Warlords II Scenario Review

DONUT.SZP  25,485 bytes: Donut Island, a quick game: 5 players, 9 cities.
Only 1 temple.  Author: Steve Fawkner of SSG.

Rating summary, scale of 1 to 10:
Wt Area          Score Comments
10 Army set          4 (default army set)
 7 Map design        5 (a bit too small, but some interesting ideas)
 5 Army pics         6 (default army pics)
 5 City pics         9 (default city pics)
 3 Background info   1 (not included)
 2 Cities/ruins      7 (several good laughs)
 2 Items/heroes      6 (amusing items, default heroes)
   OVERALL RATING  179

This is a scenario Steve Fawkner created for his wife.  Donut Island
is shaped like a donut (I'll bet that was hard to guess), with some
quite amusing city and ruins names and descriptions.  It uses default
city and army sets and pictures, hence it suffers from deficiencies in
the default armies, but benefits from excellent city artwork.

Play it with a hidden map the first time, so you can discover the jokes
and surprises one at a time.  Quests should be off, since there's only
one temple and very few ruins.  Diplomacy is useless in this scenario.

As a war, it's really not much for an experienced player, but worth
playing once for the amusement.  I owned half the world in 4 turns, and
the whole thing on turn 7.  Novice players may want to replay it from
different sides.

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