Which Conquest you are most looking forward to?

[Sheik]

Japan has a lot of potential to be the best. I really like Japanese history and the Japanese scenario just looks so cool. My only concern regarding this scenario is it's replayability; it seems the very focused time and area may damage it in this respect.

I haven't really read about the Middle Ages one yet.

[jkelly]

The first ones I'll try are: playing Vikings in the Middle Ages, and the Iroquois in the AoD.

[Kaos XIII]

Napoleon and WWII Pacific.

I like not worrying about building settlers in these scenarios.

[Stuie]

Rise of Rome. But I'm a Roman history buff, so that's pretty much a given.

I'm not too excited about the Fall of Rome conquest after reading the designer diary. Just didn't thrill me. The diaries for MesoAmerica and Age of Discovery had the opposite effect - I didn't think they would interest me at all, but now I'm sure I'll be playing both, and probably more than once. And of course the Middle Ages will be given a thorough work out as well.

[Gunter]

None of the above mentioned,I definetly vote for the epic game.

Gunter

P.S. Maybe the WWII Pacific and the Romans scenarios could be useful to import into the epic game some units.

[ixnay]

Probably Middle Ages or Age of Discovery

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by ixnay
Probably Middle Ages or Age of Discovery

Most people who like one, like the other.

I think I am just going to refer to them collectively as the Middle Aged Discovery.

[Ennet]

hmmm a hard one this one, tho i'd say napoleonic or Age of discovery, i like the tough of some major naval conflicts.. still a bit unsure bout WW2 Pacific tho.. =)

[Faboba]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

Most people who like one, like the other.

I think I am just going to refer to them collectively as the Middle Aged Discovery.

You earn points based on how many 'Red Sportscar' Wonders you construct.

[pvzh]

In Age of Discovery they did not foresee one huge problem. After a couple of runs with resources(treasure units)/colonist/missionaries it becomes really boring. Who played Colonization will know what I am talking about.

In Colonization it was even somewhat better. The most of trans-oceanic path was abstracted: you send the unit out in the high-sea (set of special squares at the western and eastern part of map), the ship is put in delay box, and the Europe is just a trade screen where you unload cargo with auto-sell of goodies and load with auto-buy goodies. The saving grace that later you could build Custom Houses and sell goods in your ports without use of actual ships, but you still needed to move ships back and forth for collonists.

So far, the most promising for single play is Mesopotamian: victory conditions are wonders (AI is ok with that) building and fighting for them. Others are not very promising to me because they include concepts that AI will had troubles with: King units with good off/def (Japan scenario), capturing Jerusalem and moving treasure units to it (Middle ages), Age of Discovery: moving trasure units across the sea again, in Meso-America: blood sacrifice for culture (I doubt that AI can use them properly either).

[FrustratedPoet]

Middle Ages and Japan sound like the best ones for replayability, which is the main thing IMHO.

Mesapotamia and Meso-American sound like the best ones for PBEM play, which is also important.

Age of Discovery and Napolean are the ones I'm most looking forward to playing in SP.

Basically I just can't wait to play.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Middle Ages and Japan sound like the best ones for replayability, which is the main thing IMHO.

Ooh, I forgot about Japan. I'll probably play the conquests in this order:

Rise of Rome
Japan
Middle Ages
MesoAmerica
Mesopotamia
Age of Discovery
Napoleon

Not sure if I'll bother with WWII or Fall of Rome.

[Wittlich]

Both the Age of Discovery and the Middle Ages Scenarios have me intrigued.

[mimi]

Age of Discovery. Gonna teach those Europeans a lesson!

[Gangerolf]

WW2 Pacific
Age of Discovery