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A City on the Hill
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| Author |
File Description |
| iNtRePiD |
Posted on 02/19/06 @ 01:58 PM (updated 02/24/06)
| File Details |
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| Style: |
Other |
| # of Scenarios: |
1 |
| Version: |
Empires: Retail Release |
Welcome to “A City on the Hill”, the goal of this scenario is to utilize your units in order to stay alive for the longest possible period. Your enemies will assault what remains of the shattered city you are hopelessly defending with a wide variety of unit types. As you play you will be updated on your “score” via a chat message. The objective is to achieve the highest possible final score.
Be forewarned, the units in this scenario have been highly altered. Unit relations are very strict, counter units are highly effective at killing what they have been designed to counter.
Every 120 seconds you will be promoted with a message window. In this window you can either choose to receive reinforcements, or to alter the scoring modifier. If you choose to alter the scoring modifier you will receive a greater number of points for each second that passes.
Good Luck
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iNtRePiD
File Author |
Posted on 02/24/06 @ 06:15 PM
- Players are given a warning when they take their units off the hill. If they do not bring their units back on the hill they will be defeated within 20 seconds of the warning.
- What units counter what is now more explicitly spelt out in the objectives section and the readme file.
- The incorrect spelling of "shield" has been fixed.
- When the enemy units get to the top of the hill, they will now start to search for the remaining player 1 units. |
| lil gunner612 |
Posted on 03/02/06 @ 12:21 PM |
| iamcanadian |
Posted on 03/04/06 @ 12:58 AM
1837 - 1947 - Chapter 1 - Revolution and Aggression, because that is the best RTS campaign i have ever played, it almost made me cry, being the proud Canadian I am |
iNtRePiD
File Author |
Posted on 03/06/06 @ 11:15 PM |
| iamcanadian |
Posted on 03/08/06 @ 12:14 AM |
iNtRePiD
File Author |
Posted on 03/10/06 @ 04:00 PM
Chapter 2 deals with the American War of Sucession and Chapter 3 deals with the Confederate-Latin American War.
That said, I haven't even started on any of those chapters yet, and I don't have any plans in the future to start on them. |
| Midgard Eagle |
Posted on 04/07/06 @ 06:04 AM
- - - Playability: 4 - - -
A city on the Hill is a "no-win scenario": The enemy keeps coming, and your objective is not to "win" as such, but rather to survive for as long as possible, and the longer you hold the city, the more points you receive. At the end of the scenario, when your last soldier is dead and the ruins are firmly in the hands of the enemy, your score is shown for you to note down, improve, and perhaps brag about on-line.
Your units are very varied, and several are completely invincible to certain units (only certain units can attack heavily armoured spearmen, for example). In addition, some units, such as cavalry, instantly kill nearby units they are designed to counter (one-hit-one-kill units are a mainstay of Intrepid's scenarios, which I personally love). You constantly have to use your units to the best of their abilities, knowing which units counter which and rallying troops around the city to fend off attackers.
Every two minutes, a menu appears that lets you either request reinforcements or increase the rate of which you receive points. This is an interesting twist, and makes the game more open-ended: Do I call for another batch of horsemen, or can I make do with what I have and instead receive a point bonus?
The only downside of the scenario is that it's still slightly linear. I'd like it if you received some "special" units such as elephants every, say, tenth minute, or that you could spend points on receiving them. It'd also be interesting if you had several layers of defenses that crumbled one by one, akin to how it was in For Empire Earth's "Love of the Land" (first you defend the outer Paris wall, then eventually it falls and you retreat behind the inner wall - then, if it goes really badly, you retreat to the Keep itself). Maybe you could receive more points as long as you held the enemy out of the inner city or something?
- - - Balance: 5 - - -
The scenario starts off light, with only a few scattered troops being slaughtered by your units. This lets you get used to your army and which units counter which.
As the game progresses, though, the attacks grow more and more frequent. The enemy attacks in greater numbers and, worse yet, from several directions at once, which means you either have to split up your forces, or retreat into the city to fight as a single unit.
Every unit in the scenario has a good counter, and hence there is not really an "over-powered" unit as such.
- - - Creativity: 3,5 - - -
This is the weakest point of the scenario, as I feel there was simply not too many new things in it. There was the ability to add to the rate of which you receive points, but that was pretty much the only thing.
- - - Map Design: 4.5 - - -
The city is nicely portrayed, with burning buildings and trees, ruined walls, and ruins troughout. The only thing I missed was perhaps some more detail outside the city itself, and maybe some more eye-candy such as blood or corpses?
- - - Story/Instructions: 4,7 - - -
The instructions were quite clear and easy to understand. Each unit is described, and you're informed of which units can counter it and what abilities it has.
- - - Additional Comments - - -
The scenario features a battle-themed musical score.
Final rating: 4,36
-Middie |
iNtRePiD
File Author |
Posted on 04/08/06 @ 07:28 PM |
| Midgard Eagle |
Posted on 05/09/06 @ 06:57 AM
- I didn't let the music play into the rating as it's more of a matter of taste whether you like it or not.
Suggestions for a possible third version:
- Divide the invading forces into different players so that I can identify them on the mini-map. For example, Green is archers, black is cavalry, white is spearman, and so on.
- I found a bug which gives you another score update after giving you your "Final Score". Nothing major, though. |
| Scorcher |
Posted on 05/20/06 @ 11:22 PM |
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HGDL v0.8.1 |
| Rating |
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| 4.4 | | Breakdown |
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| Playability | 4.0 | | Balance | 5.0 | | Creativity | 3.5 | | Map Design | 4.6 | | Story/Instructions | 4.7 |
| Statistics |
| Downloads: | 1,239 |
| Favorites: [] | 0 |
| Size: | 10.13 MB |
| Added: | 02/19/06 |
| Updated: | 02/24/06 |
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