Scenario Design Contest #5

[Boco]

There was a land campaign around Port Arthur, as well. Was that anymore evenly matched than Tsushima Straits?

Boxer Rebellion could be interesting. Has that been done?

Glad we reached a consensus, St Leo!

[Jimmywax]

Why don't we do a poll and see which is more popular. I think it is pretty clear that it is heading toward a WWI or WWII scenario, but this way there is no doubt. I myself am still hoping for the AH scenario to pull ahead.

[Boco]

Seems my apples and spaceships stirred up a hornets nest...and showed I'm in a minority. Still, if fun and historical accuracy are the sole judging criteria, why are we suggesting any themes at all on this thread? Should we have a vote as JimmyWax suggests, or simply make it no-theme-but-enclose-historical-synopsis (NTBEHS for short) contest?

Then again why not have a poll with entries something like St. Leo's 'consensus' list, and add NTBEHS as an option?

[Case]

A duel theme would allow people to make alt-hist scenarios...

[EmuGod]

Originally posted by St Leo
How about the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)?. It's Asian, industrial, 2 player, cool, and it's never been done before.

I once thought about creating a scenario about that, but it would only be a 2 player scenario, unless China was added, and it was a short war.

[WarVoid]

I did not compare Sengoku Jidai to TRON, or Little Ice Age to Asiento. Or any other such comparison in-between. Each was judged independently based on the SDC's criteria of requirements.

Historical Accuracy
PBEMability
Replayability
Gaming Ability (Fun factor)
Luxuries (i.e. Readme, notes, events, etc.)
Originality (including graphics as well as design)
Extended Game (i.e. modified city.txt, pedia.txt, menu.txt, etc.)

All these factors were considered. But it was streamlined by it being set during the Age of Sail. The general era confines the scenarios to a single category of history.

As with Granicus and Bulge, you have to hugely immense differences. One requires you to research Phalnax tactics, for instance, while the other requires you to research WWII tank warfare.

Lucky for me I know quite a bit about both feudal Japan and the Age of Sail otherwise it might have taken me longer to insure the best judgement. The last thing I want to do is judge someone's hard work unfairly.

Now on to what's been discussed since I last posted, I like the idea of including a historical addendum to the readme file of the scenarios. This would help immensely.

Again, as for code names and such and secrecy over the scenario you design for the contest, I see absolutely no point to it. You have the choice to keep it secret or not, but as far as the contest goes I think it's unnecessecary. Announcing what you are designing does not obligate you to post pics for others to premptively steal your work. It allows you to maybe get a little help, something which is needed when doing an SDC scenario. And it may prevent overlapping and allow a more varied selection of entries (i.e. we won't get two Bulge scenarios).

[Dr. Nick]

So what's it going to be?

[DarthVeda]

We'll only need one bulge scenario... muahahahahaha !

[Boco]

Nuts!

[Prometeus]

Originally posted by WarVoid
As the de-facto judge, I researched the criteria of SDC #4 to insure the winners applied historical accuracy. Opening it to such a wide theme would require me to do an immense (read: impossible) amount of research.

Got some doubts about it. St Louis docet.

[Insurgent]

Am I right to say these are the present candidates for an SDC topic:

- Great battles of the world wars
- Far East theme
- Alternate history theme

...?

[mordhiem]

I thought that the 'Great Batles of the World Wars' option was more of a 'Great Battles of History' option, in that it was very free ond open. I wouldn't like it restricted to just WW2, there are only a few interesting options, and DV and FMK have pinched the best two between 'em.

[kobayashi]

how about providing a map and letting people do whatever they want with it?

[atomant]

can we organise a poll?
1) WWII
2) Historical Asian
3) Alternate History
4) Scrap the design contest and go with awards based on category as has been suggested somewhere in here.
5) ????

[Boco]

1) WWII
2) Historical Asian
3) Alternate History
4) Scrap the design contest and go with awards based on category as has been suggested somewhere in here.
5) ????

How about these edits?

Change (1) to "Great Battles of WWI or WWII?"
Change (5) to "Great Battles of History?"
Add (6) "Rules! I don't need no stinkin' rules" (Said right before the speaker was kicked in the jewels)?

Should we allow Alt History in 1,2,5?