Victory Conditions Battle end ?

[TheGrayMouser]

Norway conditions are: Decisive capture: all objectives with 9 turns remaining, minor capture all except Namsos

I was at the point where i had captured all objectives except Namsos and marshalling more forces for the assault. Was turn 18 and the game ended with a minor victory

Now i guess i agree, and certainly understand that at that stage It was impossible to get a major victory, yet... It was techincally still possible to do worse and suffer a draw.. in those last 8 turns, technically a unkown Norse-ki could have snuck into one of my other objective hexes (that i left completly undefended), and i might not have been able to retake before the turns ran up.

Seems like the AI isnt getting a fair shake

I guess its a balance /timemanagement thing , yet even though a decisive was impossble , would have liked the oppurtunity to take namsos anyways( i probobly would have lost a couple core troops in the process too), plus the troops can certainly use more combat training in the field for those xtra turns.

[Kerensky]

Norway, and similar scenarios, were... an experiment in alternative victory conditions. Based on it's popularity, we probably won't be doing any more scenarios of this particular design.

A better solution would probably look more like this:

Capture all objectives including Namsos before turn X = Decisive Victory.
Capture all objectives except Namsos before the last turn = Minor Victory.
Control all objectives, and capture Namsos between turn X and the last turn = Minor Victory that triggers on the turn Namsos is taken.

[Douaumont]

I just had this happen too which brought me to the forum. Are there any other scenarios with victory conditions like this? Fantastic game, tough AI (at least to me!).