With the exception of Into the Renaissance, the scenarios in Civilization V are intentionally designed to be shorter than the base game. 'We get suggested different victory conditions all the time, and scenarios are our chance to explore those conditions.' 'The other thing to mention is that give us a chance to come up with a whole different set of victory conditions than what's in the base game,' Beach added. 'We can put situations and historical events in place that we really don't have the flexibility to put in the main game Empire of the Smoky Skies from is a prime example,' said Shirk. Scenarios have become a long-running part of the Civilization series and they let the development team flex its creative muscle. For Beach, using this technology in a scenario serves a dual purpose: it gives Scramble for Africa a unique quirk and also demonstrates to the game's modding community how to implement this new technology.

The continent's borders always create the shape of Africa however, its interior is randomized each time you play. Regardless of which side you take, the layout of Africa is what makes this scenario special. In this scenario, the colonial powers of the world aim to conquer Africa, while the natives must battle back this invasion and establish dominance. With Scramble for Africa, the main goal was designing a scenario that would showcase some of Brave New World's new civilizations, including the Moroccans and the Zulu. Now, Indonesian kris swordsmen start with the mystic blade promotion, which is swapped out for good or ill after their first combat. According to the legends, some of these blades were good, while others were, well, cursed. According to Beach, when designing the Indonesians, the team decided it wanted to have a swordsman unit that used a curved, cursed blade out of Indonesian folklore. While this randomized promotion technology was developed specifically for the Civil War scenario, that technology found another use in the main game. 'For example, you might get the Stonewall Jackson promotion, which gives a bonus for flanking attacks, or the George Pickett promotion, which gives a penalty for charging across open terrain.' After that unit goes through battle for the first time, that green promotion is swapped with a random one from a pool of good and bad promotions each named after a Civil War general. To do this, Beach and his team developed a promotion system where every unit, before entering combat for the first time, is considered 'green,' or untested. 'When we started working on the American Civil War scenario, we wanted to come up with a way to reflect the quirks of Civil War generals and the big effect they had on performance,' explained Beach. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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