Sci fi units?

[SuspiciouspegasusTTV]

Are there sci fi units in this expansion or are they all part of mods?

[Eauxps I. Fourgott]

All mods.

[SuspiciouspegasusTTV]

Originally posted by Eauxps I. Fourgott:

All mods.

then why do sci fi units appear on the steam page for beyond the sword?

[soldier6661111]

Originally posted by Shatterwolf:

Originally posted by Eauxps I. Fourgott:

All mods.

then why do sci fi units appear on the steam page for beyond the sword?

Are you referring to the space image? That is a scenario that features a different tech tree than the base game/DLC regular game. There are three differing scenarios that feature science fiction.

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Frontier_(Civ4)

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Next_War_(Civ4)

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Afterworld_(Civ4)

[Eauxps I. Fourgott]

Originally posted by Shatterwolf:

Originally posted by Eauxps I. Fourgott:

All mods.

then why do sci fi units appear on the steam page for beyond the sword?

I do not know, but in over 200 hours of gameplay of the vanilla game I have never encountered those screenshots. Likely they're from a screenshot as soldier said above, or possibly a mod.

[ghpstage]

The two screenshots on the steam page are taken from the Final Frontier mod, which is shipped with the game.

[SuspiciouspegasusTTV]

Originally posted by ghpstage:

The two screenshots on the steam page are taken from the Final Frontier mod, which is shipped with the game.

Ok. So what does nextwar look like?

[ghpstage]

So, Final Frontier is a complete conversion that takes place entirely in space and has you colonise star systems. Its pretty good but a bit bare bones, there are modmods that improve it but you need to download them separately. Map pic
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014611508
Next War simply extends the vanilla tech tree while pushing the space race back. It doesn't look any different to the basic game, but adds a few units at the end. These ones specifically.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014605917
The other mentioned one, Afterworld changes the game into a weird turn based RPG. I've not played it a lot.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014608658

[SuspiciouspegasusTTV]

Originally posted by ghpstage:

So, Final Frontier is a complete conversion that takes place entirely in space and has you colonise star systems. Its pretty good but a bit bare bones, there are modmods that improve it but you need to download them separately. Map pic
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014611508

Next War simply extends the vanilla tech tree while pushing the space race back. It doesn't look any different to the basic game, but adds a few units at the end. These ones specifically.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014605917

The other mentioned one, after world changes the game into a weird turn based RPG
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014608658

NICE! BTW are there any mods like Empires of the smokey skies for civ 4? I LOVED that in civ 5, but sadly, there are no mods that really take empire of the smokey skies and improve it. Like I played empire of the smokey skies for civ 5 a few weeks ago and enjoyed it, but sadly after I finished I felt a void left by it that can only be filled by more sci fi civ games and the problem with civ 6 is that there is only 1 future unit(the giant death robot) and it just makes future era combat nothing but spamming giant death robots.

[ghpstage]

I've not seen anything steampunk specifically, but there are a number of mods that are either sci-fi centred or add a bunch of 'future' tech stuff.

Ones (available on civfanatics) that I am familiar with include;
Dune Wars - Total conversion that is set on Frank Herbet's desert planet Arrakis. One of my favourite mods.
Final Frontier Plus - Modmod for Final Frontier that expands it
Star Trek - Modmod for Final Frontier
Fallout Tame the Wastes - A total conversion to the Fallout wastes, interesting abandoned long before being finished.
Planet Fall - Based on the old civilization spin-off game Alpha Centauri, basically what happens after the space race

Things i've not tried,
MoO2 - Masters of Orion conversion
Babylon 5 - Modmod for Final Frontier
Caveman to Cosmos - Re-imagining of the core game with techs extending into the future, a lot of people swear by this mod

There is bound to be more