Showdown 1991 Classic

Showdown 1991 (Classic) is the original scenario of the game. It was the first one to be available, and still serves as the tutorial scenario for most new players.

## Overview

Set in 1991, the map features 48 total nations - 15 playable and 33 AI - and includes 113 total victory points. Prior to 2019, there were only 10 playable nations, but after the map got revamped in the 2019 update, Canada, Romania, Croatia, Algeria, and Egypt were made playable nations.

Each playable country starts with the same amount of cities (5) and rural provinces (20). Each playable nation's five cities each produce a different resource. Also, each playable nation has six rural resource producing provinces. Two resources have two different rural production spots, two have one rural production spots, and one has no rural production spots. The two resources with two rural production spots are said to be the country's "strong resources" and the one resource without a rural production spot is said to be the country's "weak resource".

In this scenario, smaller nations are unavailable to be chosen by players and are controlled by the AI. There are 33 AI nations in total. Five of them - Denmark, Poland, Greece, Transylvania, and Libya - have two cities. These ones also have more rural provinces and typically have more resource output. The rest of the AI nations only have one city. Most of the one-city AI nations usually only have a few provinces.

## Geography

There are lots of significant geographic features on the Classic map. Below you can read about the geography for each region.

### North America

The United States has a variety of terrain types. Hills make up the extreme northern and southern parts of the country. A few mountain provinces can be found in the middle of the country. The rest of the United States is plains, except for a couple forest provinces north of Atlanta. Canada's large northern provinces are mostly forests, and its southwestern ones are hilly. The rest of the country is plains, except for more hilly areas in the New Brunswick area. There are no mountain provinces in Canada. Nuuk, the sole province representing Greenland, is mountainous.

### Western Europe

Iceland's two rural provinces are mountainous. All British provinces north of Edinburgh are mountainous, and in the center of the UK there are plains and hilly provinces. Barring the exception of Ipswich, a forest province east of London, the rest of the UK's provinces are plains or hills. Most of the provinces of Ireland are hills. France has some mountain provinces in their southeast (on their border with Italy and Switzerland) and in the southwest (on their border with Spain). Between Bordeaux and Lyon are mostly forest provinces, and the rest of the country is mostly plains. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have a variety of plains, hills, and forest provinces. Spain has a couple mountainous provines near their border with France, and in their southeast. The rest of mainland Spain is hills or plains. Portugal's provinces are plains or hills. West Germany has a couple mountain provinces on its borders with Switzerland and Austria, and forests on its border with France. The rest of the country is plains. East Germany has mostly forest and plains provinces. Mainland Denmark is all plains provinces, and its rural island provinces are either hills or forests. All of Norway's provinces north of Trondheim are mountainous, as well as Bergen. The rest of Norway's provinces are hills. Sweden's provinces north of Stockholm are forests and hills, and their provinces south of Stockholm are forests and plains. Finland has mostly forest provinces, with a few plains and hills.

### Eastern Europe

Czechoslovakia has mostly rural provinces with a few hills. Poland has plains in the north and west, forests in the east and one mountain province in the very southeast. There are also some hilly provinces scattered throughout the country. The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania mostly have plains and forest provinces. Hungary has hills in the west, forests in the north, and plains to the south and east. Slovenia's two rural provinces are both plains. Croatia has a few hilly provinces in the south, a few forests and one mountain province in the northeast, and the rest is plains. Yugoslavia has a mixture of hills and plains in the western and northern parts of the country, with some forests in the center and southeast. Bulgaria has a mountain province in the northwest, and two hilly provinces in the center, but the rest is plains. Albania's two rural provinces are hills and plains. Greece has a couple mountain provinces in the western part of the country, and plains in the south and extreme north. There are also hills in the northwest and center-east. The Soviet Union has large forest and mountain provinces in the north, northeast, and east, along with some hilly provinces in the southeast. There are also forest provinces on their borders with Finland and the Baltic states. Plains dominate the center and southwest parts of that country.

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## List of Nations

The following table lists all the playable nations in this scenario, as well as various information about them.

The following table lists all the AI nations in this scenario, as well as various information about them.

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## Trivia

Trivia about this scenario

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