JTS/HPS Wishlist and Random Thoughts

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I do not have Korea 85. IIRC, it only covers the southern part of the Korean peninsula. To include the North up to the border of China would require a map with a N-S length of 1,100 Km (hexes).

The largest map in the series that I could find is Moscow 42 which is (539,452). The F14 map may be larger though I cannot tell since I do not have that title either.

FWIW, I think a Korean map to cover the 1950 war as a campaign would be interesting for the ebb and flow of the campaign, strategic options for seaborne invasion and such. Just building the largest map ever for MC/PzC series would be a big task as already outlined by the posts in this thread from people who are close to the development process.

If you are interested in Korea 50 the SB title does a pretty good job of simulating the combat at a different level. It does give a feel for the Korean conflict.

Dog Soldier

The site has planning maps for every game in the PzC, MC and the ones from France '14 - just go to the spotlights tab at http://hist-sdc.com and choose the relevant series on the buttons to the left.


-One thing that shouldn't be neglected would be to start small - get the feel for the various editors; for me the big thing seems to be VP assignations -you can have an imbalanced situation but if your vp ratings or vp values set for objectives is off it can make for an even more imbalanced scenario - although conversely, it can also make an imbalanced situation more of a competitive game (much more). Of course there are some other things to consider - length of time allowed in a scenario... things like that.

I have only dabbled in some PzC material, and the editors in the operational series work a little differently than the grand tactical series - although the basic principals involved in scenario design remain about the same in the general sense.