Re: [DS] Linking scenarios

Great ideas, I won't need the FT stuff this time since my linked
scenarios will occur on a Balkanized planet where the Space forces are
limited due to being 'too valuable' as a 'force in being' and UNSC
interference.

Gracias,
Glenn

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:11:05 -0500 "Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@magma.ca>
writes:
>As a few of the listers who attended may recall, 
>at CampCons I and II, we used a linked scenario 
>format (different in each case) to tie together 
>FT, DS and SG games. 
>
>The first time, the scenarios were tightly 
>coupled, with results from one determining 
>forces and some other parts of the others. 
>
>The second time, they were a series of battles 
>in the campaigns, but the results were summed 
>together for the overall campaign.
>
>In the second case, we used a concept of 
>reinforcement chits. Across the five battles, we 
>had 4 chits per team. A chit was roughly 
>equivalent to 10% increase in force. If played in 
>the setup phase of a game, you automatically 
>got it. If you waited to see if you could get away 
>without it, then played it to bring on some 
>cavalry, you had a 50% chance of it working (if 
>not, you could not use it or any others in the 
>scenario, but you could use them in subsequent 
>ones.... ones left over after the last scenario 
>were simply wasted). 
>
>This tended to make the teams have to think a 
>bit about where they committed their extra 
>resources. A 10% increase in forces at a key 
>point can be quite pivotal. 20% even moreso. 
>(We limited to max 2 chits played in any one 
>scenario). 
>
>As it turned out, the SG game saw most of the 
>chit play, although the DS game also saw some 
>chit play. I think FT was just straight up, IIRC. 
>
>This style of linked play makes for *very* 
>interesting campaigns. 
>
>Tomb
>
>PS - Sounds like I'd prefer Southampton to 
>Portsmouth (no one shooting at me, beer and 
>friendly women). 
>
>PPS - If the Brit forces remarked this conflict 
>wasn't against the enemies they'd trained 
>against, that's only because they're headed to 
>Basra not Paris.... 
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>Mr. Thomas Barclay
>Software Developer & Systems Analyst
>thomas.barclay@stargrunt.ca
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>

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