Boom’s Assyria
For all my Civ V fans out there, the return of Assyria, led by Ashurbanipal!
Assyria was an an ancient Mesopotamian civilization which began as a city-state, but evolved into the largest empire of its time. Its warrior-kings focused upon expansion, believing it to be their divine right to bring all people under the rule of Assyria. They were able to accomplish this through development of the earliest siege warfare and siege engines, as well as powerful administrative systems that could govern large systems efficiently and resettling of conquered peoples in order to prevent rebellion.
Ashurbanipal was the last powerful king of the Assyrian Empire before its collapse. He headed various campaigns against the civilizations around Assyria, but surprisingly, considering his brutally cruel nature, his self-described most impressive accomplishment was the construction of the Library of Ashurbanipal, by far the largest library in history til that point and unsurpassed until the construction of the Library of Alexandria some 400 years later.
Assyria is a force to be reckoned with in the early game, with their powerful Siege Engine unique unit enabling easy conquest of cities, and following conquest, their civilization ability and their unique improvement, the Lamassu, enable the easy integration of conquered cities into a comfortable and productive place into the empire. Ashurbanipal takes advantage of these conquests to gain Great Writers, which he uses to fill his Library of Ashurbanipal, catapulting him far ahead in the Technology and Civics trees.
- Great Works of Writing gain +1 Science and Culture, with an additional +1 Science and Culture per campus building present in the city
- Conquering a city grants a burst of Great Writer points (5 base + 5 for each district present in the city)
- Earning a Great Writer grants a free Eureka
- Gain the Library of Ashurbanipal unique building
- Unique Government Plaza building, replacing nothing, unlocked at tier 1 Government
- Provides 5 Great Works of Writing slots, and is themable
- Provides 2 Writer points per turn
- Founded cities gain +25% production toward military and support units
- Conquered cities gain +35% production toward buildings and districts already constructed in the capital
- Gain access to the Mass Resettlement project
- The Mass Resettlement project moves 1 citizen from all conquered cities within 5 tiles to the city that preformed the project, as well as building roads around the city
- Unique improvement, unlocked at Masonry
- +2 Faith, may only be built on flat land not next to another Lamassu
- Receives yields when next to the City Center, depending on if the city was conquered or not
- +1 Food and Production when in a founded city
- +1 Culture and Science when in a conquered city
- +1 Science and Faith for each adjacent Campus
- +1 Culture and Faith for each adjacent Theater Square
- +1 Science at Astronomy
- Gains Tourism equal to Faith at Flight
- Unique Battering Ram replacement, unlocked at Masonry
- Acts as a Siege Tower, allowing bypass of Ancient and Medieval walls
- Adjacent units receive +5 combat strength against districts
- Adjacent units receive +8 combat strength when defending against ranged attacks
I have not included any special compatibilities for this mod, but I may add compatibility to other popular mods if people request it.
This is my first mod adding a new civ, or for that matter anything that isn’t just an edit to the base game. Huge thanks to p0kiehl, Sailor Cat, MC, Fuzzle, and countless others for their invaluable help in my journey in learning how to mod. Also thanks to C15 for making his unfortunately now out of date Assyria mod, that gave me some inspiration.
Art for Ashurbanipal is taken from Civ 5, as well as the Siege Engine model, thanks to Deliverator for porting all Civ 5 units to Civ 6.
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