| Canuckistan Commander | 06 Feb 2010 1:36 p.m. PST |
See attached link and follow Panzer Gruppe G on a little summer holiday tour of old mother Russia. link |
| Canuckistan Commander | 06 Feb 2010 1:37 p.m. PST |
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Frederick  | 06 Feb 2010 2:29 p.m. PST |
Looks very interesting – good gaming and keep us posted! |
| Grizwald | 06 Feb 2010 2:38 p.m. PST |
I have never felt really comfortable with "bath-tubbing". It just seems wrong when artillery can fire about a hundred miles. There are perfectly good rules available that allow you to do a campaign at this level without bath-tubbing, so why bother? |
| Canuckistan Commander | 06 Feb 2010 4:12 p.m. PST |
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| Grizwald | 06 Feb 2010 4:28 p.m. PST |
"Because I chose too?" I presume then that the gross distortions inherent in the bath-tubbing approach don't bother you? |
| Canuckistan Commander | 06 Feb 2010 5:07 p.m. PST |
Mike It's a game, I play to distract myself from the trials I still sometimes face from fighting in a real war. It just a game of mental skill and comradeship. Debating war games is meaningless, I am just having fun! This case it takes me back to the late 70s and early 80s when we just had fun, heck, sometimes we even used models of M48s to represent Panthers in true Hollywood fashion! |
| Juan Kerr | 06 Feb 2010 6:38 p.m. PST |
Mike, if your not comfortable with the approach why look? Thankyou Canuck…looks like a lot of work! |
| Iron Witch | 06 Feb 2010 7:39 p.m. PST |
Here, here! I like it! I myself happen to have a copy of Command decision Bath-tub Barbarossa and operate games at multi-divisional level all the time. To be very honest – having worked in a staff room for the military back in 'the day', "bath-tubing" was and still is a common level of gaming for many; and if proper rules or amendments to certain rules are made, there are no gross distortions because you are dealing with the larger picture and general outcomes. Really, if you are accepting dice rolls to determine battle results and morale, then one can easily accept scaled down representations of larger units. |
| tuscaloosa | 07 Feb 2010 1:00 a.m. PST |
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| cosmicbank | 07 Feb 2010 8:24 a.m. PST |
Looks good and if you don't like it, I don't think you have to play it. |
| Grizwald | 07 Feb 2010 11:57 a.m. PST |
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| Canuckistan Commander | 07 Feb 2010 12:22 p.m. PST |
My bathtub is roughly 1 to 3 or regiment to battalion. A scale of 25 would simply suck. I thinks that provides a fair play between the tactical play, operation results and a strategic outcome if the campaign is played out. I own all the CD bathtubs; Tunisa, Barbarossa, WW3, WW1 and have never played them. I also own Bastogne and I can say it is not a bathtub. |
| mghFond | 07 Feb 2010 1:43 p.m. PST |
Always wanted to do this bathtub campaign and have the booklet but never tried it. Glad to see someone else doing it though. I will be following the progress. |
| Lentulus | 08 Feb 2010 6:35 a.m. PST |
I have played one bathtub campaign. It generated great scenarios, and presented the operational commanders with problems surprisingly close to those of the real campaign. I look forward to following your results. |
| Inquisitor Thaken | 08 Feb 2010 8:34 p.m. PST |
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gets his hands on some fields and fences.
