Scheldt '44 - Realism versus Playability?

[Sir John Cope]

Many and sincere thanks to Mike Prucha for these "Design Notes", very much in the spirit of one of the founders of our hobby, Jim Dunnigan.

My own view is that, if the choice is between historicity and a reasonable simulation vs gameplay, I'll always choose the former. I do understand some of the observations above - as I remarked to my present opponent, Bioman, S44 is a rather Zen experience by comparison to my other experiences with PzC games.

But that's all to the good in my opinion: one of the thoughts this game has raised for me is how, for all that we habitually distinguish between WWI and WWII as static vs movement, that's really a function of a focus on certain famous campaigns of the second war. If this game is a fair simulation, then it's apparent the difference between 14-18 and 39-45 was not always so stark.