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| Jackrum |
Posted on 01/28/12 @ 06:12 PM
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Moderate |
A fight to the death scenerio taken from my under development campagin exploring the entireity of Roman history. This scenerio focuses on the last stage of the Roman civil war of 69 A.D and takes place in a geographically altered Italia. See the wonders of Imperial Rome rebuild with as much accuracy and beauty as possible - will you keep Rome safe from Vitellius or will you destroy it rebuilding the city in your image? - you decide! |
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Jackrum
File Author |
Posted on 05/08/12 @ 09:16 PM |
| Desecrater |
Posted on 05/22/12 @ 12:59 PM
Lag was the only reducing factor that affected your score here. And lag is one of the biggest score reducers for me.
Balance: 3
A brilliant challenge.
Creativity: 3
The city was marvellous and magnificent, clearly a lot of time spent.
Map Design: 3
Great how the city was seperated between enemy and friend.
Story/Instructions: 3
A simple yet very brilliant story line.
Additional Comments:
Absolutely brilliant over all.
[Edited on 08/13/12 @ 09:52 AM]
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| Kabaman91 |
Posted on 06/19/12 @ 04:26 PM
Too much army, too much lag, over 700? no its not playable at all!
Balance: 3
Enemy is a bit Stronger than me but thats ok
Creativity: 5/5
it looks very very nice!.
Map Design:5
the map looks beautiful
Story/Instructions: 4
good story
Additional Comments:
1/5
no
TOO MUCH SOLDIERS
too much!
attack theer attack theere
here an attack
no this is way TOO MUCH!![Edited on 06/19/12 @ 04:28 PM]
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| Septicemic |
Posted on 08/13/12 @ 09:48 AM
Major lag near the beginning, and actually quite difficult to control so many units without 'overlapping' - maybe you should have put them into ranks.
Balance: 2
Being able to choose a side is a good feature, but did create problems of imbalance, due to lack of control of so many units, so disadvantages couldn't be countered effectively depending on the player you chose.
Creativity: 2.5
A lovely city but a lack of countryside, and a random desert.
Map Design: 4
A lovely city which clearly had a lot of work pumped into it.
Story/Instructions: 2.5
I like the concept, a decent story. Rushingly written though.
Additional Comments:
A good mission, however, after spending so much time on the city, a little extra time could have been spent to 'brush' it off.
Lovely though.[Edited on 08/13/12 @ 09:49 AM]
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| rakovsky |
Posted on 04/03/19 @ 09:11 AM
It was very hard to play because the enemy forces are so numerous, and because they are massed in two main places at the beginning. Your basic goals are: 1) Win the opening battle in the far north at the beginning, 2) Stop the advance of the enemy forces moving southward and then westward in the east, 3) Whittle down the enemy base's defenders and then quickly smash the core of the main enemy base before it sends out lots of villagers and soldiers.
Despite the high number of units, I did not have lag on Single Player, nor playing with Lynn and OKDude/BCD on Multiplayer on AOE:ROR 1.0A, which must certainly be because our computers and connections were good enough.
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Balance: 3
On Single Player, I had to play it on EASIEST mode to win. EASIEST mode was better because the enemy replenished itself less, the enemies fought weaker and less aggressively.
However, in Multiplayer, the forces seem that they should be about equal, because the match looks about even in balance in the map editor. P1 (Vespasian) starts with only 1146 units. P5 has 1144 units, 80,000 of each resource except for holding 50,000 in gold, and has the NE part of the map. Probably the Designer gave both players about equal power in terms of buildings and space. But I had to play it on EASIEST in Single Player, so it felt lopsided against P1. Playing in Multiplayer as Player 1, my forces were similarly depleted in fighting against Player 5, and I am not sure how much this is due to some kind of imbalance in the power of the armies and how much is due to my own gameplay weaknesses.
I did not realize it when I played it on Single Player, but since you as Player 1 are allied with Player 3 ("Egyptian Buildings", set to the "Defensive" Strategy), you can actually tribute them food and other resources and they will produce villagers and build priests and villagers. However, Player 3 is restricted from building many other kinds of forces, and they have few units and buildings to start with, so while they might be able to tip the balance in the favor of Player 1, having help from Player 3 is nowhere near the same as playing a 2 v. 1 match where each player starts with the same size of forces.
So you can use Player 3 to give Player 1's Team a very small boost, but you can also avoid giving Player 3 resources and getting help from P3 if you are Player 1 and want to maintain a more equal set of factors in fighting Player 5.
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Creativity: 5
Good creativity in the map design and story. Nice idea with the Etruscan and Egyptian ruins.
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Map Design: 3.3
For Single Player, I think that it had a Good design, and I would rate it a 4.5 for that. It was neat how it tried to reconstruct the layout of ancient Rome. The downside was that it was so big that it helped make things unwieldy. On the other hand, having a big map made your defenses bigger and made it harder for you to get beaten.
For Multiplayer, unfortunately the giant number of units made playing unwieldy and cumbersome and I would rate it a 2. That brings the Design score to a 3.3 when avergaed for both Single and Multiplayer. The Multiplayer Players' complaints were basically (1) that having so many units on the board at once made managing the locations of battles and resource gathering too difficult, and (2) having such a giant map area filled with an opponent's buildings would require a long time to conquer. In Single Player, the second issue is not as much a problem because you can repeatedly save the game and finish it over time.
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Story/Instructions: 5
Nice story and straightforward instructions.
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Additional Comments:
MULTIPLAYER COMMENTS:
I played as Vespasian with TCM Earthquake Lv.10 (known as Lynn on HG) on my team as Player 3 against OkDude/BCD as Player 5. OkDude/BCD beat my army and took the NE half of the map and had a mass of legion troops and some cavalry in his NE base. I shared a lot of my resources with Earthquake, but she was restricted by the scenario's design settings to building basically villagers, towers, and priests.
BCD resigned at 44-45 minutes into the game, saying that he had lost much of his original army fighting my towers and that it would take an hour to defeat the rest of my base and that it was 2:30 AM where he was. He said that he couldn't destroy the rest of my towers, and nor could he pump out catapults to take them down to him being already well over the population limit. Out of about 1000 starting units total, BCD probably had 200-300 army units left. At that point, I had about 10-20 military units left. Earthquake had about 20-30 priests and a bunch of towers. BCD said that he was keeping his 200 unit army at his base to defend his Wonder, and I don't know that he realized that the Wonders don't affect the Victory Conditions on this map and that the objective is just to defeat the other players.
All three of us Human Players (there was no active AI opponent) had lots of villagers. In my case, I had so many that I would have to sacrifice alot, like by sending them into battle, in order to free up more population room. The instructions did not say what Population limit to use, so I used 50 because it is the original Default. However, the Players told me during the battle that it would have been better to have a 200 population limit because of how many units you start with. Players 1 and 5 both start with over 1000 units, whereas Player 3 starts with maybe about 10.
Also during our game, I shared much (maybe 40 percent of my resources with Player 3). So in effect, although our team had a comparable number of resources to Player 5 in total, We each must have had much fewer resources than him. By giving Earthquake, who is a great player, so many of my resources, I probably limited the total combination of number and variety of units that our side could have fielded against Player 5.
Earthquake's criticisms of the scenario were: "The problem of this map is the saturation. It tires the eye. ... It skips the economic part. There is no real strategy to make a difference on that economic point. It does everything to make the micro [aspect of playing] a bit blurry all over the map. So 1 good micro player can only micro 1 area and all others 100 area [ie. the 100 other fighting spots] will be micro less."
SINGLE PLAYER COMMENTS:
The first time playing on Moderate difficulty, my opening army in the north got slaughtered, and I couldn't rebuild well because I have like 50-300 villagers. My remaining forces gradually got slaughtered and I'm not sure if the enemy replenishes their army, but it's still quite large. I did not realize it when I played it on Single Player, but since you as Player 1 are allied with Player 3 ("Egyptian Buildings", set to the "Defensive" Strategy), you can actually tribute them food and other resources and they will produce villagers and build up defensive forces. Player 2 (Red) is "Etruscan Buildings" and surrenders at the start, not having anything besides walls. Player 4 is Nero's Colossus, it has no units besides a Wonder, and everyone is set as its enemy.
On EASY difficulty, I was able to save a small portion of my opening northern forces and temporarily halt the advance in the east, but it ground down my eastern forces to a minimum. A giant mass of enemy cavalry remained in the East and then attacked my stables in the middle, but I had very few armed forces left to stop them. My population limit is overfilled with villagers. Maybe you can build a giant mass of towers by your stables (I couldn't do it in time) and then kill off your villagers to free up population space before they kill off the rest of your base. But I was getting wiped out due to the enemy's size and aggression. Easy mode might be doable, but very hard.
On EASIEST, I saved my opening forces in the north, but when I tried to defend the Etruscan ruins with towers, a mass of cavalry attacked my eastern granaries. Afterwards, the fighting went well and I killed almost all enemy soldiers, but there seems to be this weird glitch, wherein when I directly attack the core of enemy base in the east, the enemy suddenly goes beserk and quickly makes tons of enemy soldiers, sentry towers, and catapults, even on the Easiest mode. It's as if the enemy suddenly boosted itself into Very Hard mode. The trick is that as soon as you attack the Town Centers in the middle of the orange base, you must take them all and their villagers down very quickly. A combination of catapults and soldiers (eg. legionaires) works best.
SEPTICEMIC wrote in an earlier review above: "Being able to choose a side is a good feature." I think that what he means is that you can pick a side in Multiplayer. In Single Player, at the beginning in Scenario mode, you can pick a civilization (eg. Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian, Asian). But you can't actually pick a "side" in Single Player (Vespasian vs. Vitellius).
Here are the steps of my "WALKTHROUGH":
A.i.) Protect Hero Scipio in the middle area, like by having him run away through the Orange soldiers, or open a wall on the southwest side and have him ride through.
A.ii) Give your Yellow Ally Lots of your resources and ask him if in Multiplayer, to build a dock in the South corner so you can trade gold with it. A.iii) Fight the opening battle, concentrating on fighting priests and catapults with your horses. A.iv) Use the villagers in the far east corner to build towers around their granary and bushes;
A.v) Open the lion pen in the east by deleting some walls, especially when the enemies are near it.
B) The trading ships are extra if you are in Single Player. Use them as fodder at the eastern fords.
C) Send your warships northeast near the fords.
D) Send your western villagers north to attack the Orange farms if you don't have available/free forces to attack them.
E) Use your southern and eastern villagers to build towers at the fords.
F) Split your eastern army and your priests, moving half near the eastern ford and half in the west to attack the western orange village.
G) Do unit and building upgrades.
H) Build a ton of towers, like three rows deep in a wall, along the east of your mass of stables and granaries in the middle with the field to their east, and down a bit toward your eastern fords. The B and T shortcuts/hotkeys help this go faster. This protects you from the attack by the mass of cavalry to the east of your stables.
I) After winning these opening battles and stopping the enemy's advances, whittle down their forces around their northeastern base.
H) When it comes time to attack the core of the enemy base, with its towncenters and barracks to the south of those TCs, make sure you do it quickly and with numerous catapults and soldiers, so that they don't overtake you by suddenly churning out tons of villagers and soldiers. The AI does this when you attack the enemy base's core.[Edited on 12/15/20 @ 04:07 PM]
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HGDL v0.8.2 |
| Rating |
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| 3.1 | | Breakdown |
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| Playability | 2.2 | | Balance | 2.7 | | Creativity | 3.5 | | Map Design | 3.4 | | Story/Instructions | 3.5 |
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| Downloads: | 802 |
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| Size: | 184.35 KB |
| Added: | 01/28/12 |
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