Roger's Scenario Thread
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@redrum There are plenty of good maps of Europe, (Age of Tribes comes to mind), but there are no pre-gunpowder scenarios which deal with the strategic reality. The best is probably Greyhawk Wars with it's stack tax. Most scenarios come off as reskinned WW2 without aircraft.
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Scenario Rome Total War
Download Repository/Experimental/Rome Total War
Description The Mediterranean in 270BCGood Points
- Good unit art
- Some interesting unit types
Bad Points
- Anti-Roman alliance has a significant advantage
- No victory conditions
This would probably be better with the Romans receiving a bonus and a time-limit on conquest
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Scenario Feudal Japan
Download Repository/Good Quality/Feudal Japan
Description A port of the game Shogun, covering the civil wars of 16th century JapanGood Points
- A reasonable simulation of the original boardgame
- Some diplomatic options
Bad Points
- I received a null pointer error in the middle of the game
- The lack of maintenance costs is problematic in this situation
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Scenario 300BC
Download DownloadGood Points
- Good unit art & variety
- Interesting historical situation
Bad Points
- Big map with low movement allowances
- Absurdly large stacks
- No victory conditions
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Scenario World at War
Download Repository/High Quality/World at WarGood Points
- Big, WW2 game
- Well balanced
Bad Points
- Geographical oddities such as the French controlling northern Canada
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Scenario WAW 1940
Download Repository/High Quality/World at War
Description Standard A&A pieces with a big mapGood Points
- Well balanced
- Interesting rules with capitals and victory conditions
Bad Points
- Geographical oddities
- A long game, even with Fast AI
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Scenario World War II v6 1941
Download Repository/High Quality/World War II v6 1941
Description: A port of the AA41 gameGood Points
- Simple, fast-playing game
Bad Points
- Russia is going to fall, leaving the game a draw
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Scenario Classic Iron Blitz 1942A; Russia Neutral
Download Repository/Experimental/Classic Variations
Description Germany & Japan vs UK & USGood Points
- Classic rules
Bad Points
- Without Russia, the game lacks strategic tension
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Scenario Big World-April 1940
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Description Another Big World ScenarioGood Points
- Fairly standard unit capabilities
Bad Points
- Like most Big World scenarios, it favors the Axis because it takes too long for the Americans to accomplish anything
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@RogerCooper Especially since there we are talking about an early development stage (it is labelled as version 0.x), I wouldn't consider 300BC as a separate map. It is just the old way 270BC was called. Sometimes maps get their names changed overtime; I don't think this should necessarily make for a new map, otherwise you would be rating each single released version of any maps (so, you would have a lot of TWWs to rate, for example).
Just giving my opinion. If I would be making a map, and eventually change its name, I don't think I would see it like I've made a second map, and if someone would ask me why I've stopped developing the "first" map, I would just tell him "dude, I've just changed its name". The guy that made 270BC just initially called it 300BC. Btw, the two major bad points of this version of what would be 270BC are rather that the map is way unbalanced in favour of AntiRomans and warelephants are too cheap; at 12 PUs and 4/4 I would hardly buy any other land units, especially since warelephants are exceptionally good marines (you can ship 1 warelephant and 1 swordman, for total 16 TUV, on a 12 PUs ship).
But it would be better if names never get changed, to keep it clear.
Of course agree with the stack problem, for 270BC in general, coupled with the spam problem of the 1/1/1 cost 2 units (slingers/peltasts), tho not having air helps a lot in burning down units (because you use more land units to trade), especially if you play with regular dice (as the settings are). A minor issue for this version (no support for them yet) is that cataphract are so costly you would virtually never buy them.
So, personally, unless you plan to keep archived all the various versions of 270BC, I would remove this 300BC map, since it is just the very old 270BC. If there is an intermediate version of 270BC that rather deserves to be kept available, I would say it is the 1.3.1 one.
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@Cernel I put a note on my wiki indicating that the scenario is superseded.
The problems with low movement allowances and absurdly large stacks are also in 270 BC.
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Scenario NWO Doomsday
Description Hypotherical WW3 in Europe
Download DownloadGood Points
- Not just another WW2 scenario
Bad Points
- The Communists are too strong
- No effort made to make the units any different than WW2.
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Scenario Big World Small's 1939
Description World War II on the Big World Map
Download DownloadGood Points
- Well balanced
- Income spread out resulting in fighting all over the map
Bad Points
- A historical income values
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Scenario Ur-Quan Slave War
Description Large-scale space opera
Download Repository/Experimental**Good Points
- Interesting setting, see List of Star Control Races*
- Nice unit art
- Significant differences between players
**Bad Points
- Each individual race has few unit choices
- All units are 'ground' units, limiting tactical options
- Favors the alliance significantly
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Scenario Star Wars: Tatooine War (4teams)
Description Competing powers fight for control of Tatooine
Download Repository/Good/Stars Wars: Tatooine**Good Points
- Star Wars!
- Interesting unit types
- Achievable victory conditions
- Low unit density makes for fast play
**Bad Points
- Oddly, you can't get some parts of the planet from space
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Scenario Stalingrad
Description Battle of Stalingrad in 1942/43
Download Download**Good Points
- Fast-playing
**Bad Points
- No effort to handle as an operational game. Most income is from contestable areas, there is no limit on combat rounds, no sense of supply limitations, no terrain
- No victory conditions
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Scenario The World at War 1941
Description World War II on a large map.
Download Repository/High Quality/World at WarGood Points
- Simple & fast-playing
- Victory conditions defined
Bad Point
- Has an annoying (but harmless) error when loading
- Favors the Axis (Russia is too weak)
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@RogerCooper "The World at War 1941"? That is not a game of the "World At War" map in High Quality repository for sure.
Maybe you are thinking at the 1941 setup of the "The World at War" map, by ezell?
On this matter, @Schulz do you still have your mod of that game? Maybe uploading it to repository? I remember to have played it a while ago.
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Yes but it was unfinished map so no need to add it to the repository.
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@Cernel Your right, I referenced the old file The_World_at_War.zip
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