This scenario features a baseball diamond and a football field. The fields are nice to look at but the gameplay has been completely forgotten. You outnumber the enemy in both baseball and football and you get a bunch of reserves just in case. I was able to wipe out the other two teams without moving the mouse. There is also a victory condition to research afterlife which is worthless since you get 99,999 FWSG. I find it very difficult to recommend this scenario - it' a strikeout and a fumble.
[Edited on 12/30/04 @ 02:31 AM]
skald
Posted on 02/16/10 @ 02:37 PM
Rating
2.0
Breakdown
Playability
1.5
Balance
1.0
Creativity
3.5
Map Design
3.0
Story/Instructions
1.0
It was a wild night in Cairo as the Memphis Marauders took on the Athens Attackers in football and across town the Giza Gazelles played the Trojan Tigers in baseball. Fans from all over the Mediterranean attended, mostly from Babylonia and Assyria. There wasn't much actual ball playing going on so the fans rated the
Playability: 1.5.
In baseball things broke down rapidly as the first pitch from Greek left hander Achilles Archilopogous hit the local favorite batter, Amenhotep, in the head with an arrow. As Amen rushed the pitcher's mound, teammates from both sides joined in the fray followed by fans pouring onto the field. A general melee broke out, and when the smoke cleared, the Egyptian team was ahead 60 to 30 (by body count).
Across town in football things didn't go much smoother. Before the quarterback could take the snap, the entire Egyptian team was flagged for offsides as they rushed across the line of scrimmage, followed by 11 flags for personal fouls as the Egyptian players started hitting the Greeks with elephant femurs. Once again hooligans and fans poured out of the stands and mixed it up on the field. When it was all quiet again, the local Egyptian team was ahead 40 to 25 (once again, by body count). The local sports reporters rated it as
Balance: 1.
However local fans had a different opinion. This is the first time they had seen baseball and football games decided by actual combat so they rated it as
Creativity: 3.5.
As the fans left the stadiums and returned to their parked chariots, they remarked on the nice design of the stadium and the field. As one fan said, "I think it's a definite--
Map: 3. "
History: Little is known about the rules of these games since they had not been invented yet at the time they were played here in Egypt.
At first it was thought the object was to bring a small round object to a certain location on the field. But later it was discovered that both teams had a secret agenda. They were actually both bent on simple Conquest, which explained their riotous behavior. So it was decided that
History, Instructions etc.: 1.
Comments: A brave attempt to implement football and baseball using AoE. I am not sure if this has been done successfully in AOK but I do know there is a nice implementation of oval track racing in Star Craft, by a private designer player.