American War of Independence - Creation Thread

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by civ2units

This one doesn´t work,

TURN
turn=18
@THEN
TEXT
[...]
ENDTEXT
RECEIVEDTECHNOLOGY
technology=75
receiver=Americans
CREATEUNIT
owner=Americans
...

Maybe someone could help me...

That one is easy to correct:
Replace "RECEIVEDTECHNOLOGY" by "GIVETECHNOLOGY": the "receivedtechnology" is a trigger, not an action!

[GhostOfDisco]

Originally posted by civ2units
After some playtest with the British and Americans the scenario is nearly ready.
Here are one screenshot i´ve made during the game:

Cornwallis attacks New York

Oh NOES! That northernmost British cavalry units looks like it could trot into Albany unopposed. What are we going to do!

Anyway, nice to see progress on the scenario. I particularly love CS's cities (much better than the ones I made for my private homegrown graphics update for the "American War of Independance" scenario.

[civ2units]

@Cyrion:

Thanks very much, i´ve played with the Americans and I wondered, that they never get the tech.
Now it works.

@GhostOfDisco:

I totally agree with you, the graphics from Fairline and Curt are fantastic. I also can´t painting so good graphics so i´m happy that they made the graphics for me. I only can make some changes on them, like another colours, etc...

[curtsibling]

Very nice stuff!
Our lads will soon take back those dastardly colonies!

PS
Will have those other GFX for you soon, just been a little held up with some 2D artwork today!

Thanks for the info on the people eras too!

[our_man]

The scale of the map looks quite small compared to other War of Independence scenario's I've played. I'm curious to know which map you're using. Any chance of a screenie?

[civ2units]

Originally posted by our_man
The scale of the map looks quite small compared to other War of Independence scenario's I've played. I'm curious to know which map you're using. Any chance of a screenie?

On the first page of this thread i´ve posted a screenie of the map.
The original map was greater and included west europe. With map-edit i reduced it only on North America and the Carribean.

The original map file is from the "Blood & Steel" scenario.
For me it was the best map of America - not too large and not too small.

[our_man]

Ah, I see! I should have checked more thoroughly!

Interesting choice; it looks like you're planning to approach the war from a more international perspective than previous designers.

[plum1972]

Just a idea for the scenario,Loyalists.United Empire Loyalists,could be a nice twist.There were some who didnt want war with the crown.

[curtsibling]

Good idea!

These could be represented by civ-exclusive buildings or events-created special units...

[civ2units]

Thanks for the ideas.
I´ve already included the Loyalists, not every Colonist was for the Independence.
With the events you will get some Loyalist Dragoons too.

Play with the British Empire and kick back the American Colonists.
What is a Minutemen against a real good trained British Line Infantry?
Or take the Hessian Musketeers... They will do the job as well as the British did.

[civ2units]

Here is one more screeny.

Can the American Colonists defend their capital city?


All members of the Continental Congress should be
arrested if Cornwallis capture the city...

[curtsibling]

Looks very exciting!

Can't wait to try this one out...

[fairline]

It's not really important civ2units, but I posted a Royal Artillery cannon and howitzer with the AWI units. Brit artillerymen wore blue jackets faced red and their cannon carriages and wheels were painted blue. Strangely the Americans copied this uniform and cannon paint scheme exactly, and there was no difference between the appearance of British and US artillery.

[civ2units]

Oh, i didn´t know that the americans copied the artillery uniforms from the British.
They looked like a Continental uniform like so i decided to give the British their own artillery with red jacket.

For me it´s ok that the British have a different uniform, but i can change it.
I´ve given the French also an own artillery unit.

[civ2units]

@ fairline

May I hope of some nice pirate units?