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A question for Bob Cross - 1/22/2022 12:28:58 PM

TheJSFFenix

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Hello! Hope I'm not being too direct with this, but it's still something I'd like to know nonetheless...

Are you by any chance planning to do more of the AARs/Analysis of your scenarios? I really loved reading the ones for France 44 and Soviet Union 1941 and I still come back to them from time to time. Very informative, and it's interesting to see how the author sees its own scenario and what the design philosophy for them was, as in how they should flow and in what ways they are meant to challenge the player. Even if most of them end in a draw, they still manage to be a tense read to the very end.

So, any chance we might get some of those analysis for the likes of Cambrai 1917 or The Next War 1979? Cambrai is one of my favorite scenarios ever and I played it a bunch of times, so seeing it "officially" dismantled would be a real treat.

Or better yet, the Killer Angels 1963 scenario! It's so uniquely designed and yet I've hardly seen anyone mention it here, perhaps out of said uniqueness?

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RE: A question for Bob Cross - 1/22/2022 2:37:59 PM

Curtis Lemay

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quote:

ORIGINAL: TheJSFFenix

Hello! Hope I'm not being too direct with this, but it's still something I'd like to know nonetheless...

Are you by any chance planning to do more of the AARs/Analysis of your scenarios? I really loved reading the ones for France 44 and Soviet Union 1941 and I still come back to them from time to time. Very informative, and it's interesting to see how the author sees its own scenario and what the design philosophy for them was, as in how they should flow and in what ways they are meant to challenge the player. Even if most of them end in a draw, they still manage to be a tense read to the very end.

So, any chance we might get some of those analysis for the likes of Cambrai 1917 or The Next War 1979? Cambrai is one of my favorite scenarios ever and I played it a bunch of times, so seeing it "officially" dismantled would be a real treat.

Or better yet, the Killer Angels 1963 scenario! It's so uniquely designed and yet I've hardly seen anyone mention it here, perhaps out of said uniqueness?

Thanks for your comments. I really would like to do more AARs, but my time is so short, what with my coding duties, that I'm lucky to just get to do any design. My last three scenarios (Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and Sharpsburg) only got PO v. PO tests. If I stopped for an AAR fest, the natives around here would burn me at the stake.

I do have playtest save files (in various PC depositories) for most of the older scenarios. Those could be used for AARs - if I could even find time for that. Someday.

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