Due to the popularity and level of customization of the 2003 game Pirates of the Caribbean (POTC), a number of mods was released for it throughout the early 2000's. While most of the mods have since been lost in the depths of the internet, the community behind the New Horizons mod is still thriving more than twenty years after the release of the basegame.

With Caribbean Tales being stripped down on features due to the Disney copyright on Pirates of the Caribbean, the Historical Immersion Supermod not only added historically accurate items, ships, characters and even music but also reintroduced jungles as one of the missing features from POTC and fixed a whole lot of bugs present in the vanilla version of Caribbean Tales.

For those who have already taken a look at the Gentlemen of Fortune mod in the past, it is will known that this mod can be found in various versions with one looking as good as the other. So, let's detangle them: There are three major versions of this mod with them being version 1.2, version 2.0 and version 2.5. All of these three mods are running either on the vanilla City of the Abandoned Ships (COAS) engine or on the Maelstrom engine (thanks to Chezjfrey porting efforts). However, as three different versions are not nearly enough for this mod, in 2021 a fourth version called Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2 Maelstrom refined mod was released. As the name suggests, this version is only available for the Maelstrom engine. In regards to the burning question of which mod is the best, you will receive a different answer each time. Some say that version 1.2, especially in the maelstrom refined version, is the best as it is the most feature rich out of the three. However, there are also some players who like version 2.0 more than 1.2 as it was a step back to the originals with some features being cut to ensure a more stable experience. Lastly, version 2.5 seems to receive the least amount of love out of the bunch since it started out as a CT mod that was ported over to COAS. 

Originally starting out as yet another Gentlemen of Fortune mod, Historical ERAS II quickly evolved into something special as it is, together with the CT Historical Immersion Supermod, one of the only two mods out there that feature nearly full historical accuracy. Not only have ships, characters, quests and items been tweaked in this mod to depict a historically accurate picture of the 17th and 18th century, but even buildings have received a facelift in order to look similar to the time epoche. Therefore, for people interested in history, this mod can only be highly recommended. 

Starting out with what the name suggests, a shippack for COAS, over the years the mod evolved into what is known to be the full package for any Sea Dogs fan out there. Unlike most mods, CorsairsShipPack has also put a strong focus on creating new mechanics and questlines for the game, making it the mod with the most advanced features. However, for many years only the Russian speaking players had the pleasure of enjoying the experience as the developers did not intend for the mod to be translated to English. Nevertheless, the mod was fully translated to English in 2024. 

Emerging from CorsairsShipPack as a return to the basics of COAS with a strong, bug-free foundation, the mod carefully expanded into creating new questlines and overhauling textures and models to create the game COAS should have been from the beginning. As with CSP, for the longest time ReconCOAS was only available to Russian speaking players with this only changing in 2024, when the game will be fully translated to English.