Civilization 2 scenario

[Rom's Sehlat]

Yes, this is Star Trek related.

Does anyone here play Civ2? Quite a few years ago, an ingenious scenario designer named Kobayashi (of Maru fame) developed two scenarios for this old game: Star Trek: The Battle for the Alpha Quadrant and Star Trek: Dominion Wars.

ST:BAQ was a game with the Romulans, Klingons, and Federation as powers in the stellar map. The objective was to defeat the Borg threat. The scenario starts with each civ as it begins its warp age.

STominion Wars was based on the war in the era of DS9. You play Admiral Ross in charge of the Federation's Starfleet. There's a script for the game loosely based on the show. Events such as the USS Valiant appearing for play behind enemy lines, and Sisko having to fight Dukat in the fire caves (a secondary part of the map); it's really ingenious!

Have any of you played these? You can find them for download if you look for them; I'm too lazy to get links right now. If someone asks, I'll put links up.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I play Civ3 and a little bit of Civ4. There's a large Star Trek mod for Civ3 at CivFanaticsCenter. On my old gaming computer, I had a mod where all my advisors were the TNG crew, and I edited the game's script so Troi (Foreign Advisor) would say things like "The [Russians] have declared war on us! I sense hostility!" and Worf (Military Advisor) would grumble about me being dishonorable if I launched a war without declaring one.

 

[david lowbridge]

There was a game years ago called birth of the federation where you could play either the federation, klingons, ferengi, romulans or cardassians in much the same way. there were minor races too like the trill, vulcans, bolians, that you could pay to join your empire or simply invade. it was a good game but had its flaws

1. memory leakages in the actually game
2. the ship database was a little small, only about 9-12 ships per empire, each with a distinct role (e.g. colony, destroyer. etc).
3. the AI was a little simple... even the ferengi would just declare war on you...

The best part of the game was turning on the random events and hoping the borg would turn up... the time I had ten cubes in my game trying to wipe me out was an amazing game... eventually got 94 ships together and took out the borg, but it cost me Trill, Vulcan and Andoria plus a few other colonies.

You can still get it I think, but it barely works on the latest technology and I think it was released by those who did civ 2...

 

[daedalus5]

There was a game years ago called birth of the federation where you could play either the federation, klingons, ferengi, romulans or cardassians in much the same way. there were minor races too like the trill, vulcans, bolians, that you could pay to join your empire or simply invade. it was a good game but had its flaws

1. memory leakages in the actually game
2. the ship database was a little small, only about 9-12 ships per empire, each with a distinct role (e.g. colony, destroyer. etc).
3. the AI was a little simple... even the ferengi would just declare war on you...

The best part of the game was turning on the random events and hoping the borg would turn up... the time I had ten cubes in my game trying to wipe me out was an amazing game... eventually got 94 ships together and took out the borg, but it cost me Trill, Vulcan and Andoria plus a few other colonies.

You can still get it I think, but it barely works on the latest technology and I think it was released by those who did civ 2...

Ah, but BOTF is well worth it. (The patch helped on memory leaks). And when I fist encountered the Borg, I was scared witless. Excellent stuff!

 

[david lowbridge]

There was a game years ago called birth of the federation where you could play either the federation, klingons, ferengi, romulans or cardassians in much the same way. there were minor races too like the trill, vulcans, bolians, that you could pay to join your empire or simply invade. it was a good game but had its flaws

1. memory leakages in the actually game
2. the ship database was a little small, only about 9-12 ships per empire, each with a distinct role (e.g. colony, destroyer. etc).
3. the AI was a little simple... even the ferengi would just declare war on you...

The best part of the game was turning on the random events and hoping the borg would turn up... the time I had ten cubes in my game trying to wipe me out was an amazing game... eventually got 94 ships together and took out the borg, but it cost me Trill, Vulcan and Andoria plus a few other colonies.

You can still get it I think, but it barely works on the latest technology and I think it was released by those who did civ 2...

Ah, but BOTF is well worth it. (The patch helped on memory leaks). And when I fist encountered the Borg, I was scared witless. Excellent stuff!

Oh no doubt it was worth it, i spent many an hours playing it...and was obsessed on getting my military fleet just right...and I spent a lot of my esponage on getting Romulan vessels as they could cloak (some klingon ones could but you couldnt guarantee what ship you stole and I wanted cloaked ones when I didn't play as the Klingons and Romulans).

Best thing was the borg, scary scary scary stuff on the game, unlike in VOY.