Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for the award-winning game that has become an instant world-wide hit. Paying homage to some of history's greatest military leaders, the expansion will deliver six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful "warlord" unit.

Civ IV: Warlords will include new civilizations, leaders, units, and wonders that will offer even more fun and exciting ways for players to expand their civilization's military power as they strive for conquering of the world.

Here are some key features of "Sid Meiers Civilization IV Warlords":

· Warlords: A new great person type called the Warlord.
· Vassal States: Conquer an enemy and subjugate them to your rule.
· Game Scenarios: The expansion will deliver six scenarios.
· New Civilizations: The pack will provide 6 new civilizations and associated unique units.
· Civilization Leaders: Ten new leaders will be provided. The list will include leaders for the new civilizations as well as additional leaders for existing civilizations.
· Leader Traits: Two new leader traits.
· New Wonders: There will be three new wonders.
· Unique Buildings: Each civilization will have a new unique building as well as their unique unit.
· New Units, Resources, and Improvements: Many new items will be presented throughout the scenarios.
· Core Game Tweaks and Additions: Expanded features and gameplay tweaks will be made to the core game.
· Post-Release Patches and Game Upgrades: The pack will contain all of the patches and game additions (pit boss, etc.) yet released for Sid Meier's Civilization IV.
· Chinese Unification (350 BC): Take control of one of Ancient China's kingdoms in an attempt to unify the country by either the pen or the sword.
· Peloponnesian Wars (430 BC): Mighty Athens and Sparta struggle for dominance of Greece and surrounding territories.
· Alexander's Conquests (330 BC): Alexander attempts to conquer the world to the south and east of Greece, taking on the Persians, Egyptians, and Indians.
· Rise of Rome (300 BC): Battle as Rome, Carthage, Greece, Gaul, or Egypt for control of the Mediterranean.
· Vikings (800 AD): Become ruler of the Vikings and send your men out on numerous raids against Europe. Victory is decided by how much loot can be acquired.
· Genghis Khan (1206 AD): Relive the conquests of one of history's greatest military leaders and capture – or if you must, destroy – all of Asia.


What's New in This Release:

· Ship combat odds no longer affected by crossing a river
· Game no longer crashes when you load a save with the diplomacy screen open
· Fixed bug where ships could sometimes attack ground units
· When the user is the last human player in a multiplayer game, the retire option now works properly
· Forts act as cities only if they within friendly (ally or vassal) to the defender borders
· GameCore DLL no longer loaded from CustomAssets folder. Mods can still have their own DLL
· Fixed pop-rush rounding bug
· Fixed absenece of production popup for conquered city under certain circumstances
· Fixed multiple missions exploit from the same Great Person
· GNP graph shows total commerce generated, not only raw commerce
· Just one Cathedral required for OCC
· Barbarian Spearmen and Galleys appear as intended
· Fixed crop yield history reset on load
· Fixed removed spy teleportation mission :-)
· Fixed hotseat tech chooser bug
· Game no longer hangs when you retire from a one-player hotseat game
· Widescreen Laptop video resolution 1280x720 is supported
Vassal States
· No longer possible to receive a request from an AI to declare war on one of his vassals (!)
· Vassals can no longer accept one-sided defensive pacts (!)
· Fixed happiness from vassal issue
· You can now airlift into cities of your vassal
· You don't pay supply costs for units inside your vassal's borders
· Can no longer ask someone to make peace with a vassal. Talk to the master directly.
Vassal AI improvement
· When you declare war on a vassal, you also declare war on the master (instead of the master declaring war on you)
· Vassal AI no longer makes *all* their gold available for trade.
· Vassal AI never refuse to talk to their master
· AI better considers war consequences of accepting a vassal
· Vassals no longer freed when master forms a permanent alliance
· Fixes the vassal/defensive pact exploit
· Master/Vassal AI attitude reflects the implicit defensive pact of a vassal agreement.
· Master/Vassal AI no longer give each other negative attitude modifiers for close borders.
· Vassal AI does not get upset because of Master's defensive pacts with third parties.
· Vassal cannot own plots within the city radius of his master's cities unless those plots are closer to his own cities.
· If you have a peace treaty in effect with someone, you can no longer declare war on their vassals either.
· Adjusted negative AI attitude for having vassals
· AI no longer refuses to become a vassal because of "your lands too far" when you are actually neighbors
Great Generals
· When a generic Great General is attached to a unit, the unit is no longer given a TXT_KEY name
· Great Generals experience threshold scales with the ratio of Great People threshold to unit production rate
· (so the threshold is the same at all speeds except Marathon where they require 1.5 time more experience)
Multiplayer
· Anonymous play: real player names revealed on game end
· Fix for anonymous mode not being always anonymous
· Fixed some more anonymous play issues
· You can no longer see other player's names in the staging screen for loading a save
· You no longer see the player ID for "waiting to hear from..."
· Fixed selection issue in simultaneous MP for recently-moved units
· Now possible to join a Pitboss game where only AI are left
· Fixed Pitboss not-ready-to-launch bug
· Pitboss no longer crashes when launching as players are joining
· Pitboss no longer crashes when large amounts of text are spammed into the chat box
· Don't allow launching the game with players still in the civ selection screen
· Fixed MP crash when player is eliminated with the trade screen up and performs a trade
· Switched to new GameSpy SDK
· No autosaves generated for PBEM
· Innocent units are no longer penalized when another unit moves near the end of the turn timer and stays selected
· Added "logging enabled" warning for MP
· LAN: No longer possible to spam the network with game refresh requests
Graphics
· Fixed non-shader version of Mehmed
· if too many individual plots need globe rendering, redraw entire globe texture for performance
· Hooked up modern harbor graphic
· Fixed issue where combat zoom did not happen after you just clicked "yes" on the popup to declare war.
· Possible fix for grid crash.
· Kublai / Qin swap
Interface
· Combat odds greater than 99.9% are displayed as such (not rounded to 100%)
· Combat odds less than 0.1% are displayed as such (not rounded to 0%)
· Active resource deals (1 of X) display the correct number for X
· Diplomacy screen: leader attitude once again shown at the top
· Regenerating the map resets the statistics in the Info screen
· Plot indicator rotation no longer gives away your location on the map (north-south hemisphere)
· Fixed Python exception in plotlist mouseover help
· Fixed watermill and workshop tooltip
· Mission queue is no longer cleared after the selection group has used up all its movement from a previous mission
· Fixed cursor location for windowed maximized mode.
· Rally points now work with autopromote
· Canceling a deal in the diplomacy advisor no longer affects the state of any existing diplomacy screen
· Fixed erroneous score display in city screen for games with over 20 number of players
· Foreign advisor: leaderheads no longer cut off when tech or resource trading not possible
· Great Person city bar mouseover shows turns left
· Your cities can now have the same name as an existing city of another civ (to prevent renaming to expose your AI opponents)
· Civ name appears after city names when captured and when Great People are born
· (to avoid confusion now that duplicate names are allowed)
· City selection: Shift-clicking on a selected city de-selects it, just as it works for unit selection
· Fixed sorting bug in Domestic advisor
· Improved performance for large selection groups
· Fixed F6 screen update issue for PBEM
· Fixed civilopedia display for buidings that give raw food/production/commerce/gold/science
· No more warnings for animals at your borders
· No more '&' allowed in player and city names (special character)
· Globeview unit indicator and help text show up correctly for plots with more than one unit
Sound
· Fixed SAM noise issue
· Fixed a sound bug
· Added audio to enemy unit warnings
· Stalin gets Peter's diplo music, not Catherine's
· Fixed audio crash on reload
· Diplomacy music was slightly too loud for new leaders
AI
· AI no longer chooses state religion civics if it has no religion
· City governor no longer overly starves a city when there is not enough food
· Fixed a couple more issues with the city governor
· AI no longer dumps their entire nuclear arsenal on the barbarians
· Fixed bug where AI would sometimes accept trades for your worthless maps
· AI builds bunkers more urgently
· AI city placement improvement
· Improved AI use of 'emphasize' buttons
· Pop-rush and draft AI improvement
· Worker AI improvement
· Improved civics AI
· Tweaked AI building priorities
· Fixed AI accidental war declaration (running into submarine)
Balance
· Increased trebuchet cost to 80
· Quarries give +1 shield with railroads
· Expansive gets +50% production for workers, and just +2 health
· Navigation II requires Flanking
· Leadership gives double experience points
· Stables obsolete with Rocketry (when mounted units upgrade to Gunships)
· Siege units no longer defend after other less powerful units in a stack
· When gifting a unit to a charismatic leader, an experience adjustment occurs.
· (Prevents exploits of gifting units to a charismatic teammate just for them to promote and return them)
· Removed balanced resource option from Mirror mapscript
· Creative gets cheap Libraries
· Organized gets cheap Factories
· Jaguar gets Woodsman promotion instead of 25% jungle defense
· Bureaucracy: High upkeep
· Representation: +3 Happy in largest cities
· Civil Service requires Mathematics
· Pyramids cost 500
· Colosseum and Odeon cost 80
· Masonry has higher religious weight
· Mall: +20% gold
· Guerilla3 gives +30% withdrawal in addition to hills attack bonus
· Walls give 25% protection to bombardment (so they are relevant even in high-culture cities)
· Castle gives 25% protection to bombardment
· Spanish Citadel gives +5XP to siege
· Heroic Epic available with a level 4 unit
· Shrines immune to nukes
· Gallic Warrior can also be built with Copper
· Military Academy: +50% production for military units
· Military Academy requires Education
· Military Academy gives 3 culture
· Oracle, Stonehenge, Great Wall no longer available in Classical starts
· Great Wall gives just 1 Great Person point per turn
· Temple of Artemis: reduced cost to 350
· Barbarians can have Spearmen
Misc bug fixes
· Fixed first strike chance bug
· Enemy spies no longer visible from GlobeView!
· Barbarians can no longer build any of the Wonders
· Fixed potential crash
· Old .Civ4WorldBuilderSave files are recognized and loaded
· Can't gift a unit if the recipient is over the limit (missionaries, spies)
· Units cannot jump into enemy territory when expelled
· When you lose a Wonder race and you have a Settler/Worker queued up next in that city, you no longer get food counted both in the food and production boxes.
· Fixed crash with flip of city that contained troops loaded into a transport.
· Fixed several other potential crashed of the same type.
· Fixed crash bug
· Fixed bug with research overflow
· Fixed load unit into transport crash
· Fixed selection group cycling crash
· Can't capture Greek Odeon (gives culture)
· Raised Worldbuilder culture limit from 1000 to 100000000
· No longer possible to bombard a city with zero defensive modifier
Text
· Fixed Stonehenge strategy text
· Updated credits
· Fixed typo in Hannibal civilopedia entry
· Fixed inaccuracy in Great General civilopedia entry
· Fixed Pavilion spelling
· Updated Celtic city list
· Fixed Louis diplomacy text bug
· Egypt civilopedia text fix
Modding
· Updated PythonHelp feature
· exposed getCurrentEra to Python
· Added some missing python auto-doc information
· Added Python override to prevent razing of a city
· Leaders with no favorite civic appear in civilopedia
· Genghis Khan Scenario
· Removed Pinch promotion
· Chinese Unification Scenario
· Can now build Galleys in all 'river' coastal cities
· Imperialist Trait now grants 50% Settler production bonus as expected
· Alexander the Great Scenario
· Reset Variables at the beginning of the game; fixes the 2 Alexander if the scenerio is restarted.
· Scenerio->Scenario
· Only available for single-player games
· Peloponnesian War Scenario
· Non-english text fix for Peloponnesian War
Vikings Scenario
· fixed bug where Red marking circles did not show up after loading a save
Omens Scenario
· Player can no longer gift Missionaries to the AI to convert them to their religion and win easily