Roger's Scenario Thread

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!

RogerCooper

@black_elk I am glad the you appreciate it. The website makes it easy to post images.

RogerCooper

Name World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition with Combat Move First
Description World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition with Combat Move First
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/World_War_II_Global_1940_2nd_Edition_with_Combat_Move_First

Good Points

Combat move first speeds up play
Better balance than the original game

Bad Points

AI has trouble making good political decisions

TheDog

@RogerCooper
Would you be so kind to review our map 1941 Global Command Decision v120, as we would like your opinion?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5XcTxMNdUZVAjjTWbz4mw0gL-Bjlw6r/view?usp=sharing

RogerCooper

@thedog said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

@RogerCooper
Would you be so kind to review our map 1941 Global Command Decision v120, as we would like your opinion?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5XcTxMNdUZVAjjTWbz4mw0gL-Bjlw6r/view?usp=sharing

I will try it out on the weekend.

RogerCooper

Pacific Theatre Solo Challenge
World War 2 in Pacific on the AAP map with lots of special stuff
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Pacific_Theater_(Zim_Xero)

Good Points

Interesting set of rules designed for play against the AI

Bad Points

Can be confusing for both units and AI

RogerCooper

@rogercooper I don't generally big games like 1941 Global Command Decision Too many units, too slow to play.

It has some interesting ideas. Maintenance costs, stacking limits and tech by events all work well. It is good the Americans can get across the Atlantic in 2 turns.

The AI has some trouble with the many unit types. For example the AI Americans will not build nuclear bombers.

I like the territory names on so I know what I am fighting over.

Like most scenarios, there is no real sense of the huge economic power of the US.

TheDog

@RogerCooper
Thanks for the review!
I will look into the number of units and the nuclear bomber.

Not sure if you saw this.
If the AI is playing USA on Turn 1, it will buy 11x Industry-Med and place them in the US, on turn 2+ these generate 7pu each, so thats 77pu extra per turn.

Also scripted for both AI and US player is
Turn 2 Brazil
Turn 3 Mexico
Turn 4 Gulf of Mexico states
join the US as allies and generate approximately another 70pu per turn from turn 4+

From turn 5+ the US will produce more PU than Germany, but the US does not have the combat units to match Germany.
This can only be seen by looking at the History PU values in Resources phase.

RogerCooper

@thedog said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

@RogerCooper
Thanks for the review!
I will look into the number of units and the nuclear bomber.

Not sure if you saw this.
If the AI is playing USA on Turn 1, it will buy 11x Industry-Med and place them in the US, on turn 2+ these generate 7pu each, so thats 77pu extra per turn.

Also scripted for both AI and US player is
Turn 2 Brazil
Turn 3 Mexico
Turn 4 Gulf of Mexico states
join the US as allies and generate approximately another 70pu per turn from turn 4+

From turn 5+ the US will produce more PU than Germany, but the US does not have the combat units to match Germany.
This can only be seen by looking at the History PU values in Resources phase.

I saw that feature but 70 pu is not enough to be decisive. The Americans also need to fight the Japanese, build transports and it is minimum of 2 turns to get units to Europe. The large number of areas makes it harder for the Western Allies to distract the Germans. Once the Japanese attack Russia, the Russians are in serious trouble.

Have you considered having American sea movement allowances increase during the game as a reflection of improvements in logistics.

The number of units is part of your design decision to create a game on a large map. Some people like large maps, but I don't. It would be interesting to try some of your ideas are on a map with fewer areas.

RogerCooper

Name Rome Total War
Description A scenario inspired by the Rome: Total War game
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Rome_Total_War

Good Points

Not another WW2 game

Bad Points

Most units even ships move 1, making a slow game
Little effort made to show the peculiarities of ancient warfare.