Final Blitzkrieg - messing about with campaign ideas

[Rico]

Sooo ... there I was yesterday evening hacking the very interesting map from this Battle of the Bulge game http://www.shenandoah-studio.com/products/botb/ through various nefarious screenshot methods and got thinking that this "area control" type map could form the basis for a quick & fun Battle of the Bulge campaign using CMFB



So I mocked up some counters using unit graphics imported & adapted from the Panzer Corps games -- and today got in touch with @Nathangun -- maybe this could form basis for a "reboot" of his excellent Bulge campaign - using a lot of the good ideas in that like the company-sized mini-division OOB's.

The area control map makes for possibly faster battling and maneuvering across the map than a hexagon map?
Anyway ... back to RL work ... will leave this here so long

 

[fabishd]

@Rico

Terrific idea. In a very short time, you have come up with a great idea and the visuals to make it happen. I am glad to be a member of FGM because of people like you and everyone else in FGM.

Thank you for sharing your ideas.

 

[Nathangun]

using a lot of the good ideas in that like the company-sized mini-division OOB's.

I robbed that idea off you and you know it :cheers:

 

[Gnarly]

That looks stunning!

 

[Harmes]

Trooper Harmes reporting for duty! Where do I sign?

 

[MeatEtr]

I tried those Shenedoa games and just couldn't get into them on my iPad Pro. But then again I've never got into the whole hex based gameplay. But the maps were amazing, great idea @Rico using them. And yeah, when do sign ups start, hope I don't miss out on this one.

 

[Nort]

I'm in.

 

[Pallebahtep]

I would love to take part in this.

 

[Ithikial]

@Rico - You are a machine.

 

[Rico]

I found a few useful sources for OOB's of the divisions -- so we can have quite some varied kit in the units -- spent some time reducing those down to the company-based "mini divisions" -- making them somewhat disproportionately gun and tank heavy just to make the battles more fun

 

[Bootie]

Looks good but perhaps let NG finish his off first or incorporate them I dunno. Dont wanna burn out the guys.

 

[Fredrocker]

@Rico - You are a machine.

Oh by the way which one is pink....

Welcome to Machine @Rico an FGM God

 

[Nathangun]

Looks good but perhaps let NG finish his off first or incorporate them I dunno. Dont wanna burn out the guys.

4 turns in 12 months with 10 turns to go. It'll will be a bit of a wait.

 

[Bootie]

Why so slow?

 

[rocketman]

I'm interested in this. Have played the Shenandoa game (all of them). They look great, but the AI is somewhat lacking.

 

[Nathangun]

Why so slow?

The first 2 game turns had 4 phases. Axis move & attack. Axis exploitation. Allied move and attack. Allied exploitation.
So really there's been 12 phases of orders and attacks. Plus one or two battles took ages.

I cancelled the exploitation phase to speed things along.

 

[Bootie]

Ah ok....

 

[Rico]

The counters for the German OOB (as far as divisions and brigades go) -- still thinking about adding slow-moving Korps or Armee HQ counters to base heavy arty support on -- there are also the Skorzeny commando units to add in as well.

Divisions will contain attached StuG, Hetzer, JgdPz assets -- still also thinking if wanting to give all the Tiger Abteilungen and the StuPz Brummbaer unit its own counter.

Divisions will also have differing unit quality levels -- either Green, Regular or Veteran.

Air support will be abstracted - so any attached Flak or AA units will feature as ground fire support units.

 

[fabishd]

@Rico

Again excellent work.

 

[Gnarly]

Frack me those are sexy @Rico . Setup a kickstarter for a new boardgame, and we'll all be pledging in no time!

Better yet, I reckon they'd look damn hot as signature line icons for our games: replace mine with:



;P