Roger's Scenario Thread

RogerCooper

Scenario Tiberian Conquest EU
Description SciFi Conflict over Europe
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** Good Points**

Not just another WW2 game
Some interesting unit art

** Bad Points**

No victory conditions
Misaligned placement boxes make it hard to see what territory units are in
Too many pointless unit types

RogerCooper

Scenario Cold War Asia
Description Chinese Civil War, Korean War and both Vietnam wars as a single scenario
**Download " Repository/Experimental/Cold War Asia
Wikia Entry

Good Points

Interesting situation
Works with Fast AI
Odd-looking map works reasonably well

Bad Points

Conflates 4 distinct conflicts into 1 scenario

RogerCooper

Scenario Steampunk 1915
Description An alternate history WW1 with science fiction elements.
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** Good Points **

Interesting unit types
Conflicts around the world

Bad Points

Slow, even with Fast AI
Units poorly balanced, with Gas being a cheap/effective weapon for must purposes

RogerCooper

Scenario Small's 1939
Description An effort to create a more historical game on the Big World Map
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Good Points

More historical

Bad Points

Favors the Allies strongly

RogerCooper

Scenario Hearts of Iron 2: Turning tide-1943
Description 1943 on a worldwide scale
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Good Points

A rare 1943 scenario
The Axis is strong but the Allies are fully mobilized

Bad Points

No victory conditions.The Axis is going to be beaten and this scenario has to be viewed as a turns to victory problem.

RogerCooper

Scenario Small Balanced 4 Player Teams
Description An abstract symmetrical struggle between 4 nations trying to conquer a central island
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Good Points

Fast game

Bad Points

Symmetrical position makes it less interesting

RogerCooper

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Scenario 41 Oztea
Description 1941 on the Global board
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Good Points

Better balanced than most games on the Global map
Less political stuff makes it easier on the AI

Bad Points

None really, this is a good well-rounded scenario suitable for AI or human to human play

RogerCooper

Scenario CrazyG's Giant World War 1
Description World War 1 on a big map
Wikia Entry

Good Points

Very detailed

Bad Points

Slow even with Fast AI
Germany is too weak

Cernel

@RogerCooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

Germany is too weak

Curious if you mean balance-wise or history-wise or both.

RogerCooper

@Cernel Germany is too weak in both respects. In AI play, the Germans get nowhere and the Entente quickly gains the initiative. Historically the Germans conquered Belgium in 1914, Poland in 1915, Romania in 1916, the Baltic in 1917 and in 1918 came close to breaking the French & the Italians. Only the arrival of the Americans and the demoralizing effect of the blockade defeated them.

The movement allowance are way too low in this scenario. The military superiority of the Germans is lacking. The economic advantage of the Entente is too small.

Cernel

@RogerCooper History-wise, that is beyond any reasonable doubt. Balance-wise, what I understand you are saying boils down to the fact that Germans should have more TUV and either the Entente more production or the Germans' allies less production or both?

But is it possible to pursue both balance and historicity in a WW1 game? Was my "or" possibly not exclusive?

Schulz

RogerCooper

@Cernel Historically the Germans came close to winning WW1. So it is better to ask what was is wrong with the scenarios.

The problem I see is that the Germans should have better attack strengths than anyone else and on large maps infantry should move more than 1.

Cernel

@RogerCooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

The problem I see is that the Germans should have better attack strengths than anyone else and on large maps infantry should move more than 1.

Isn't this supposed to be covered by trains, on this one? I would expect maybe saying that trains should be more/cheaper/faster.

Lord Bevan

AI does not know how to use trains, so if you are playing against AI, just do not use trains.

(but they do in Zombieland, so what's the diff?)

RogerCooper

@Cernel What purpose do trains actually serve? Most of Europe had a fairly dense train network and the initial mobilization of all powers was by train. Either give infantry a move of 2 or 3 or allow factories to boost movement like air bases & naval bases.

prastle

@RogerCooper Have a look atTWW

RogerCooper

@prastle I see the trains. I don't see how they make TWW a better game. Why not use higher move speeds or move bonuses to achieve the same effect?

prastle

@RogerCooper The infra structure can be destroyed or "Rails" destroyed thus more historically accurate. Is I am guessing @Hepps thoughts

RogerCooper

@prastle said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

@RogerCooper The infra structure can be destroyed or "Rails" destroyed thus more historically accurate. Is I am guessing @Hepps thoughts

Destroying railroad infrastructure is not historically accurate. Although the actual rails can be pulled apart, the rails can be easily replaced. Even railroad bridges can be rebuilt fairly quickly. The Germans had specialized railroad engineer units in WW2.

You could also have that effect of speeding up movement within your own country with terrain effects or by having railroad stations that give a movement boost.

For a more interesting take on railroads see Warlords: FFA. China's rail net was much less dense than Europe's so depicting specific rail lines make sense.