Civ2 WW2 scenario alternatives

[BadassNonbinaryPrincess]

My first strategy game was Civ2 and the WW2 scenario was really good. I haven't played the Civ series since then, anyone know some modern equivalents? I really like how balanced it was, how you could lose if you did something wrong.

I looked at the other Civs, number 6 looks pretty cartoony but 5 looks pretty good. Or is that Civ2 scenario still the best?

p.s. Anyone play Strategic Command WW2 - World at War? It is like a turn based PC game but it looks pretty slow paced. I can't search threads yet.

 

[spectre]

People swear by R.E.D. WW2 for Civ5, but I can't confirm it personally. Civ5 was sorta promising on this front because it claimed heavy inspiration from Panzer General. However, it ended up being self-defeating
because the AI can't work the 1 unit per tile limit. YMMV, but Civ5 is salvageable only in multiplayer.

Civ4, apart from being the last civilization game to be released* is where it's at when it comes to all kinds of mods, but it plays very different from Civ2 (which was actually a good thing for a lot of folks at the time, me included).
There's a neat WW2 scenario included with Beyond the Sword, and if you have any issues with how it plays, there's a metric shitton of mods to tweak it in all kinds of different ways (although extensive modifications to vanilla systems
can make the AI go teats up). It's been a while since I dredged for Civ4 mods, but I vaguely recall a bunch of combat tweaks that try to simulate combined arms.

For breathing some new life into Civ2, perhaps this thread might point you in the right direction:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...nd-might-be-the-best-game-of-all-time.129339/

*no, really.

 

[BadassNonbinaryPrincess]

People swear by R.E.D. WW2 for Civ5, but I can't confirm it personally. Civ5 was sorta promising on this front because it claimed heavy inspiration from Panzer General. However, it ended up being self-defeating
because the AI can't work the 1 unit per tile limit. YMMV, but Civ5 is salvageable only in multiplayer.

Civ4, apart from being the last civilization game to be released* is where it's at when it comes to all kinds of mods, but it plays very different from Civ2 (which was actually a good thing for a lot of folks at the time, me included).
There's a neat WW2 scenario included with Beyond the Sword, and if you have any issues with how it plays, there's a metric shitton of mods to tweak it in all kinds of different ways (although extensive modifications to vanilla systems
can make the AI go teats up). It's been a while since I dredged for Civ4 mods, but I vaguely recall a bunch of combat tweaks that try to simulate combined arms.

For breathing some new life into Civ2, perhaps this thread might point you in the right direction:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...nd-might-be-the-best-game-of-all-time.129339/

*no, really.

Thank you! I'll check all that out.