The "Lost" Official Scenarios

[MagnusNygaard]

There are 28 scenarios in the list of "Official" scenarios available to play on the Days of Wonder servers.

They are:
1) Operation Spring
2) Gold Beach
3) Utah Beach
4) Juno Beach (the other "training" scenario on the DoW server)
5) Carentan Causeway
6) Operation Goodwood
7) Twin Villages (my personal favorite)
8) Counter Attack at Aras
9) Vaumicel Manor
10) Carentan
11) Battle for Hill 178
12) Bretel Wood
13) Forêt d'Ecouves
14) Bastogne Corridor West
15) Bastogne Corridor East
16) Strasbourg
17) Moyland Wood
18) Bloody Ridge
19) Clearing Matanikau River
20) Battle of Kalatch
21) Battle of Warsaw (one of the few almost perfectly 50-50 maps)
22) Toulon
23) Mignano Monte Lungo
24) Tunesia
25) Gallabat and Metemma
26) Russian Breakout
27) Lipovec
28) Rzhev (another of my personal favorites!)

I thought it might be fun if we veterans of the Days of Wonder server, gave a list of the maps we'd like to get ported to BGA. I'll start.

[MagnusNygaard]

Yeah, I know, I should have made a poll - but I'm an old man, so... Here's my top five of the official scenarios I miss from DoW:

1) Twin Villages - it uses only the basic rules, yet it has a lot of possible strategies for both sides.
2) Rzhev - you always feel like you have options as both sides.
3) Juno Beach - lots of interesting choices - especially if you have a bad starting hand as the Germans.
4) Battle of Warsaw - amazingly even map, despite very uneven starting positions.
5) Bastogne Corridor East - just a perfect mix of open fields and cover.

[ripted pizzaz]

I miss the following in order...

Battle of Warsaw. Big board, one side dug in defensively against an array of armor. It has a nice feel.
Juno Beach. It's a classic.
Battle for Hill 178: Unique map with options in all three sections.
Bloody Ridge: Tough battle all around


Second group...
Vaumicel Manor: Nice little puzzles for the Allies to figure out.
Bretel Wood: Different features than many maps. Matches sometimes end with a few pieces chasing each other around, but I'm okay with that, like the endgame in chess. Becomes hex-based.
Gallabat and Metemma: Similar to Bretel Wood. Gets a little hex-county, but a different pace than many others.


My dark horse:
Russian Breakout: Terrible map, but interesting for it's sheer difficulty of winning as the Allies.


There is also one map whose name I can't remember...

It's a big popular map like Red Barricades, with a frozen river and a medal on a barbed wire bridge in the center section. One section has a medal town, snipers, armor. The other section has a medal village with arty, armor, etc. That one is great!

[MagnusNygaard]

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It's a big popular map like Red Barricades, with a frozen river and a medal on a barbed wire bridge in the center section. One section has a medal town, snipers, armor. The other section has a medal village with arty, armor, etc. That one is great!

My guess is you're thinking off "Braskir Offensive". It's one of, if not THE, best SFTFs, IMO.
https://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44/e ... w/?id=9956

The only thing that really goes against it, IMO, is that it's not a historical map.

[ripted pizzaz]

Yes, Braskir Offensive!

So good. A "big" map with lots of obstacles. Slow enough that a good starting hand won't overwhelm a poor one but the games don't drag on. All sections have something for each side to do...Good stuff.

[Winn81]

I'd love to see most of those ported, if not all. Here are my favorites:

-Vaumicel Manor
-Moyland Wood
-Bloody Ridge
-Battle of Warsaw
-Rzhev