Overlord

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Good idea, if you aren't interested in keeping track of losses or strategies throughout the entire battle. A mistake in the second hour could affect the outcome of the later battle.

What does losses or strategies have to do in either a tactical game of 50 turns or 1200?
The game scale is not one to model strategic effort. There is OpC and TOAW for Grand Tactics or Strategy. CS is tactical. A day and a half of continuous combat just does not fit, IMO.
My issue is not in the size of the map or the amount of units on it. Mine is one of turn length and the manufacturing of artificial means to model "real time".
There would be nothing wrong if a designer tries to model an entire battle that fits onto a scenario map. One to eight hours of D-Day would still be intense? The victory conditions would be the key.

If I want to see losses I would click on the "strength" button in the drop down menu? :smoke:

If there was an easy way to convert a BTE file to a SCN file (without opening the file in a text editor), there are many options available for those that like to "campaign".

I have no problem with those who want to "campaign" in CS or designers who want to run those campaigns. That is a separate issue from that dealing with a true scenario designed within the scale of the game?

Anybody here ever played the Overlord scenario? <snip> I'm currently about 30 turns into this huge 1200 turn game and already my opponent has accumulated enough points for a major victory as Allies.

If the scenario is played as a scenario? :chin:
Jason, that was what my comment considered. What others want to do outside of game scale is up to them?

And, I did not even mention the horrible Variable Visibility option? ;)



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