Warlords II Scenario Review

1805.ZIP: 136,878 bytes, Europe in 1805 (that was the intent, anyway).
80 cities, 8 players, 40 ruins (including 4 "training camps"). Author:
Bill K. Stegkemper.

Rating summary, scale of 1 to 10:
Wt Area          Score Comments
10 Army set          5 (acceptable, mostly copied from Scenario Builder)
 7 Map design        2 (this map is truly pitiful)
 5 Army pics         5 (acceptable, copied from the Scenario Builder)
 5 City pics         7 (good, copied from the Scenario Builder)
 3 Background info   1 (none at all, no points)
 2 Cities/ruins      1 (names misspelled, no descriptions, random ruins)
 2 Items/heroes      3 (acceptable but misspelled items, a few hero names)
   OVERALL RATING  135

This scenario was supposed to be Europe in 1805.  It isn't.

It's disorienting to have the map of Europe turned sideways, with Russia
north of France and England southeast of Italy, but I could get used to it,
if it was a perfect map otherwise.  This one is horrible: no roads at all,
no signposts, only three little patches of forest, and no *mountains* at
all.  (Can you believe Switzerland without Alps?)

The cities, most of which are spelled correctly, have no descriptions at
all, and the ruins are all random fantasy, "inhabited by monsters".  The
shape of the land resembles the continent of Europe, but that's about all
I can say for this map.

The only thing that makes this scenario even halfway decent to play is the
army set and city set borrowed almost exactly from the Scenario Builder's
Europa scenario.  If you have the Scenario Builder, play Europa instead.
If not, buy it instead of playing this scenario.

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I will not name).  Dirk Pellett