Scenario Design Contest #5

[mordhiem]

Southern Asia scenario sounds interesting, lots of scope and options.

[Boco]

Mongolia is in southern Asia, right? Just depends on your perspective.

[WarVoid]

Mongolia is NORTHERN Asia.
A scenario about the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Red invasion of Central Asia and the fall of the short-lived Khanates therein would be interesting. Very few people realise that Enver Pasha died fighting the Reds in Central Asia for the Uzbek/Bukhara Khanate. Maybe even ancient empires, such as a "Defense of Bactria" scenario set after the fall of Alexander's Greek Empire.

Anyhoo...
A theme set around "Famous Battles of the Two World Wars" would also be interesting. For WWI you have many; Caporetto, Megiddo, Verdun, Gallipoli, etc. And WWII has just as many; Bulge, Berlin, Stalingrad (FMK's gonna wait to finish this for SDC #259378), Paris, etc. That would also be ideal for the "duel" type scenario I keep hearing so much about.

[Dr. Nick]

Hmm. I like the Far East () and "Famous battles of the World Wars" topic.

[conmcb25]

I say go for the Duel scenario. The reason you dont see many of them in the PBEM world is because I dont believe there are many 1 vs 1 scenarios out there.

[Boco]

There seems to be an amoebic crawl toward a location somewhere east of Suez, and the 20th century folks are gaining an edge. And in a Dueling-in-your-face style. How many are violently opposed to this?

What kind of criteria are likely to attract the most designers and yet still be possible to judge?

WV, so you and a billion Chinese think I'm wrong about Mongolia. Too bad for Turk and Ally alike that Enver didn't go east sooner.

A scenario about the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Red invasion of Central Asia and the fall of the short-lived Khanates

I take it the "and's" are important, cuz otherwise Techumseh's going to....

[Case]

Originally posted by WarVoid
A theme set around "Famous Battles of the Two World Wars" would also be interesting. For WWI you have many; Caporetto, Megiddo, Verdun, Gallipoli, etc. And WWII has just as many; Bulge, Berlin, Stalingrad (FMK's gonna wait to finish this for SDC #259378), Paris, etc. That would also be ideal for the "duel" type scenario I keep hearing so much about.

That gets my vote as well, though we'd need to settle on the difference between a 'battle' and a 'campaign'

Another sugestion is the deadline should be a lot shorter for this comp. IMO SDC #4 went on for too long. As duel style scenarios should be relatively quick to make, a 6 month deadline would be appropriate.

[techumseh]

Pardon my ignorance, but is a duel scenario essentially a multi-player scenario for two players?

[atomant]

what about an alternate history theme: eg: american civil war fought in 1979, part of the total package could be an explanation of events, the historical context if you will..... Or a Russian invasion of America (as per the movie Red Dawn, or the Nazi victory in Europe, or Iran winning its war with Iraq and so on and so fourth

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by techumseh
Pardon my ignorance, but is a duel scenario essentially a multi-player scenario for two players?

Yes, essentially.

[conmcb25]

Ditto, Case!

I have heard of at least a few people working on portions of WWII scenarios, like the Finnish Front, Battle of Britian, etc.

A contest along this genre may actually entice these designers to finish and submit. So I say duel in WWI or WWII.

[techumseh]

IMHO, the contest theme can't be something which one or more contestants is already working on. That gives a huge advantage to that person(s). A theme should be selected that is unlikely to be sitting half done on someone's hard drive.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by techumseh
IMHO, the contest theme can't be something which one or more contestants is already working on. That gives a huge advantage to that person(s). A theme should be selected that is unlikely to be sitting half done on someone's hard drive.

Hmmm. I dont know that I agree with this. A lot of people have thought about scenarios and may have done some initial planning but may not have gotten far.
And if we pick a theme that interests a lot of people we will get more entries which I believe is a good thing.

Maybe half done was too strong of a word. I will rephrase that to say " Thought about".

[DarthVeda]

*convulses with discontent at the idea of a duel scenario*

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by DarthVeda
*convulses with discontent at the idea of a duel scenario*

Wonders why? A lot of us in the PBEM world would like to see this.