Scenario Design Contest
Salerno to Cassino (http://www.history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/6/6-3.html) is the sole reference and research source for the battle upon which to base the scenario design. Any other people wishing to enter before the official start of the contest must choose a battle and use only the information from that source about the battle. The scenario must include use of another rule section from Chapter E: Miscellaneous besides E3.0 Weather. Those rules are for night, interrogation, ski troops, boats, swimming, air support, gliders, paratroop landings, ammo vehicles, convoys, and/or barrage. The designs are limited to official MMP published boards and overlays but exclude HASL maps. The contest officially starts September 8, 2017 at 6pm US central time. No new contestants will be accepted after that deadline.
When the contest starts, design your scenario and include designer notes (ideal of the design, reason for chooses (counters, etc. ), etc.) and cite the source (page number, and initial paragraph sentence of the battle you are basing the scenario). Contestants have two months to design the scenario, probably should include some initial play tests by the designer and a couple of friends to catch any major oversights or flaws of the design. Once submitted to me, I will cleanse them of name, assign an ID number, then forward them to the judge, Pete Shelling, who will review them. The two month judging period starts once Pete has all of the entries. After his initial review (a few days, maybe a week), he might need some clarifications or offer suggested changes. I return the initial submissions for said changes/clarifications. Over a few days, maybe a week, the designer makes the changes and re-submits his corrected, final version. Again I cleanse them of name and forward them to Pete. Over the remainder of the two month judging period, he and some of friends will do some play tests of the scenarios and determine the rank of the submitted scenarios. He should return the scenarios with a rank and judges' comments. Once returned to me, I will create a pdf file of the three scenarios, source citations, design notes, judge notes, etc. publish them online (maybe on the ASL scenario archive). After that I will mail the prizes to the winners.
Salerno to Cassino (http://www.history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/6/6-3.html) is the sole reference and research source for the battle upon which to base the scenario design. Any other people wishing to enter before the official start of the contest must choose a battle and use only the information from that source about the battle. The scenario must include use of another rule section from Chapter E: Miscellaneous besides E3.0 Weather. Those rules are for night, interrogation, ski troops, boats, swimming, air support, gliders, paratroop landings, ammo vehicles, convoys, and/or barrage. The designs are limited to official MMP published boards and overlays but exclude HASL maps. The contest officially starts September 8, 2017 at 6pm US central time. No new contestants will be accepted after that deadline.
When the contest starts, design your scenario and include designer notes (ideal of the design, reason for chooses (counters, etc. ), etc.) and cite the source (page number, and initial paragraph sentence of the battle you are basing the scenario). Contestants have two months to design the scenario, probably should include some initial play tests by the designer and a couple of friends to catch any major oversights or flaws of the design. Once submitted to me, I will cleanse them of name, assign an ID number, then forward them to the judge, Pete Shelling, who will review them. The two month judging period starts once Pete has all of the entries. After his initial review (a few days, maybe a week), he might need some clarifications or offer suggested changes. I return the initial submissions for said changes/clarifications. Over a few days, maybe a week, the designer makes the changes and re-submits his corrected, final version. Again I cleanse them of name and forward them to Pete. Over the remainder of the two month judging period, he and some of friends will do some play tests of the scenarios and determine the rank of the submitted scenarios. He should return the scenarios with a rank and judges' comments. Once returned to me, I will create a pdf file of the three scenarios, source citations, design notes, judge notes, etc. publish them online (maybe on the ASL scenario archive). After that I will mail the prizes to the winners.
