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|	Great Battles of Middle-Earth	      |
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|	   The Battle of Five Armies	      |
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		   Read Me



SCENARIO DESCRIPTION:

	This Scenario is designed to be played 
as a 3- or 4-player PBEM scenario.  All events
messages must be displayed in the forum thread
or somehow communicated to the other players.
This scenario is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's 
novel "THE HOBBIT" specifically the chapter
called "The Clouds Burst."  I have taken many,
many artistic liberties so I apologize in 
advance.  All passages taken directly from the 
book are in quotes, though I have put in many
summaries, extra things and the like to make
the scenario more interesting and more playable. 

VICTORY CONDITIONS:

The victory conditions for this scenario are 
very simple: Kill Bolg, the Goblin leader. 
However, there might be some things that need to 
happen in between, so don't look for him right
away.

DEFEAT CONDITIONS:

The Defeat Conditions are different for each player:
EAGLES: The Eagle King is killed
ELF: Thranduil is killed
HUMANS: Bard is killed
DWARVES: No defeat condition (see below)
UNIVERSAL DEFEAT CONDITION:
All players lose if Thorin's Gate is taken

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

I wish to thank, most of all, J.R.R. Tolkein
for a great series of books!  Second, I want 
to thank the designers of Civ2 ToT, without 
them, this scenario truly would not be possible.
Thirdly, I would like to thank all of you who
have unwittingly contributed to the graphics
used in this scenario.  I would like to thank
Favoured Flight especially for his astounding
units (and his astounding scenarios).  If your
unit is used and it has not been attributed
please let me know (find the thread on 
http:\\apolyton.net\fourms\ discussing this
scenario).

SERIES DESCRIPTION:

This scenario is the first in a number of
tactical, close up battles taken out of
the pages of Tolkein's novels (any of them)
and placed into a Civ2 ToT format.  I plan
to make about 8 or 9 more but you should not 
expect them to come out any time soon.  I 
already have the map made of the next one but
school is about to start back up so it may
be a while.  cya later :)






