NEW SCENARIO - the RAPE of Nations

[kobayashi]

It is 1500 A.D. and naval power in Europe begins to make an impact. Five soon to be naval powers vie for global dominance -

England,
France,
Spain,
Portugal and
the Netherlands.


What stands in their way?
the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the dominant land power
the Muslims led by the Ottoman Empire,
the bloodthirsty natives of Africa,
the powerful Asians dominated by China
the disunited tribes of the Americas


What are the strategic options?
Ally with other powers or go it alone?
Expand peacefully or through conquest?
Focus on trading or colonization?
Build up your navy or merchant fleet?
Research advanced ship designs or modern terrestrial weapons?


Special Features
AI has innate advantages when they play the human-capable powers
Full research tree with unique units/wonders by powers and religious affiliation
Built in branching to make no two games the same.
Objective based on the Civ powergraph
Fully updated civpedia, even with description of advances


you can download the the entire scenario from-

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ2scenren.shtml#TRON

or

http://sleague.apolyton.net/db/singlefile.php?urlfileid=68

If you already have the SDC version, just get the release patch has from here -

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/TRONPatch.zip

 

[kobayashi]

 

[insurgent]

Your terrain looks interesting, do the blue patches symbolise floods or irrigation?

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by insurgent
Your terrain looks interesting, do the blue patches symbolise floods or irrigation?

The human races have the ability to terraform 'virgin' land to 'colonised land'. The whole idea is for the map to change slowly from green to blue as the map is a political map.

 

[insurgent]

Ahh, very well! Good idea

 

[mordhiem]

Political map eh?

How long until it is PBeM ready?

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by mordhiem
How long until it is PBeM ready?

It is PBEM ready - just that the patch has music and other decorative stuff. You can't apply the patch while a game is in progress since the names of the sound files differ. So I'm just encouraging everyone to wait a day or two till the patch is hosted (its been ready for months).

 

[Morten Blaabjerg]

Originally posted by kobayashi


The human races have the ability to terraform 'virgin' land to 'colonised land'. The whole idea is for the map to change slowly from green to blue as the map is a political map.

How does the AI pick up on this idea?

 

[mordhiem]

Oh and Great Briton = Great Britan and Shakespear = Shakespeare

 

[Fairline]

Originally posted by mordhiem
Oh and Great Briton = Great Britan and Shakespear = Shakespeare

Great Britan = Great Britain

Like the idea of a political map

 

[Leonel]

Wow. That's really awesome! I especially love the idea of turning "Virgin land" into "colonized land." I wish I thought of that earlier!

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by Morten Blaabjerg


How does the AI pick up on this idea?

The AI doesn't pick up on the idea. The concept is, you are poor and the AI isn't cause it never pays for maintennance costs and it doesn't have full rows shields. So you have to waste time as a human player to colonize the land, giving the AI an advantage when its playing one of the races meant for humans. This is one of the ideas I introduced to make the main tribes AI or human playable. Along the same lines, humans will need to send out merchant ships to collect goods to have a balanced budget, the AI controlled powers will not need to bother with this.

So when in single player the blue really represents the area that belongs to you ,while in multi-player, the blue represents the land which belongs to Europeans.

 

[BKA]

Any room for the glorious Danish colony Tarangambadi?

It was a colony founded by the Danish Eastindian Company(DEC) in 1620. DEC, Denmarks first stock company, was a firm born on the 17. of March 1616 in the hope of reaching the riches of the Far East. In 1618 a first expedition went away arriving 18 months later in Tarangambadi located on the Southindian east cost. Here the leader of the expedition, Ove Gjedde, held negotiations with the Tamilian Emperor Raghunatha. He succeded in buying the small village and gaining trade concessions on behalf of the Danish king Christian IV, thus beginning 225 years of Danish rule.

As for most of the other few Danish colonies Tarangambadi didn't pay off. But today the ruins of a fort together with a city gate and several mansions are present. Though in a very poor shape, funds are finally arriving from Denmark.

Regards

BKA

 

[kobayashi]

The release Patch is now linked to the first post of this thread.

Nice Touch of Danish History BKA, sorry but there was only room for the five biggest colonizers.

 

[willemvanoranje]

looks very familiar

 

[Archer 007]

When i downloaded it, my computer stated that it was not a valid archive. What could be the problem?

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by archer_007
When i downloaded it, my computer stated that it was not a valid archive. What could be the problem?

Maybe the earlier hosted version had a problem. Was it 1.5 Mb exactly? In any case, the complete version (SDC plus patch) is now available here

http://sleague.apolyton.net/db/singlefile.php?urlfileid=68

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by mordhiem
Political map eh?

How long until it is PBeM ready?

Now looking for players in the PBEM forum

this is what I mean by political map. See the red lines, they demarcate the original borders between empires. Also note the coasts, the land stands out of the ocean.

 

[insurgent]

Originally posted by BKA
... the glorious Danish colony Tarangambadi?...

Do I detect sarcasm?

It's a good scenario, Kobi! Your victory was deserved.

 

[EmuGod]

As usual, a great scenario by kobayashi. I really enjoy this one.