This file contains explanations about the following Warlords II (PC) scenarios:

1) American Civil War
2) Beaches of Monte Argentario
3) The Lord of the Rings
4) The Second World War in Europe
5) The Silmarillion
6) The Wars of Peloponnesus

All of these are dated 1995, except for the Wars of Peloponnesus, that's dated
1997. All are totally designed by me. Some updatings and translations were made 
in these last weeks.

1) American Civil War.
This is a two-players only scenario. It's very accurated and backed by long 
research as the American Civil War was of high interest to me for many years.
It is easy to win, though. To leave to the computer a chance, you should play
on the Confederacy side and you should also abandon every U.S.A. city at first
turn.

2) Beaches of Monte Argentario.
Like most, this scenario was originally compiled in italian. Till the last 
moment I was of the idea not translating it, yet at the last minute I did it,
as I thought that in the worser case this could be an english exercise. I doubt
that such a subject might be of interest to anyone not knowing Monte Argentario,
yet -who knows- to someone might happen to have an holiday there and in this
case for him things might change.
Monte Argentario is among the most beautiful sea places in Italy. Overall, yet,
it is the place where I have my holyday house and where I spent most of my
summertime youth.
The cities represent single beaches, and the game simulates the struggle to find
room for bathers in a place where most beaches are pretty small. 
The players are:
-Grossetans: the natives of the area (Grosseto is the largest city of the neigh-
 bours). These can be from any social status, most came daily with cars or small
 boats.
-Brambilla: the typical italian low-level family, living in campings at Giannel-
 la and moving daily with cars.
-Romans: the highest social level bathers, mainly having a house of property or
 for rent, and having at least a boat when not a yacht.
-Germans: the most numberous foreign presence, these live in campings or take
 houses for rent.
-Nudists: in Italy nudism is forbidden, yet here these were a presence of a 
 certain importance from '70s till the half of '90s. Then they were eventual-
 ly... defeated due to their main beach having been turned in a pay-to-go one 
 and due to massive conformist tourism.

3) The Lord of the Rings. 
This is one among many other scenarios with the same subject I know. Perhaps it 
is not the best under the fun point of view (the best one in my opinion is that
of Fabio Musciatelli, Conquest of M.E.), yet it is very detailed, even if small.
I attempted to respect Tolkien's spirit as much as Warlords 2 could allow, and I
placed a small number of cities to reduce at minimum any inventions.
It was originally compiled in italian. There are certainly errors in this
english version, overall in the geographical names of the signpost, as I had to
re-translate a traslation without having the original english texts. I could 
simply erase the signposts in order avoiding such a problem, but I thought that
for a player it would have been more difficult to recreate all of them than
to correct the existing ones.

4) The Second World War in Europe.
The map and the army set speak by themselves: great! Only to be said that I added a
neutral nation like Sweden to improve game balance, and that the sides U.S.A.
& G.B. and Commonwealth have the richness of all or part of their cities doubled
to simulate the help from overseas.

5) The Silmarillion.
This is my preferred scenario. If you are seeking for a very balanced and hard
game, you should avoid Morgoth and the Sindar, as these have some extra advanta-
ges. As Morgoth, yet, you might play at the condition of being at war with all
the other three nations already from the first turn. 
There might be some translation errors like in The Lord of the Rings.

6) The Wars of Peloponnesus.
My last scenario. It is very accurate in map and army set, except that I used...
naked girls rather than dressed male warriors! But this is just a jock of appa-
reance, as the scenario is serious under all points of view.
 
Hope you'll enjoy them all.


Rome, 16th December 2000


GIANLUCA MELUZZI

glmeluzzi@libero.it