Age of Crisis

Masis · August 12, 2001, 00:13

A new scenario coming soon, set during the Crisis of the Third Century when the Roman Empire looked doomed.
In this scenario I will feature civilizations that are rarely covered in other scenarios; such as the Kushans and Axumite Kingdom (Ethiopia).

Here is the Map with the areas each civilization will rule outlined.

Released by September at the latest.

Masis · August 12, 2001, 02:53

A new Unique Unit to be featured will be the Ark of the Covenant that contains the Laws given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. They were stored in a custom made 'container' that also protected them from being stolen. It was later taken to Abbysinia for safety during the tumultous years that followed. Said to still be in Ethiopia.

Masis · August 18, 2001, 02:13

A new Unique Unit to represent the Buddist culture that flourished in central Asia and India during the era of the Kushans.

I have also included the Tokharian cities of Urumqi and Nea.

Civfan · September 2, 2001, 23:28

looks good....is it out?

Goingonit · September 3, 2001, 19:10

Axum sounds interesting, with the Ark of the Covenant. It is also the world's first Christian nation. Will it be playable?

Leonidas · September 4, 2001, 02:04

How's the scenario coming along?

Stefan Härtel · September 4, 2001, 12:50

In case you still need it... A Kushana warrior in full armor. If there's any information you need about the Kushanas, I do have some excellent first-hand sources.

History049 · September 9, 2001, 20:51

isit out

Leonidas · September 12, 2001, 22:47

It looks like a promising scenario

History049 · September 14, 2001, 18:30

Good luck

MasisPanos · February 22, 2002, 04:55

Well after Sept 11th I took time out to prioritise things.
Hence the absence.

I'd like to finish the 4 remaining Civ II scenario projects:

Birth of Rome (about the founding in 753BC)
The Gallic War (Ceasars conquest of the region of modern France and more)
The Age of Crises (This one)
The Age of Osman (made but when I playtested it as the Osmali Turks it crased, hmmm an act of God?)

Civ II is a neat, flexible game that does not demand too much day/night time or bytes!

Oh yes, new e-mail adress hence the new User name.

Case · February 22, 2002, 06:31

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Originally posted by MasisPanos
Oh yes, new e-mail adress hence the new User name.

You can change your email adress in the user control panel at the top left of the screen

DL! DL! DL!

Juggler · February 22, 2002, 12:21

Quote:

The Age of Osman (made but when I playtested it as the Osmali Turks it crased, hmmm an act of God?)

Damn!
I was really looking forward to this one. hope you fix it soon

MasisPanos · February 23, 2002, 09:37

Downloaded a number of scenarios with high hopes...

Charlemagne
Merchant of Venice
Holy Roman Empire
Conquest of Gaul
AtaTurk

...only to be 'dissapointed'.

For Charlemagne, a larger map is needed, concentrating on western Europe, only northern Spain would need to be included.
Events telling you of relations with the Roman Empire ('byzantium') to add political flavour. Some of the Units, like the armoured cavalryman that decorates the border belong to the 14th century not the 8th century. And some are too fantastic (i.e. fantasy).
Otherwise a good subject worth making a scenario about that should go through a remake.

Merchant of Venice gave the impresion of being a well planned scenario set in the Adriatic/Italian region with perhaps a bit of the Balkans included. It turned out to have to much emphasis on other countries and not alot of territory for the Republic to found on such as the upper Adriatic. Some cities of the Roman Empire were misplaced such as Sevastia. Alexius Comnenus was around after the battle of Manzikert yet the scenario has the Empire with pre-Manzikert frontiers. This should be remade.

Holy Roman Empire, nice map that focuses on the areas of conflict, perhaps too many German states, one could have been swapped for Hungary. Nice Events, some units slighty ahead of their time. I'd ike to have seen more teran development in the western Rhineland to represent the established towns their from the Roman era.
Otherwise nice indeed.

Conquest of Gaul got me hoping that I could leave my own Ceasars conquest of Gaul project and go on to others.
It turned out I may have to do it. This version I downloaded did not have any emphasis on Gaul itself. Grahically it needs updating in a major way.

Ataturk was also of the same genre, suprisingly it was made by a Turk, yet the map was awful and A LOT of towns and cities were missing. The first event tells you of an uprising in Yozgat yet there is no Yozgat to be found east of Ankara, many of the cities are wrongly placed geographically and wrongly named to boot.
It is meant to be 1919 yet anachronistically it has western Armenia (he would never call it that!) being under soviet rule when in fact the Soviets did not turn up for another few years and were not antagonistic towards Ataturk, rather they divided up Armenia between themselves. He could have swapped the soviets for the Armenians under General Antranik and also added a 7th civ such as Bulgaria.
It should be totally remade as it has a nice intro wave.

Civfan · July 1, 2003, 20:00

any news

Stefan Härtel · July 2, 2003, 08:51

Masis withdrew from Civ2 action a while ago.

Valuk · July 3, 2003, 12:47

Damn...why are you re-awakening old themes?? Got myself all worked up for nothing...

Shaka Naldur · July 3, 2003, 15:29

masis scenarios are good, I enjoy playing them for a while and they have different things

I learned a lot about history stuff i have never heard of

Civfan · July 3, 2003, 22:07

unfortunitly Stefan Härtel is correct. Masis is gone for good!

He deleted everything regarding civ2. I talked to him through email and its truce.

Maybe someone could take a shot at this scenario idea. It sounds very good.

Arthedain · July 4, 2003, 06:35

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Originally posted by Shaka Naldur
masis scenarios are good, I enjoy playing them for a while and they have different things

I learned a lot about history stuff i have never heard of

Where can we download his scenarios?

Shaka Naldur · July 4, 2003, 08:41

there were available at the european scenario collection, don´t remember the url,
I think you could find them at the spanish site

why do the people delete everything regarding civ2 once they quite?
they should keep a copy

Civfan · July 4, 2003, 10:57

civfanatics.com

in the civ2 download section. all his scenarios are there!

Gagliaudo · July 5, 2003, 05:04

Masis:
Your idea is original and really good!

And I'm agree with you about Conquest of Gaul (no comment...

), Charlemagne and Merchant of Venice.
Civ2 is a game where history hasn't to force the players, but history (an graphic art...) must be respected a bit, too, especially if the scenarios are called 'historical', isn't it?

I have a "Caesar's Gaul Conquest" project too (only map and something else done), but I have left it for a (big) while...

For Charlemagne (a real "father of the Europe" whe know nowadays), well I have some ideas to make a good historical scenario,too. But for now, only projects...

However, have a good job! (as your past scenarios)

Gagliaudo

Gagliaudo · July 5, 2003, 05:09

... if you come back to civ2 action, of course...

Hi everybody!
Gagliaudo

Valuk · July 6, 2003, 07:01

Anyone? This is a good idea for a scenario, but unfortunately the fixation with five years of some unimportant

war is too storng in the community. We'll just have to wait for Herresson's scenario which will probably be top-notch, as his scenarios tend to be.

Stefan Härtel · July 6, 2003, 08:19

Well... I could pick it up. Better said, start one about this. But only if interest is really there. I'm currently working on two other projects. This one would not be very hard for me to do in general, so I could include some more original ideas too. Just say if you really want it or not.
A little bit to counter the WW2 domination might be healthy.

Civfan · July 6, 2003, 08:49

Stefan

i'm sure for it