First Scenario for SE4 is Available!

[Suicide Junkie]

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).]