I am running a WW2 Eastern Front campaign at the moment, using counters on a hex map, with battles played out in CMRT.
Running that campaign has been manageable (despite having 60 counters in play), primarily due to having all the CMRT battle maps all ready to go before the campaign started, and letting players buy their forces in a QB situation, within limits.
Looking into the future, I was thinking about doing some initial planning for the next campaign.
I'm considering using one of the CM games in a modern setting.
But I'm not very knowledgeable about CMBS (which I own, but have only played a few times) or CMSF2.
I also hear CMSF2 is about to be released on Steam soon.
Do you think there would be much interest from FGM players in this?
It would be interesting to know how many members play these more than or as much as the WW2 titles in the series.
As the designer, there would be some specific challenges to overcome.
For starters I would have to learn more about the equipment and vehicles available in the game chosen, which will affect the setting and balance of competition.
The other challenge would be the map gathering process.
For the Brigade Battles campaign, Panzer_Kraut and I gathered all the maps we could find on the internet, and I then cut them all down to about 1km square and sorted them according to quality and type.
Does anyone know if there are many player-made maps for these titles? Or a broad range of decent stock maps?
Whichever title would be used, I'd want to avoid reference to the actual conflicts happening in Syria and Ukraine. Set up some fictional situation.
There are some interesting things that could be done, such as an entire campaign that takes place in a properly-scaled city, complete with some open spaces, industrial areas, commercial districts, suburbs, etc.
If there is enough interest in this, I (with some assistance along the way) could start the process of setting up the concept, so that when my WW2 campaign is complete, we already have the groundwork laid for this one.
Running that campaign has been manageable (despite having 60 counters in play), primarily due to having all the CMRT battle maps all ready to go before the campaign started, and letting players buy their forces in a QB situation, within limits.
Looking into the future, I was thinking about doing some initial planning for the next campaign.
I'm considering using one of the CM games in a modern setting.
But I'm not very knowledgeable about CMBS (which I own, but have only played a few times) or CMSF2.
I also hear CMSF2 is about to be released on Steam soon.
Do you think there would be much interest from FGM players in this?
It would be interesting to know how many members play these more than or as much as the WW2 titles in the series.
As the designer, there would be some specific challenges to overcome.
For starters I would have to learn more about the equipment and vehicles available in the game chosen, which will affect the setting and balance of competition.
The other challenge would be the map gathering process.
For the Brigade Battles campaign, Panzer_Kraut and I gathered all the maps we could find on the internet, and I then cut them all down to about 1km square and sorted them according to quality and type.
Does anyone know if there are many player-made maps for these titles? Or a broad range of decent stock maps?
Whichever title would be used, I'd want to avoid reference to the actual conflicts happening in Syria and Ukraine. Set up some fictional situation.
There are some interesting things that could be done, such as an entire campaign that takes place in a properly-scaled city, complete with some open spaces, industrial areas, commercial districts, suburbs, etc.
If there is enough interest in this, I (with some assistance along the way) could start the process of setting up the concept, so that when my WW2 campaign is complete, we already have the groundwork laid for this one.