Supporting New Games

[Steel God]

2) All 5 Scenarios can be played by PBEM (Note 'Small setup' is basically a training game, just 1 Fed & 1 Reb Army in Virginia at start date, Early Nov 1861, can only be played at basic rules level, would be a goodun to get folk out of Bootcamp)

3) Leaving aside the 'Small setup' scenarios are,
a) Standard campaign, start date early Nov 1861
b) Southern Steel, Nov 1861
c) The Coming Fury, July 1861
d) The Coming Fury, (balanced economy), July 1861

What is the number of turns that each of these five scenarios lasts? If any are of variable length please give me an idea how many would routinely be required to complete the game.

4) No minor victories etc its win or lose. That said can I suggest we do allocate points for a Draw, so folk can choose to agree a draw, say as an 'honour' thing in a close fought game or if someone had to pull out for domestic reasons, again upon agreement between both parties.

Okay, so then it's just win/lose and draw. Would you suggest that given the scale and somewhat unique victory conditions, the winner of a scenario should really only recieve a little bit more than the loser. For example, Winner earns 60% of the points and loser 40%?

If you wish I could try and send you a copy (Zipped) of the ‘Basic Interface tutorial’, which would give some idea as to the games depth & complexity (far higher than Battleground, IMHO) it is basically a slide show based on screen shots moved on by hitting the space bar, and operates in Macromedia Flash player 8.

May not help but it couldn't hurt. Send it along.