The Gauntlet of Eight

I haven't played Sengoku yet. That might be interesting playing against humans.

Middles Ages might be fun. Either one of those would get my vote.
 
I've never played any of the conquests. I would be up for anything. I'm easily pleased. :)
 
I like the idea of the scenario's. I think we should play fall of Rome just to see if alerum can take a human based Rome in 40 turns. But maybe Rise of Rome would be better. I've played a few of these, but I don't think it really helps that much either way, and I don't think there is much to learn for anyone that hasn't done them.
 
Sengoku has possibilities.
 
Instead of a scenerio we can always use excel. prod., as well as keeping the difficult at regent to speed up tech pace. Can also change it to only have... say... 300 turns?
 
Concur......
 
A scenario might actually keep everyone's interest. The Middles Ages scenario with eight humans might be very interesting to play.
 
Sir Bugsy said:
A scenario might actually keep everyone's interest. The Middles Ages scenario with eight humans might be very interesting to play.

Sorry for interfering with your discussion. In my limited experience, the Middle Ages MP scenario is the worst of all Conquests. It is not balanced at all. Danes start with huge zerk force, Byzantines with many cities, 3 Christian nations with relics, and Abassids, Cordoba, and Russia are just plain empty without good terrain to grab. IMO, Danes can win the game if they would be able to act rapidly and efficiently and Byzantines are unbeatable in the long run.

Of all MP Conquests only 2 scenarios are really balanced:

Mesoamerica with 3 human - 3 AI (essentially perfect on decent difficulty).
Rise of Rome (almost perfect with 4 humans + 4 AI on a decent difficulty).

Napoleonic, Mesopotamia-Age of Wonders, WWII in the Pacific, and AoD are essentially unbalanced and barely playable though Napoleonic is a great fun because of diplo between 7 human players.

Sengoku might be somewhat balanced if tweaked a little bit but it must have accelerated production turned on because otherwise you can play it for a couple of years.

Also, having an epic game requires that a mapmaker checks the game and edits the rules as desired to ensure that it is indeed balanced. Otherwise, some really weird things can happen.
 
Also, regarding the first turn problem, you might want to check the mapmaking forum at CDZ. :)

Or pm Aggie about it. :)

Usually, the map maker has to play the first turn and input the passwords and then it is possible to continue.
 
I agree with Akots about the unbalance of many scenarios.

Now it depends on what you want. I really enjoy scenarios even if the different civs are not balanced. Forces you to use different strategies (diplo is one for instance) and anyway you have different tech-trees, units, and overall framework which can be nice.
 
akots said:
Sorry for interfering with your discussion. In my limited experience, the Middle Ages MP scenario is the worst of all Conquests. It is not balanced at all. Danes start with huge zerk force, Byzantines with many cities, 3 Christian nations with relics, and Abassids, Cordoba, and Russia are just plain empty without good terrain to grab. IMO, Danes can win the game if they would be able to act rapidly and efficiently and Byzantines are unbeatable in the long run.

Yeah I agree with akots I am playing as Danes in Middle Ages scenario and right now all I am doing is trying not to win this game too fast lol :lol: The game is very fun though at least for me :p
 
Not all of us have access to RaR Mad-Bax.:P

Sesn, are you so opposed to the thought of playing a scenerio that you'd refuse to play if that's the direction we went?:(
 
I'm certainly not going to be a party pooper if that's how things go.

I just have enough trouble being a marginal player with regular civ, I get frustrated trying to learn all the units/techs/resources in the scenarios.

But, whatever's clever. :)
 
SesnOfWthr said:
... I just have enough trouble being a marginal player with regular civ, I get frustrated trying to learn all the units/techs/resources in the scenarios. ...

:lol:

IMO, PBEM without AI is a completely different game, not related to SP. You can do exceptionaly bad in SP and be a great MP player or the opposite. :)
 
Alright then, Go number 3. Same turn order, and using a scenerio this time. We've had several suggestions, but no concrete choice.

so, lets all vote:

Rise of Rome - Smackster,
Middle Age Conquest
Sengoku - Bede, grs, Sesn

Middle Age is unbalaced, but it's okay. I'll take the Danes since I'm the weakest player, and hardly know how to use their UU.

Rise of Rome seems the best option IMHO, but Sengoku would be a bloody bloody time had by all.

Let the voting begin!
 
alerum68 said:
Rise of Rome
Middle Age Conquest
Sengoku


.............but Sengoku would be a bloody bloody time had by all.

Let the voting begin!

Bede votes Sengoku.
 
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