Roger's Scenario Thread

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

RogerCooper

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

RogerCooper

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

RogerCooper

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

RogerCooper

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 Situation

Bad 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

Cernel

@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.

RogerCooper

@cernel said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

That is not the New World Order map: it looks to me a cropped and modified Domination map.

You are right, on my wiki I actually name the map "Cold War Europe Map"