Topic: Amazon campaign playtesting

Hello everyone,

I'm a new player who has been experimenting with the map editor. I noticed there is no campaign for the amazon tribe yet, so I've decided to work on one. I have a working version of the first mission and I would like some feedback on it. If anyone has time to play-test it that would be great.

Here are some things I'd like to get feedback on:

• Is the story clear enough to follow and is it clear for you as a player what you should be doing?
• Did you feel you had enough time time to complete the mission successfully? How rushed did you feel?
• What difficulty level would you give the mission?
• What do you think of the icons/pictures used in the story messages?
• This first mission (by design) shares a strong resemblance with Atlantean mission 2. Does this bother you?

Here is some information about my campaign ideas:

This first mission is meant as an introduction to the amazons and some of their unique mechanics (mostly rare trees and rope) and some of their economy (mostly the food hierarchy. Recruiting soldiers will be part of the second mission. There are males in the campaign story. I know the amazons are supposed to be a female only tribe. This is part of the story. The general idea is that the campaign tells the story of how they become a female only tribe, so it starts out with having men as well.

It's hard to make a proper story about the amazons, since they take ideas from 3 unrelated sources:

1) The amazons are female only, which fits the traditional Greek myth about the amazons. However, these female warriors were located in modern day Turkey, quite close to Greece and have nothing to do with the amazon river.

2) The backstory of the Widelands amazons talks about the amazon river, which would suggest an Inca type tribe, maybe Maya/Aztecs could work, but Inca culture would be the best fit.

3) The in-game tribe members look like Africans. This makes some sense in the modern world, after the transatlantic slave trade, but makes no sense in relation to any tribe around the amazon river or the mythical amazons that the tribe seems based on.

Since the tribes wares and buildings are clearly based on their Amazon river background, I've used that starting point and made the faces and cultural references mostly based on that region.

If there is anything else you'd like to know just ask me.

You can find and download the map here: download.

I don´t know if there is a better place to upload maps, I don´t want to use the ingame map editor yet because this is not the final version.

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tothxa wrote

Hi DyingSettler and welcome to Widelands.

At least I hope this is not just some very elaborate spam... because your link does not point to an actual downloadable file.

If you'd like to share your scenario (and expand it later to a campaign), please upload it as a campaign add-on. You don't need to worry that it's not final, because add-ons can be updated anytime.

Hey Tothxa,

thank you for the quick reply. I've fixed the link, apparently the old one only worked when logged into Limewire.

And I'll use the campaign add-on option in the future. For other maps/add-ons I kept seeing different versions so I thought that would get quite messy.

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