First Scenario for SE4 is Available!
 

Allrighty!

Chess a la Space Empires 4.

I had to use a modified Version of P&N v2.0, in order to get the balance right, so this is a 420Kb download. The scenario itself is 65Kb.

Basically it is
Dark vs Light
Pawns: DS size warships, 8 each
Rooks: BaseShips, very heavily armored, not too much weaponry. (one WMG, one Meson BLaster)
Knights: Ripper Beam Cruisers.
Bishops: Repair LCs
Queen: Powerful, fast attack Dreadnaught
King: Really slow Resource ship. (generates resources to pay off maintenance costs of the other ships)

Thus, if you lose your king, your empire will crumble due to maintenance.
After the loss of the king, your opponent will have something like 10 turns to strike back before running out of stored resources.

Doing some sims, you need six pawns, a knight plus any other unit, or a queen to take a rook. A solo knight can strip the armor off of a rook, but will still lose the battle.

To play, extract this zip to a modfolder, get a hotseat buddy, and load the "scenario- chess" savegame.

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[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 24 July 2001).]

Re: First Scenario for SE4 is Available!
 

Hahahaha... alright! Now this is cool! Great Job SJ, I will have to give it a try. Would be great to play a buddy over E-mail too I would imagine. I suggest you e-mail this to MM and have it as an "Offical" Senario. LOL

Re: First Scenario for SE4 is Available!
 

Right now, it is a sequential, tactical combat-enabled game, but I could make a simultaneous one too.

I just need to know what settings are required when I generate the game...

The Light team is portrayed as the Eee,
and the Dark team is unsing the Xiati shipset.

The only problem with making it an official scenario is that it requires a large mod to play http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

I should mention that this is "BlindFold" chess, since you can't see the other team, but I have disabled the sight obscuration on the system-wide nebulas.
You can hide ships in the small storms, and can destroy those storms with your king.
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[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 24 July 2001).]

Re: First Scenario for SE4 is Available!
 

what stops people from pulling their ships back and fleeting them all together in one big lump?

I guess that would just boil down to a much more compact Version of the scenario.

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Re: First Scenario for SE4 is Available!
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>what stops people from pulling their ships back and fleeting them all together in one big lump?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>The problem with that tactic is that your opponent could sacrifice a few ships to run through your forces and kill your king. Then, his king and whatever forces he didn't send into battle could wait until your maintenance kills you.

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