Topic: Single player campaigns

Hi..

I love this game and all the new features... but every time I upgrade I am looking for new additions also to the campaigns.. I'm not the muiltiplayer type of person.. and I was just wondering if anyone is working on adding to the already built in campaigns .. For instance.. will there be one for the Amazons?

Thanks

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Well,
I have an empire 5 in mind, which made very small progress so far.

My current plans are to fix atlanteans 2 initialisation, and see whether I can make any progress in empire 5.

However if somebody might come up with some nice storyline for an amazon first mission, I might rdirect my effort into this.

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I've been toying with the idea of a storyline for an Amazon campaign in my head for a while. It would roughly follow the colonisation of the Americas.

1. Intro scenario (prehistoric, fictious):
   • teach basic buildings, get to the seashore
   • meet friendly Atlanteans there, learn mining, charcoal production, smelting as well as shipbuilding and sea travel from them in exchange for wood and gold (Atlanteans may be in Lutas era, at the end of the scenario they leave because they get news from home about the doom of Atlantis)
2. Viking explorers (represented by Barbarians): find small group of Barbarians trying to colonise your continent from a base of a bigger island where they've already established a base (equivalent to Greenland), push them back to sea
3. Spanish conquistadors (represented by Empire): they'd be strong, and get lots of reinforcements (they'd be convinced that you have lots of gold that they want to take and they'd always babble about the seven cities of gold ) This would have alternative win conditions:
   • easier: retreat to the mountains and build a secret city (equivalent to Macchu Picchu) there (buildable HQ )
   • very hard, entering into alternate history line: resist and eliminate them
4. French/Dutch/English colonisation (represented by Frisians – with apologies): your starting economy size and military strength would depend on how you won the previous one (very strong if you drove out the Empire, medium if you just built your secret city – maybe with the Empire in your back to make it even harder?)
   • beginning story would say that they came and bought some land from you for useless items, so you would start as peaceful neighbours
   • I'm not sure how this could be done, but they should be able to weaken your soldiers with firewater and spread disease (maybe remove your productionsites near the border?)
   • when they're strong enough, they'd give you ultimatums to hand over more land in exchange for more useless wares: you could accept, but obviously that'd just weaken you. If you refuse, they attack. If you launch counter-attack, they get lots of reinforcements.
   • only possible to win by eliminating them? (or offer again a barely survive in reservations "win" condition for realism's sake?)

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apart from the part that amazons learn from the atlantean I like the storyline as well.

I would prefer the Amazons devlop their stoneage steampunk abilities for themselves as a reaction of trading with the atlanteans, rather then being taught something.

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Re last scenario: If the Empire is not defeated in previous scenario, then instead of making it doubly harder, it should actually be balanced a little by making the 2 colonist tribes fight each other as well. (just as they did in real history)

(((maybe they should both have island bases as well → Pirates of the Caribbean!!! Arrrrr!!! – OK, different game, but couldn't resist )))

mxb2001 wrote:

Guess I better hurry and upgrade to 1.1

No need to hurry, this is only an idea at this time, nowhere near of getting implemented.

(need to update my whole OS to do it, YUCH, Debian 9 is not working with the latest flatpaks sadly)

Indeed. Unfortunately this is only because the 21.08 version of the runtime needs a newer OpenGL version.

And I thought I used the most outdated OS version (Debian 10) around here…

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