Lost Legions, scenario under development

[Cyrion]

Mystery solved!

Originally posted by Cyrion
And I want to investigate the Disg. Legionary puzzle: I think I have an idea where it comes from! Werd, did you encounter him or not? If not, then I might well have an explanation (and solution)...

Problem solved! As I suspected, it came from AI behaviour with the MOVEUNIT command!

Once an unit with a MOVEUNIT encounters a foreign unit (friend or foe), even if it's not blocking its way, the MOVEUNIT order is ended! This sounds quite logical but shouldn't be forgotten while designing a scen...

So from now on, the Roman attacks shouldn't be as surprising as it was for Werd!

Now before I release the files for the (hopefully last) playtest, I need to test the new spawning rates as well as the timing of messages!

I'm at the day 50, entering the German area!

I lost up to now 4 cavalry and 1 infantry!

The numbers of Scythians, Dacians, Romans and animals seemed alright!

I'll now see if it's the same with the Germans!

And from what I have seen, only very minor adjustment needs to be done with the timing of messages!

I'll finish my test, modify what's necessary and release the test files tomorrow probably!

[McMonkey]

Looking forward to the completed article

Looks like you have done an excellent job developing this idea, hope to see more 'run for your lives' scenarios in the future!

[Cyrion]

Playtest completed!

I finished my playtest on turn 85 with a score of 85% (Agri, the scoring has been revised to put more emphasis on civilians! but I might return to the old system which would have given me a mere 68%)

It is now much easier than before, but (I think!) not too easy yet!

I only noticed a few small things (messages and so on) that need to be corrected before I would like you to make a (last) playtest on the (hopefully) release version, while I prepare the title!

As I'll be busy tomorrow and on Monday, I guess I'll post the new files on Tuesday or Wednesday!

All in all, I am quite happy with the way it works now, and I think it should provide some pleasure to the players!

[Cyrion]

Pre-release version

So here it is at last, ready for a final check!

I don't intend to make any major change now (except if you spot some BIG trouble), as I believe it plays well, and is balanced enough to be enjoyable for all kind of player: not too hard, but definitely hard enough!

I think most players should be able to bring a few units home by their second try, while even Agricola would have a hard time reaching 100%!

I intend to release the final version next Monday, so if in the meanwhile you can give a last try, I would really appreciate your comments!

And even if you don't find the 2-3 hours necessary to play it through, please tell me if you notice that:
- some messages are wrong, not appropriate (to the situation, I don't mean PC ), badly spelled
- I forgot to include some files in the 2 zips
- anything seems wrong

Here are the links:

LL Files

LL Sound

Thanks for your help, where almost there!

Originally posted by Cyrion
I finished my playtest on turn 85 with a score of 85% (Agri, the scoring has been revised to put more emphasis on civilians! but I might return to the old system which would have given me a mere 68%)

In the end, I went for a medium scoring system, which means my actual score was 76%! I can do better, and you?

[Cyrion]

Title screen

If some of you downloaded the files, you noticed that there is no title screen yet: I'll work on it this week-end to be ready for release!

BTW: is anybody giving it a last look (Drew, Elesensar, Agri or anybody else)?

Just to know if it's worth waiting for some last feedback before I release!

[techumseh]

Got it! Thanks, Cyrion. I'm looking forward to it.

[McMonkey]

I'm afraid I don't have the time to do another playtest just now but I am looking forward to playing the final game.

Everything seemed about 95% ready on the last playtest I did, so I am sure it will be 100% now you have fixed everything up!

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by techumseh
Got it! Thanks, Cyrion. I'm looking forward to it.

Can you give it a quick look until Monday? If you can't, no worries!

[Elensar]

You probably have everything that needs to be tweaked, tweaked already. I'll take a look somewhere between now and Monday and see if I can catch any lingering stuff.

Should be good enough to play, certainly, even if some messages could use an edit for flavor and the like.

Congrats.

[curtsibling]

This is a truly marvelous scenario! Will be trying it out today!

PS
I really like the premise and background too...Crassus was such a twit!

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by Elensar
You probably have everything that needs to be tweaked, tweaked already. I'll take a look somewhere between now and Monday and see if I can catch any lingering stuff.

Thanks!

Should be good enough to play, certainly, even if some messages could use an edit for flavor and the like.

If you have any specific modifications to the messages in mind, please tell me!

And note that, even if the ToT events file can be much bigger than the MPGE one, it is still much too small for me: this one is already full (I had to accomodate some messages to make it work ).

@Curt: thanks mate! I hope you enjoy it!

And I hope I can manage the title without your help, for once!

[Cyrion]

Title is ready!

And even if it doesn't come close to Curt's standards, at least I did it by myself for once!

So unless Techumseh, Elensar, Curt or anybody else report anything in the last test files (please check that everything except title is included ), I'll release the final version tomorrow evenig!

[McMonkey]

Great. Looking forward to attempting the final version!

[Elensar]

I think you've got just about everything. I count this as done.

[Cyrion]

Scenario released!

See other thread for the links to the release files!

Many, many thanks to you all, my friends!

Your help was invaluable!