to your Diplomatic Favor and Culture income (which becomes the standard boost to Tourism from Improvements with Flight). Besides, the +7 Combat Strength against Free Cities should make crushing the Confederacy a lot easier.