I've been playing this game for nearly 2 decades but this is the first time I ever tried to make a serious scenario.
Intro:
Monte Sante, Lord of The Eastern Reaches has requested your help. He is away on an extended voyage to discover new trade routes and in his absence some petty warlords have begun to divide and conquer his ancestral holdings. It seems the whole region has splintered in to many factions and the army can't decide who to take orders from.
Monte Sante, Sovereign Lord, beseeches you to come out of retirement and return to your post as General of The Armies of The Eastern Reaches and restore the authority of The House of Monte Sante. If you accept, your orders are to use his considerable wealth and extensive fortifications to show these primitive upstarts who the lord of the land really is.
You must hold all 5 ruins to win the game.
But first you need to get to the castle. This will be an epic journey across the width of a hostile land.
At first your population is limited to 4 and you have very few resources, this gets better as you win the first few challenges.
If you want to skip this first bit because it's too slow - kill3 There'll still be plenty of challenge left after that.