Scenario Database

[Double_Deuce]

Hey, thank Mark for the work, I just imported his data.

Maybe I can find a way to incorporate it into my WinSP Wiki somehow. Surely these 2 can be set up to complement each other.

Also maybe add an upload section for user created scenario's with an embedded DL link in the listing.

[MarkSheppard]

The description field is there anyway to make it only viewable when you hit "view"?

because looking at scenario 001, it's a lot of text and messes up the formatting of the main database

[MarkSheppard]

I imagine the TYPE field to be useful to help identify unique scenarios like:

INFANTRY - an infantry only battle, basically; with perhaps 1 or 2 tanks trundling around

TANK - Tank only battle, with a few infantry squads around

PARA - Basically, a scenario which starts with an airborne insertion

AMPHIB - Basically, scenario which starts with a amphibious invasion.

RIVER - Basically, dealing with a river crossing

COMBINED - Combined Arms scenarios; a nice mix of every type of unit.

COMMANDO - Scenarios designed to recreate commando raids, like St. Nazaire.

[Double_Deuce]

MarkSheppard said:
The description field is there anyway to make it only viewable when you hit "view"?

because looking at scenario 001, it's a lot of text and messes up the formatting of the main database

Working on it. Will get it off of the front page. "VIEW" will open a single screen for the scenario so we can actually have more listed there since there is more room.

[DRG]

All of this is very nice work guys. Very nice work.

Don

[Double_Deuce]

We could implement a dropdown menu OR just allow manually entered data.

What about;

1) # of Turns,
2) Map Size
3) Force Size (i.e. Small, Med, Large, etc OR go by echelon, I.E. Company, Battalion, etc)?

The good thing is users can search by keyword and/or sort to find the criteria that interest them.

Guess I better start reading the manual for this program, see what it can do.

[MarkSheppard]

Go by Echelon; even a very large map can be playable on company level.

As for map size and # of turns; I think it would be better for us to program a simplistic utility that reads the scenario files and extracts that data from the files to make our lives easier.

[MarkSheppard]

This is quite fun, I can rapidly find all the scenarios with ANZAC troops by pounding in ANZAC in the search field and hitting enter, same with all other things; it even searches the scenario descriptions too, so when every description is in, we'll have a high fidelity of searching.

[MarkSheppard]

BTW, I've started to do the MBT scenario list too; but I'm struck with a hard problem; it's quite easy to quantify stuff that did happen, like Vietnam 1970, Falklands 1982, but what about the stuff that never happened?

WWIII scenarios; how should they get represented?

WW3 - Norway 1985
or
World War III 1985

[Double_Deuce]

As long as we get the fields we need set up we can always come up with naming conventions/criteria later. It would require us to go back and edit to keep things consistent but would lessen the upfront workload.

At some point I can also implement security levels for access an editing rights to protect what is there from the random visitor just mucking around.