SCENARIOS

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:19 am

Now this is what I call a great battle board.

http://www.pbase.com/x6ftundx/image/59468824

ACWBill · Post by **ACWBill** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:10 am

There are only two or three that were shot by Danny Secary. I put the link to his site in my earlier post. Lots of great pics of the con in there so enjoy!

B Moreno

sfcgreg29er · Post by **sfcgreg29er** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:08 am

tstockton wrote:I suppose, in an "ideal world", one would have enough hexes of every terrain type so that one could throw together a scale representation of any piece of real estate. But if you've built hexes with a specific goal in mind, I think it serves as a wonderful example for the rest of us!

Thanks for the comments and the info on the OOBs. I haven't gamed this scenario yet but I wanted to get the OOBs as close as possible so that when my son comes home from college we can play this summer. I post some pics of the game when we play it and show everyone how my son beat his old man!!

That Stalingrad terrain is awesome! I would like to know where he got or how he made his ruined buildings.

To answer your question, I started just like everyone else. I made the "generic" hexes; clear, woods, streams, roads, etc. and gamed with those. If I wanted to create a certain map for a scenario I just made the required hex that was needed to fit the actual "real world" terrain. For example, crossroads, hills or cliffs, or a road or trail on a slope, or marsh.

When designing a map I take a piece of clear overhead transparency, which has a hex grid printed on it, and use it as an overlay and place it over a printed map that is scaled and printed so that 1" = 100 yds or meters. A hex measures 4" across so that represents 400yds or meters on the map. I adjust the overlay over the map so that it best lines up with the terain features on the map. I tape it to the map and using alcohol pens I draw the roads, streams, hills, etc. Sometimes you can't match the terrain exactly so you have to make some compromises and move some roads or streams to fit the hexes. I then transfer this to paper and add color with pencils. I've been making hexes for about 3-4 years now and have over 300. I've cataloged all my hexes by taking a pic of each one and the number on hand, so when I create a map I know if I have enough.

I think the advantages of hex terrain is you can create any battlefield on the planet.

dougeagle · Post by **dougeagle** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:12 am

I like the scenario idea. Sounds great. Also, the board in which you have posted looks awesome as well.

tstockton · Post by **tstockton** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:55 pm

ping...

Let's keep this one going for a little while longer...

Regards,
Tom Stockton

Bruce Morris · Post by **Bruce Morris** » Sun May 21, 2006 8:24 pm

I just noticed in Mobious' picture link that the boards appear to be transported on a clothes rack! That is ingenious! Note the gentleman holding a board next to the rack.

http://www.pbase.com/x6ftundx/image/59468824

Bruce

ACWBill · Post by **ACWBill** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:04 pm

Actually, they are not clothes racks. This is a "porters cart" belonging to the hotel at which we held the convention. Nice tought though.

sfcgreg29er · Post by **sfcgreg29er** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:34 am

Ping

Just keeping this alive.

Does anyone else have any scenarios they would like to post?

Close-up of scratch built bridge.

tstockton · Post by **tstockton** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:43 pm

sfcgreg29er,

What technique did you use to "cut in" the small stream in your marsh hexes? It looks very good! And so does the bridge! VERY nice!

Regards,
Tom Stockton

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:42 am

On the "Scenarios" topic, I'm creating one right now. For fun, I'm creating unit lists for up to 5 German players and 5 Soviet players. I'm finding famous tank commanders to lead each of the player's forces and creating player cards with this info.

Can someone out there give me some famous tankers I can use on the Soviet side?

Thanks!

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:32 am

Thunder wrote:

Can someone out there give me some famous tankers I can use on the Soviet side?

He he he he. Silly boy!

So, what do you want? Just names (to use to test your own Google-fu)? Or whole stories?

For some names, check out:

Konstantin Samokhin: reputedly the leading Soviet tank "ace" with 69 kills (I have almost nothing on him...

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Dmitri Fiodorovich Lavrinenko: reputedly number 2, with 52 kills in 28 engagements

Dmitri Malahovich Tsirubin: Battalion commander who found a crossing for his tanks by doing a foot-reconnaissance of an AT ditch, and also found (and killed) two Landsehrs with Panzerfausts in the process (offensive after the crossing of the Neva)

Mikhail Vasilevich Kopitin: destroyed 2 Panthers, 3 Pz IVs, 2 StuGs, and captured a Pz III in one action (battle of Zheduv, during the Lvov-Sandomir offensive)

A.P. Oskin: repelled the first ever attack by a Tiger II battalion, killing three in the process, with his T-34/85.

How's that for a start?

Thunder · Post by **Thunder** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:31 am

Perfect! Just what I'm looking for. Even though its pretty darn unlikely that these 'characters' ever came together in combat, I though it would be fun for each player to have a personality they can get a little background on and identify with. I'm going to have a sheet for each player with their commander and a brief story, the units they get to command, and some other info. I'm setting this up so I can run it at a con and just hand a sheet to each player. In some cases there will be secret info unique to that player that no one knows of until that aspect is utilized in the game.

I'll post the scenario fro review when I am ready in the near future.

Thanks again!

After Google fooing your first suggestion, I came across a nice list for those interested:

http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/lofivers ... 12939.html

sfcgreg29er · Post by **sfcgreg29er** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:49 am

tstockton wrote:

What technique did you use to "cut in" the small stream in your marsh hexes? It looks very good! And so does the bridge! VERY nice!

I just used a pointed piece of dowel rod and pressed the stream into the styrofoam and painted. Thanks for the comments.

tstockton · Post by **tstockton** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:45 am

sfcgreg29er

I just used a pointed piece of dowel rod and pressed the stream into the styrofoam and painted.

Do you have any pictures of how you "merged" your stream into a larger river / waterway? Or does your stream just kind-of start and end in a bog / marsh?

Just curious... in my mind, I'm "playing around" with different widths of waterways, representing different sizes of streams / rivers / "what-have-you". Keeping them "geomorphic" might bring a slightly different set of problems...

Regards,
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sfcgreg29er · Post by **sfcgreg29er** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:46 am

Do you have any pictures of how you "merged" your stream into a larger river / waterway? Or does your stream just kind-of start and end in a bog / marsh?

I've done two things. In the pic below I butted a swamp/marsh hex up to a "Y" stream hex. I then placed some bushes around the seam to blend in the transition from one hex to the other. I've also made a transition hex which actually does go from a stream to a swamp/marsh hex. You can't see it in this pic, but farther to the right is the transition hex.
I'll post a pic when I get a chance.

You'll also notice at the bottom center, that I didn't have a cobblestone "Y" bridge hex so I placed some stone walls on both sides of the street and placed some bushes where the stream hex meets the "bridge" hex.

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SCENARIOS

Stalingrad

Battle Board

Transport