Campaign System

[Mad Russian]

Been tossing various campaign ideas around with Mr Yormsha for months now and we came to the conclusion the main issue ISN'T the imbalance of battles, as this can be screatively solved with mission parameters and adjusted victory conditions given to the players before each battle.
Example: You're defending and your unit's mission is to delay the enemy's attack... you might be eventually overrun, but if you leave
enough smoking wrecks on the battlefield to blunt the attack, mission accomplished!
MAIN PROBLEM is TIME!!
The time it takes to even get through a small 24 turn PBEM ME QB makes these campaigns unfeasible... and even one little hiccup like a player dropping out due to RL problems, vacation time slowing down play... and I take it the idea would be to have even larger battles.

Perhaps if this was ONLY played TC/IP, then something like this won't turn into a neverending epic with no end in sight...

Not actually. The idea is to have the battles be 20 PBEM turns long. If they last longer than that you reset them. A 20 turn battle would generate 60 emails and with a return rate of 1 file per day could be finished in a month. With a team of gamers if one gamer dropped out another could cover for him. That would be up to the TEAM to determine how it is finished or that TEAM takes the loss.

There would be a very finite ending. The battles move forward in real time. Starting up again as they finish.

For instance, you have 3 battles going. One does TCP and finishes in 2 days. One goes for 15 days and one goes for 30 days.

The next three battles could be initiated the very same day that the original 3 battles were completed. On days +2, +15 and +30.

Any battle that is not completed to BOTH players satisfaction is reset and continues on.

I don't care what happens in RL. Once that battle starts your TEAM has 30 days to finish it. If you don't then you are the loser and the location goes to your opponent. PERIOD!!

You don't seem to understand. If your unit is destroyed on the battlefield that's one thing but very few gamers will accept that result.
Are you going to want to put about five of those up on the Blitz ladder in your name? Major Defeats all in a row because you retreated off map to save your forces for later battles?

That brings us to an entire truckload of withdrawls. One side or the other is wanting to withdraw. To fight again later, when they have the odds in their favor, at which time it is the other gamers turn to withdraw.

Not very exciting stuff is it? Not why most of us play CM...

Good Hunting.

MR