Warlords -- Viking Scenario

[Delta Force]

I'm playing the "800 AD: The Age of the Vikings" scenario.

When you pillage a city and ransom it back the city appears with a red circle. This lets you know that you've already ransomed that city. If you enter that city again you will not be able to ransom for the rest of the game--which is critical to the gameplay.

Here's the bug: Suppose I've already played for a while and have already ransomed some cities. I save the game, close Warlords and reload the game later. When it reloads none of the red circles appear anymore!!!

If there's an option switch I need to set to make these reappear please let me know. If not, I'm afraid this interesting scenario is not worth playing unless you are sure you can do it in one sitting.

 

[twansalem]

I would say this is legitimately a bug. I experienced the same thing. I played until 4:00 this morning, then finally went to bed, and when I reloaded it this morning, just like you described, no red circles anymore.

 

[Delta Force]

Thanks for the confirmation. Nice to know that it's not just me.

Too bad this is such an important bug. I found the scenario to be interesting, but I won't play it until there's a patch.

 

[MrC]

Can confirm this too. Shouldn't be too hard to fix.

 

[AriochIV]

There also doesn't appear to be any way to build the Norse Missionary. There's no Monastery available to the Vikings, and the Missionary is still unavailable to build even if you switch to Organized Religion, which supposedly allows you to build Missionaries without a Monastery.

 

[PraetorianSteve]

I get the same error with the red circles disappearing.

 

[angeleyes]

In this scenario i played to get an great engineer, but when i should have gotten him, i got nothing and the great people counter went from 99/100 to 02/100...

 

[Ambreville]

There are a lot of bugs in Warlords scenarios. They do detract from the fun of these games and the value of the product. I bought Warlords for the scenarios essentially and was very disappointed as a result of the poor quality of the work. I experienced all the bugs listed in this thread for the Vikings scenario, along with others in pretty much all of the other available scenarios as well. What a rip-off. In addition to the bugs themselves, there are design issues that are really annoying in the Viking scenario. For example, there is no diplomacy/trade between Vikings and the other civs. Why? I don't think that's a bug (right?), but it doesn't make much sense, both game-wise and historically. It looks like a whole series of key aspects of CIV were stripped from the Viking scenario. Not happy with that.

 

[ledhed]

I only bought the damm thing for the vikings...so I'm a tad ...just a tad disapointed it sucks so bad....along with all the other bugs its barely worth playing at all .

I guess if I wait a year it might get fixed .

 

[wookiee]

I had the same glitches... I just gave up..