Roger's Scenario Thread

RogerCooper

Name Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth
Description The War of the Ring
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings:_Middle_Earth

Good Points

Nice looking map
Interesting variety of units
Conflict all over the map

Bad Points

Unique units from the novel are freely producible
The endless production model of TripleA does not reflect the feel of Middle Earth

RogerCooper

Name The Grand War
Description A World War in an alternate timeline with little resemblance to our own
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Grand_War

Good Points

An interesting alternate history situation
Each nation has an interesting special unit
Fast-playing game on a relatively small map

Bad Points

The AI has some issues with the resources and tech (but it is playable vs the AI)
Some balance issues

RogerCooper

Name Steampunk Advanced
Description World War One with many Steampunk elements
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Steampunk_Advanced

**Good Points

Lots of interesting units
Conflict all over the world

**Bad Points

Many unit types are poorly balanced and hard for the AI to handle
Production values of territories are often arbitrary

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@RogerCooper
Didn't you already review this?

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Personally, I viewed the number values as how important territory is. It explains why Commies have a 10 pu capital. Or why Mexico city is 7 pu's.

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I agree the unit quality is very mixed. Some units like the Hero and Fighter have good ideas of choice but the execution isn't good since heroes are usually better than fighters unless you are US or Britain. Units like Germany's advanced submarines are good and balanced but due to not having any on the board and the few places to make naval units. It's never been used by me. Same with France's overabundance of Maginots (7 in a territory, really?) and it has conscripts for some reason. Bigger one's like the Nautilus costing 20 when they should be 16-18 do majorly impact the game, and make me want to do a V3 and learn modding to make a more enhanced version of this scenario (the last update just added more unit's which made the game more confusing so I want to fix it)

RogerCooper

@board-3659 It would be better to have many special units as non-buildable, in both this and other mods. I was recently playing as the Alliance, which has a 2 PU hitman unit which throws the game balance off completely.

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@rogercooper yeah I agree, as well as the militia unit. I personally would restrict where you can produce similar to colonial troops to at least make the amount produce a manageable amount (militia only in Balkans, hitman in only Venice. Ninja is a good unit that is well designed due to being produced in only one area, not sure why the other ones were not better treated). I would also make it a 4/0 unit since the Penal is a 1 cost 3/0 unit so it just makes sense that Hitman would be in-between. I personally would make a lot of special units. needing tech and probably make a new tech system IDK like GW1936 though I need to see if it's possible

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IMO I think majinots should be non-buildable for most nations except maybe Nemo pirates and Martians since it gives France a huge defence advantage (plus the Martain/Nemo Pirate Economy is smaller than frances; a third at most)

RogerCooper

@board-3659 There is a lot that could be done to improve this scenario. It is a good choice for further modding.

RogerCooper

Name WW2v31941-Upkeep
Description Anniversary Edition 1941 Scenario with 10% upkeep

Good Points

A solid boardgame based mod

**Bad Points

The AI gets confused by high production values and overbuilds factories

RogerCooper

Name Classic-Gold
Description The Classic 1984 edition with some optional rules implemented.
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Classic-Gold

**Good Points

Well-chosen optional rules

**Bad Points

The AI has trouble playing Britain well

RogerCooper

Name Cold War Asia: 1948+Japan
Description Korean War, Chinese Civil War, Vietnam War and a hypothetical war in Japan all taking place at the same time.
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Cold_War_Asia:_1948

Good Points

Unusual scenario with lots of conflict
Plays quickly

Bad Points

Tough for the Democracies to win
Distorted map

Christian Dutrow

@RogerCooper Hello!! Is there an updated download link for the Russian civil war map (2 player, 3 player, and 6 player)? I've been looking for a playable version of this scenario for awhile. Thanks so much!!

RogerCooper

@christian-dutrow I will make that my next project to post to github so you can download it in-game.

RogerCooper

Name WWIIv3 1941 China Mod
Description WW2v3 1941 with Chinese coordinating with Russia and minor deployment changes
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WWIIv3_1941_China_Mod

Good Points

The Anniversary edition is the best version of A&A according to some.

Bad Points

China is not much affected by the change.

Christian Dutrow

@rogercooper perfect!!! thank you

RogerCooper

Name WW2v3-1940-11N
Description World War 2 in 1940 with 11 nations using the Anniversary edition map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WW2v3-1940-11N

Good Points

The usual good points of the Anniversary Edition

Bad Points

A tough game for the Axis (but interesting to play with the allies on AI)
The smaller powers don't have much to do

RogerCooper

Name Big World 2 : Rise of the Axis
Description 1939 on the Big World map with political rules & national advantages
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Big_World_2_:_Rise_of_the_Axis

Good Points

Interesting political options
Interesting events
Reasonably balanced

Bad Points

Not much fun playing France

Christian Dutrow

@rogercooper I see that the russian civil war is up for download. When I start the 6 player variation a failed to start message appears stating the following: "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error in resource loading. Unable to load expected resource: polygons.txt, the error is that either we did not find the correct path to load. Check the resource loader to make sure the map zip or dir was added. Failing that, the path in this error message should be available relative to the map folder, or relative to the root of the map zip"

It seems like the thread on github that it forwards you to is a duplicate of an issue in new world order 1915. Any guidance on what should be done? Thanks!!