Would anyone play fictional scenarios? Do people do that? I'm only aware of one, 'Flashing Sword of Retribution' for the Kharkov title. Are there others?
Complete focus would be on play balance and equal opportunity to achieve victory. So those kind of games should be fun.
Is anyone doing fictional scenarios?
If you play any of the Modern Campaign titles (apart from MC1 of course), Fictional Scenarios is all you get.
Yes obviously, but what I had in mind was WW2 scenarios. Like Kursk for example, what about if the situation had been reversed? If the Germans defended from a similar bulge around Kursk but facing east instead of west. With russian forces poised to attack. Force levels could be kept historical and the game balanced with VPs, fortifications etc.
Get the idea?
Actually, Marquo's Flashing Sword of Retribution is based on the historical situation, as best possible fit to the map - at least that is how I remember it.
There are some purely fictional scenarios built for Smolensk and at least 1-2 other games, not sure what all but all in the east from what I recall. I also have some scenarios that I worked on with the El Alamein engine, with Glenn's help, based on the book called Bright Star, tied loosely into the MC games. I need to get those wrapped up and put somewhere, they have been sitting around my PC for a couple of years.
Rick
Even the WWII ones are fictional...
They live in denial by telling themselves that the forces are what they think started there historically, but after that...its all fiction. Who tries to recreate history?
The best scenerio would be one where the scenerio was designed by a third party, who starts the game with a password, and distributes it to the two sides, telling them what there goal is...whether or not its realistic only time would tell...
Imagine being told you will drop three paratroop divisions down on three different bridges, while driving up to relieve them, while facing only scattered remanents...and instead run into an SS Panzer Korp...
Nahhh...would never happen.
Besides...Kursk in reverse has been done...its called Korsun's :)
Well, there are a few fictional campaigns such as the SS at Stalingrad and... the Moscow 41 (I think) that had the German airborne drop, or was that some other campaign?
Both Smolensk '41 and Moscow '41 contain "what if" scenarios that imagine the German Airborne forces committed to the eastern front rather than Crete.
Regards,
Billie
Well, Alamein have the Malta airborne assault, an interesting thing could be Mussolini as a clever boy invading the island in 1940, only italian troops with few (or zero) airborne support.
Hi
There is a massive fictional scenario based of the Kursk Map, set in winter, called "Red Blood -White Snow" starts November 1942, cant remember where I got that from !!!
And...there is also Operational Edelweiss, also from the Kursk stable.
The best and most exciting fictional campaign of them all is IMO "The Shifting Of The Tide" from North German Plain...this is of course a fiction within a fiction ....
Chris