I would like to start a scenario loosely inspired by GDW's WiF extention "Patton in Flames" to represent a clash in 1945-1946 (or longer) between the Western Allies and Soviet Union and its sattelites.
Before I go on OOB's etc. I would like to discuss some of the game philosophy with you fine gentlemen, as far as scale, etc.
I think the best scale for a conflict like that would be 10km per hex, but that is if one keeps only europe as a theater of war (and the rest by events). If one wants to add Asia, the scale has to be different. would asia/pacific even matter? Opinions? in all cases, what maps are available to save time.
A significant part of the belligerents in such a scenario would be the communist partisans all over europe as well as the nationalist forces (and remains of fascist regimes) that would be anti-communist. what groups shoudl fight? in which countries/regions? (and that is linked to maps, i.e. ukraine, baltics, etc.)
Nukes? opinions on their political and tactical effects and also power at the times of conflict.
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or, alternatively, would a conflict in 1950-1951 be a more interesting idea? (but that one would have more nukes.. so perhaps less interesting)
Before I go on OOB's etc. I would like to discuss some of the game philosophy with you fine gentlemen, as far as scale, etc.
I think the best scale for a conflict like that would be 10km per hex, but that is if one keeps only europe as a theater of war (and the rest by events). If one wants to add Asia, the scale has to be different. would asia/pacific even matter? Opinions? in all cases, what maps are available to save time.
A significant part of the belligerents in such a scenario would be the communist partisans all over europe as well as the nationalist forces (and remains of fascist regimes) that would be anti-communist. what groups shoudl fight? in which countries/regions? (and that is linked to maps, i.e. ukraine, baltics, etc.)
Nukes? opinions on their political and tactical effects and also power at the times of conflict.
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or, alternatively, would a conflict in 1950-1951 be a more interesting idea? (but that one would have more nukes.. so perhaps less interesting)