Overlord

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I don't think a five hour battle could cover this scenario. It is huge and five hours would maybe cover the airborne drop. I do agree with you tho Ed.......encouraging players to crack the file is something the Blitz should not really be supporting......again just my 2 pennies worth here.

Earl,

Thanks for your comments.
I believe that 50 turns would be perfect. You do not have to mess with dawn or dusk. And, units that have lost cohesion would be about ready to be replaced by those following?
To me, it is a matter of setting the victory conditions properly.

And, for the record I could even see it at 80 turns. Falco stated that a victory was achieved/decided within 30 turns? Does that mean that 1120 turns are a waste of time? :chin:

And, remember, the airborne drops occurred mostly hours before the beach landings? In the dark where visibility would have to be changed?



HSL

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What does losses or strategies have to do in either a tactical game of 50 turns or 1200?

I was specifically referring to the suggestion of breaking a large scenario down into a series of scenarios.
<snip> unless you're playing a von Earlmann style campaign or a Linked Campaign. Linked Campaigns aren't useful for PBEM, unfortunately.

On the other hand, playing a larger scenario (possibly covering the entire day with 155 -160 turns of daylight typically in France in June - add 6-10 turns if you use the night-day switch at the start of the scenario - no need to manually edit the file) that covers the majority of the battlefield and actions of the day offers the players involved flexibility in how they play and the consequences of those decisions throughout the scenario.

There are a number of scenarios that cover portions of D-Day by themselves. From the para landings and fighting to the mess at Omaha and so on. Alone, they are great scenarios that depict a particular action.

A well designed, larger scenario allows you to play all of those scenarios at once, in one game and see how they interact with each other.

Yes, 1200 turns is out of the scope of the game design, for now.

Jason Petho

Agree on all the above points.



HSL