Slitherine

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.

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.

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!).