Daniel McBride's Götterdämmerung

[Don Maddox]

Daniel,

Do you have any more information about your follow up to DNO? How far will the map be extended?

[Stauffenberg]

Don,

I will send you the file tomorrow and you can do that nifty image grab thing of yours and post it here if you like. The map is done and extends to the Elbe and a line south of there to Trieste and along the Greek and Turkish borders in the south. As for Russia it is the DNO map from Smolensk west, including the Finnish isthmus and Karelian Front. Detail for that part of the front comes from Ilkka Mutanen's fine "Fourth Strategic Attack" scenario.

BTW I am also doing this as a Soviet PO game as it seems the ideal situation for that. The Ultimate PO game? I'll give it my best shot anyway.

D.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by Stauffenberg
Detail for that part of the front comes from Ilkka Mutanen's fine "Fourth Strategic Attack" scenario.

Is that scenario available anywhere?

[Stauffenberg]

I'm not sure where Ilkka has it posted. Drop me a line if you like and I will email it.

D.

[BigDuke66]

If it's already playable I would like to get it too.
Please send it to BigDuke66@gmx.de

[Stauffenberg]

I don't want to get into the habit of emailing Ilkka's scenarios around so I sent him a line and asked him to answer this request. He may even put his scenarios up on my page for downloading.

D.

[BigDuke66]

Thanks

[MajorM]

Originally posted by BigDuke66
If it's already playable I would like to get it too.
Please send it to BigDuke66@gmx.de

Gentlemen, thanks for the interest.

Yeah it's pretty much done. I just have to do some final tune-up before releasing it to public.

And then shameless self-promotion:

If anyone wants to try playtesting the following in PBEM, let me know and I email the scenario:

-Watch on the Danube: Budapest 1945. This scenario covers the struggle within besieged Budapest, German attempts to break the siege as well as Russian counteroffensive in southern Slovakia.

-Decision in the West 1944-45: 10Km/hex, covers the Allied landings to France and subsequent drive to the Rhine River. Operation Dragoon also included.

-Liuban Offensive Operation: The notorious Soviet winter offensive in January 1942, that aimed to raise the Leningrad blokade and crush the German 18th Army, but ended up in annihilation of the Second Shock Army.

PLEASE NOTE: At present I favour a playtest between players who haven't played the scenarios previously so I as designer am obviously excluded... hopefully there are enough "teams" out there to take a challenge.

Regards,

Ilkka

[Dan Neely]

How large are -Watch on the Danube and Liuban Offensive Operation? IF they're reasonablely sized (upto ~2-3x as large as tobruk" I wouldn't mind giving one a whirl.

[MajorM]

Originally posted by Dan Neely
How large are -Watch on the Danube and Liuban Offensive Operation? IF they're reasonablely sized (upto ~2-3x as large as tobruk" I wouldn't mind giving one a whirl.

The Watch on the Danube is 2.5Km/hex and one day turns.... if I remember correctly about 40 or so...can end earlier as well. Russian units are mainly divisions, and Axis units are battalion/regiment/division. Can be played with the ordinary Opart100.exe. I would call it medium sized scenario.

The Liuban' is a tad larger. It requires Opart300.exe. 4Km/hex and similar breakdown of units: Russian divisions/brigades against German regiments/battalions. This is longer game: 60 turns or so.

I take it you have a PBEM opponent then? (neither scenario are PO games at this point unfortunately). Drop me a line to majorm@sunpoint.net and I send a scenario for you to look at.

Ilkka

[Dan Neely]

Originally posted by MajorM
The Watch on the Danube is 2.5Km/hex and one day turns.... if I remember correctly about 40 or so...can end earlier as well. Russian units are mainly divisions, and Axis units are battalion/regiment/division. Can be played with the ordinary Opart100.exe. I would call it medium sized scenario.

The Liuban' is a tad larger. It requires Opart300.exe. 4Km/hex and similar breakdown of units: Russian divisions/brigades against German regiments/battalions. This is longer game: 60 turns or so.


I've always wondered why people respond to a question about mapsize with the hex size only, but no information about the dimensions of the map. Surely I'm not the only person who doesn't have the area of every campaign memorized to compute the approximate mapsize in hexes. The hex size is useful for judging the scale of the map, but wether the map is 20x30 hexes or 200x300 is much more useful IMO for getting an idea of how big the scenario is.


I take it you have a PBEM opponent then? (neither scenario are PO games at this point unfortunately). Drop me a line to majorm@sunpoint.net and I send a scenario for you to look at.

Not yet. If I think the scenario is going to be reasonablely sized I'll look for an opponent. Posting "looking for an opponent to play XXX" and then following it up by "now that I've actually seen the scenaro I've decided it's too big, sorry" would make me look like an idiot. :cheeky:

[Mantis]

Heheheh...:clown:

[MajorM]

Originally posted by Dan Neely


not yet. If I think the scenario is going to be reasonablely sized I'll look for an opponent. Posting "looking for an opponent to play XXX" and then following it up by "now that I've actually seen the scenaro I've decided it's too big, sorry" would make me look like an idiot.:cheeky:

A good point about the map size. I guess it's just that it is so easy to remember the hex scale, but not the actual dimensions. Off the top of my head I would say the Budapest is about 50x50 hexes. Liuban' map is substantially larger, maybe twice as big or something, BUT the battle takes place on one area only and that is about 40x40 or so.

I could send the scenarios to you, but I can't find your email address anywhere...am I just blind or what?

Ilkka

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Nice to see Ilkka on this forum! :banana:

I could playtest at least one of the scenarios against an competent opponent (Reno perhaps?).:smoke:

[Dan Neely]

Originally posted by MajorM


A good point about the map size. I guess it's just that it is so easy to remember the hex scale, but not the actual dimensions. Off the top of my head I would say the Budapest is about 50x50 hexes. Liuban' map is substantially larger, maybe twice as big or something, BUT the battle takes place on one area only and that is about 40x40 or so.

I could send the scenarios to you, but I can't find your email address anywhere...am I just blind or what?

Ilkka

Ok, both seem reasonablely sized. Send them over.

As for your vision, no you're not blind, there's no way to see email addresses directly. The mail link on the forum will let you send an email, but it originates from the warfarehq server, not your account. I assume that this is done as a spamblock, but it is annoying. my email is danst31@pitt.edu