You start in the Stone Age with a Town Center, 4 villies, 2 scouts and a couple of towers. You have 11,111 of each resource. You are completely surrounded by jungle so nobody can just walk onto you. This looks like a good start. I played for 1 1/2 hours, gathered some resources, picked off a few enemy raiders, and then it began to drag a lot, so I just peeked at the map.
I don't know if revealing this here is a spoiler, or if letting you play this for 3 hours and then get squished like a bug would be a spoiler of your time. Anyway, there are 7 enemy tribes. Each one starts with 99,999 of each resource. Each one has vast forests, gold, stone to gather. All 7 are allied together against you.
When I looked at the map it looked just like the National Guard armory parking lot. Acres and acres of rolling artillery, cavalry, infantry all jammed up in spaces between hundreds of buildings and towers just waiting to get at me. It looked like a warehouse of surplus military equipment.
So in effect what we have here is one human player with a 50 pop cap and 11,111 resource and a few more to gather, against a unified force of 350 units with a total of 700,000 of each resource and much more resource coming in. This might be recommended as a challenge for a much stronger player than I, maybe Tobi tested this scenario and was able to beat it. In that case, the designer has my utmost admiration. But if this is Tobi's first scenario I suspect the designer has not actually tested it to see if it can be won.
[Edited on 07/27/08 @ 04:32 PM]
skald
Posted on 02/25/10 @ 04:58 PM
NOTE: This scenario is also found as Jungle by Robrecht Van Zandweghe on 2-8-98, although the description doesn't match the scen over there and there may have been a mistaken upload.