Dynamic Campaign: Volunteers Wanted

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Double_Deuce

...setting up and running a Meta Campaign . . .

I'm not quite sure what a Meta Campaign is, but I did try to run a campaign that was meant to be resolved through PBEM play between two teams.

I did this because I was fed up with the "balanced games" that are common in PBEM.

Basically the idea was that I gave both teams a set of conditions that applied, what units were availiable and they would plan and sub-commanders were to play out the battles that took place wherever the troops came in contact.

I also inserted some friction into the game, faulty comms causing delays, misdropped paratroopers, refugees clogging the roads etc...

Fun to plan but a hideous amount of work to build all the maps - and by using the setting of an island there were a lot of problems with the abstract elements of air and seapower, not to mention how to represent the problems of supplying an air/seaborne invasion force..., there was also a bit of a language problem as the SOviet side was mostly crewed by Russian speakers with limited knowledge of English...