Anyone know any startegy games where you can play as Ireland?

Fr.Ebula Conundrum

Pretty self explanatory..

CrazyBiscuit

I know some of the old Civilisation games allowed you to play as Ireland, I can't remember which one though.

The Civilisation 4 expansions let you play as the Celts (it's as close as you might get).

Gonzovision

Medieval Total war with mods, cant remember which one.
Europa Universalis, you can play as any of the provinces, highly recommended.
Hearts of iron 3 also

Sasquatch76

gonzovision wrote: »

Medieval Total war with mods, cant remember which one.

You can play as Ireland in one of the Kingdoms campaigns (expansion for MIITW). And yeah, there is a mod which allows you to play a MIITW campaign (albeit on a larger map) with all the factions from MIITW and all four Kingdoms campaigns (including Ireland). Kingdoms Grand Campaign Mod. Note that you need the Kingdoms expansion as well as Medieval II to play this (and other brilliant) mods.

Branoic

The Civ 4 thing is pretty cool. Ok, so they're officially the Celtic faction, and you have to rename all their default cities when founding them if you want Irish cities, but the military units reply to you in Irish when you issue them orders. I remember thinking that was so awesome first time I played Civ 4.

bleg

You can play as the Irish on Alpha Centuri.

ChunkyLover_53

Hearts of Iron 1,2&3 there was a cheat or editor for HOI2 where you could upgrade any countries arsenal or technology, I did it twice with Ireland, 1st time around I gave them everything & conquered the world lol

2nd time around I just tweaked them a bit to give them a fighting chance ended up in control of the allies but that was more to do with a gameplay bug than anything else

Haven't played them in HOI3 yet

EU3 lets you play as 1 of the 4 provinces & gives you the mission to unify Ireland, but as always those pesky english have other ideas

Medieval Total War I: The Viking invasion expansion lets you play as Ireland in all scenarios great game if you like Braveheart-esque epic battles

And a lot of the early CIV games had an Irish faction that could be added via a mod.

Also a long time ago I remember playing a Dublin scenarion in one of the SimCity games

cherryghost

There's an Age Of Empires III mod that adds the Irish Civ IIRC


EDIT: Found it
http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=14,30508,0,10

Riddle101

Civilization 3's expansion pack Play the World allowed you to use a map editor that allowed you to create any faction you wanted. I used to create a map very similar to our own world and added the Irish faction so that I could play as them.

Was really cool, I renamed the Guerrilla Fighter for the Irish faction the Irish freedom fighter and made it Ireland's special unit. Also named hero units after old Irish historical figures like Mick Collins, the 1916 leaders and even Wolfe Tone , lol

Guffy

i made a mod for etw, never uploaded it though i might do now... will post link after weekend

Jeboa Safari

Hearts of Iron 2 is good, can play as Ireland in that but they're fairly weak, has the members of government listed too, and can switch to the opposition too. Can play as any of the 4/5 (think Meath might be there too) provinces in Europa Universalis 3 and unite the country, might possibly be already united at one stage during rebellions if you pick the right year, can't remember fully though. Remember having Wales and Cornwall as vassals before
Can save the game too and pick up again as any country aswell, so could conquer Ireland with England, then release Ireland as a free country, save and start as Ireland, not as fun though

BULLER

In Civ 3 the Celts were pretty much the Irish. Had the Gaelic Warrior as their special unit too.

nacho66

Although you cannot play Ireland In R.U.S.E., which is IIWW based rts, an interesting thing is a skirmish map, that includes few Irish cities like Tipperary, Cashel and Clonmel. I'm not aware of any IIWW battles on Irish soil (know about the bombings tho) but I know there was a german operation called Operation Green that initially assumed invasion of Ireland but eventually ended up as a deception to mislead Brits towards western shores. R.U.S.E. is a RTS game with a strong focus on deceptions. I wonder if there's a link there

degrassinoel

Interesting reading here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Green_(Ireland)

Though i seem to remember it being called 'Emerald' from some documentary.
DeV was a pretty smart guy, fair play to him

Jeboa Safari

degrassinoel wrote: »

Interesting reading here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Green_(Ireland)

Though i seem to remember it being called 'Emerald' from some documentary.
DeV was a pretty smart guy, fair play to him

The Emerald your thinking of could have been the American plan to invade Britain and its empire, Ireland was referred to as Emerald.

And de Valera did more bad than good in my opinion.

GSV

cherryghost wrote: »

There's an Age Of Empires III mod that adds the Irish Civ IIRC


EDIT: Found it
http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=14,30508,0,10

The image of the Fenian unit on that page is classic.
"Fenian man that throws dynamite good against buildings and has a very strong veteran upgrade"

There are more here - http://aoe3.heavengames.com/downloads/lister.php?search=ireland

1916 Irish Rising
lead the irish to freedom in this fastpaste scenario


I just might try that.

kowloon

Arsenal of Democracy, a kind of upgraded version of Hearts of Iron 2, is going for €6.00 on gamersgate.com at the moment, you can play as Ireland. I prefer it to Hearts of Iron 3 which is still a bit buggy.

Gneez

In company of heroes if you play as the brits there's usually someone in your infantry called 'duffy' who the other infantry slag, 'duffy' tends to smoke cigarette's near petrol stores and talks constantly to the point where other infantry tell him to 'stfu you stupid mick'

citizen_p

GSV wrote: »

The image of the Fenian unit on that page is classic.
"Fenian man that throws dynamite good against buildings and has a very strong veteran upgrade"

comical, i dont think many men wore balaclavas at the time.