Roger's Scenario Thread

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)

RogerCooper

Name Big World: 1942 - Logistics Mod (No Supply Lines)
Description Big World map with land & air transports
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Good Points

Relative low unit density

Bad Points

The AI can be a bit odd

RogerCooper

Name World War II v3 1941
Description TripleA's version of the AA50 game, 1941 scenario
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Good Points

Fast-moving game with reasonable unit density

Bad Points

Favors the Axis, but not so much that the Allies have no chance

Note: This is my favorite version in face to face play. I am looking forward to playing in the same room as other people soon.

RogerCooper

Name AA42-2 Military Symbols
Description AA42-2 using standard NATO symbols instead of representational icons
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Good Points

No art skill required to create new unit types

Bad Points

Takes a little getting used to, especially for ships

RogerCooper

Name Camp David: 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Description The 1948 Arab-Israeli War with a standard unit set
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Good Points

Asymmetrical Situation
Easy to understand rules set

Bad Points

Poor historical feel for this largely attritional war
No victory conditions

Note: Favors the Arabs. Take all 3 Israeli commands against the AI for an interesting game.

Cernel

@RogerCooper If this map is only about changing the skin, it should be a map-skin, instead. Just delete the "games" folder and add "-military_symbols_skin" at the end of the map name.

I'm saying "if" because I'm not seeing where I am supposed to click to download it.

Nice to see the actual State flags, by the way.

beelee

@Cernel I'm guessing this is a coincidence as i just updated these maps at git.

https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/pull/8668

RogerCooper

Name Classic-Gold
Description Classic game with some optional rules
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Good Points

Fast-playing, simple ruleset

Bad Points

The East Front is narrow, leading to mega-stacks

RogerCooper

Name Ozeteas 1941 Global Setup
Description The global game with a 1941 starting point
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Good Points

Gets you right into the action without a lot of odd political rules
Better balanced than the boardgame

Bad Points

The usual historical problems of A&A, especially an overly powerful Japan

RogerCooper

Name Ultimate Pants
Description World War 2 on a large map with many nations
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Good Points

Easy to understand rules set
Many areas of conflict

Bad Points

Too many units results in slow play and make Europe cluttered and hard to see
No victory conditions
As with many large maps, Russia falls before the Western allies can render meaningful assistance

RogerCooper

Name Global 40 House Rules
Description The Global game with lots of optional rules
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Good Points

Most of the options are interesting
Balance is better than the original game

Bad Points

There some of the rules are glitchy
The AI has problems with some of the rules

Hepps

@RogerCooper Curious... Is this G 40 House rules different from the G 40 House rules you reviewed like 6 posts ago?