allan2
Gone Fishing
Here's a thread where people can post ideas for scenarios they want to see. Maybe some suggestions for our more prolific scenario creators....
I'll start with a couple:
--A scenario based on Niven/Pournelle's novel Footfall. I suggest six human civs, representing perhaps the six inhabited continents, or maybe superpowers/major powers, all allied against the threat of the seventh civ, the Fithp. The Fithp would start on "Space" (glacier?) terrain to the top of the Earth map, a strip of terrain with each square occupied by invisible, immobile units (belonging to the Fithp) with high defense numbers, representing the Fithp's "ownership" of the space above the Earth, and making space impenetrable to humans until they finally build their attack ship (like the one in the novel, secretly built in Bellingham, Washington). The initial Fithp "city" is their ship, in the midst of space. The Fithp can "build" asteroids, both small ones that destroy individual units, and larger ones that are like nukes. They start with perhaps a couple hundred paratrooper units, but CANNOT BUILD MORE because, well, they only came with so many of their people. Paradrop range would be enough to cover the planet from their ship. Perhaps periodically events can give them a dozen or so though. An event later in the game will give them the "Foot", which makes terrain changes on the Earth map and causes many coastal cities to be flooded and disappear. The human tech tree, of course, will work toward building a ship capable of attacking the Fithp city/ship.
Other ideas:
--What if Patton got his way, and after the defeat of Germany in WWII, American troops kept moving east toward Prague? The war is still going on with Japan, and scientists at Los Alamos and elsewhere are busily working on a project called "Manhattan". Would her war-weary allies follow suit, or would there be a severe diplomatic crisis in Europe? Would the momentum of Zhukov's march into Berlin be overcome by Patton's and Eisenhower's (and possibly other allied) forces? Would Japan get a second wind somehow, with a large part of enemy forces still committed in Europe? I suggest USA, USSR, UK, France, Japan, China, and Neutrals.
--The Communist/Nationalist civil war in China.
--Something involving the ancient trading sultanates and Javanese kingdoms of Indonesia.
I'll start with a couple:
--A scenario based on Niven/Pournelle's novel Footfall. I suggest six human civs, representing perhaps the six inhabited continents, or maybe superpowers/major powers, all allied against the threat of the seventh civ, the Fithp. The Fithp would start on "Space" (glacier?) terrain to the top of the Earth map, a strip of terrain with each square occupied by invisible, immobile units (belonging to the Fithp) with high defense numbers, representing the Fithp's "ownership" of the space above the Earth, and making space impenetrable to humans until they finally build their attack ship (like the one in the novel, secretly built in Bellingham, Washington). The initial Fithp "city" is their ship, in the midst of space. The Fithp can "build" asteroids, both small ones that destroy individual units, and larger ones that are like nukes. They start with perhaps a couple hundred paratrooper units, but CANNOT BUILD MORE because, well, they only came with so many of their people. Paradrop range would be enough to cover the planet from their ship. Perhaps periodically events can give them a dozen or so though. An event later in the game will give them the "Foot", which makes terrain changes on the Earth map and causes many coastal cities to be flooded and disappear. The human tech tree, of course, will work toward building a ship capable of attacking the Fithp city/ship.
Other ideas:
--What if Patton got his way, and after the defeat of Germany in WWII, American troops kept moving east toward Prague? The war is still going on with Japan, and scientists at Los Alamos and elsewhere are busily working on a project called "Manhattan". Would her war-weary allies follow suit, or would there be a severe diplomatic crisis in Europe? Would the momentum of Zhukov's march into Berlin be overcome by Patton's and Eisenhower's (and possibly other allied) forces? Would Japan get a second wind somehow, with a large part of enemy forces still committed in Europe? I suggest USA, USSR, UK, France, Japan, China, and Neutrals.
--The Communist/Nationalist civil war in China.
--Something involving the ancient trading sultanates and Javanese kingdoms of Indonesia.
