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Panda, I've taken note of what you've said; I even considered these very points myself when setting out to make this scenario. I do not want to make a scenario on the paramilitary groups because I do not believe it could not be realistically done within the confines of the Civilization II engine. Well, not exactly; almost anything can be done with Civ2 if you use your imagination, that's what makes the game so good in the first place!
I think what you're suggesting is interesting, but I cannot see any particular way to go about implementing it. The IRA was never very large, in comparison with either the Palestinian or Colombian terrorist groups. It just punched way above what its weight would suggest. As such a small group would never be able to control cities in the classical Civ2 sense, an entirely new scoring system would need to be devised to represent this.
My intention at the moment is still to make a scenario about a war between the ROI and Britain for control of the province. It will be more or less a straightforward military campaign (i.e. nothing that hasn't been done a thousand times before) set over a period of 2-3 weeks, but I hope to make it fun nonetheless.
This isn't set in stone however, so if I hear enough suggestions/criticisms about my approach I might reconsider.
To other matters: one of the reasons I stopped working on this in the first place is that I realized while knowing a great deal of the political situation at the time, I knew very little about the military aspect.
If any of the resident military history buffs could provide me with details about the strength of the British forces in the North and the Irish army at the time, I would greatly appreciate it.
I think what you're suggesting is interesting, but I cannot see any particular way to go about implementing it. The IRA was never very large, in comparison with either the Palestinian or Colombian terrorist groups. It just punched way above what its weight would suggest. As such a small group would never be able to control cities in the classical Civ2 sense, an entirely new scoring system would need to be devised to represent this.
My intention at the moment is still to make a scenario about a war between the ROI and Britain for control of the province. It will be more or less a straightforward military campaign (i.e. nothing that hasn't been done a thousand times before) set over a period of 2-3 weeks, but I hope to make it fun nonetheless.
This isn't set in stone however, so if I hear enough suggestions/criticisms about my approach I might reconsider.
To other matters: one of the reasons I stopped working on this in the first place is that I realized while knowing a great deal of the political situation at the time, I knew very little about the military aspect.
If any of the resident military history buffs could provide me with details about the strength of the British forces in the North and the Irish army at the time, I would greatly appreciate it.
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