Curated Best/Top Maps & TripleA Guides

TheDog

Added to the 1st post, how the TripleA maps, relate to A&A board games.

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RogerCooper

@thedog You might want to add Greyhawk Wars to the Fantasy section.

Cernel

@rogercooper said in Curated Best/Top Maps & TripleA Guides:

@thedog I would suggest adding Steampunk-Advanced, The Grand War and Ultimate Pants.

Never played either, but why Ultimate Pants and not Ultimate War? Besides, are you sure that deserves being considered top quality? I don't remember having ever seen anyone playing Ultimate Pants in the lobby...

RogerCooper

@cernel The different Ultimate scenarios are fairly similar, I am not sure which is the best.

TheDog

Added a new emoji
More than just a fight. The mapmaker has spent serious time/effort to give immersion/depth/campaign feel

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Cernel

@rogercooper I feel that Ultimate World (as well as its variants) is very much belonging to the old times of TripleA and is no longer any popular. I wouldn't have it in top quality also since it has playability issues due to the very small and very crowded territories and the small units, which are sometimes hard to tell apart especially in case of some sea units (now even more serious an issue as we move to 4K monitors). On top of that, it is such a wildly unhistorical game (even by TripleA standards) to have in any historical category. Mostly, I'm feeling that World At War made Ultimate World substantially obsolete: seemingly, Ultimate World players moved to World At War after the latter existed, so having the conceptually very similar Ultimate World and World At War on the same standing does not feel quite right to me in the moment the latter is something like a hundred or maybe even a thousand times more popular than the former as a matter of game played in the lobby. Besides, if there is not a clear best scenario, I think that it would be reasonable the most to have the original one (rather than any variant unless the variant is clearly better).

For example, Big World (comprising at least a couple variants, like the sometime somewhat popular NekahNet's 1939), Big World 2 and even the scantly played Pact of Steel (just to cite a bunch of global WW2 games) are definitely more popular than Ultimate World (or any one of its variants) in the lobby, and I'm not even sure that those deserve to be at the top.

TheDog

1st post
Added
Ancient - Rome Total War

WW1 - Battle of Jutland -Fleet action, Stacking limits the number of ships per hex

Abstract-Alternate - Jurassic - Yes Dinosaurs
Abstract-Alternate - War of the Relics - A campaign

Replaced
Ultimate World Variants (game Ultimate Pants) replace with Big World & Big World Variations

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TheDog

Added
WW2-Alternate (1931-1945)
G40 Alt Universe - "The war is the same, but occurs in an alternate universe"

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TheDog

Added more data to the 1st post for WW2-Global…...(1931-1945) including dice used, minimum TripleA version and Resources
as this is the most popular period.

Used Markdown tables to improve its look.
https://www.codecademy.com/resources/docs/markdown/tables

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beelee

@thedog

are you the anoymous contributor

TheDog

Yes, Sherlock, well deduced.

I thought I could sneak in a few updates.
Civil War is PvP only
and in the guides put a direct link to PoS2 map, such a good resource
https://github.com/triplea-maps/the_pact_of_steel

ubernaut

please add total world war

TheDog

@ubernaut
Its already there under the heading
WW2-Global…...(1931-1945)

I have never played it, so if I have missed a vital component or part of the game play please advise.

ubernaut

@thedog oh thanks i didnt see it

JohnnyCat

I am a huge fan of these TripleA games - though I am starting to tire of the usual WWII scenario and seeking something more.

What I mean is that most of these WW2 games are all more or less the same: The Axis are out gunned and at a huge geographic disadvantage so the usual game is either: The Axis "win" by not losing by turn X, or the The Allies win by simply creating a pipeline and overwhelming the Axis. There is little room for any other "strategic adventures."

But I thought I saw a "map" that had England starting in Axis hands but I cannot find it now. Does anyone know of this scenario (what you guys call "maps"?) or any other games set in the tripleA gaming context but offering fresh new challenges?

Thank you and congrats to all for keeping these games fresh

RogerCooper

@johnnycat https://github.com/triplea-maps/Darkest_Hour has Britain starting under German control.

Most of the WW2 scenarios in A&A tend to favor the Axis. US production is unrealistically low and the Japanese can usually conduct a logistically impossible march across Asia to Moscow.

For other alternate history scenarios, download the mod "Classic Variations". For a list of scenarios, see https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Category:TripleA_Scenarios.

crockett36

May I suggest Crockett36's France Goes First? Same Board game as G40 se, but France decided to move in April of 1940, either to attack or to retreat or turtle or to build more fleet? A very unique experience!

crockett36

@crockett36 It dawns on me this is the wrong place.

JohnnyCat

@rogercooper Thanks

RogerCooper

@crockett36 said in Curated Best/Top Maps & TripleA Guides:

May I suggest Crockett36's France Goes First? Same Board game as G40 se, but France decided to move in April of 1940, either to attack or to retreat or turtle or to build more fleet? A very unique experience!

Do you have this posted on GitHub? I am not seeing it at first glance.