Roger's Scenario Thread

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?

RogerCooper

@Hepps It may be the same. I maintain a long list of all scenarios and playable nations and play them at random, deleting the entry after play. Sometimes I play a scenario again with a different nation. A nice thing about TripleA is playing the same game with a different nation makes a different experience.

In addition, there is Global 40 and a Global 1940 scenario.

Schulz

The Global map really beaten to death by moddings.

Cernel

@RogerCooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

@Hepps It may be the same. I maintain a long list of all scenarios and playable nations and play them at random, deleting the entry after play. Sometimes I play a scenario again with a different nation. A nice thing about TripleA is playing the same game with a different nation makes a different experience.

In addition, there is Global 40 and a Global 1940 scenario.

I'm not very interested personally in Global, but I think @Hepps was just correctly pointing out that the second one of these two posts is a duplicate of the first:
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/889/roger-s-scenario-thread/266?page=14&lang=it
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/889/roger-s-scenario-thread/280?page=14&lang=it

They both link to the same page and all I can understand is that not only do they refer to the same map, but they also refer to the same game, this one:
https://github.com/triplea-maps/global_40_house_rules/blob/master/map/games/Global_40_House_Rules.xml

Maybe you would prefer to delete the second post and edit most of what you wrote in there into the first one, then. All the points you made are not duplicative except only the "Some of the new stuff is hard for the AI to handle" and "The AI has problems with some of the rules" ones, which could be merged into a single sentence.

Or maybe you played two different games, and one was the game without Canada and the other one was the one with Canada, for the same map.

Since you are mentioning "scenarios" at the first post of this topic, which I don't believe is part of any TripleA nomenclature, maybe you should clarify whether you are reviewing maps or games. If maps, then one would expect to see only one post for the "Global 40 House Rules" map. If games, then one would expect to see two of them, but one of the two referring to the "Global 40 House Rules with Canada" game.

My understanding is that a "scenario" is a game, not a map.

@Schulz I'm not sure what you mean. The more the modifications, the better. Not like they are doing anything bad to the original anyway.

Hepps

@RogerCooper Cool thanks... I may have missed something. Thanks for the response.

beelee

Fwiw the G 40 HRs mod gets updated periodically. Probably no major impact on the review, as there are so many possibilities one could use.

RogerCooper

@Cernel As a long-time board wargamer I am used to using the term scenario. To me, TripleA is the game and the map is the virtual board that the scenario is played on.

When posting, I don't review my previous posts and see if I already played the same scenario.

The purpose of this thread is to give some exposure to the many different scenarios that TripleA can run, and their suitability for play against the AI. I am not trying to create a definitive set of reviews.

RogerCooper

Name 270BC Cernel Variant
Description The Mediterranean into the time of the Punic Wars and the Diadochi
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Good Points

An interesting historical situation
Beautiful unit art

Bad Points

No victory conditions
Low movement allowances does not reflect the sweeping campaigns of the period

RogerCooper

Name Large Middle Earth
Description The War of the Ring on a large map
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Good Points

An interesting and varied set of units with many special unit & terrain effects
Appropriate national objectives
Most units are move 2, speeding play

Bad Points

AI needs to be run at Hard level because of the many specials, which slows the game
Unique units like Wizards and Nazgul are buildable
Unlimited unit building is unlike the small armies described by Tolkien
No sense of great numeric strength of Mordor

Note: If you play this with the AI use the "Terrain Effects Allow All Units" option are the AI will build units to attack mountain strongholds that can't reach mountain strongholds