Roger's Scenario Thread

[RogerCooper]

@RogerCooper

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Big World 2: Balance of Power
Description A Big World Map scenario
Download In repository under Good Quality, Big World 2

Good Points

• Easy to understand
• Well-balanced
• China gets extra units

Bad Points

• The map was expanded, so at 100% zoom, you can see too little of the map. You can reduce the zoom, but it blurs the image a little

[Cernel]

@RogerCooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

Bad Points

• The map was expanded, so at 100% zoom, you can see too little of the map. You can reduce the zoom, but it blurs the image a little

I would say this is a limit of the program, in general for the zoom quality. @RoiEX was working on a enhanced zoom; I really wonder if he just gave up.

[Cernel]

@RogerCooper I would say that should not be called just "Chess", or people will think it is the actual standard chess.

[RogerCooper]

@Cernel I didn't create the "Chess" scenario. However, I doubt anyone will think that it is standard Chess.

[RogerCooper]

Scenario WWIIv3 -1939 11 Nations Mod
Description See above

Bad Points

• The Allies can win almost immediately
• Despite the 1939 start, Russia & the US are fully active

[RogerCooper]

@RogerCooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

Scenario WWIIv3 -1939 11 Nations Mod
Description See above

Bad Points

• The Allies can win almost immediately
• Despite the 1939 start, Russia & the US are fully active

I tried this again giving the Germans a 60 PU bid with all AI, and it made for an interesting game.

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Russian Spring
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Description Russia vs everyone else in Europe. Designed with Russia's foes being played by the AI.

Good Points

• Interesting starting situation

Bad Points

• Favors the Axis strongly, even with triggered events are turned off.

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Viking 2
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Description Viking Raids

Good Points

• Nice unit art
• Fast-moving ships

Bad Points

• Favors the pagans
• Makes little effort to depict dark ages warfare

[RogerCooper]

Scenario The Rising Sun WW2v3
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Description The Pacific War

Good Points

• Lots of conflict all over the map

Bad Points

• No victory conditions
• Ahistorical capital locations
• Russia is fully active
• No terrain, you can walk from India to China

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Oil War
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Description A modern struggle between West, East & the Islamic Caliphate

Good Points

• Interesting, 3-way struggle
• Low unit density and low production values make for fast play

Bad Points

• Odd assignments of production values

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Risk
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Description A Risk board with each continent held by 1 player and arbitrary alliances

Good Points

• Fast Play
• Didn't you always want to play A&A on a Risk board

Bad Points

• Some graphics issues with the map
• Too few territories for interesting play

[RogerCooper]

Scenario World War II Global 1940 Ryuzaki
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Description The Global 1940 game with a modified setup, notably France is stronger.

Good Points

• The Global 1940 game works generally well in TripleA

Bad Points

• The AI tends declare war prematurely and sometimes gets confused by the various types of neutrals

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Middle Earth - Fords
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Description The War of the Ring

Good Points

• Nice map, complete with fords

Bad Points

• Unique and rare beings from Tolkien can be mass-produced
• Favors the Good side

[RogerCooper]

Scenario Medieval Europe
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Description Conflict in Medieval Europe between 3 alliances

Good Points

• Nice map
• Good unit art

Bad Points

• No specific historical situation
• No attempt to depict the realities of Medieval warfare, the game is reskinned WW2 without aircraft

[RogerCooper]

@RogerCooper I would suggest to designers working with pre-gunpowder warfare, that they should make an effort to depict the following real characteristics of the time

• Castles and local levies. Castles could be handled as an expensive, multi-hit static unit, while levies could be cheap static units, replaced by events.
• The high cost of maintaining mobile forces. Just have them create negative PU's.
• The power of cavalry and its limitations. For example, cavalry could be handled as aircraft (with terrain effects to prevent sea movement)

[redrum]

@RogerCooper The medieval europe download doesn't seem to work.

[RogerCooper]

@redrum Try http://www.rogercooper.com/Medieval_Europe.zip
I just downloaded it myself.

[redrum]

@RogerCooper Yep that works. Thanks.

I was hoping the map was a bit more... developed. I'm eventually looking to make a medieval map and looking for ideas. If you know of any good medieval maps let me know.

[Cernel]

@RogerCooper said in Roger's Scenario Thread:

@RogerCooper I would suggest to designers working with pre-gunpowder warfare, that they should make an effort to depict the following real characteristics of the time

• Castles and local levies. Castles could be handled as an expensive, multi-hit static unit, while levies could be cheap static units, replaced by events.
• The high cost of maintaining mobile forces. Just have them create negative PU's.
• The power of cavalry and its limitations. For example, cavalry could be handled as aircraft (with terrain effects to prevent sea movement)

For castles, the recent enhancement to AA guns, the ability of land units of making SBR and the capacity of killed units to turn into other units open up a lot of feasible possibilities, but I think I would still suggest castles to be basically capturable infrastructures, as that is what they were.

Totally agree with upkeep being a must have for pre modern warfare. It is actually rather hard to get any ideas on how to represent purchase costs, instead, as, be it with cession of land or with money payments, virtually the only cost for a lord was maintainment, not "creation", of land units (as well as merchant ships) (an item may be the cost for replacement of horses lost in battle, but even that would happen only after the unit has been killed or damaged, not in the moment you raise it).

Pushing aircrafts into pre world war games, as cavalry or whatever, feels lame to me, as it is anyways making a suboptimal representation of the matter, using (and to some extent likely hacking) rules tailored for something else, just to get close to what you actually want. I think not one of the various (not fantasy) pre world war games having (pseudo) aircrafts is really good on the feature, or at least all of them are very unpopular. A good representation of the raiding or hit-and-run ability of cavalry would likely require at least an athomization of the current abilities assigned to air units, especially regarding not forcefully losing the ability to load onto sea transports (that I consider a deal breaker on its own).