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| September 2002 | Return to cover page |
| Scenario Roundup by Gothmog | |
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This issue rounds up scenarios released during the Summer of 2002. The list is compiled from CivFanatics and Apolyton Forums and Websites. Descriptions for the most part are adapted from descriptions provided by the authors themselves. Abbreviations: FW=Fantastic Worlds, MGE=Multiplayer Gold Edition, ToT=Test of Time. Historical ScenariosMerchant of Venice by Joseph Abbate
Bonaparte II by John Ellis
Imperialism 1870 by Exile
Fire and Roses V1.1 by Stefan Härtel
Under Siege: the Wars of Israel by insurgent
the Lost Island by Jacobite1688
Operation Urgent Fury by JAPP
Second Anglo-Boer War by Len Morison
Brown Man's Burden II by oryx
Red October by Techumseh
Strike of a Lion by E. Thommassen
GNB3 by W.i.n.t.e.r
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Description: It is the year 1225 and great changes will take place in Europe over the next 250 years. The Italian city-states will bring about the Renaissance, Spain and Portugal will reconquer the Iberian Peninsula, England and France will fight the 100 Years War, the Hanseatic League will be created in Germany, and the Byzantine Empire will struggle to survive. Requires FW
Description: When the Peace of Amiens collapsed in May 1803, Europe had enjoyed 19 months of uneasy ceasefire. General Bonaparte was intent on expansion - the English, in particular, were intent upon stopping him. The scene was set for a conflagration that could set all of Europe ablaze... Requires FW or MGE Suitable for Multiplayer
Description: During the latter half of the 19th century, the European and other imperial powers acquired the industrial and technological might to stretch out their collective hand and partition the world between them. The stage is the entire world. Requires MGE
Suitable for Multiplayer
Description:During the early middle ages, Iran was subject of little regard to the great Arab empire, as in earlier ages, when the center of empire lay in today's Iraq. During this time, an Emir residing in Samarkand, rose to power, founding the Samanid dynasty. In 909 they annexed the emirate of the Saffarids. This is where the scenario starts... Requires FW or MGE
Description: Throughout the history of the State of Israel severe antagonism between Israelis and Arabs has dominated events. This quintuple of scenarios are made to depict five of the wars: The War of Independence, The Suez Crisis, The Six Day War, The Yom Kippur War, and the Lebanon War.
Requires MGE
Description: AD 490 - AD 627, the breakdown of the Roman Empire in Britain. Barbarians invaded the province from every direction. Around A.D. 500, a great captain, "King Arthur", gathered the forces of Roman Britain and fought the invaders to the death.
Requires FW or MGE
Description: On March 13, 1979, the New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation (New Jewel) movement ousted Sir Eric Gairy, Grenada's first prime minister, in a nearly bloodless coup and established a people's revolutionary government (PRG), headed by Maurice Bishop. In October 1983, a power struggle within the government resulted in the arrest and subsequent murder of Bishop and several members of his cabinet by elements of the people's revolutionary army... Requires FW or MGE
Description: On the ebb of the Victorian 19th century, Great Britain's imperial annexations of Africa suddenly stumbled. Two obstinate Dutch speaking republics, the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and Orange Free State, refused to give up their independence.
Requires FW or MGE
Description: The Berlin Conference of 1884 set off a race among European powers to claim as much land as possible in Africa. This scenario recreates the Scramble for Africa.
Requires FW or MGE
Suitable for Multiplayer
Description:The Russian Civil War began following the Bolshevik revolution in November 1917 (October in the Gregorian calendar - hence the name Red October).The revolution itself was short and relatively peaceful. The civil war was by contrast prolonged, bloody and brutal. Requires ToT
Description: War between Sweden and its Nordic neighbours in the beginning of the 18th century from 1700-1721 changed the history of Northern Europe forever. Russia replaced Sweden as the mightiest nation of the north.
Requires FW or MGE
Description: The French Revolution has swept away the values, as well as the traditional balance of power within Europe. Amassing a huge conscripted army, the French leaders of the new "Republican State", have been able to withstand both political and military pressures. There is one man, however, who is to rewrite the history of Europe for all time. This man is Napoleon Bonaparte!
Requires MGE
Suitable for Multiplayer