Panzer Battles 2 - The Official Teaser Thread

[jimcrowley]

Speaking of new features, one I would like to see has been sparked by Strelas' comments regarding the Omaha Beach scenario; namely that it "follows the historical arrival schedule"

Whilst it is going to be great to re-enact the historical D-Day, it would also be nice to have some form of variability in scenarios such that, on re-plays, there may be some variations in timings, setups and perhaps even forces.

I am not referring to the types of alternative scenarios that I recall playing in the ACW games, where you picked the alterative you wanted to play but rather a random process where you as player do not know what variation you might get.

This could be achieved in various ways but a relatively simple way would be to retain the original 'default' scenario and simply make some small adjustments to it thus creating, for instance, version 'a'. Further and or different adjustments could be made to 'x' number of scenarios up to and including more dramatic changes. A player would have the choice of playing the default scenario or having one the others selected randomly.

The 'new' scenarios would be very easy to make to make and would give a huge boost to replayability since the FoW that is usually lost once a scenario is played would, to some extent at least, be restored.

Since these 'random' variations of the default scenarios could potentially be less well balanced, the player would have to accept that he is 'going off piste' when playing them. But that would make their production fairly painless since the same map and, for the most part, the same units would be used and the time consuming process of playtesting need not be applied either at all or very sparsely.

Imagine going back to a favourite scenario and replaying it with the knowledge that some parts of it might be slightly, or fundamentally, different than on first play. Almost a new scenario and a new challenge and without a lot of effort being expended to produce the variants.

Possibly of little use to ardents H2Headers but a boon to solo gamers, IMHO.

Cheers
Jim