Topic: Frisian Campaign - Mission 3 - Bug?

Hi,

first, I want to say huge thanks for this wonderful game. I've been playing for 5 years now, since I migrated from Windows to Linux and discovered it. Widelands was great when I started with and got dramatically better which each release version (for example being able to set parameters for buildings to be applied when construction is completed or choosing which soldiers in vicinity should attack and which not, and, of course, the Frisians and now the Amazons!)

I continued the Frisian Campaign this week with the new third mission. After I left the "Icy Desert" and headed north again, I encountered Romans, but got stuck. All the coast is inhabited by them, there is no port space. I assume there should be, or am I missing something?

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Thank you very much for your quick reply!

I played the mission on default difficulty (very hard). I needed 10 hours game time (on 4x speed, with depleted mines) to get strong enough to attack the Atlanteans on their island. So, if there is a kind of time limit given by the Romans progress, I think this mission is too hard as it is and it's a bad ending to get stuck, if not been fast enough, after playing about 20 hours to get to this point.

Thanks again for your answer, problem solved

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hessenfarmer wrote: thanks for the feedback and congrats you came that far in the campaign

Thanks, it's been mainly a matter of patience with those extremely strong opponents (but you need to know a lot about the game too)

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Well, the frisian campaign is intended to be very hard, however I fully agree you shouldn't get stuck, you should either loose or win. So maybe @Nordfriese could think about triggering the cooperative solution if the island is completely settled by the romans and the player sees them finally with a ship.

See also https://www.widelands.org/forum/topic/5256/
However before I start working on any changes here I'd like to see the backlog of open pull requests ease off a bit more

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Update:

I restarted the mission, chose the easiest difficulty (still rated "hard", deservedly) and played anxious to be quick this time. I reached the coast of the Roman island by 11h 30min game time (on my first run with difficulty "very hard" I needed 28h). No trace of Romans at the coast this time and I occupied about half of the island before I met them. So far, so fine.

The story branches then, like in the second mission, I like that

There's a cooperative and a military challenge, both with a time limit of 2 hours game time. With the cooperative solution, this is decent. With the military one, there should be none. It takes a lot of time to get to the other side of the island, especially if the KI plays "hide and seek" or lacks building materials and own buildings are required to capture ground and proceed further.

But I made it to the Roman port, destroyed it and started building an own. I had just laid down the foundation stone when time was up and the message appeared that I'm too late, the Romans need to set sail now, I lost and will be left back on the island. Quite absurd, with no port to start from and no ship to sail for the Romans.

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