

It is possible to switch sides during Season Unending peace talks.However, the losing ending is regarded as buggy and broken. It is now possible to lose battles and eventually the entire Civil War.Sometimes one or two dragons will appear over Hold battles (the chance is called "Party Crashers" in the mod configuration menu).Hold capitals can come under siege and must be defended to maintain control of the Hold ("Spanish Inquisition" event outside the core questline, allegedly disabled in the final mod release).

Spies are added for both sides and they only attack either opposing sides that occupies Hold city capitals.Guards will now become hostile whenever you wear the uniform of either an Imperial or Stormcloak soldier.More variety of soldiers, featuring racial diversity in the Imperial Legion (the original game uses only fair skin tone for Redguard soldiers).Tactics will be used with ranged enemies (mages and archers), staying back and suppressing the opposing side, while close-combat units charge forwards. Both sides will gain Mage and Thief class soldiers to fight for their side. The Stormcloaks will gain Giants and wolves, while the Imperials will get Champions (strongest unit) and hounds (counter to stormcloak wolves). The AI is also improved along with classes of enemies.

Failing to win a battle causes the enemy faction to attack one of your cities (expect to be approached by a courier after some in-game days for instructions what to do next).

Battle odds depend on the number of soldiers killed previously (so-called "Murder Mayhem score"). The cut content hold capital city battles are restored and occur after the hold campaign missions and fort battles (which are somewhat randomized, and also include an extra mission to assassinate enemy commander). The main feature of the mod is to completely re-make the Civil War design in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. There are currently Special Edition and Legendary Edition ports of the mod's Redux that is in beta and patching bugs left over from the original version of the mod. On May 6th 2020, Apollowdown made a Reddit post on r/skyrimmods announcing that he was allowing Civil War Overhaul to be put back on the Nexus and released the source code allowing anyone to work on the mod picking up from where he left on. It was avalible again from November 9th to November 16th, On January 10th, the mod was permanently removed with the results of the United States presidential election and people who disagree with Apollodown politically enjoying the mod as the given reason. Starting on October 15 2016, the mod has been hidden, due to the mod author making a statement regarding U.S. This mod had been implemented in the compilation Epic Gameplay Overhaul. Civil War Overhaul was a mod in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which added new quests to the Civil War between the Stormcloaks and Imperials, which never appeared in game due to time limitations.
