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The Tapir Witch Chronicles: Immortal Cows
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| Author |
File Description |
| MosheLevi |
Posted on 08/08/08 @ 01:29 AM (updated 08/10/08)
| File Details |
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| Game Version: |
AoE3+TWC+TAD |
| # of Players: |
4 |
The Tapir Witch Chronicles: Immortal Cows
This is a 2V2 Supremacy Multiplayer Scenario (FFA is available too) for 4 players (human or computer).
You can also play this scenario with a friend against the computer.
This scenario offers many interesting new strategies with unique game play abilities.
This scenario is for TAD+TWC (so you need to have them both).
New Features
1. Break the Immortal Cow Spell – Capture as many Sacred Cows, Yaks, and Water Buffalos, and send them to your Fire Circle . The Fire Circle will break the Immortal Cow spell and the animals will return to their original human form.
These powerful mercenaries will then join your army and fight for you.
These powerful mercenaries include: General Custer, Alain, Shogun (that can train stealth warriors), Daiymo (that can train Japanese warriors), Mameluke, Elmeti, Grand Cannon, Heavy Cannon, Black Riders, Swiss Pikemen, and more….
2. Resources Dropping from the Sky – There are 15 Resource Drop Sites around the map where resources fall into periodically. Control as many of these sites as possible in order to collect more resources than your enemy.
3. Raid Villagers with your Super Ninja unit – Your Super Ninja unit is very powerful and it has special abilities. He has 5000 HP and once he is wounded (50% damage) he Teleports himself automatically to the Fire Circle where he can get healed very fast.
Your Ninja is also super fast and you can use him to raid enemy villagers that collect resources at remote drop sites.
You can even Teleport your armies to you Ninja (see next feature).
4. Teleport your Armies behind Enemy lines - You can Teleport your armies periodically from your “ Teleport Court ” to your Ninja. Use this ability to attack enemy villagers at remote drop sites, or to conduct surprise attacks from unexpected locations.
You can even teleport buildings from the Teleport Court .
5. Capture one or both Churches and receive free Priests and/or Boneguards – These Churches are guarded by Boneguard, but once you capture one or both of them you will receive free priests and later on (once you have 5 priests) you will receive free Boneguards.
6. Discover the Secret Magical way to Defeat the Tapir Witches – Once you defeat your enemies the Tapir Witches will appear.
You have to discover the secret magical way to defeat them before they turn your entire army into Cows.
There is a 10 minute time limit to defeat the Tapir Witches before the Flying Siege Tapir Witches show up and blow up all the bases.
The Challenge
The Tapir Witches use a spell that turns near by enemies into Cows…….
Players that defeat the Tapir Witches and provide proofs for doing so will have a chance to win 1 out of the 10 remaining prizes via drawing.
Players will have until August 23rd 2008 to provide such proof before the drawing takes place.
For more information see the official ”The Tapir Witch Chronicles: Immortal Cows“ Scenario Challenge... with Prizes... thread.
EDIT:
A new version has been uploaded.
Now the player can see instructions on how to defeat the Tapir Witches once he defeats his enemies.
You will have the opportunity to fight the Tapir Witches only if you play as player 1 or you ally with player 1 (and he is still in the game).
This is due to Scenario Editor bug that stops the Tapir Witches from moving once player 1 resigns.
Game Play
The main game play is described above in the “New Features” section.
For more information about the game play read the “Story” section.
This is a 2V2/FFA scenario where any combination of teams can be set up.
However, random teams are not supported.
Computer players are also supported.
In fact the computer players are so good at capturing the cows and converting them into mercenaries that even Moderate level can be challenging.
Players start with a fortified base with Fort walls and 4 towers.
Each player gets his own Fire Circle next to his town center.
The Fire Circle heals units very fast so it is important to use it often.
Each player gets constant resources from his home city (every 30 seconds).
However, if you lose your town center (and you don’t have any other town centers) then your home city will stop shipping you resources (until you build a new town center).
If your starting town center is destroyed then the Fire Circle will be deactivated and it will NOT heal army units any more.
There are some resources scattered around the map but not many, so you may not want to train too many villagers.
You CANNOT build resource collection buildings such as Mills, Farms, plantations, Banks, and so on.
You will have to rely mainly on crate collection from the various resource drop sites.
Crates fall from the sky every 90 seconds.
There are many Sacred Cows and some Yaks, and Water Buffalos scattered around the map.
These animals have huge HP and they are also Immortals (you can’t kill them).
Capture as many as you can and send them to your Fire Circle .
The Fire Circle will break the “Immortal Cow spell” and the animals will return back to their original human form.
These powerful mercenaries will then join your forces.
New Sacred Cows, Yaks, and Water Buffalos will constantly appear in the area.
If you lose your starting Town Center then the Fire Circle will be deactivated and it will NOT break the spell “Immortal Cow spell” any more.
Your Super Ninja unit is very powerful and it has special abilities.
He has 5000 HP and once he is wounded (50% damage) he Teleports himself automatically to the Fire Circle where he can get healed very fast.
Your Ninja is also super fast and you can use him to raid enemy villagers that collect resources at remote drop sites.
Your Ninja will not be able to teleport himself to safety if the Fire Circle is deactivated.
You can Teleport your armies periodically (every 60 seconds) from your “ Teleport Court ” to your Ninja. Use this ability to attack enemy villagers at remote drop sites, or to conduct surprise attacks from unexpected locations.
You can even teleport buildings from the Teleport Court .
There are two Churches that can be captured with 5 army units or more.
You receive free Priests and/or Boneguards from these Churches after you captured them.
At first they are guarded by Boneguards, so you will have to kill them before you can capture them.
Players can capture each other’s churches.
Once you capture a church you will receive free priests and later on (once you have 5 priests) you will receive free Boneguards (every 2 minutes).
After you defeat your opponents the Tapir Witches will appear with their armies of wild animals.
The Tapir Witches will turn your army units into Normal Cows once they are within their line of site.
You can shoot at the Tapir Witches from far range but it is impossible to kill them using this conventional method because they have 400,000 HP each.
Your objective is then to Discover the Secret Magical way to Defeat the Tapir Witches.
You have 10 minutes to defeat them.
After 10 minutes Flying Siege Tapir Witches reinforcement will arrive and they will blow up everyone’s buildings.
Normal cows (previously your army) have huge HP but they are NOT immortal.
If you send normal Cows to your Fire Circle (near your TC) they will then turn into Longbows since their original identity has been lost.
Sacred Cows will still be converted to Mercenary units.
Once the Tapir Witches appear, resources will NOT fall from the sky any more.
Every player gets a Flag Bearer that can be used as a way point for rescued mercenary units. All army units from inside the Fire Circle will follow the Flag Bearer automatically.
Explorers are automatically ransomed for the price of 100 gold (I added this feature because the normal random feature doesn’t work for European explorers in custom scenarios).
You CANNOT accumulate more than 11,000 of each resource.
You can locate your Ninja and your Flag Bearer if you can’t find them.
See “Tips” for how to do that.
Once the Explorer has 95% damage he will be ransomed for you automatically for the price of 100 gold.
Your Explorer will reappear inside the Fire Circle where he can heal fast.
Walls are more expensive (50 extra wood per wall connector) so players can’t spam walls.
For additional game play information such as the Story behind this scenario and Tips please visit this thread:
”The Tapir Witch Chronicles: Immortal Cows“ Scenario Challenge
Screen Shots
Map Overview
Stronghold
Stronghold + Teleport Court
Teleport Court
Base
Fire Circle
Landscape
Brave soldiers fighting Lions, Bears, and Cougars
Tapir Witches showing up
Tapir Witches turning army into Cows
Tapir Witches Blowing up the base
Tapir Witches Blowing up what’s left of it
Gameplay Setup
This scenario can be set as 2V2 or FFA.
Teams have to be set on ESO (random teams won’t work).
Any team combination is possible for players 1 through 4.
Players 1-4 can be Human or Computer players (player must be human host).
Possible teams are:
P1 & P2 vs P3 & P4
P1 & P3 vs P2 & P4 (each player is surrounded by two enemies)
P1 & P4 vs P2 & P3
Player 5 MUST be a computer player (assigned for the Tapir Witches and their armies of wild animals).
Computer players are supported and they play good even on Moderate.
This means that you can play the scenarios as 1V1 with computer allies, or you can play it with a friend against two computer opponents.
You can also play it online like a single player scenario with 3 computer players.
Playing the Game
Logon to ESO, go to “Browse Games” and Host the game.
Select game type “Scenario” and then choose the “Tapir Witches....” file name from the list of scenarios.
You can play this scenario with all 14 civs.
All civs have 120 home city level with 25 card deck.
OOS Warning
This scenario allows the host to play Cinematic with Instructions.
However, playing the Cinematic in Multiplayer may cause Out of Sync (OOS) error.
It is therefore recommended that you play the cinematic only in single player mode or when you play the scenario on ESO by yourself.
This OOS error is due to Editor Bug that messes some of the triggers after Cinematic.
The default for this scenario is “No Cinematic”.
The host has only a few seconds to move his explorer inside the Fire Circle to invoke the Cinematic.
Installation Instructions
Copy the scenario to "My Documents/My Game/Age of Empires 3/Scenario" folder.
Special thanks
Special thanks to Random22 and Pftq for their great “Advanced Trigger Effects”.
I used their custom triggers to add new features to this scenario.
I want to thank pftq for the second time for trying to help me solve the Out of Sync (OOS) errors that occur when the player chooses to play the cinematic.
Thank you,
Moshe Levi
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| KevTheGreat |
Posted on 08/08/08 @ 01:11 PM |
| Spector17 |
Posted on 08/08/08 @ 05:36 PM
:P |
MosheLevi
Staff
Official Reviewer
File Author |
Posted on 08/08/08 @ 06:36 PM
That was fast, lol.
Sound like he was working on it all day. :p
Here is what you need to know on how to defeat the Tapir Witches:
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There are 15 Supply Drop locations in this scenario.
If you take a look at them you will see that they look just like the Fire Circle at your base but without the fire.
These supply drops are in fact deactivated Fire Circles.
Once the Tapir Witches show up they deactivate the supply drops.
That allows your Super Ninja with the help of your Flag Bearer and a Priest to Activate the dormant Fire Circles by moving these 3 units inside each supply drop.
Every time you activate a Fire Circle 20,000 HP damage is inflicted upon the Tapir Witches.
Not only that, their Max HP also goes down by 20,000.
In addition to that you can move Cows inside any of these activated Fire Circles and the cows will become military units once again.
You can the use them to keep fighting the Tapir Witches.
Once you activate 10 ore more Fire Circles, and you inflict 5% (around 10K) damage on any Tapir Witch with your military units, then the Tapir Witches will run away from you (and be defated).
You must do all that within 10 minutes before the timer runs out.
Now we enter the second phase of the contest.
Use the method above to defeat the Tapir Witches on “Moderate” or “Hard” difficulty and send me screen shots (via email) that prove that you have defeated them using this method.
My email address is: [b]MosheLeviM@aol.com[/b].
You can also play this scenario online if you wish against human or computer players.
I have 12 RTS game prizes to give away to players who send me the proof of victory.
The winners will be decided via drawing.
The due date to send these screen shots is: August 23th 2008.
Good luck to everyone. :)
[Edited on 08/08/08 @ 07:07 PM]
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| KevTheGreat |
Posted on 08/08/08 @ 09:33 PM
A very fun map, especially figuring out how to defeat those witches, however, I believe that this map was overly complicated, which is good and bad. Good- new and unseen and will not be bored with this scen for a long, long time. Bad- even watching through the cinematic and reading the instructions, i was still confused about the flag bearer and how to teleport. However I got how to do this after about 25min into the game. There was also a problem when trying to find the "drop sites" it was hard to look for them since there was so many, the flares did help a bit but it made the minimap over crowded since there was also the animal flares. In addition it was hard trying to find the "drop sites" during the witches attack, since the flares were gone, the 10min to go to them also did not help. I also could not keep track of the herdables during the game since there were so many, and you had to be managing an eco, fighting, etc. Therefore this part deserves a 3.5, but i decided to give you a 4.
Balance: 5
All civs can win since this does not depend on brute force, it depends more on strategy to destroy the enemy tc and arriving at the drop sites within the time limit. The decks were ok for each civ, nothing that I can complain about here
Creativity: 4
A creative map, however not deserving a 5, this is basically a sup map with two small additions, animals that turn into soldiers, and the witches that need to be killed through arriving at certain points on the map. Once this is discovered the map loses its creativity since you know what to do.
Map Design: 5
Normal amount of eye candy, complex scenario, I can tell you took a very, very long time on this map. Well deserving a 5, all I can recommend is probably adding some casualties, rubble, etc. To show the past battles between the ppl and the witches.
Story/Instructions: 5
The cinematic was okay, not good and not bad. However the instructions could not explain ppl everything about the scenario since there were many complex things about it, there is nothing I can think for you to improve this. The map is just overly complicated which I stated above can be a good and bad thing.
Additional Comments:
Another awesome map of yours, however I would prefer Annihilation. Also, could you make it so that the herdables go toward your fire circle when you capture one, instead of when they are inside your base.
[Edited on 08/09/08 @ 01:17 PM]
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MosheLevi
Staff
Official Reviewer
File Author |
Posted on 08/09/08 @ 01:09 PM
Thank you for your nice detailed review KevtheGreat, and congratulations for figuring out the “Secret Way” to defeat the Tapir Witches.
You made some good points in your review and I am going to address some of them, but “Instructions not explaining everything?”, are you kidding me?
I have instructions in 3 places.
First, we have the cinematic that explains the basic features.
You said you didn’t understand how to teleport, but the on-screen instructions about Teleportation say and I quote: “You can Teleport your armies periodically from your “ Teleport Court ” to your Ninja.”.
That is simple, it means you move army units inside the Teleport Court, just like to movies, lol.
We also have detailed instructions in the Objectives button and there are additional instructions that are showing during game play via messages and mini map flashes.
What else do you expect me to do? Send you an audio tape with more instructions? Lol.
The flag bearer is just a minor bonus and it’s easy to see that the units in the fire circle follow it. I don’t need to explain every little thing like that.
So this scenario definitely deserves 5 according to the guidelines.
I agree with you that it is hard to manage everything.
I noticed that too when I started testing the scenario.
However, after a few games I started to play faster and more efficiently.
I think this scenario can really help players to play faster.
I have made some changes just now to spawn the Cows with some delay so there will be fewer cows to capture.
I also think that players shouldn’t worry much about the economy collecting resources with villagers.
The main resource here is the Cows that convert to mercenaries so spending more time on that is much more valuable than collecting a few extra resources with villagers.
I added a few resources on the map just for those players who are very very fast as a bonus.
Handling the supply drops is easy – send 1 villager to each one of them and you are done.
This villager will collect the resources all the time (with little idling time).
This game is also a good memory game, lol (I am sure you used to play some of those).
Having to remember where everything is – is a challenge but we get better with that as we practice.
I wish I could find a way to mark those drop sites on the mini map, but the Editor doesn’t give us anything for that.
So I placed the drop sites in a symmetrical way in a cross shape with a few extra sites behind the bases.
As I played the scenario a few times I was able to memorize the location of most of these drop sites.
In any case, you reviewed the scenario before I completed it.
Now that the secret to defeat the tapir witches is revealed I added instructions on how to defeat them, including flares on the supply drops.
As you activate the fire circles the flashes will only show the fire circles that weren’t activated yet.
That should help players find the supply drops.
About your suggestion to send captured herdables towards the fire circle automatically – I appreciate the suggestion but I don’t want the scenario to do everything for the player like “Coliseum” does.
Herdables go automatically to the fire circle from inside the base – that is already a big help. It is then much easier to select the herdables and then just right click on the base on the mini map.
No one said players have to capture all the herdables in the area. They just have to capture more herdables than their opponents do.
I was thinking to reduce the number of herdables but the scenario will then be more like a normal supremacy game where the economy (collecting resources) is playing a major part.
So I delayed the herdable spawning by extra 20 seconds so that should at least help a little.
I am now testing the new version and should publish it soon.
Thank you again for your review, and sorry for the long reply, lol.
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| KevTheGreat |
Posted on 08/09/08 @ 01:15 PM [Edited on 08/09/08 @ 01:16 PM]
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MosheLevi
Staff
Official Reviewer
File Author |
Posted on 08/09/08 @ 01:19 PM
Thank you, :) |
| KevTheGreat |
Posted on 08/09/08 @ 01:21 PM |
MosheLevi
Staff
Official Reviewer
File Author |
Posted on 08/10/08 @ 10:02 AM
Now the player can see instructions on how to defeat the Tapir Witches once he defeats his enemies.
You will have the opportunity to fight the Tapir Witches only if you play as player 1 or you ally with player 1 (and he is still in the game).
This is due to Scenario Editor bug that stops the Tapir Witches from moving once player 1 resigns.
Edit:
Players start with MAX population so there is NO need to build houses.
This was done to make it easier with Micro Management.
Fewer Cows will be seen now around the map since it takes for the Cows longer time to RE-Spawn.
[Edited on 08/10/08 @ 04:21 PM]
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Mister SCP
Staff |
Posted on 08/26/08 @ 03:47 PM
Is playable Map. Decks arent really interesting and dont offer many strategies. U forbid eco buildings so the player should use drop sites. So i have everytime less ressources and that makes the game [a bit] boring and much more boring in ffa. I prefer if u would limit eco buildings instead of forbid or make mor ehuntables and trees.
Edit: I played it a bit false. My main goal was to get ressouces from drop sites instead of capture cows so i give you a 4 here
Balance: 4
Only unit hc cards and other stuff like in sup. All civ without sioux can wall in the drop sites and protect against units. A unfair disadvantage for sioux which make it much harder. Also you set eco lvl the same with ur drop site. There countrys with cheaper units and weaker eco can easily profit.
Edit: to start with a pop of 220 (!atztec!, idk if other civ do the same but i u should check russia, china and other natives) isnt the best way of balancing a scenario, is it?
Edit2: A result of playing it false... But a bit disadvantage the sioux have and to wall a dropsite cost only 490 :P. You cant say that a 220 pop limit dont matter but because of mercs it has not that big role.
Creativity: 4
A few never seen functions like tapir change unit type lmao, also the europeen explorer come back to base :)... . I found it not so interesting to find a special way on defeat Tapir Witches but i think some player like to do it and so i decide to give u a 4
Map Design: 3
A symetricial desert with 2 churches, less huntables and trees... Come on what could be a reason to give u more points here. I dont forget it but it`s standart in scenarios to create 4 bases isnt it? I cant give u everwhere points where u beg for or all scenarios will get a 5, sry.
Story/Instructions: 4+1
OK very long with big OOS danger.It show you main goal:defeat the tapir witches after destroy your enemies [...]
Edit: I think it`S not that good like guidelines tell story/instruction has to be but to make u happy: 5
Music(unofficial):3
Music is in your scenario congratz (1st of three scenarios). Not self choosen but for a sup game ok
Additional Comments:
Not your best map. I also dont want to replay it because of boringnes.But u use triggers which are a step for the future :).[Edited on 08/27/08 @ 08:52 AM]
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| Rating |
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| 4.5 | | Breakdown |
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| Playability | 4.3 | | Balance | 4.7 | | Creativity | 4.3 | | Map Design | 4.3 | | Story/Instructions | 5.0 |
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| Downloads: | 1,186 |
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| Size: | 386.79 KB |
| Added: | 08/08/08 |
| Updated: | 08/10/08 |
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