Re: Campaign Game

This looks sorta like FT / DS2 / Stellar Conquest Rules I developed for
a campagin.  Planetary population was built in 20 pop. cities.	This
made for 1 to 4 cities per planet, depending on how much pop. the planet
could hold.  Industry was allocated per city.  Cities generated "free"
militia infantry (police forces) if under attack.  I even did a
SpreadSheet in QuatroPro to automate most of the record keeping.
Unfortunately this was all for not, because the guys I play with wanted
no more then one ground battle per planet (some of them even complained
about that)...

IAS

Laserlight wrote:

> This is a Half-Baked Idea which I'm writing up largely so I
> don't forget it, but if anyone wants to run with it, go ahead--I
> have flu+narcotics right now so my ability to crunch numbers is
> even more limited than usual.
>
> In most campaign systems I've seen, your fleet goes in and
> crushes his fleet; then the planet either immediately
> surrenders, or it surrenders after you make one successful
> marine assault.  However, most nations don't have the strategic
> depth to be able to afford losing anything--the loss of one of
> your three star systems would be catastrophic.  Further, Canon
> history doesn't seem to be written that way, as there are ground
> campaigns that drag on for months.
>
> So let's say instead that each system has a certain number of
> population units.  Let's say each unit has 1,000,000 people;
> it's a convenient number and it's enough to run a major port
> plus industries (Norfolk/Virginia Beach has about 2 million and
> half of them are Navy).  Let's also have population centers,
> which is a place where you have one or more pop units.
>
> Planting the first pop unit would be the most expensive--new
> life support and infrastructure--but also the most productive.
> The second unit would be cheaper but less productive, the third
> cheaper and less productive than the second, and so on such that
> it wouldn't pay to put more than ten units in a center  (eg the
> first unit is the mines, port and machine shops; the second one
> is mostly the same but adds convenience stores, video shops, and
> so forth, the tenth unit is almost all bars, porno shops and
> lawyers--kind of like New York City).
>
> This will allow players to attempt to capture the whole planet
> at once, or one city at a time, and to mount relief actions and
> sieges.  It will also provide a simple mechanism for players to
> invest in their economies, if you're running a campaign with
> that kind of time scale.
>
> --Chris  DeBoe
> Quixtar IBO#706882
> http://www.quixtar.com