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Sexy Leaders Races 🔞
Races for GalCiv III made using the "Sexy Leaders", "New Sexy Leaders", and "New GalCiv3 BG's" files

Gauntlet's Race Mod
Additional content for custom races including portraits, logos, backgrounds, and, most importantly,

New GalCiv3 Logos
While making races for GC3, I usually look for a new logo. As I search, I find, crop, and size many

New GalCiv3 BG's
Assortment of new backgrounds

New Sexy Leaders 🔞
More Sexy Leaders.

Planetary Diversity
Expands upon the variety of planetary types available in game with an append style mod

Galactic Diversity Custom Traits
The goal of Galactic Diversity is to expand upon the original custom race traits and provide some in

SaladinTheKind's 100 (plus 12) custom races pack (adult content included) 🔞
This archive contains 100 custom races. I tried to give original thought and design to each and ever

More Anomalies
The More Anomalies mod does just that, adding multiple new anomalies of all types.

Overpowered Racial Ability and Extremely Powerful Starting System Mod
This mod adds "Overpowered" racial ability that gives you a plethora of bonuses in pretty much every

Macs Larger Planets and Genesis Project
MOD: Macs Larger Planets Mod v2 MOD TYPE: Planetary Improvement - Larger Planets Genesis Project All
Insane-abundant balance Mod
the Insane-Abundant Balance mod created to balance the game for larger maps.

GalCiv 3 Ship Design Expansion Pack
Provides around 400 new ship designs to play with as alternatives for the regular ships, as standard

Tech Tree Viewer - Editor
Latest Version 0.1.8.4Small fix for missing Text, TraitsCreate custom Tech trees, modify existing on

Ginufe's Racial Diversity
Adds 17 new unique foregrounds and leader avatars to them for you to choose from!

Enhanced Terraforming
Adds 5 repeatable terraformers, allowing you to terraform the planet eventually completely.

Hereward's Planet Traits
Additional planet traits and slight modifications of stock planet traits. Version 2 introduces Almos

Steam Backgrounds
100 Steam Backgrounds for use as Leader Backgrounds.

Mobile Asteroid Processor Module
This mod adds a new module and number of custom ships to the game. The new module provides unlimite

Hereward's Planet Features
Additional planet features and a bug fix.

Dead Planet Colonization Module
A tier 3 mercenary ability allows for the colonization of dead planets on the map. Added module and

Mossman's Galactic Civilization 3 Overhaul
An extensive overhaul of Galactic Civilization 3 for the purpose of balance and internal consistency

Glamour Model Factions 🔞
GC3 factions of glamour models to play as, or against.

Stellar Diversity
A small mod to add diversity during map creation.

Expanded Cities for GC3 Crusade
Provides new city types that give you more granular control over a planet's population.

More Hull Types
The original game has 6 different hull types, tiny, small, medium, large, huge and cargo. This Mod i

Sexy Leader Citizen Portraits - EXP2 Crusade 🔞
Citizen Portraits for use in the Sexy Leader Universe of GalCiv III Crusade expansion

Sexy Leader Minor Races 🔞
Created to round out the Sexy Leader Universe of currently 59 races, with 39 Sexy Leader Minor races

Hereward's Galactic Modifications
A collection of mods that alter the galaxy environment.

SyrkreIcons04.zip
Multiple sets of logos #101 - 161, #162 - 215, minorFactions (50 icons)

Palette - A Ship Appearance Overhaul
Changes the GradientMap files in GFX to a standardized graphic for use in the original game, and in

Sexy Leader Anomalies
This mod adds a ton of extra Anomalies to GalCiv III
Crusade Anomalies Mod
This mod is a collection of three mods that add anomalies for greater variety. The Resource Anomali

Steam Logos
Steam Emoticons for use as Civilization Logos in packs of 100.

Colonize Dead Planets
This mod allow you to colonize Dead Planets.

Hereward's Star Types
Star definition types have been modified to reflect real star ratios regarding size and abundance. T

SyrkresIcons01.zip
A bunch of icons I use, many are custom.

Starfleet Academy
Starfleet Academy planet improvement

Hereward's Spiral Galaxies
Adds three additional spiral galaxy masks to the game. When Spiral Galaxy is selected for a new game

Full 8-planet SOL system
Full 8-planet SOL system

Peregrine's Battle Behavior Mod
Battle behavior is changed for all ship roles in order to add tactical depth.

Better Construction Modules
This mods adds five tiers of construction modules that are unlocked through the mining tech tree. Th

Administrator Training Institute for GC3 Crusade
Adds a colony unique improvement that trains one administrator for a colony.

Prepared Ability
Adds "Prepared" civ ability:"Starts with Militarization, Weapons Systems, Defense Systems, and Orbit

Star Gate modules for military starbases
Makes Star Gate military starbase modules available for instant one-way travel to other owned planet

Hereward's Faction Mods
A collection of faction mods that uses my Planet Traits mod for their homeworlds and for one faction
Resource Mission Mod
This mod adds Shipyard Missions that award resources. The total of 12 new missions are available upo

StarWars and StarTrek Race Content
Some logos, portraits, and backgrounds from Star Wars and Star Trek. All rights reserved by their re

syrkresFactionImages02.zip
A collection of Faction Images for developing factions.

Propaganda Center Improvement
This mod eliminates the LEP by way of a simple planetary improvement
Star Names Text
Star names for GC3.

Simple Ideology
This mod makes ideology cost cheaper. (from 10/20/30... to 10/15/20...)

Ender's Mod Overhaul Pack
Overall, I overhauled the game to accomplish the following:Remove restrictions on technology that we

Stellar Coherence
Adds Venus, Uranus and Neptune to Solar system. Also adds a lot more star variations for gameplay an

GalCiv 2 Mod Items
Usable logos, portraits, ect., from Galactic Civilizations 2

Custom Home System
Update 07/04/2022: Added a 2nd custom Home System; A 26 tile Home World and some asteroids. Called T

Race Trait Improved
Changing racial traits. Racial bonuses now have a tangible impact and are useful.

United federation of planets
This mod adds United federation of planet faction crossovered with mass effect races. Featuring: Ass

Fun Again
Simple but significant changes to make the game fun again. Removes adjacency system, changes one-per

Budroi's Map Pack
A small collection of custom maps.

SyrkresCivAdminPortraits.zip
Collection of Citizen Portraits which allows you to customize Human civs. Portraits created from EVE
Jump Gates 1.0
this mod adds JumpGate Starbases to the game.

Planets Traits-Features-Icons Improvements for Retribution
Extra Extreme planets, more icons and some traits/features balancing

Bluestar Tech and Stuff
Requires Crusades.Not greatly balanced but its something that I made for myself and decided to let o

MinorFactionImages.zip
A collection of images for Minor Factions (Foregrounds and Logos - 99 images of each). Random Minor

Colony Capital Relocation
Allows to destroy colony capitals and rebuild them elsewhere on the planet. Still does not allow to

TechCostModifier
Adjust tech costs for a longer (or shorter) research game. No modding experience needed. No need to

SyrkresIcons02.zip
50 new logos - more evil in nature

Population Rebalance
Rebalance the game around the new lowered population count

Wonderful Galaxy
Changes one-per-galaxy buildings to one-per-player.

MercRoleMod
Fixes many of the combat roles mercenary ships have to make them more useful.

Artifacts tweaks for Retribution
Artifacts tweaks

Removable Buildings
Allows you to remove most buildings.

Shipyard Missions upgrade for Retribution
Shipyard Missions upgrade

Official Sounding Star Names
Provides "realistic" sounding star names for the entire 3,790 possible names that shipped with Galac

Carrier Fighter Tweaks
My attempt to "fix" carriers. Fighters will load weapons appropriate to what weapons you've research

Guardian of Orion - MoO mini-mod
Adds a non-playable race long time gone called the Orionites. Their abandoned homeworld of Orion has

Reasonably More Exp Gain from Combat
Speed up you (and your opponent)'s Exp gain from combat by giving exp bonus from beating "Experience

Hereward's Star Map No Nebula
Star Map No Nebula Mod removes the nebula from the star map background.

Commander Mod for Gal Civ 3 Crusades
A mod that changes how the basic command ship works as we'll as completely changing the Martyr upgra

General Pants' Return of the Immense Map
This mode brings back the old 'immense' map, without doing away with the 'ludicrous' map. Basically,

Events Improvements and Fixes for Full Game
Attempt to balance, fix, make worth wile in game events of all kind (colonization, early events, meg

New Republic
Formerly an industrialist movement founded on Wisp, the New Republic seceded from the Altarian Repub

Asterit Crystals
Asterit crystals have learned to master hypnotic powers to force any species passing through their s

Ship Animation Speed
Accelerates the movement speed of ships by 2 times.

Hereward's Star Map Reduced Nebula
Star Map Reduced Nebula Mod reduces the nebula in the star map background.

General Pants' Scientific Accuracy Mod I Stars
Substitutes true RGB colors, proportional sizes and intensities for stars. Also enables multiple new

Fast Commanders
Increased speed and range of commanders.

GalCiv3 TechFix - Vanilla
Vanilla game files

Dominion of the Korx
Adds the Korx race of previous Galactic Civilizations games as a playable faction with their Korx sh

My Milky Way
Basically... our Milky Way for Galactic Civilizations III!

Government rework (with delayed WAR version) for Retribution
Government rework, with delayed WAR version
Better Galaxy Mod
A mod to change star and planet diversity and density, plus racial traits changed

DD's Civs
Adds two new human civilizations to the game: Star Federation and War Clan. These are added via the

Ideology Cost
Updated Simple Ideology mod for the current version of DLS Retribution.

Hereward's Pharaonic Malignity Faction
Having heavily polluted their homeworld with the consumption of hydrocarbon fuels the Pharaonic Mali

Farming Freedom
Removes the prerequisite for Arable Land from Farms.

Hereward's Rwaddi Shrewdness Faction
The Rwaddi Shrewdness are a race of arboreal primates more at home on their jungle world of Juelow t

Reasonably More Exp Reward
Updating the mod for the current version (these files infrequently required updating). Requires DLS

Hereward's Stratus Urbanites Faction
The Stratus Urbanites are a peaceful race relying on tourism and trade. They have fully utilized sci

Traditional Farming for Retribution
Traditional farming/arable land construction for Retribution

GC3 Logos
A small collection of logos for GC3.

Expanded Human Citizen Names
Expands the possible combinations of human names for Citizens (Crusades Expansion) and "Word on the

Cybran Race Animation

Hereward's Naeb Aggregation Faction
The Naeb Aggregation are a peaceful aquatic race driven by the necessity to adapt and colonise other
Tactical Combat Re-balance
Re-balances ship weapon and defense modules based physics concepts and starbases based on large asse

Simple Custom Race Animation
Monolore Synthesis

Simple Custom Race Animation - 2
Noss Directive Leader

MyMilkyWayGalaxyMod
This mod is designed to create an immersive experience for the player, it adds some graphic assets,
OneDot3NearlyUsable - Less Suck Governors
a fast pass through GovernorBonusDefs.xml to grant them earlier & make them actually useful for huma

Normal Trade
Removes the increase in the cost of trading with AI on high difficulties.

Sid Meier's Galactic Civilization III
What happened following the colonization of the Alpha Centauri system...

Population to Raw Production at -.75 exponent
Crusade removes the need for this, as the modifier is now 1.0. Increase Raw production effect from p

Federation Ship Pack
A pack of over 60 ship templates from Star Trek for your custom United Federation of Planets faction
ILO Insane - loose clusters - occasional
overhaul of the tech tree and some starbase/shipyard stuff to accommodate insane, loose clusters, wi

Named Bayer Stars Only
Provides actual "real" names for 2,170 stars in Galactic Civilizations III

SyrkresIcons03PirateNation
Collection of Pirate Nation Icons for Galactic Civ II (or other games).

Battle Viewer Mod
Removes damage values, "Deflected", and "Missed" text popups from the battle viewer.
Focus Mod
A small mod that makes 4 changes: All focuses set to 100% Colony hubs give social manufacturing inst

DH13 Logos for GC3
New custom race logos created with the amariah graphic design software

Alert System Improvement for Retribution
Alert system upgrade

No Mercenaries
This removes mercenaries while still allowing the Mercenaries DLC.

Red Earth Mod
Note: haven't updated but if anyone wants to use this tell me and I will.Tweeks I've made including:
Marigoldran AI mod
A small mod that makes the expansionist AI play as Marigoldran for the opening 50 turns. It just chu

Thulium Blue
Changes thulium deposit color on main map from dull blue green to bright blue.
YorSchism
The Yor have experienced a with a schism and gone in different directions that disagree on how they

Bigger Nebulae
The vanilla game has these tiny nebulae which don't really present much of an obstacle, especially w

Breen_vs_Xindi_300.zip
A GC3 save game, around 300 turns in.

Ender's modpack revised
Planned translation of Ender's Mod Overhaul Pack. But during playthrough I decide to change few game

Ship Component - world flipper
This is a wingame-command level cheat. Worth playing, once, when you are in the mood to rampage thro
How to Install Galactic Civilizations III Mods
How do I get started with Galactic Civilizations III mods?
Install via a mod manager (Vortex or Mod Organizer 2). Most mods drop into the game folder.
Are Galactic Civilizations III mods free?
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