Roger's Scenario Thread

[RogerCooper]

Name Pacific Incomplete
Description Based upon the Axis & Allies: Pacific game
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Pacific_Incomplete

Good Points

• A fairly good port of a boardgame
• Interesting race against time situation

Bad Points

• Some important rules not implemented (such as the first turn penalty for the Allies)
• The AI tends to focus on Asia as Japan

[RogerCooper]

Name Revised LHTR with 10% upkeep
Description Revised LHTR with 10% upkeep

Good Points

• Upkeep costs improve realism

Bad Points

• Favors the Axis
• Not really enough income to do stuff (try adding 150 income to each power)

[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

• Having the combat move first speeds AI & human play
• Balanced much improved from 1st edition

Bad Points

• The AI does not make good political decisions

[RogerCooper]

Name Big World : 1942
Description World War II in 1942 on a world map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Big_World_:_1942

Good Points

• Straightforward Rules Set
• Reasonably balance

Bad Points

• AI has trouble with playing America

[RogerCooper]

Name Global 40 House Rules with Canada
Description Global 40 House Rules with Canada
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Global_40_House_Rules_with_Canada

Good Points'

• Some interesting options
• Reasonably balanced

Bad Points

• Too many options

[RogerCooper]

Name Pacific-Beta-Buildcaps
Description Axis & Allies Pacific with production limited to what came in the box.
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Pacific-Beta-BuildCaps

Good Points

• The build caps force more realistic production
• A fairly realistic version of the Pacific War (compared to other A&A games)

Bad Points

• Favors the Axis especially with AI play

[RogerCooper]

Name Second World War
Description World War Two on large map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Second_World_War

Good Points

• Uses V3 rules

Bad Points

• Too easy for Germans to take Russia in few turns.

[RogerCooper]

Name Camp David-1956
Description The Suez Crisis (1956 Arab-Israeli War)
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Camp_David-1956_Suez_Crisis

Good Points

• Some effort made to depict the parameters of this unusual conflict

Bad Points

• There is an intense Israeli-Jordanian fight that didn't happen in 1956

[RogerCooper]

Name =TC.Eutopia=
Description Conflict on a hex map reminiscint of World War 2 in Europe
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/%3DTC.EUTOPIA%3D

Good Points

• The hex map works well and gives the game the feel of a historical wargame
• Reasonably balanced

Bad Points

• No victory conditions
• There is a map glitch results in a connection between the right and left sides of the map

[RogerCooper]

Name Europe-Revised
Description A modified version of the Axis & Allies: Europe game
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Europe-Revised

Good Points

• Better balance and more options

Bad Points

• Strongly favors the Axis

[RogerCooper]

Small's 1939
World War 2 starting in 1939 on Big World Map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Small's_1939

Good Points

• More historical than most scenarios

Bad Points

• No victory conditions
• Favors allies

[RogerCooper]

Name Argothair's Middleweight Map 1942
Description World War Two in 1942 on a large map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Argothair's_Middleweight_Map_1942

Good Points

• An effort has been made to increase historical accuracy without adding complexity

Bad Points

• Favors the Axis

[RogerCooper]

Name WWIIv3 1941 Tech Advance
Description WWIIv3 1941 with every power starting with a free tech advance.
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/WWIIv3_1941_Tech_Advance

Good Points

• Makes for some variety in the start

Bad Points

• Tech advances are not of equal value

[RogerCooper]

Name House of Habsburg 0.8
Description 16th Century Europe on a large map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Habsburg_0.8

Good Points

• Rules for castles highlight the importance of fortifications
• Interesting unit interactions to reflect the pike & shot period
• Upkeep costs prevent mega-stacks

Bad Points

• No victory conditions
• Some of the technologies do not work
• It is difficult to create armies large enough to do anything

[RogerCooper]

Name Hearts of Iron 2: Turning tide-1943
Description World War 2 in 1943 on a large map
https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Hearts_of_Iron_2:_Turning_tide-1943

Good Points

• Unusual 1943 starting point for immediate action
• Many interesting unit types

Bad Points

• Strongly favors the Axis
• Many units are poorly balanced.