playtest report v1.4-jan21
ok setup a game on monarch as the scandinavians... aggression level normal
jan 60: check science . go for nuclear power with aim at mech inf. for better defense against that red monster near me
jun 60: parts of soviet arctic fleet move to east sea
aug 60: intercept isreali spy attempt, soviet fleet in leningrad now
nov 60: notice that germany has tradeable resource "netherlands" o_O
russians demand 55 gold, i deny -> declare war world war III starts
i pray that they dont hit me in first place
jan 61: capture soviet worker with infantry
feb 61: soviet move with 2 infantry and 1 tank to northern finland
soviets take dhaka
mar 61: my only tank kills soviet tank and promotes to elite
may 61: rush leo in oslo to gain the initiative against russia
jun 61: philadelphia build rocknroll wonder
jul 61: nuclear power -> mech inf.
israel conquers bagdad o_O
aug 61: the world is at peace again
bagdad is retaken by arabs
jan 62: notice that art of war wonder has been constructed in canberra /australia in 1960
it gets boring without war, so i plan to attack murmansk with 2 leopard tanks as soon as i have 3 of them so that the third can defend my cities
oslo my most productive city now makes 42 shields with factory
upgrade infrastructure / happiness in most cities
apr 62: canberra builds observatory as second wonder of that city o_O
i am 7th in manufactured goods stats
jul 62: after 30 rounds time in between turns has increased to 90 secs on my 2,8 ghz athlon
mech inf. -> ecology for happiness issues
im able to build the first types of mech inf now, but see no need for that since leo has most defense of all units PLUS best offense at that time, the price difference is fairly low for that big difference in effectiveness, maybe make apc cheaper to encourage constructing...
oct 63: im bored and declare war on soviet union, while having an army of 5 leos
nov 63: scandinavia takes murmansk
dec 63: soviets take hannover
soviets lose vinh
jan 64: turks and italy conquer yugoslawia which is no more ...
feb 64: british sink soviet landing party near scotland
a stack of 5 soviet t55 is incoming to murmansk o_O, i kill one and start praying
may 64: massive soviet infantry assault near murmansk, start killing them slowly with leos
jun 64: noooooo its peace again :E, redeclare immedeatly, kill 7 soviet infantry and one tank
aug 64: soviet hannover withstands several tank assaults by west europe, soviets are ammassing tanks near hannover
leos in murmansk and helsinki easily fend off two attacking t55
oct 64: soviets take munich (oh nooo,i look out of the window for soviet tanks
)
china somehow managed to take whole korea
nov 64: soviets take amsterdam and kopenhagen
, launch offensive to leningrad to make them pay
dec 64: my forces take petrozavodsk
jan 65: madrid builds overseas trade wonder
assault on leningrad spawns great leader -> leo army
soviets take stuttgart
israel take mosul
central africa takes algiers from italy
apr 65: peace again, redeclare and take leningrad with my shiny new army
new target: poland -> retake kopenhagen and germany
jun 65: massive soviet counterattack with 15 t64 tanks
aug 65: killed ~ 15 t64 with leos, lose only one leo
soviets take chittagong
india takes hyderabad
sep 65: houston builds international arms trade wonder
leos continue to kick ass
oct 65: second military leader appears
china takes pnomh penh and bangkok, i spot chinese tank near leningrad
nov 65: my military presently consists of 6 garrison infantry and 11 leopard, of which 5 are in armies and i have no problem defending against soviet tank hordes, maybe a little tweaking may be appropriate (or i play on a too low difficulty level)
science is on 10% while researching armoured tactics, even changing it to 90% wont change research time :/
4 core cities oslo / trondheim / helsinki / stockholm produce nothing but leo tanks and garrison infantry
newly conquered cities and reykjavik build infrastructure / happinesss
scandinavia is approximately 10th in pop / mfgoods / GNP and land area stats
i decide to play more turns later and to post the results in the forum so that you may have some initial feedback and get a rough idea of how scandinavia plays