Re: A thought about points systems

Back when the original AH Squad Leader came out in 1977, John Hill
included
a cool scenario designer lnk to a deck of standard playing.

Each player drew a playing card and matched it to chart that gave a
pregenerated force. So if I drew a "10" I might get a short company and
no
support. My opponent would then draw maybe "2" and get a full infantry
company with massive support. Other cards were drawn for victory
conditions.

The sides were rarely "evenly matched" but the games were challenging.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters, and email	is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: A thought about points systems

> From: Roger Burton West
> > but what are
> > combat-effectiveness points really good for? SG2 doesn't have them
> at
> > all; DS2 showed how hard they can be to get right. Why bother?
> <snip>
> > No. A "balanced fight" makes no sense historically or
> psychologically,
> > for all it's convenient for a game. Can we instead find a way of
> > creating realistic battles as pick-up games? And can
> > combat-effectiveness points be a useful tool in that process?
>
> On idea I liked was "define a scenario and a defending force.  Bid for
> the amount of attacking force that you feel is needed to accomplish
> your objective.  Whoever bids a lower attacking force plays the
> attacker."  This doesn't work too well for scenarios in which
> fog-of-war is important but for pickup games I think it would be okay.
>
> I think what's really needed would be creative ideas for scenarios,
> and some description of what makes dense or open terrain and the
> effects that they have.
>
>