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[Shadowstrike]

Hello BeBro! How the scenario going? Still need more ideas? Or help?

[Kull]

BeBro: Barbarian cities CAN generate units, but it all depends on how many cities they have. Once the total number of Barbarian cities exceeds a certain threshhold (8?) they shut down production altogether. If you can live with 5 or 6 Barbarian cities, and given the lack of Event space, it may be worth trying.

[BeBMan]

Kull, thanks for the info, but this time it seems that the Barbs produce, despite that there are around 20 cities in there hands. I need them to make the conquest of the northern regions more challenging, so I have Barb cities in Britain, Gaul and Germany. If all works correct you can expect lots of different Barb units attacking from the north (different Germans, Gauls, Celts and so on).

Shadowstrike, I´m working now very hard( ) on the first playable version. Most of the cities are placed, there are some more as in V1.0, but there is still enough place for new cities. Only in Hellas it´s a bit difficult, due to the map scale Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Thebes are close to eachother (but I think it´s ok so).
Now the Independents are the biggest civ, their cities including some Greek colonies as well as Etruscan or Samnite cities. My idea is to make settlers obsolete for this civ, because this civ is only a "victim" for the great powers Rome, Carthage, and Macedonia... . However all the other civs have of course their settlers.
Another idea: as said before I´ll inplement a rising level of difficulty, so that the first conquests for Romans and Macedonians are easier then the next. This can be done via the city improvements (walls/barracks) and with placing different defenders (movement 0, not to build) in the cities (this will mostly affect Barbs and Independent cities) so that the weakest defenders are in the cities near Rome/Pella, but when your troops advance deeper in enemy territory, they´ll encounter more dangerous opponents. But all these ideas have to be tested...

[Sloth]

The idea of a rising level of difficulty seems fine to me: if need to be tested...it will be!

[Prometeus]

quote: Originally posted by BeBro on 07-31-2000 06:10 AM ... Gauls, Celts ...

"... tertiam ( incolunt ) qui ipsorum lingua
Celtae, nostra galli appellantur." Caesar, "De bello gallico".

[BeBMan]

Please Prometeus, share your wisdom with me ...I can´t read Latin, so what does your post say? Do you mean that gauls and celts are the same???

[Prometeus]

Yes, BeBro, it means exactly what you wrote in your previous post. Gauls and Celts are the same people.

[BeBMan]

Ok, I know that Gauls were Celts, but I think not all Celts were Gauls...

[Strategist]

Ihr seid mir ja ein paar Strebertypen!!

Good work, BeBro!

[Stefan Härtel]

BeBro: Prometeus' quote comes from "The Gaulic War", the book that Caesar wrote and means as much as:

quote: ... in einem zweiten die Aquitaner und im dritten die Völker, die in der Landessprache Kelten heißen, bei uns jedoch Gallier.

(Piecing my knowledge of Latin together I was able to recognize the first sentence of Caesar's work )

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[BeBMan]

Thanks Stefan, ich kann leider nur ein paar dumme Sprüche auf Latein

BTW, I have to admit that the Barbs now have done what Kull has said: shutdown of prod...
However, events will do this job.

[BeBMan]

Good idea Civfan, but to late... , I´m close to the first playable betaversion , and I´ve chosen Rome, Macedonia, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Egypt and the metioned Independents. Ok, I know I had much to leave out, but I think it would be still a funny scn...

[St Leo]

"Funny" and "Fun" mean different things in good ol' English.

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[St Leo]

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[Civfan]

from your very first statement about what civ to replace the Germans (gauls) with, why not Parthia. It played a major role in the east as the destroyer of the Greek kingdoms in Bactia and Syria (Seluids) wrong spelling.. They can start really small, say a settler in the beginning... give them abit of advantage over the region. They were a major problem with Rome for 200 years.