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Greece Rebalanced

This entire mod started because I was watching videos on the Peloponnesian War and thought "huh, it's odd that Greece doesn't have any bonuses to navy."
This is a smaller mod in scope than my previous two Rebalances, but I hope that it shakes up gameplay enough to be worth it!
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Politeia: Greece's new (updated) Unique Ability, in addition to +3 influence on the palace, they also now have a highly prohibative increase in cost towards converting founded towns into cities (I tried my best to straight up make it impossible, but Sid Meier thwarted my attempts). However, this comes with a heavy discount towards converting Incorporated City States. The idea here is that you found strategic and useful towns, while surrounding them with former city states!

Oikistes: Greece now has a unique settler, the Oikistes! These are only trainable in settlements with 10 pop (instead of the usual 5) meaning expansion will come online much later, however they have quicker movement, larger sight, and start with an extra 2 population when founding! For some reason it seems like the first founded settlement will start with more than 3 pop, I wasn't able to rectify this.

Parthenon: The Parthenon has been given the fortification tag! I wanted to give this to the Acropolis itself, to reflect how it was often a defensive location in the city, but it didn't seem to work.

Acropolis: The Acropolis' +2 Gold per Suzed City State has been updated to also provide +2 Gold per City in your Empire, so as not to penalise you for Incorporating, and to give it stronger carry forward in case you don't focus on City States as much in future ages.

Culture Tree: The Greek Culture has recieved a new node, along with a mastery! After completing Symmachia, you will can now progress to Arche, which will unlock a new tradition: Sympoliteia! As well as an increase in naval unit speed. The mastery will grant a settlement limit.

Sympoliteia: Unlike with the previous Rebalances, I felt that the Greek Traditions had very good staying power, so rather than tweak them, I added Sympoliteia which grants +50% Influence towards Incorporating City States.

Narrative Events: Two new narrative events have been added! One, themed around the Peloponnesian War is unlocked after researching Symmachia! The second replaces the old event for building the Oracle as Greece. I felt it was quite lacking, being a choice of a small amount of Happiness or Culture. Now you will be prompted to decided the cultural leader of the Hellas!

Peloponnesian War: This narrative event has you deciding to join either the Delian or Peloponnesian League, each granting different bonsues from different types of City States. The Delians are focused around expansion and naval warfare, while the Peloponnese are more focused on traditional warfare.
Delian: Scientific, Expansionist, Diplomatic
Peloponnese: Militaristic, Cultural, Economic

Government: Choosing Sparta as the Cultural Hegemon of the Hellas will give you a new government type, the Diarchy. This gives you the choice of either increasing Commander Experience Gain, or Culture on killing units while in a celebration.
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This mod was fun to make! Though I fear I might have dived in a bit *too* much. The narrative events were really a pain to hammer out, and unfortunately you can't make it so that multiple levels of the same unit type activate a requirement. Thank you so much to Slothoth for helping me troubleshoot the settlement cost increases and narrative events!