Purpose of the scenarios

[Vorpal+5]

Scenarios are there for which purpose, for a kind of 'fire and forget' fun, i.e play one, have fun, do another, or do others purposes are there, like getting a permanent bonus for all your random games, unlocking special units or goodies for another scenario of the list, teaching us the story of Erebus, and such?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Goodgimp]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess "entertainment". How you get the entertainment (if at all) would be up to the individual.

 

[phoulishwan]

I would have guessed they are for the designers to be able to tell us some of the stories of the world of Erebus that intrigue them, without being confined to the Civolopedia for their story telling

 

[Nikis-Knight]

There aren't any bonuses that carry over to the standard "epic" mode of playing. It would probably screw up multiplayer, and make balancing more difficult. Although we did discuss some easter eggs to unlock or such, I don't expect anything like that honestly, and there isn't anything like that in now.

The scenarios have 3 purposes in general, with not every scenario trying to reach each area:
1. Provide a tutorial, especially the Gifts of Kylorin one, and to a bit lesser extent Fall of Cuantine and the Grand Menagerie.
2. Tell a story about the leaders and other characters, expanded what's in their background info. Especially the 3 "paths" focusing on Decius, Falamar, and Auric.
3. Present some fun new twist to the main game. Hopefully some of these you might want to try again for it, or at least get an experience you won't get otherwise. Kael wanted each scenario to have something different, though some are more unique.

 

[Vorpal+5]

Thanks for the input, so they are really that, standalone, and not some kind of Uber-Epic-Dungeon that can be plugged within a random game. No problems with that, I just wanted to know.