Looking for ideas on what others use as scenario generators for DS2.Any
opinions?
Here are my main ones:
1.Hammer's Slammers novels--ready made scenarios,easy OOB.
2.Vietnam war military history--especially Tet offensive,large
scale
search and destroy ops,and riverine/coastal warfare
3.Arab/Israeli wars
4.Of course anything DS2 related off the web,including the
gzg-digest!
Would like to hear others ideas to (hopefully) expand my horizons for DS2
gaming ideas...... Thanks,
> mark and staci drake wrote:
History. My friends and I keep meaning to sit down and figure out A Bridge Too
Far. We have the stuff to do it and we're insane enough to try:)
> At 10:20 30/03/01 -0600, you wrote:
Use scenarios written for other wargames/boardgames and adapt as
required. Way, way back before I met Beth there was a guy who was fascinated
with mechanized warfare, he had all the boardgames, Panzerleader, Panzerblitz,
etc. But he would game in 1/35th scale, 1 x squad counter represented 1
x squad, 1 x vehicle represented one vehicle and he used the scenarios
published in the boardgames. The games were excellent, as he tended to
moderate rather then play and would parcel information out to the players
to keep things interesting. The visual impact of a 1/35th scale Panzer
MK III bursting out of the forest was great, especially since I was the German
infantry commander holed up in a farm under attack by Polish tanks (french
built R-35s).
> --- Jaime Tiampo <fugu@spikyfishthing.com> wrote:
If your airborne are PA, then it's generally not Too Far.
:)
But anyway, I use mostly WWII and Modern scenarios I've stolen from other
games, modified for DSII terms.
> Jaime Tiampo wrote:
> Looking for ideas on what others use as scenario generators for
I've played Operation Market Garden in microarmour. (Don't remember the
name of the ruleset though - it's GDW's WW2 version of "Striker II", or
rather the other way around. Command Decision, maybe?) It... took a long time
to finish, you might say.
(And, interestingly enough, although the individual actions didn't play
out exactly like the historical ones - mainly because both sides had
read a lot about the real op and the German players in particular
decided to deploy differently than their historical counterparts - the
total Allied losses, and the time it took us to reach the various bridges,
matched the historical result almost exactly. Don't know about
the German losses though - I was much too tired at the end to care...)
If you want to recreate the feel of this operation in an SF setting,
don't let the attackers (British/US) use GEV or Grav vehicles :-/
Regards,
> At 08:47 1/04/01 +0200, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> I've played Operation Market Garden in microarmour. (Don't remember the
'Command Decision' is the WWII, there was also 'Combined Arms' which was
the modern period version. GDW's American Civil War rules also used the same
game engine (the name escapes me at the moment) and there was also a WWI
version, called 'Over the Top'. I think 'Command Decision 2' combined 'Command
Decision' and 'Combined Arms' to provide a rules set covering the
period from about 1920 -2000, but the current edition 'Command Decision
3'
dropped the modern period and cuts out about 1950. Theses rules also provided
the basis for the last edition of 'Striker', Striker 2.
I still have a copy of combined arms on the shelf mostly because I also have
the previous edition of Harpoon's (also published by GDW) Falklands
War supplement, all the land stuff was formatted for 'Combined Arms'.