#README: Simply Unzip into C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\CIV3PTW\Scenarios This is a small mod, quite simple in purpose: to allow you to play as the Gaelic Kingdom of Alba. The UU is the Highlander, which replaces Medieval Infantry, and has the same powers and price as the latter, but treats all terrain as roads and upgrades to Rifleman instead of Guerilla. The unit requires Feudalism. Credit to Kindred 72 for the UU. Please note that the city and leader lists for the other civs are more extensive than in the civ3x. There is an accompanying civilopedia entry. This mod was made with v1.21 #LEADER (King) Mael-Coluim #GREAT LEADER LIST Fearghus Mor Oengus Aed Cinaed mac Alpin Domnall Bane Donnchad Dubh Macbethad Dauíd Cunstantin #CITY-LIST Duinatt Duincaillen Chilrimunt Dunfermelyn Strivlin Sgoinde Dineiddyn Inverlet Dunbretane Egglesbreth Benchorin Passeleth Glasgu Inuernis Aberdon Fothuir-tabaicht Guven Duin Duirn Pert Kylpatrick Donde Aberbrudoc Linlitcu Dunnichen Renifry Brychan Lannarc Dynbaer Inniscolum Duinfoither Dunfres Duns Mailros Duns Gedwearde Cambuschynoch Innistuathal Apurnethige Ardach Kynloss Liosmor Dundrennan Selechirche Murthilloch Deer Fores Douern Ar Uilla Leuing Dunbegane Meddfaen Petnaweem Dail Droman Forfare Ruthirglen Dolair Kilkerran Cupre Larghes #CIVILOPEDIA ENTRY #RACE_Celts ^The Scots are $LINK. They start the game with $LINK and $LINK and build $LINK instead of $LINK. ^ Dalriada or Dál Riata (as it was called in Ireland) was the kingdom of the Scots, established by Fearghus Mor (Fergus the Great). These Scots (Gaels) migrated from County Antrim in Ulster to Argyll and eventually gave their name to Scotland. Dalriada eventually overwhelmed the neighbouring Pictish "kingdom", the oldest continuous political structure in mainland Britain. Cinaed (Kenneth) mac Alpin, a Dalriadan, was the first King of the united Picts and Scots - reigning from 840 to 857, as the king of Alba, which at that time meant "Britain" but came to mean "Scotland". The Viking raids of the 10th century broke the sea communication between Ireland and Scotland and contact with the western lands of Dál Riata became difficult. These years of Viking invasions brought the happy years of Gaelic dominion over the whole of the western British Isles to an end, and the "Gaelic Empire" quickly fragmented. From now on the Kingdom of Alba was on its own. ^ Nevertheless, the kingdom created by great Gaels like Fearghus and Cinaed survived and, even although it lost territory in the north and west to Viking adventurers and breakaway Mormaers, it was able to expand at the expense of the comparatively weak Welsh and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to the south. This two way process forced the center of the kingdom east, away from Dunadd to central places like Dunkeld, Scone and Dunfermline. By the time of the death of Sigurd the Stout in 1014, the Jarldom of Orkney's power extended south of Caithness to the Moray Firth. In the south there was a period of piecemeal advancement, marked by raids, slave-raids and temporary annexations to Alba. However, during the reign of Mael-Coluim II (1005 - 34) [Malcolm II] the Gaelic Kingdom began to expand in a definitive manner. Mael-Coluim II was a great king, hailed by Irish annals as "King of Alba, the honour of western Europe". He conquered the Kingdom of Strathclyde-Cumbria and pursued his claims on Lothian and Bernicia (northern Northumbria), while recovering ground in the north and west. At the Battle of Mortlach in 1014, he defeated the Vikings. In 1018, at the Battle of Carham on the Tweed, an English army was annihilated by him in alliance with the Brittons. When the leader of the latter, King "Owen the Bald" died, Mael-Coluim took over his kingdom. The result was a kingdom with frontiers down to Penrith and (just north of) Durham, in the west and east of northern England. #DESC_RACE_Celts ^ However, after Mael-Coluim's death, a disputed succession brought chaos to the kingdom as his successor, Donnchad I (Duncan I), did not gain wide acceptance. Donnchad continued his predecessor's expansionist policies, with aims against Orkney and northern England. In 1039, he failed in an attack on Durham. Afterwards, another claimant to the throne, Macbethad (the famous Macbeth), formed an alliance with Thorfinn, Jarl of Orkney, and deposed him in 1040. But this betrayal resulted in a weakened kingdom unable to maintain Mael-Coluim's policies. ^ In 1066, the Normans took over England. Although Mael-Coluim Caenmor III, [Malcolm III Canmore, {Great Chief}], responded initially by attacking the new kingdom, a mixture of bribes and forces caused him to recognise the new regime. He also took an Anglo-Norman wife - St. Margaret - and by giving his children non-Celtic names, tried to broadcast his Frankisizing credentials. Mael-Coluim responded to the technological superiority of his new Norman neighbours by adopting Norman customs and inviting "Frankish" adventurers from France, England and Flanders to become his vassals in return for land. Although there was a reaction against it under Domnall Bane in the 1090s, over time this process of "Frankification" undermined the Gaelic aristocracy of the Kingdom. It did, however, bring Alba into the mainstream of European politics. The Kingdom also began to move its center to the mostly anglicised southeast of the kingdom and favor Germanic and French speaking immigrants. The last Celtic king of Alba, Alexander III, died in 1286. There followed decades of English interference and Scottish resistance. At the end of this period, a half Celtic, half Norman aristocrat called Robert de Brus took over the Kingdom, but this new regime was primarily of the "Frankish", Anglo-Norman kind, and the Gaels of Alba lost their position as the dominant people of Alba. The permanent achievement of this kingdom was to be the only internationally recognized Celtic Kingdom of the High and Late Middle Ages, to be the largest independent Celtic state of the time and to be last independent Celtic state in history. Scotland survived as an independent state until her formal annexation by England in 1707. Although the Gaels rebelled in 1715 and 1745, both revolts were crushed and followed by policies of cultural oppression and demographic annihilation. In 1900 there were more Gaels in Canada than Scotland.