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'Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots' - MP Scenarios Available NOW

by Judy on July 22, 2004 @ 8:09 p.m. PDT

Microsoft has released two new multiplayer scenarios for Big Huge Games' RTS add-on Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots. This pack contains a 2 vs 2 player map called Skirmish and a 4 player free-for-all map titled Missile, both set in the Cold War era (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links ...

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Developed by Brian Reynolds and Big Huge Games, Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots adds the Americans, Persians and four other new nations; as well as four new historical single player campaigns, including Napoleon and the Cold War. The expansion adds more than 20 new units, such as massive Persian war elephants and US Marines. Players will also be able to build new strategic wonders and create governments for their nation. After creating a government, any nation, old or new, can choose exactly how to be governed, which has far-reaching effects on how units perform in various situations. The all-new single player campaigns will allow gamers to control the course of history during historical events that changed the world.

Extract contents of Zip file to the Custom folder within your Rise of NationsThrones and Patriotsscenario directory.

Default path C:Program FilesRise of NationsThrones and PatriotsscenarioCustom

For those without Admin rights, you can also unzip the files to:
C:Documents and SettingsyourusernameMy DocumentsMy GamesRise of NationsScenarios

Afterwards, you should see two new folders within your Custom directory, "missile" and "skirmish", each containing a .scx and .bhs file of the same name.

Missile:
It's a free for all fight in the Information Age! Each player has two barracks within a small city. You can only make Elite Special Forces and Spies. Your objective is to destroy all of the other player's buildings, or their barracks and all their units. Watch out for those Spies, as they can call down Cruise Missiles on your buildings.

Skirmish:
The Americans and British team up against the Chinese and Russians in this 2v2 Modern Age war. Players can only build docks, towers, anti-air guns, and Redoubts. All of your ground forces are trained at Redoubts, so they are essential.

Thanks to Big Huge Designers, John Hawkins and Mark Sobota for assembling these scenarios, which are based on missions in the Cold War Campaign.

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