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| Author |
File Description |
| Boba_SML |
Posted on 11/16/98 @ 12:00 AM
| File Details |
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| Number of Scenarios: |
3 |
| Difficulty: |
Mod-Hard |
The time has come for the great empire to rise, Rome! Rebel against the tyrant rule of the Etruscans and make your own empire grow. Lead Scipio Africanus Major and his legions as you try to kill Hannibal and make the Carthaginian Empire fall. Also, lead the seige on the desert fortress of Masada against the Jewish rebels. I hope you enjoy playing my campaign as much as I did making it. |
| Author | Comments & Reviews ( All | Comments Only | Reviews Only ) |
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| Steve Ryan |
Posted on 11/30/-1 @ 12:00 AM |
| Frank Steidel |
Posted on 11/30/-1 @ 12:00 AM |
| rakovsky |
Posted on 03/15/19 @ 03:54 PM
It was very playable, except the first two had weaknesses in playability. The first one had such thick forests in some places that it was hard to get through them. As for the second one, the first time that I played it, I converted or killed all the elephants and met all the goals, but the mission didn't end, which I thought might have been because I converted some elephants before later killing them. So I replayed Scenario 2 and beat it on Moderate. When I replayed it, I made sure to kill all the elephants that I had converted before I finally defeated Red's team. In other words, when I killed all of my converted elephant units, Red still had a building left and had not yet surrendered. Nonetheless, the Scenario did not end there. Instead, even though I had fulfilled all the Victory Conditions, I still had to fight the Aqua team (the African tribe). Partway through my fight with the African tribe, that tribe surrendered and the game automatically gave me "Victory."
Balance: 4
The last scenario had a tough balance with the first several playthrough attempts because the Israeli fishermen base and the gray base made attacks on my home base or on the nomad base where I needed to keep chests while I did the rest of the mission. I guess the trick is to take out the Israeli aqua base early.
Creativity: 5
Very creative.
Map Design: 4.5
The forests were hard to get through in the first mission.
Story/Instructions: 4.5
The instructions were unclear for the last two. For the Second Scenario, it seems that there was a de facto unwritten requirement that I defeat all the teams in addition to meeting the written requirements (ie. in addition to destroying all elephant opponent units and bringing the arks to my base). It seems that I had to fight the enemies enough to make each one surrender, because it was only after all the other teams had surrendered that partway through fighting the Aqua team, the Aqua team surrendered too and the game gave me a victory screen.
For the Third Scenario, it also wasn't clear which chests I needed to put at which flag, and how I needed to trigger the nomad base to help me. The instructions said I needed to put the chest at the nomad base for the nomads to help me, but all that really did was fulfill a victory condition. In reality, to get the nomads to help, I needed to move to a certain spot in the eastern brown base.
Additional Comments:
SCENARIO 1: Beginning of the Roman Empire It is fun because you can beat each other team's "goal", like getting a treasure chest.
SCENARIO 2: The Second Punic War: The first time that I played this scenario, I eliminated all the enemies except for the African tribe in aquamarine that was not a target, and I took the arks to my base. But the mission didn't end, and I couldn't figure out why. It looks like the problem is that you must fight the Aqua team enough to make them surrender in order to get a victory screen. This seems to be a design flaw, since I don't know why it requires this.
SCENARIO 3: The Jewish Revolt: The brown village in the middle of the eastern part of the map gives you merceneries if you visit that base's western part. The orange base in the west corner has the Roman war chest.
The instructions about the chest and nomads are unclear, because it isn't clear which chest they are talking about for which flag. That is, the instructions aren't clear which of my two chests need to go to the brown nomads - my starting chest or the one from the orange base. To win, I took the chest from the far west orange base and put it by my flag, and I took the chest that started at my base and brought it to the brown flag.
I can go to a spot in the west of the brown nomad base and this awards me a group of nomad merceneries, but it doesn't award me the nomads' base. In fact it turns out that you can't get the nomad's base. Also, the instructions say not to let Corlis leave Masada. But which villager is Corlis and do I have to kill him? There is a known glitch in AOE whereby Corlis turns into a villager, so I think that this is what happened and why I can't find him. And I don't think it matters if I kill Corlis, only that he can't leave Masada.
I had to beat this one on EASIEST, although now that I know the trick, I think I could try it on EASY or maybe even Moderate. The challenge was that groups of enemies made major assaults on my home base and on the nomad base with the chest and I didn't have enough soldiers to defend both places while also attacking the orange base, and so my chest in the nomad base got stolen. It's hard to attack enemy archers effectively except using my general on a horse. I set a force to guard my home base & chest and a small one to guard the nomad base & chest while I sent the rest of my forces into Masada, but the aqua Israeli Fishermen came and took out my home base. So the solution is that I need to take out the aqua enemy in the far right corner right away, since I can't rebuild my forces.
[Edited on 08/19/20 @ 09:31 PM]
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HGDL v0.8.2 |
| Rating |
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| 3.8 | | Breakdown |
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| Playability | 3.8 | | Balance | 3.3 | | Creativity | 4.0 | | Map Design | 3.8 | | Story/Instructions | 3.8 |
| Statistics |
| Downloads: | 683 |
| Favorites: [] | 0 |
| Size: | 841.00 Bytes |
| Added: | 11/16/98 |
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