"Dinosaurs and Libertarians"
            (a.k.a. "Ancient Ones and Enlightened Ones")

              A "Civilization III: Play the World" Mod
             by Darryl C. Burgdorf  (burgdorf@awsd.com)

                        Version:  2004/05/14


This mod replaces barbarians with dinosaurs, introduces a new civilization,
the Saurians (dinosaurs), and adds a new government type, Libertarianism.
No, the new government has nothing to do with the dinosaurs; they're just
two different changes that I felt like making. 

I borrowed the idea of replacing barbarians with dinosaurs from the
"Dinobarbs" mod included with PtW.  (Unfortunately, I've no idea who
created that mod, so I can't give proper credit.)  My son, Carl, thought
it would be fun to fight dinosaurs.  It should be noted that the dinosaur
units are more powerful than the human barbarian units they replaced, so
you probably won't want to play with "raging" barbarians, even if you
normally would.

It wasn't much of a jump from creating dinosaur barbarians to creating an
actual Saurian civilization, especially once I realized that creating
"dinobarb" units also, of necessity, resulted in creation of "dinobarb"
villages.

The addition of Libertarianism to the game, as noted above, has nothing
at all to do with dinosaurs.  It just happened to be another change I felt
like making.

Most of the dinosaur unit animations are, of course, from the set of
dinosaur graphics found in the PtW "extras" folder.

The dinosaur leaderhead animation was created by "Kinboat," as were the
Panda, Pterodactylus and Pteranodon unit animations.  The Plesiosaurus
unit animation was created by "Aaglo."

The city graphics I'm using for the Saurians are slighty modified from the
"evil tower" city graphics created by "Bhiita."

The real dinosaur info that I included in the Saurian units' Civilopedia
entries was obtained from the Jurassic Park Institute's "Dinopedia" at
<http://www.jpinstitute.com/index.jsp>, as were the images used in the
Civilopedia.

I've had fun putting this scenario together, and hope you'll have fun
playing it.  If you have any suggestions, comments or bug reports,
please don't hesitate to let me know!

-- Darryl C. Burgdorf (burgdorf@awsd.com)

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"Dinosaurs & Libertarians" Version History:

Version 2004/05/14:
- Updated Libertarianism stats and various dinosaur unit stats to match
  (as much as possible) "BBW, with Dinos" version 2004/05/12.
- Added new units: Pterodactylus, Pteranodon and Plesiosaurus.
- Updated Saurian city graphics.
- Set the Saurians as a playable civilization.

Version 2003/10/19:
- Initial release.