Holy Rome, the weakest power in the game, and Grand Poland face an invasion from Barbarians, representing the Mongols. While Holy Rome will essentially have to build an army in case Grand Poland Falls Grand Poland can actually accomplish something. Poland should strike out an attempt to conquer the large cities of Archangel, Muscova, and Volgagrad from the Barbarians. In our timeline, the Polish people were nearly eradicated by this Asian invasion. The odds are only slightly better here.

This game starts in the midst of the Jihad <Holy War>. The war will be fought in northern Africa between the Holy Roman cities of Hippo and Carthage and the Islamic cities. An early offensive is the only way for either side to win this war.

This will be fought in the Arabian peninsula and will probably start with the destruction of Damascus by Islamia. For Islamia to win it needs to quickly capture Tyre, Jerusalem, or Alexandria or be forced to fight a drawn-out war in the Nile Delta. If you are playing the Byzantines, you will also be faced with discontented citizens. Forsake everything except your main cities on the Aegean Straits and try to capture Babylon and the Hanging Gardens. Once this is accomplished, try to regain the Nile delta, followed by the Mediterranean coastline.

While these two nations are technically allies, this will not hold. The key to winning this is simple, capture as many French cities as possible from the weak Anglo-Normans. If you're the Low Cities, try real hard not to tick off Grand Poland.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Oracle at Athens

Lighthouse at Land's End

Pyramid of Low Lorraine

Not much, actually. The Great Powers 1.05 is actually an interim release to fix some problems that Yonatan and I have since found with the game. Here is what the difference is:

1. Almost everything about this file. In 1.0, it was TIPS.TXT.
2. The EVENTS.TXT, which is written in Civ2's own macro language. If you run into strange problems, though I never did during testing, simply delete this file.
3. The Barbarians are stronger
4. The City of Danzig is given its Polish name, G'dnask.
5. The scenario is no longer quite as long.
6. The "Roman Transportation System" is the remnant of the Roman road system. It connects all of Rome at its greatest, plus Germany, Poland, and Russia.
7. A promise of another, 1.06, interim release in a few months.
8. The following solution: If you want to build Wonders of the World, what do you do? Simple, open the game under Grand Poland go to the Cheat Menu. Go to Scenario Parameters, Edit Victory conditions, and toggle Count Wonders as Objectives <or something like that <g> >. Then, also under the Cheat Menu, choose "Save as Scenario" and save it as MYGREAT.SCN. There you have it!