Roger's Scenario Thread

Cernel

@rogercooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

Bad Points

Russia can't survive without hordes of infantry

Playing "Classic" by the intended default TripleA rules, the Russians are virtually unlimited in infantry purchases because it is virtually impossible you reach the generous maximum number of stacks of infantry you are limited to. I actually don't think anyone is ever going to reach it, so infantry units are practically unlimited anyways.

RogerCooper

@cernel The mod I was playing limited the total number of units, not the number of stacks. This was the rule in original 1981 edition of the game and is fully supported by TripleA. However, it did not work too well in this mod.

RogerCooper

Name WW2v3-3 Alliances
Description An alternate WW2 with Russia, China & Japan forming a third alliance
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Good Points

Fast-playing version 3 rules
Interesting alt history situation

Bad Points

Hard to achieve the actual victory conditions

RogerCooper

Domination 1914-Weltpolitik
World War 1 on a large world map
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Good Points

Interesting political options
Lots of nations with conflict all over the map

Bad Points

With large number of units on a big map, the game plays slowly

RogerCooper

Name Command and Conquer
Description SF battle for Europe & Africa
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Good Points

Not another WW2 game
Plays fast
SF-themed units from the Command and Conquer computer game

Bad Points

Neutral units in lots of places causes confusion
Only 2-playable nations limits options
Poor artwork

RogerCooper

Name World War II Global 1942 2nd Edition
Description A 1942 scenario for the Global game
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Good Points

No messy political rules
The US has some thing to do from the start

Bad Points

It can still be tough on the Allies, who don't have enough of a production advantage to offset Russian's isolation

Cernel

@rogercooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

Name World War II Global 1942 2nd Edition
Description A 1942 scenario for the Global game
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Good Points

No messy political rules

The US has some thing to do from the start

Apparently, you are quite alone here. I guess people love those messy rules. I can say that in the TripleA lobby there are a lot of games of 1940 but hardly any number of 1942. Something like one hundred 1940 games for every 1942 game played: as a matter of fact, players way prefer 1940 over 1942 so much that the opportunity of the mere existence of the 1942 scenario may be questioned.

RogerCooper

@cernel I am generally playing against the AI, so the political rules cause trouble. But in general, the AAG40 has overly complicated political rules, without really creating new opportunities, because most of the political decisions are obvious. In WW2 game this is inevitable because if you don't force the players to do things historically, you would have a very different WW2.

The point of this thread is to provide some exposure for lesser known scenarios. When I played Global 42 as Russia, I took Germany and lost because the Japanese took Hawaii. It was a fun game.

RogerCooper

Name AAC-Buildcaps
Description Classic game with units limited to what was in the box.
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Good Points

No mega-stacks
Forces varied unit purchasing

Bad Points

Awkward & arbitrary

RogerCooper

Name Big World 2 : Rise of the Axis
Description Big World Map with political options and national objectives

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Good Points

Interesting options and objectives

Bad Points

It is hard for the Axis to achieve their historical conquests, let alone win

RogerCooper

Name Ur-Quan Slave War
Description Space Opera based on the Star Control game series
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Good Points

Evocative unit art & species names
Unique units for every power

Bad Points

The lack of terrain or other significant areas (other than high income homeworlds) means that the game tends lack focus

RogerCooper

Name Age of Tribes: Cold War
Description 2 evenly matched blocs fight over Europe with extensive unit development rules
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Good Points
*A wide verity of units
*Interesting unit development rules

Bad Points
*2 evenly matched alliances lack strategic tension
*In practice, the units aren't very different

RogerCooper

Name NWO Canada
Description New World Order scenario with Canada added
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Good Points

Easy to understand unit set
Everyone likes Canada

Bad Points

Hard for Germany to get sufficient pressure on Russia

RogerCooper

Name Oztea 1942
Description 1942 scenario on Global map
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Good Points

Everyone gets into fight immediately
Japan is not so overpowered

Bad Points

The Allies don't have enough income advantage to overcome Russian isolation

pact_of_plastic

@cernel I really like this map "Blood and Iron". Thanks to whoever made it. I wish there were more medium sized maps like this and World at War 2010. Blood and Iron is not in the suppository. I wish I found this map a long time ago.

TheDog

@pact_of_plastic
The word is not suppository, but repository, (Posted with kindness.)

Im guessing English is not your first language, but you were almost right, made me smile.

pact_of_plastic

@thedog lmao sorry

RogerCooper

Name 41 Oztea Militia
Description A 1941 scenario for the Global game with a militia type unit added
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Good Points

Immediate action for all
Reasonably balanced

Bad Points

Militia is not worth building
Some glitchiness in the political rules and events (I fixed the worst of it)

RogerCooper

Name Pact of Steel 2
Description WW2 on a smallish map, with many objectives and specials
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Good Points

Lots of interesting specials. The map is designed to demonstrate the rules, the xml comments contain much of the game's documentation
Plays quickly
Despite the game notes, the Hard AI plays reasonably

Bad Points

Some of the specials are a bit arbitrary

RogerCooper

Description Twelve Clans
Description Sengoku period in Japan
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Good Points

Vassalage systems makes this more interesting than the usual free for all
Good unit art
Plays fast even with Hard AI

Bad Points

The game notes are not in the repository (they are in my wiki however)
The lack of terrain (even sea areas) limits options and interest