Roger's Scenario Thread

RogerCooper

Name Europe - Beta
Description Based on the Axis & Allies: Europe game
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Europe_-_Beta

Good Points

Plays fast
Reasonably good port of the boardgame

Bad Points

Game heavily favors Germany

RogerCooper

Name Small Balanced 4 Player Teams
Description The name says it all
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Small_Balanced_4_Player_Teams

Good Points

Fast
Interesting Situation

Bad Points

Symmetrical map limits options

RogerCooper

Name 270 BC Wars
Description The Mediterranean in 270 BC
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/270BC_Wars

Good Points

Interesting interaction between fortifications and mobile units
Barbarian attacks create interest even when not interacting with other players

Bad Points

Long-winded and confusing game notes
The AI has trouble dealing with some unit types
The AI has trouble dealing with the frequent barbarian attacks.

RogerCooper

Name World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod 3
Description Global 1940 with better balance
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_II_Global_1940_Balanced_Mod3

Good Points

Better balance

Bad Points

No scenario notes

RogerCooper

Name Pact of Steel 2
Description World War 2 in a modified version of the Revised maps with lots of tweaks.
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Pact_of_Steel_2

Good Points

Lots of interesting little options
Notes in the XML file explaining how to a lot of stuff

Bad Points

Strongly favors the Axis

RogerCooper

Name Risk-Random Alliances
Description A&A on a Risk board, with random alliances
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Risk-Random_Alliances

Good Points

Random alliances are an interesting concept

Bad Points

The map is too small for anything interesting to happen.
Random alliances can create an impossible or extremely easy situation. Be prepared to restart,

RogerCooper

Russian Civil War (6 players)
The Russian Civil War starting in about 1918
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Russian_Civil_War_(6_players)?

Good Points

Not just another WW 2 game
It has armored trains

Bad Points

The ability to build anywhere makes the game less focused
No victory conditions
Most of the political complexities of the war are ignored

RogerCooper

Name Steampunk Advanced
Description World War One on a large map with many science fiction elements
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Steampunk_Advanced

Good Points

Many interesting units
Each nation has a distinctive position and units

Bad Points

Economic values are often arbitrary
The AI has trouble with some of the units

RogerCooper

Name Aggression 1914
*Description World War 1 on a world map with upkeep costs
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Aggression_1914

Good Points

Upkeep cost prevent megastacks and enhance realism
Conflict all over the map
Randomized setup adds variety

Bad Points

Poor documentation (especially of the randomized unit creation)
Ahistorical, with every one fighting from turn 1 and nations created out of nothing
Randomized setups can be unbalanced/ahistorical

RogerCooper

Name Age of the Sturlungs
Description Civil war in Medieval Iceland
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Age_Of_The_Sturlungs_0.0.2

Good Points

Not another WW2 game
Some interesting geography

Bad Points

Slow movement allowances make for a slow game
No victory conditions
No feel for medieval warfare

RogerCooper

Name Capture the Flag
Description An abstract 4-way battle on a square map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Capture_The_Flag

Good Points

An interesting puzzle in PvsAI

Bad Points

It's only a puzzle

RogerCooper

Name New World Order
Description World War II in Europe
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/New_World_Order

Good Points

Nice-looking accurate map
A large variety of units

Bad Points

The AI has trouble playing German & America

Ted Self

@rogercooper @rogercooper I've been playing the Viking game for a few days. The thing that irritated me the most was the monks. The computer players would just buy tons of monks. I fixed this by making monks cost 2, defend at zero and only move one space. So all they are good for is support and fodder. I made 3 factions, Geats with Northumbia, Danes with Picts, and Jutes united with Mercia and Wessex. I gave the Jutes +1 resource PUs every turn. I took the Geats faction and set the computer players to fast AI except for the Picts which I set at easy AI. This way no matter which faction you play you will get to use both sets of armies. I tried to change the names of the countries but I failed at that. I also tried to make villages defend at +1 support but failed at that as well. I have not play tested very far into the game yet so I'm not sure about the balance. I am not sure if I have the latest version. I barely managed to find and download the zip file called Viking-master. Then it would not load from the zip file so I had to move some files. I saw one version somewhere That was called Viking2 but the download file for it was gone. But anyhow I am having fun, the big kid and the history buff in me is still going strong.

Ted Self

@ted-self Now I am laughing at myself. I found the Viking2 file, now I have both versions. I just had to tweak it, I'm a tweaker. I screwed the monks and made the dogs cost 2 for 5 PUs. Got rid of the limit of 6 units and changed them all to either 8, 10 or 12. I would like to put names on the capital cities that are visible and also make the capitals be artillery, if you could tell me how to do that I would appreciate it. Of course I already appreciate the games you have made. Triplea is a great thing for old gamers and history buffs with not much disposable income.

RogerCooper

@ted-self said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

@ted-self Now I am laughing at myself. I found the Viking2 file, now I have both versions. I just had to tweak it, I'm a tweaker. I screwed the monks and made the dogs cost 2 for 5 PUs. Got rid of the limit of 6 units and changed them all to either 8, 10 or 12. I would like to put names on the capital cities that are visible and also make the capitals be artillery, if you could tell me how to do that I would appreciate it. Of course I already appreciate the games you have made. Triplea is a great thing for old gamers and history buffs with not much disposable income.

There is always room for a Viking3 mod. If you want artillery in capitals, just create a zero move unit and place in the capital. Take a look at a scenario that has capitals, I believe that file is called capitals.txt. Post on the map-making forum if you need some help.

RogerCooper

Name World War II v4-17% bonus for Allies
Description Axis & Allies 1942-Second edition with a 17% income bonus for the Allies

Good Points

Fixes the rather unbalanced original game

RogerCooper

Name World At War Variant - FUEL-AA-Range
Description World War II on a large map with fuel restrictions starting in 1939
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/World_At_War_Variant_-_FUEL-AA-Range

Good Points

Interesting unit types

Bad Points

No victory conditions
All powers at war immediately

RogerCooper

Name 1914-COW-Empires
Description World War 1 in Europe using data from the Correlates of War website
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/1914-COW-Empires

Good Points

Historically based forces and economics
Maintenance costs
Limited rounds of combat

Bad Points

Economic values are not split properly
Maintenance costs are too high, making it hard to build armies
Quality differences in armies are largely ignored, creating odd results

RogerCooper

Name HeartsOfIron2-Europe
Description World War 2 in Europe on a large map with many unit types
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/HeartsOfIron2-Europe

Good Points

Competitive situation
Interesting unit types
Many strategic options

Bad Points

Some unit types are useless or overpowered

Black_Elk

I enjoy this thread a lot. It's fun to hear the quick take and to see the images, especially to see how the various maps have been adapted for alternative scenarios. If there's one thing tripleA definitely has that I dig, it's the full buffet. Sometimes it can be hard to wade through so many different games and think what to download and try out, so the brief survey here is fun. Especially with the screens to show how things look. It's also cool I think just to see the various visual conventions there, like what colors and such were chosen.

I find that the more visuals there are available, the more inclined I am to explore the game and check it out. Even in the map downloads feature like the built in, like if there are more images beyond the thumbnail of the entire map at max zoom. Or when it displays a gamenotes with extra images and kinda tease what's what. A cool expanded overview/survey with this same method, might be like screen of the first turn purchase menu too, to see an example of the unit spread.

Reading this made me go and download some things I hadn't seen before and a few I'd seen but forgotten about. Trying to get a little archive going on the D drive now hehe.

Anyhow, good work!