Scramble for Africa
Creator: duck658 || First Published: 07/10/2025 || Players: 16 || Size: 44x50
Categories: Historical/Geographical
Rating: 1.00 in 3 ratings
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Comments:
duck658 (07/10/2025 01:52pm | Edited: 07/10/2025 08:25pm):
This map is a rough representation of Africa around 1880.

Europeans:
JS - Italy
RF - Great Britain
PL - France
GE - Germany
GS - Belgium
AR - Spain
BM - Portugal

Africans:
OS - Merina Kingdom
YC - Sultanate of Zanzibar
BD - Ottoman Empire
AB - Sultanate of Morocco
TG - Tukulor Empire
BH - Sokoto Caliphate
PC - Lunda Empire
WN - Zulu Kingdom
NE - Ethiopian Empire

I recommend having the Europeans negotiate the partition of the continent amongst themselves to correspond with the Berlin Conference of 1884-85.

Play with Fog and no CO powers.
Banned:
Megatanks, Carriers, Neotanks, Subs, Cruisers, Rockets, Missiles, Piperunners
Lab Units:
Artillery, AA, Medium Tanks, B-ships
starhal (07/11/2025 04:41am):
I'd have also added the kingdom of Buganda as playable African.

Recommending Europeans to work together and agree to split the land, while historical, would make for a pretty boring game
seeing as they already have the advantage
duck658 (07/11/2025 10:00pm):
Do you think I should remove the labs and/or com-towers?
starhal (07/23/2025 05:44am):
I think the main issue right now is Great Brittain having a few too many bases already in Africa, for other europeans having few
or no prior African holdings is balanced by extra income, labs and comtowers, but GB having the same bonus is overkill. But
rather than removing Brittain's bonus, I think giving them fewer bases is a better idea, maybe 1 in SA and 2 in Northwest,
potentially with a second base in the south they're guaranteed to get but starts out neutral.
XLnapkins (11/02/2025 05:30pm):
Need to have a lab somewhere in southern Africa. Several countries can't win due to battleships being lab locked and subs
being banned.



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