by sagitar
NinetySixer wrote:
Freddy,
As one of the designers I certainly hope that you will not be disappointed with the BP.
As one of the designers I certainly hope that you will not be disappointed with the BP.
I believe there is very little chance of anyone being disappointed with the BP. CC is a fun game and I have sofar not heard of any BP being disliked for what is in it.
In my case it is more a disappointment with what is NOT in it.
The name of the BP gave me high hopes that we might get a chance to play CC with our own boys at the front.
Ofcourse I fully understand why you'd go with the more famous events, the ones known by a larger crowd.
The scenarios chosen for the BP were selected for any number of reasons. Interesting situations, pivotal moments in the campaign, campaign defining actions are just some of them. No matter from where a scenario springs from though what is necessary and cannot be dispensed with is source material. My half of the BP design was to focus on the BEF, Belgians, Norway, and the Netherlands. It was my sincere hope at the start of the design process to include at least 1 scenario from each of those participants. For six months before desing work commenced I read at least 5 full histories of the campaign (which lead me to a number of other source materials) and helped define the areas I wished to highlight with scenarios. However, what I was unable to find was source material to allow me to identify a specific action for the Netherlands that ignited my design juices and compelled me to include it in the BP as a scenario. That is not to say there are no actions/situations/encounters that deserve to be included but rather that they have yet to show themselves to me.
I really understand your problem.
I've nagged about Dutch scenarioes before and someone told me to try and write one myself and so I did,[try that is] full welll knowing that I would not have the experience with the game to be really succesfull.
I decided to go with the revolt of the Georgiers on the isle of texel.
Seemed like the perfect CC scenario, i.e. no vehicles.
Made some progress to untill I than got bogged down in details.
I probably went for too much historical correctness.
So at one point I decided to put it asside for a while and than some day pick it up again with a fresh state of mind.
Even when the suitable history event is there, it must be really hard to also make a good game out of it.
That notwithstanding I be would happy to personally design a Netherlands scenario if you would be willing to help identify a suitable candidate and provide source material (or point me in its direction) to provide the necessary background info for it to be accurate.
Best,
Bryan Collars
Best,
Bryan Collars
Well of course I'm allways willing to help anyway I can.
