Problem with 'Riverwar'

[La Fayette]

I am currently trying to play the scenario named 'Riverwar' (British army in Sudan in 1896).

Here is what happens: in december 1896 I am asked to save the game as 'riverwar.sav', then run the file named 'riverwar.bat', then load 'riverwar.sav' and go on playing.
The problem is that there is no 'riverwar.bat' file. I tried with 'events.bat' which is the only file with '.bat' ending but it doesn't work.

I am fairly sure that solving this problem is a piece of cake for almost anyone of you Master Scenario Makers .

Thank you for kind help

[our_man]

What version are you playing? If it's Allard's updated MGE, I could never get the second part of the scenario to work either. I thinks there' something wrong with the events file.

The FW version does work however.

[Boco]

Is the error msg something to do with the bat file or an events overload. If you think its the bat file, can you upload Events.bat? I'll take a look and edit if possible.

I am fairly sure that solving this problem is a piece of cake for almost anyone of you Master Scenario Makers

Nothing like a bit of flattery. Next time I need a playtester, I'll search for Master Civ2 Strategists. Btw, LF, do you have ToT?

[Heresson]

Well, do not count on help from Allard himself

[La Fayette]

our_man
I play MGE because my FW is a French version that doesn't allow me to play any scenario (except after changing the names of a number of files; Julius Brenzaida masters that, but I don't wish to ask him everytime I want to play )

Boco

1) Thank you for proposal of kind help (and also for a bit of flattery )

2) There is no error message (but I know it doesn't work because the Nile cataracts, blocked during the winter, should get unblocked in march or april , and they don't).

3) I downloaded the scenario from the Spanish Civ Site.
Wouldn't it be best if you download it too, so that you can have a look at any file you would like to ?

4) I haven't got ToT.

Heresson


I don't understand what you mean.

[La Fayette]

Heresson
... and that is very surprising if you are the King of froggies

[Heresson]

I will make a frog scenario one day

[Boco]

For some reason, I'm having trouble even loading the MGE version of the scenario, although it appears that all of the default text files are the MGE, not FW, versions. The zip file also appears not to contain his readme.

There is only one version of RiverWar.Scn in the zip. When my MGE, running on a XP pc, loads it, I get a "SMEDS Application Error." LF, our_man, since you got further, it appears that I'm missing something basic.

Btw, are you having problems running events.bat at the end of turn 10? Did you save the turn 10 file as riverwar.sav?
Do you have a copy of choice.com in either the riverwar directory or elsewhere in your path (e.g. \windows\system32 or \windows folder)?

Events.bat with my comments in italics

choice /c:123 Enter your selection

Bat file is looking for choice.com, which is not included in the zip file.

if errorlevel 3 goto done
if errorlevel 2 goto Opt2
if errorlevel 1 goto Opt1

:Opt1
echo.
copy events1.txt events.txt

Since the events.txt and events1.txt are the same in the zip, this file isn't necessary to begin the scenario. It's only needed after turn 10, or after the first time that you play the scen through.

echo.
DELEVENT riverwar.sav

Batch file is looking for a MGE sav file named riverwar.sav. Can't work without it.

echo.
echo --------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo Congratulations! Part 1 of the River War has been
echo succesfully loaded.
echo.
echo (If the line above this text says: "Error opening
echo riverwar.sav for update", it means you did not save
echo your game as "riverwar.sav")
goto done

:Opt2
echo.
copy events2.txt events.txt
echo.
DELEVENT riverwar.sav
echo.
echo --------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo Congratulations! Part 2 of the River War has been
echo succesfully loaded.
echo.
echo (If the line above this text says: "Error opening
echo riverwar.sav for update", it means you did not save
echo your game as "riverwar.sav")
goto done

:done
echo.
:exit
:quit

I disabled the last two commands with colons to allow debugging.

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[jim panse]

Sorry for reviving that thread here but I cannot make that Riverwar work again after turn 10/11. I can run that batch file but Civ2 crashes every time I try to load my 'riverwar.sav' file.

Can someone please help me out?

[techumseh]

Is the first version still available? There was nothing wrong with it. The main advantage of v2 is the Fairline graphics, which could be copied over to v1.

[jim panse]

Mmmm, I dled it at the Spanish Civ2 Site and I want to play that 2nd part of it ...

[jim panse]

Has anyone v1?

[Heresson]

I have some version, but don't know which.

[Boco]

Originally posted by jim panse
Has anyone v1?

A while back a Swedish Macophile (Henrik?) needed a version without Allard's Windows setup program. With AH's permission, I sent this zip. Rats! It's too big to attach here. I've uploaded it here, at least for a few months.

From the Readme
Also, you need version 2.7.81 of the game, a version which is only available with the scenario add-on CD for Civ II called "Fantastic Worlds" (FW). Please do not mail me asking why it does not work if you do not have this version. Although this scenario will also work under a later add-on, Multiplayer Gold (MGE), it is reported that 3x objectives do not work as intended under this version.

Hope this helps. This scen was very well crafted.

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[The ANZAC]

this I think is v1

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=4708_riverwar.zip