Author: Rakovsky
Date of submission: 7/23/2019
AOE1 or ROR: ROR
Single Player or Multiplayer: Single Player
Version: 3.0
This is the first scenario that I've made my own map for. I made it for a campaign. I made it with ROR "U Patch" and it works on my own computer, but I want to see how it fares on others'.
In order to play this scenario, you must be Player 3 (Yellow), so you must play it by starting it from the Single Player Scenario menu.
In Version 3.0, I made it so that when you get a Victory, it doesn't say that your allies are defeated. Also, you can't build military buildings other than barracks.
1. There is no action whatsoever. Nobody attacks you, and pretty much nobody moves, at all. They are just standing still while you're supposed to find some people, among some other boring tasks, such as pushing around a few gazeles.
2. The scenario is VERY basic, even tho the author made some efforts to replicate Jerusalem, which is why I am giving him some points in map design, but the result is still just a few walls and buildings here and there.
You have just one villager and you're supposed to roam the stage looking for berries, cutting wood and, for whatever reason, you also need to create a couple soldiers.
3. The instructions are confusing and the map doesn't really help. I had to go to the scenario editor to see where things actually were, and even after doing so, I couldn't help wandering around, because I wasn't winning.
In fact, I wasn't able to win. The instructions said that I should meet the angel with my soldier and disciples. What disciples? I trained a priest to transform some units, in an attempt to find some "disciples" (not mentioned in the instructions), and the priest got killed because the civilization changed diplomacy to enemy and killed me. So I gave up.
Even if I was able to win, the experience would have still been the same. There is no fun in gathering resources with just one villager and roaming a simplistic and mostly empty stage.
I meant no disrespect to the author. I downloaded the stage with an open mind, looking to have fun and to drop a constructive criticism, but I just can't give it a higher rating because it would be misleading. I understand it's not easy to make a story about Jesus, but here's the scenario, it didn't have any rating, and now it does.