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I always have time for scenario design. This Conquistador game is kicking my butt! I had several months work on it and it wasn't playable for several reasons. I had been using a Beta version of WaW, so I started over with WiE and that is going well so far. However, the SC3 mechanics aren't really well suited to the Conquistador mechanics. So I'm making things up as I go along. Discovery of Gold is an issue [Resources don't like to be 'found' and then depleted later]. Victory Conditions are an issue [it looks like Victory is always dependent on location ownership, not any type of Victory Points]. Historical personages leaving are an issue as there is no Withdraw Unit event. Transporting Gold and Loot is an issue as there is no way to do it. I haven't given up yet, and that's enough whining for now.

Hi

There isn't a method that I know of to make a hex return to a totally neutral status, apart from changing it to a full sea hex and then replacing that with a land hex.

In terms of Victory Conditions, there will be limitations but you can always have a Decision Event trigger the Victory script, or even a string of Decision Events, and Majors having low National Morale can be one of them, as there is a setting in the Decision Event script to register that. Hopefully that might help.

Decision Events can also be used to add/deduct MPPs, and they can be dummy events, i.e. with no text the player sees, so the event just automatically happens.

I don't know to what extent these thoughts might help, but hopefully they might inspire some solutions. [:)]

Can a specific unit (e.g. 'Treasure ship') moving into a specific port(s) trigger an event?

Can the manual disbanding of a certain unit (e.g. historical figure) trigger an event?... I'm thinking here of offering the player a carrot to manual disband said historical figure. You can also provide a stick with a date trigger event that cripples said unit (say 0 movement points or removal of his primary feature such) with a pop up message/event saying he is too old/sick to move. You could provide a morale bonus for a 'state funeral' if he is disbanded in the Capital for example.

No and No [:(]

I don't want to be anti-no-stacking but, we also can't stack units. So that limits some flexibility.
Supply in the New World is also a pain, as Full Supply is only generated thru out the land from a Major Capital, and there are none in the Americas, so supply is always low which results in poor movement, morale and readiness, which makes for drudging game play.

There are mulberry graphics, I wonder if there is a way to create supply units.

Or Decision Events that would create colonies (aka minor countries) wuth their own capitals.

No way to create supply units that I know of, although HQ's could help. But I tried using HQ units in the first go-round of this thing and they just didn't work well so I got rid of them.

All of the colonies have their own capitals, but as they are Unconnected Minor Capitals they only generate 5 supply. That means that units can only get reinforced to 8, so after a few turns in the New World they are generally all down to like 20% readiness and morale. You have to ship units back to Europe to get them fit again. That doesn't kill it but it looks like I made a bad design.

Northern Ireland is part of the UK homeland. Could you make a 1 hex city/port part of the major power so as to have a higher value?

Or provide HQs to the minor/colony so as to push a higher supply value. They wouldn't be able to control the major units but would give them (including major HQs) more supply.

You could also turn the colonies into weak major powers. The new version is allowing 10 majors now.

I should jump back to the thread dedicated to the campaign [:)]