Re: [GZG] [FT] Campaigns battle generation

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gaming group the campaign is a mechanism to enable battles to be fought
with some meaning other than simply line up and smash each other.
Designing a campaign system where you don't play table top games seems
counter intuitative to me. You have then created a space board game.

Blocking enemy lines of advance and pinning down supply line raiders
leads to a number of possibly one sided games. We found these games
generaly very quick with one side trying to escape and either making it
or not. So players could go through a lot of such games. 
Sometimes players would negotiate the defeat or escape of one side
without needing to play.

Sometimes people got a surprise when a supposedly out manouvered enemey
got the drop on them.

The number of battles available is proportional to the number of points
people control. if players have ~3500 points when they start and 4
different fronts 750 points per front doesn't go very far so you don't
have many ships and so many battles.

John

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From: Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu>
To: gzg-l@mail.csua.berkeley.edu
Sent: Thu, 24 June, 2010 2:58:28 AM
Subject: [GZG] [FT] Campaigns battle generation

I was cogitating on campaign systems, and got to thinking that most
'fight
the battles' campaign rules have difficulties in that they either
creating
way too many battles, a dearth there of, or simply too many mismatches.

I began to consider the tabletop the place where individual battles
didn't
happen, but battle modifiers were created.

Straight winning equals better stats might be too hard, so I came up
with a
mechanic that number of battles played increased overall fleet
'experience', while winning battles gave a player some advantages,
perhaps
modifiers in particular battles. As it was suggested by rules from
Fourth
Frontier War by GDW, I decided to call it Admiral quality.

Throw in rules like 'only X battle(s) per turn per specific opponent
counts' cuts down on Tom and Dick recording twenty seven battles this
week
to snow everyone not in their clique problems, along with other chrome
that
keeps coming to mind, and I think this has the chance of keeping folks
in
the game.

Anybody try something like this in their group?

The_Beast

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