Scenario designers- how much research do you do?

[halstein]

If you want to make a historical scenario, you need some decent history-books, reports or such. I have not made any real SPMBT scenarios, just "fooling-around" scenarios to see how the games handles things. I have however made a SPWW2 scenario. This is easier, because the aboundance of works dealing with WW2.
If you are to make hypotetical battles, you should get a look at some OOB and ToE&O of the nations to use, and trie to find some maps of the area you want to sett the battle. This way you can make a playable battle, even if not historical accurate.

Halstein.

[Mustang]

Has anyone heard of Google Earth? It's a program that's supposed to give anyone satellite photos of anywhere on the planet totally free. Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? It'd really simplify finding a map.

As for the "other forums" Double Deuce mentioned, has anyone been to Strategypage.com? If you ever need military info they have huge forums. Just FYI for anyone else trying to find info.

[hoplitis]

Mustang,
find a book which seems good for you and CONVINCE your parents to buy it. You can find alot of interesting stuff on the web but nothing beats a good book! And always keep an open mind and a reasonable amount of doubt about what you read!