Favorite scenarios

Easy8 · Post by **Easy8** » Wed Jul 18, 2001 8:49 am

What is your favorite SPWAW scenario? I nominate Steel Shield by Wild Bill Wilder.

degen · Post by **degen** » Wed Jul 18, 2001 9:42 am

The Schoolhouse by M4 Jess Housley. A savage, bloody street battle with a good balance of infantry, AFVs, and artillery. The battle is set during Kursk. I don't think it is on the MC CD, but M4 was e-mailing to people a couple of months back.

JNL · Post by **JNL** » Wed Jul 18, 2001 11:30 am

Brave Men at Betio.

Good stuff.

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Wed Jul 18, 2001 3:08 pm

Originally posted by degen:
The Schoolhouse by M4 Jess Housley. A savage, bloody street battle with a good balance of infantry, AFVs, and artillery. The battle is set during Kursk. I don't think it is on the MC CD, but M4 was e-mailing to people a couple of months back.

My favourite also. Great bloody fun.

Timo

GrinningDwarf · Post by **GrinningDwarf** » Wed Jul 18, 2001 4:19 pm

'No Easy Place' was the first scenario I played and is still my favorite. For those who havn't played it yet, it's a German outpost under Russian assault.

'Brave Men of Betio' and 'The Flying Chindits' are two others I keep recommending.

TheZel66 · Post by **TheZel66** » Wed Jul 18, 2001 4:52 pm

I always like "Chateau de Quesnoy". (sp??) What I like best is the map. Aces to whoever put it together. I've never seen a map that can dictate the play of a game so well.

I've created a scenerio with the same map called "Return to Quesnoy". US Army attack vs. German SS defend. Summer 44. Same plot, newer units, with the SS defending now.. kinda fun.

Easy8 · Post by **Easy8** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 12:02 am

Thanks for your responses!

Is The Schoolhouse available for downloading? Would love to give it a try.

No Easy Place was also my first SPWAW scenario. Very good, well balanced, plays well from both sides and always comes down to the last few turns.

Also found Brave Men at Betio and Flying Chidits fun.

Will have to check Chateau Qusnoy, my favorite scenarios are Amer vs Ger, so I have probably seen it. Look forward to Return to Quesnoy. Let me know if you need a playtester.

TheZel66 · Post by **TheZel66** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 12:27 am

Im working on a website for my created scenarios. will let you know when it is done.... Problem is, i spend all my free time playing the MC.

degen · Post by **degen** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 3:12 am

Easy8, I'm sending you my copy of the Schoolhouse now using my AOL e-mail account. Enjoy!

Easy8 · Post by **Easy8** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 4:24 am

dgen, Got it. Thanks

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 4:48 am

Very interesting thread, gentlemen! Good to know what appeals to you.

Its so hard to pinpoint one. I guess I could approach it from the point of view of which one I designed in which I had that special feeling of inspiration and personal enjoyment in playing after doing it...Maybe the top five for me in designing them:

Brave Men at Betio - First time I had an SP game in which I had so many new tools, infantry wading to shore, all sorts of Japanese fortifications, etc.

Lightning Strikes - My first (and only) effort at recreating the fighting between Norway and Germany. It was incorporating the ammo packs that the Paratroopers had to get that appealed to me here.

Moment of Truth - Kursk has always been fascinating. This tank heavy advance by the Liebstandarte against the toughest Soviet resistance has a feel to it.

Desperate Measures - Jumping off the destroyer Campbelltown and racing to the objectives to beat the Germans, then get them exited. Whew! Still love to play that one.

I'm gonna save the #5 slot...though tempted to say the Ramelle SPR one...just for the memory flashes it brings to mind if nothing else...but no, not yet. I'm gonna think on it.

Cyric · Post by **Cyric** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 12:37 pm

I think my favourite is "a simple command"

It's the infantry scen where your orders are to straighten the front line for no other reason than it looks better on the commanding officers map....good background, good scen...

skukko · Post by **skukko** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 12:53 pm

I must be nuts: North of Psel

Huge, complicated, long, great playability. Wish I could do something like that in future

mosh

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 1:34 pm

You are, but then you are a wargamer, so we expect that

Indeed, a very good scenario!

Wild Bill

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 6:42 pm

My fave is 'Angels of Los Banos' by Bill.

Alex

Marder_MatrixForum · Post by **Marder_MatrixForum** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 8:41 pm

"No driblets, but mass" - by Brent Grenadier Richards - excellent scenario

Marder

SAMWolf · Post by **SAMWolf** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 9:22 pm

Originally posted by Easy8:
What is your favorite SPWAW scenario? I nominate Steel Shield by Wild Bill Wilder.

I enjoyed playing the "Normandy Landings" Scenarios.

m10bob · Post by **m10bob** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 3:13 am

"sounds in the night"...real "nuts and bolts" of WW ii infantry/Europe...

santtis · Post by **santtis** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 4:16 am

Frozen Hell.

Excellent scenario. Maybe we will see more scenarios including the finns.

Wild Bill · Post by **Wild Bill** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 8:04 am

Thanks Alexandra! I had let that one slip my mind! I've played it quite a few times myself.

Saving the prisoners is always a challenge

Wild Bill