Linked Games for ECC

Damo, 

A number of us have attended a small con 
(CampCon) for the last couple of years and 
used this exact concept for our weekend of 
gaming. 

In the first iteration, the scenarios all linked one 
to another, and this necessitated some pretty 
'airy' planning for the final stages, given the 
potential force balances. 

In the second iteration (much better IMO), the 
scenarios were pre-set (pretty important for 
things like bringing figs) but the overall 
campaign victory was an amalgam of the 
results of the five scenarios, and part of the 
linkage was each side getting 4 chits for 
reinforcements. Each represented about a 10% 
bump in forces. If you played one at scenario 
start, you were gauranteed the forces. If you 
waited to call it in mid-game (hoping maybe 
not to spend it at all that game), you rolled and 
had a 50-50 chance (IIRC) of getting the forces. 
If not, the counter was unused but you couldn't 
call in any more reserves for the remainder of 
that game. 

As it turned out, I think the first couple of 
games saw maybe 1 chit played each side (in 
the DS game, none in FT) and the SG game saw 
the remainder played. It was a very bloody see-
saw game. 

Reinforcements we let be some choice from the 
available units (more infantry, more vehicles, 
arty, etc). In DS and FT, points were directly 
assessible. In SG, the GM applied a bit of 
discretionary thinking. 

Both varieties worked okay.... the linked linear 
list led to each iteration impacting the setup 
forces for the next one. But the second one 
with five independent but associated in the 
same campaign scenarios with reinforcement 
chits worked very well. 

I'd be interested (potentially, depends on what 
kind of games and what the background story 
is) in running part of a larger linked game. 
Having ran Grey Day To Die with Los, I have 
some perspective on running large games 
(which are a lot of fun, but boy do they take a 
while) and having helped setup several of these 
linked scenario weekends, I'd find it quite 
enjoyable to discuss this. You can drop me 
some e-mail off-list if you want to hash about 
some ideas. 

Tomb. 

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Mr. Thomas Barclay
Software Developer & Systems Analyst
thomas.barclay@stargrunt.ca
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