Roger's Scenario Thread

RogerCooper

Name Ultimate Pants
Description WW2 on a large map with many playable nations
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**Good Points

Lots of strategic options
Straightforward unit set
Many playable nations with viable options

**Bad Points

Large number of nations slowz the game (but the unit density isn't bad)
No victory conditions
Russia gets in trouble because it is hard for the North American nations to exert pressure fast enough
Many historical inaccuracies

RogerCooper

Name Barbarossa
Description WW2 on the Revised Map with a June 41 start and Italy,China added as players
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Good Points

Fast-playing
Some interesting new unit types

Bad Points

No victory conditions
Hard to distinguish between some unit types

RogerCooper

Name Classic Iron Blitz 2nd Edition
Description The original Larry Harris game with some minor changes
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**Good Points

Fast-playing
The AI plays well

**Bad Points

Favors the Allies strongly unless the no Russian First Attack option used
Japan can surge across Asia with ahistorical ease.

RogerCooper

Name WW2 NWO 2.0 Neutrals Assigned
Description World War 2 in Europe on the New World Order map with minor powers included.
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Good Points

Lots of strategic options
Special units for some power

Bad Points

No victory conditions
Not very historical

RogerCooper

Name Classic: Iron Blitz 1942A Russia Neutral
Description Germany & Japan vs US & UK on the Classic map
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Good Points

A different version of WW2

Bad Points

Favors the Axis
Hard to actually achieve victory

RogerCooper

Name Pacific" 1942
Description Axis & Allies: Pacific game with minor modifications
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Good Points

AI plays fast

Bad Points

The key to Allied victory is bombing Japan, which the AI doesn't do and is not interesting to play out
China falls too easily

RogerCooper

Name Large Middle Earth - Third Age All Stars
Description War of the Ring on a detailed map
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Good Points

Lots of interesting themed units, with appropriate abilities

Bad Points

The AI needs to be at Hard, and plays slowly
The AI gets confused by the inability of most units to enter mountains

RogerCooper

Name 41 Oztea SBR
Description 1941 on the Global 1940 map
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Good Points

You get into fight quickly

Bad Points

As is usual for games based on the Global 1940 map, the Axis has a big advantage.

RogerCooper

Name AAZ42-NZ
Description The alternate setup for the AA42-2 from AAZ, but without the zombies
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Good Points
*Straight-forward small map game

Bad Points
*Needs a heavy bid for the Allies

RogerCooper

Name Star Wars: Tatooine War (4 teams)
Description Fight on the ground and in space for control of Tatooine
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Good Points

Lots of Star Wars-themed units
Fast-playing

Bad Points

The names are different but every faction except the Tusken Raiders plays much the same.

RogerCooper

Name AAZ42-NZ
Description The alternate setup for AA42-2 described in the AAZ game

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Good Points

Straight-forward scenario from the boardgame

Bad Points

Needs a massive bid for balance

RogerCooper

Name Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth
Description The War of the Ring

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Good Points

Fast-playing, straight-forward scenario with reasonable map size
Pretty map evokes the books

Bad Points

An uphill struggle for the Evil forces
Mass production of unique units undermines the theme

RogerCooper

Name The World at War 1939
Description World War 2 on a large map
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Good Points

Easy to use rules set, playable by the AI

Bad Points

Like many large games, Russia gets into trouble before the Western allies can really help
France is just a bunch of neutral areas, easily taken by Germany

RogerCooper

Name Small Balanced 2 Player sidebyside
Description Symmetrical struggle over an island
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Good Points

Fast puzzle-like game, more interesting than it looks.

**Bad Points

Limited options
AI spends the large bid badly, human players should save bid or reduce it.

RogerCooper

Name Classic: Iron Blitz 1939B RussiaInTheAxis
Description Classic game with Russa/Germany vs UK/Japan/USA

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Good Points

Fast-playing, straightforward
Different strategic situation

Bad Points

Probably a draw with good play on both sides (but an interesting puzzle to beat the AI controlling 1 country)

RogerCooper

Name Global 40 House Rules
Description The Global 40 with a bunch of house rules
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Good Points

China is more of opponent because of the guerilla rule
Destroyer/submarines have a more interesting interaction
Some interesting new units

Bad Points

The rules don't do much to resolve the balance issues
Some of the new stuff is hard for the AI to handle

RogerCooper

Name Domination 1914 NML Navalland
Description World War One on a detailed world map
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Good Points

The map is detailed and has the WW1 boundaries
Many tech options

Bad Points

Slow game even with fast AI
AI has some problems, especially with playing the Americans
Many odd territory values and placements

RogerCooper

Name 1914-COW-Empires
Description World War 1 In Europe with historical troop strengths and maintenance costs
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Good Points

Fast-playing
Historical economic & military values

Bad Points

Slow-moving units lack dynamism
No victory conditions

RogerCooper

Name NWO Vichy 1941
Description World War II in Europe on the New World Order with Canada & Vichy France as separate nations
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Good Points

AI plays reasonably well & fast
Well-balanced

Bad Points

None

RogerCooper

Name Star Wars: Galactic War
Description Space & Ground Warfare in the Star Wars Galaxy
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Good Points

Lots of evocative Star Wars units

Bad Points

It is hard to accomplish anything

Note: "Worlds are islands, Space is a sea" does not work well. The slow speeds of ships and the difficulties of conquering worlds makes the game rather slow. Ships in Star Wars should travel at the speed-of-plot, not 2 areas a turn.

Another way space opera could be handled is by making all of space 'land' with bonuses/penalties for ground/space units based upon domain (like in the Civ games)