@b4578 Nope.

@Locutus 494 Works in all expansions. Haven't done anything with civ 5 for some time but yes I believe that is correct, it will not apply to games started before enabling the mod.

Does this still work in BNW and G&K? Or does it not affect a saved game I had before getting the mod.

and maded a nice drift too xD

But on Battleship movie, was a obsolete ship that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up those aliens :v

i hope in Civ 6 we get ships with lasers and railguns :D

battleships already can upgrade into missile cruisers

You make sense in your way of thinking.

@dogmeat you meen a ship that can store but not fire missiles?

What we could use is a supply ship. That way missile cruisers and subs can be restocked with missiles if they are too far away from one of your cities...

@Mesh Dont forget the new military lasers, the nerd in me jumped for joy when railcannons and lasers were confirmed to be military prototypes.

@TSL {TFDS} True, unless they're upgraded to railcannons! Coming soon to a 21st century Battleship near you!

@kingkertal, to answer your question about why melt down a perfectly good capital ship; because in modern naval warfare the battleship is sadly obsolete. They're big and obvious targets, and cannons don't have the range and accuracy of missiles, to say nothing of air strikes. Don't get me wrong, I love giant big gunned monster ships too, but sadly building a floating cannon platform isn't really useful to modern navies. So that's the logic for upgrading to missile cruisers, same as cavalry into tanks; the battleship, as with the cavalry, has been made obsolete by technology.

All the battleship needs is a late game buff and it's fine. :]

@Poncy Git, well. Civ is pretty much taking the people on the horses and putting them in tanks. and why would someone melt down a perfectly capital ship for a subcapital ship? :3

@kingkertal, Perhaps that is so, I certainly would prefer to upgrade from a ranged cruiser unit if there was one, alas there is not. Like I say in the description, this one is more about the convenience in gameplay terms than the logical realities or balance.

Though I might argue that transmuting a horse into a tank through some magical (and no doubt horrific) means might make less sense than dismantling and melting down the materials of one ship to make another. :D

I somewhat agree with @kingkertal. The upgrades Iowa-battleships weren't guided missle cruisers. They were battleships with missles. Between the Missouri and Wisconsin (New Jersey had been retired), they delivered over one million pounds of ordenance with their guns during Operation Dessert Storm (AKA First Gulf War). Maybe what we need is a LUA script that allows battleships to carry missles once thay've been developed?

@Poncy Git, true as well, but those upgrades make sense. the battleship to cruiser doesn't.

@kingkertal True, but that disconnect from reality in regard to upgrading units is there for nearly every upgrade in the game. Swords to muskets, cavalry to tanks, fighters to jets, these are just a few examples.

good mod, but it's not realistic. a battleship can't be turned into a cruiser without losing it's massive hull. and less guns.

Thank you, this makes so much sense.

You're welcome! Glad to oblige!

@Carolina Calling Ah very nice, the perceived disconnect from reality was the only really unsolvable issue I could think of while creating this mod, so I'm certainly happy that it turned out to be more historically realistic and accurate than I expected. Thanks for the info.

One more thing; take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship#mediaviewer/File:USS_Wisconsin_%28BB-64%29_launching_Tomahawk.jpg

The US Navy selected three Iowa-class battleships , USS New Jersy, USS Missouri, and USS Wisconsin for missle upgrades. They each received 16 Harpoon (4 quad launchers) and 32 (8 quads) Tomahawk land attack missles (TLAMs), RQ-2 Pioneer UAVs (drones) and 4 Phalanx CIWS gatling guns. They also had fire-control, radar and electronic warfare system updates PLUS they all retained their nine high caliber guns.

During Operation Dessert Storm, Missouri and Wisconsin fired TLAMs. Wisconsin and Missouri also conducted fire missions against targets with their high caliber guns. A Wisconsin Pioneer drone received the white-flag surrender of Iraqi troops during combat operations (heh heh). At cease-fire (28 February 1992), the last Wisconsin fire mission became the final battleship action in the world (to date).

All three are now museum ships.

@2.0: The Dessert Storm operations make them sound as though they were active missle-ships to me.

@2.0 Of course, ideally there would be an industrial/modern era cruiser unit to upgrade to the missile cruiser, alas there is not and introducing an entirely new unit was beyond the scope of this mod (not to mention my ability, heh).
I considered making the upgrade from the destroyer since their in-game roles are more closely related and missile destroyers existing in reality, but there was the melee/ranged issue to consider in that regard which made that ill-advised.

except no battleship ever built has been retrofitted for that role, they have only been decomissioned...

Excellent Job Man, Thank You A Lot!!!