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Better Canada

The Canadian civ in Civ VI is tough and sort of unfun to play, mostly because it doesn't have bonuses that aren't counteracted by anti-bonuses. This mod is our attempt to fix the raw deal Canada got in Gathering Storm.

We began by moving all the diplomacy-related bonuses and drawbacks (Four Faces of Peace) to Laurier and giving the nation of Canada all the bonuses that Laurier had (The Last Best West). We then buffed the bonuses Canada gets. So, while the nation still has a tundra bias, it now gets food and production from tundra tiles and can farm them. Similar to how Russia gets +1 faith and +1 production from tundra tiles, Canada gets +1 food and +1 production from them.

We continued by making the Mountie a character that better represents the Mountie's original task of policing Canada's broad territory. He can still make a national park, but he also receives a +5 combat bonus on all tundra and snow tiles (instead of on national park tiles). To better represent when Canada introduced the force that eventually became the Mounties (and its original purpose), he can be made after researching the Rifling tech in the Industrial era instead of the Conservation civic in the Modern era. He replaces the Cavalry unit and has its production cost and combat strength but has no strategic resource cost. We retained his low maintenance cost.

Canada also gets a 70% discount when purchasing snow and tundra tiles (up from 50%). We made no changes to the hockey rink feature or the strategic resource bonus. Any good bonus the Last Best West had is still there, in original form or buffed a bit.

We made no changes to the original diplomacy bonuses and drawbacks except make them Laurier's instead of Canada's.

Our goal was to make Canada a viable civ that can pursue a variety of victories and open the door to the addition of other Canadian leaders that do not require an automatic "farm on tundra" ability (it makes no sense to give Canada the tundra bias while giving the leader the bonus necessary to live there). We've play-tested this mod extensively. While Canada is still not a top tier civ, it is significantly improved, especially in worlds with a decent amount of cold territory. It's fun to play now.

We welcome suggestions about what could be done for Canada or Laurier to make either fit the game better (not be overpowered or overpowered by other nations) and be more in tune with the history of Canada.