Mark Pitcavage's Scenario Design Guide

I’ve ordered this 72 page, saddle stitched book out of curiosity and because it could be very useful in terms of designing some historical scenarios for Flames of War as well as ASL.

Here’s the blurb:

The Scenario Designers Guide for World War II Tactical Wargames guides designers through the scenario design process from start to finish. It was written for players of Advanced Squad Leader(TM) in mind, but it also provides much valuable advice and assistance to anyone who wishes to design scenarios for any tactical World War II board wargame, computer wargame, or miniatures wargame. It also includes two FREE scenarios! This is the ultimate toolset for World War II gaming

I’ve just received confirmation that it has been shipped today so it should be waiting for me when I come back from Australia at the beginning of November. I’ll try and have the review up within the first week after it arrives along with some thoughts on other useful books, materials for the scenario designer.

P-J

Scratchbuilding the weird wacky and wonderful

A few years ago I had this idea of scratchbuilding some of the more esoteric vehicels that saw service (not necessarily combat) in WW2. I never got around to making any of them, and iisome ways that has proved to be a mixed blessing. QRF have released one of the vehicles I had intended to build (the Char F2C) and Stronghold Miniatures (formerly SDD) have a fairly basic Neubaufahrzüg that I may pick up a few of. However no one to the best of my knowledge makes either of these:

10.5cm K18 auf Panzer Selbstfahrlafette IVa “Dicker Max”

This would be the easiest of the two to make, as I could get away with using the lower hull and suspension of an old BF Panzer IV ausf D.

12.8cm Selbstfahrlafette auf VK3001(H) “Sturer Emil”

This however would be much more work particularly as the suspension is effectively a total scratch build.