Roger's Scenario Thread
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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
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@rogercooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:
Name World War II Global 1942 2nd Edition
Description A 1942 scenario for the Global game
link
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.
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@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.
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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
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Name Big World 2 : Rise of the Axis
Description Big World Map with political options and national objectivesGood Points
- Interesting options and objectives
Bad Points
- It is hard for the Axis to achieve their historical conquests, let alone win
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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
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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 rulesBad Points
*2 evenly matched alliances lack strategic tension
*In practice, the units aren't very different -
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
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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
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@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.
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@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.
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@thedog lmao sorry
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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)
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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
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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
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Name WWIIv3 3 Alliances
Description 3 way struggle using the AA50 Map
[link (https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WWIIv3_3_Alliances)
Good Points
- Rules and map modified to provide more options
Bad Points
- It can be hard for anyone to actually win
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Name Battle of Iwo Jima
Description An operational game of the landing on Iwo Jima in 1945
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Good Points
- Plays quickly
- Can be surprisingly tricky to play as the Americans
Bad Points
- Despite the operational setting, the game is a standard A&A game with income, factories and new builds
- The Japanese can build new units despite the historical situation
- The Japanese can drive the Americans back into the sea (and take the sea) which is completely ahistorical
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Name NWO_Vichy
Description New World Order with Vichy France as an Axis power and Canada as an Allied Power
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Good Points
- Reasonably balanced
- Playable with Fast AI
Bad Points
- No victory conditions
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Name Cold War
World War 3 in Europe on the New World Order map
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Good Points
*Straightforward Rules Set
*Accurate Political SituationBad Points
- US is too weak economically
- Cuba is too strong economically
- It takes too long for the US to effectively intervene
- Hard struggle for NATO
- No victory conditions
- Warsaw Pact called Axis
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@rogercooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:
Name Cold War
World War 3 in Europe on the New World Order map
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That is not the New World Order map: it looks to me a cropped and modified Domination map.
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