By "fastest" I mean fastest in play time. I'm looking for something to be a palate cleanser between epic-speed games -- a scenario that I can finish in an evening.

The only one I've tried so far is Barbarians, which was fun for an hour and then got really tedious. (Kill cities... kill cities... kill more cities.)

Are any of the others good? If a scenario is really engaging, I guess I don't mind if it takes a while to play...

thanks in advance,


Waldo

Go for Peloponnesian War and Omens. They're short and worth playing once, or until you win once.

The Chinese one is awesome. You could do it an evening easily enough but you might want to smell the flowers instead.

Genghis Khan is decent but kind of tedious and not short. I never finished it.

Okay. Omens sounded sort of interesting, actually.

Is there a strategy guide anywhere?


Waldo

In the Warlords forum, but they're small scenarios and you may well have more fun by just experimenting.

Bleh, I thought most of the scenarios were quite crap TBH... Go invade this, that's all there is to do and BTW we have barely made any changes to the tech tree and added at most a couple units. Course I haven't tried the Chinese one yet, maybe I'll take a peak at that. Peloponessian war, vikings, barbs and ghengis khan are pretty much never ending attack scenarios which is kinda stupid if you ask me.