Roger's Scenario Thread

[RogerCooper]

Name WW2 Path to Victory
Description World War II in 1940 on a modified version of the Global map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WW2_Path_to_Victory

Good Points

• Well-balanced
• The game develops more historically than most scenarios

Bad Points

• The AI has trouble with the Japanese, because of the rule where the Chinese pop up in ungarrisoned areas

[RogerCooper]

Name CrazyG's Giant World War 1
Description World War One on a large map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/CrazyG's_Giant_World_War_1

Good Points

• The one round limit on combat and slow pace of advance gives a WW1 feel.
• Historical entrance of nations

Bad Points

• AI has trouble with some features, although it can still play
• No victory conditions

[Cernel]

@rogercooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

• Historical entrance of nations

I very much disagree. That was a huge turn-off for me.:frowning_face: If you consider the size of the map and the movement of the units or even what is taken in 1 turn, a turn cannot be more than 1 month (more like 1 or 2 weeks), yet the powers enter the game so early that it is not even remotely justifiable on a historical stand point.

For example, the game is supposed to start at the start of WW1, and Italy joins on the second turn. Historically, Italy joined almost 10 months into the war. There is absolutely no way on a map of this scope that a turn can be anything remotely close to 10 months: it really feels like Italy joins when the war has barely started:unamused_face: , so this definitely spoils the historicity of the game for me (or it is one of the biggest things doing so).

[RogerCooper]

@cernel You have a good point.

[RogerCooper]

Name WWIIv3 1941 - 11 Nations Mod
Description World War II starting in 1941 on the Anniversary edition map with a lot of nations
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WWIIv3_1941_-_11_Nations_Mod

Good Points

• Plenty of action all over the map
• Some of the small countries increase realism

Bad Points

• Some of the countries have little to do
• Favors the Axis

[RogerCooper]

Name Viking 2
Description The Viking invasions of Britain
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Viking_2

Good Points

• Interesting unit art

Bad Points

• No feel for the actual events
• Map is too small for anything interesting to happen.

[Ted Self]

@rogercooper Try different alliances to make interesting things happen. I have been playing conquest of the new world deluxe for a couple of months but I am about ready for some more Vikings.

[RogerCooper]

@ted-self Feel free to improve this mod. It was somebody's experiment. The unit images are nice, there is not much else to recommend to it.

[RogerCooper]

Name: A Song of Ice and Fire
Description: Wars from the Game of Thrones novels
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire

Good Points

• Detailed, themed units
• Players can make and break alliances

Bad Points

• It is hard to make progress with some nations in the middle
• Armies can grow without limit

[RogerCooper]

Name 1939A Historical-Revised
Description World War 2 starting 1939 on the Revised map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/1939A_Historical-Revised

Good Points

• Fast-playing

Bad Points

• An uphill fight for the Axis

[RogerCooper]

Name Britannia: Roman Invasion v2
Description The Roman invasion of Britain
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Britannia:_Roman_Invasion_v2

Good Points

• Interesting strategic situation
• Historically-themed units

Bad Points

• The British income advantage overwhelms the powerful Roman start
• There is no sense of the logistical limitations of the British tribes which allowed the Romans to defeat them in detail

[RogerCooper]

Name Age of Tribes: Primeval
Description A 4X game of conquering Europe
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Age_of_Tribes:_Primeval

Good Points

• Period-specific units
• Interesting tech rules

Bad Points

• The East vs West alliance structure makes for dull head-butting battles

[RogerCooper]

Name Second World War
Description The Second World War on a large world map starting in late 1941
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Second_World_War

Good Points

• Straightfoward rules set
• Low unit density

Bad Points

• Russia is too weak, falling too quickly before the Western Allies can pressure the Axis.

[Cernel]

@rogercooper Naples is the capital of Italy?

(And I think that it should be forbidden to have map names which are just the generic names of any wars, be it "Second World War" or "Great War".)

[RogerCooper]

@cernel Lots of maps put the capital of Italy effectively in Naples, because Rome is too close to the boundary between Northern Italy and Southern Italy.

This is the only mod that starts "Second World War". That is less confusing than all the mods starting with "World War II".

This could have been a really a good mod with better balancing.

[RogerCooper]

Name NWO Vichy 1941
Description World War 2 in Europe with Vichy France treated as full Axis member and Canada is separate.
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/NWO_Vichy

Good Points

• Reasonably balanced
• Straightfoward unit set
• Reasonable unit density

Bad Points

• It can be a long game

[board 3659]

@RogerCooper Is there any maps that you have changed your mind on in terms of enjoyment?
(I also wouldn't mind a sort of quick list of your favorite to least favorite maps)

[RogerCooper]

@board-3659 I can't really say I changed my mind dramatically on a map. As the AI has gotten better and my computer has gotten faster, I respond more favorably to large maps.

I don't like the idea of ranking and rating maps. All maps have good and bad features.

I will highlight a few maps which try to do things a little differently with success. The Grand War is relatively small scale map with completely divergent alternate history. WW2 Path to Victory improves on the WW2 Global Game. The Shogun Advanced tries to make the Sengoku period as it really was, a war of mountain passes and fortresses.

[RogerCooper]

Name World at War
Description World War II starting in 1939 on a large world map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/World_At_War

Good Points

• Conflict all over the map
• Reasonably balanced
• Unit density is reasonable
• Losing a capital does not knock a nation out of the war
• AI plays fairly well, transports have a defense factor

Bad Points

• Large map makes for a long game
• It can be hard to really defeat a major power
• A lot of ahistorical map anomalies

[board 3659]

@rogercooper Have you reviewed any maps that are 1600s era? I know Caribbean Trade War but I really think a Thiry Years War Map would be cool