10-04-2001 00:57									#1
	Mac playtesters? Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

I am making a scenario and it has been in playtesting stage for quite a while, annyway I allways kept updating the mac version but I had no mac playtesters...
So I just posted this in the spanish forum to get a few more playtesters, then I got the idea to ask if anyone here would be willing to playtest too (mike.doc maybe?)
This is originally from an email I sent to someone who playtest the scenario:

quote: Thanks! It is about the Swedish-Polish war of 1655 There are lots of special rules and stuff (forests for example will detract from your defence bonus). Any european nation is playable there are: Habsburgs (I think you know who these guys are ) French (these too) Swedish (not that hard to figure out either) Danish (also includes the dutch, I would like a better name for this civ but I havent come up whit one yet) Protestants (England, Transylvania, a few german cities and Brandenburg) Polish (these are the Polish Lituan comonwealth) Russians (guess who these are) You will notice that the scenario intro text is really big, it will be smaller when I write the readme but untill then it is needed. The situation when the scenario starts is this: The newly crowned Swedish king is an almost absulte monarch, he never felt appriciated untill he got assigned to the army during the late stages of the thirty years war and he really likes the life in the field, he is also a great gambler and enyojs taking risks. The Polish Lituan comonwealth is under attack by the Russians and is also fighting a civil war in Ukraine. They are very divided and the king is constantly squabling whit his nobility. The polish army consists mostly of Hussars (polish knights) and there is almost no infantry or modern fortifications... Sweden has just finnished of the 30 years war and has a large army that they need to dispose off, that army is also a very experienced and modern one, almost the opposite from the polish. An old Swedish dream has allways been "Dominium Maris Baltici" the total domination of the baltics. Danzig is the only major port and rivermouth that isn't Swedish, Sweden ses its chanse and jumps at it. A swedish army lead by the king himself enters the comonwealth trying to grab hold of the entire Polish part of the baltic coast. But when they see how unmodern the Polish army is Karl X Gustav of Sweden (the king) makes a bold move: He will march towards Warzaw not Danzig... The Russians are lead by Tzar Aleksej, Russia used to be cought in civil strife but it is now united. While the Russians where fighting internally both the Polish and the Swedish tried to grab as much as possible of Russia and succeded. Russias goal is to take back what was lost during these years. Russia is however more modernized than Poland and has a small but well equipped army... The Danes are constantly trying to make life a hard time for the Swedes, they haven't quite accepted that Sweden is now the dominating Power in the baltics, and they still have controll over Öresund... The Dutch want balance in the baltics, if the Swedish do get Danzig it isn't going to benefit the dutch trade... They make a mutual defence pact whit Denmark... Frederik Wilhelm of Brandenburg is quitly supporting Karl X Gustav in his war against the comonwealth and allows Swedish troops to use Brandenburg soil to enter the Polish-Lituan comonwealth. Racoczy of Transylvania is totaly convinced that the Swedish king is a saint that will save all protestants from the wretched catholics... The only thing that hinders him from entering the war is his wife and his mother in law, they both think that the Sultan wouldn't look kindly of him attacking Poland (Transylvania is an Ottoman vassal but still a protestant nation) England is supporting everyone who bothers the Dutch... Cromwell is quitly supporting the Swedes to. The French are in thier golden age under Le Rio Solleille and French-Swedish Relations have allways been good... The Spanish are currently fighting the French in what is a leftover from the thirty years war. The Empire is quiete but is quitly supportive to Poland... That is the situation when the game starts (I hope you could read it all ) There are seasons incorporated in the scenario and they are working quite well I think. I have gotten reports about some of the sounds being non-functional, please tell me if you have any problems. All nations are running a deceit, this is becouse they are deep in debt after the 30 years war. Sell some churches if you need to. All nations get extra income from collonies/loans from time to time so they will survive. In the winter it is possible to use the frozen sea in Öresund to attack the danish capital and the defending superfortress "Fredriksodde" is a lot weaker in the winter too. The scenario playtest version is available here: ftp://aspen.mine.nu/users/henrik Download the .zip version since that is the PC version, the .bat files are also usefull for changing seasons, but they arent perfected yet so you will have to change the rules files yourself (srules for summer and wrules fo winter). Please tell me what you think

So if anyone is interested the mac version is at the same address but as a sit file.
I would appriciate all feedback I could get