[Ula Jolly]

I was just thinking:
A lot of DW mission designers might want to create realistic missions, and not just "realistic" missions. I put the quotes on realistic where there is a believable task at hand for the player (frigate sink sub and avoid damage to escort), and I remove the quotes where there is a task at hand that could have been taken straight out of the real world. That is, a task that is explained thoroughly and offers the player a feeling of making a contribution to the war.
Yessiree, there has to be a WAR to make a battle. Sometimes there are battles that make wars, but in most missions on DW there will be a war that one is involved in.

In order to make a really realistic mission, there needs to be a history. There needs to be causes. Most people don't know what these causes could, or should be.
Okay! So let's think of something!
We'll have a rebellion on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Jowkey. We have some knowledge of what forces are stationed there, we know there is a tad of this and a tad of that. We know stuff: Military tactics, the things that will come to control the reasons to why we are in the SS 368, tasked with sinking the Nimitz. The mindset of people in charge. Strategies, the movements of forces from A to B, wherever the heck B is.
But we can only make that up. Thank God it isn't real, but some people have long ago fantasized about it, and been tasked by their superiors by finding out what General 1 would do in the case of being confronted with dilemma A. Would he send a carrier group to that spot where it could be dealt with by our submarines? Would he send off an SSBN to bomb the heck out of our headquarters?

I'm realizing slowly that what I am writing doesn't NEED to be written. I could've just put it in a sentence or three.

Perhaps anyone around here are sitting on a link to some website where realistic, hypothetical battle scenarios, based on qualified assumptions*, are contributed to the internet?

*Let us say that in 1995, someone at the Pentagon worked out a scenario for naval warfare against China, if US forces were stationed there and there and other factors. I, and some other people as well, are looking for such scenarios. Realistic battlefiction on a grand scale. Tom Clancy-like.

[Fitz62STG]

It is here, just in fragemented pats. You come up with a campaign or scenario and ask how to make it better. I myself am not adept enough to make a grand campaign in DW, but I do have a lot of ideas how to make it more realistic. Maybe we need a scenario / campaign building team that can combine all of our talents to make the gameplay better for all of us along with the mods everyone has so marvelously worked on. I think that if we had a group to do that we could kick some butt. I throw my hat in for coming up with realistic storylines and message traffic. Like I said I haven't learned the intricacies of the scenario writing, which is extensive.

[JoGary(sco)]

well fitz i come up with loads of scenario ideas and build them in mission editor but when it commes to writing the briefs i am lost. It seems to take me longer to write the briefs than make the scenario . If you could write the mission description and briefs + any other radio msg u would like put in i could do the scenario no prob.

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[SeaQueen]

[goldorak]

[SeaQueen]

[sonar732]

Don't forget China's attempt for "satellite" bases in the Indian Ocean rim to help "choke" American attempts to help Taiwan.

[NefariousKoel]

I like to use this site to find out the history of specific nations to find an idea of what may set them off. Give it a try!

http://countrystudies.us/

[SeaQueen]

[Ula Jolly]

[SeaQueen]

[OKO]

My opinion, is that you have 2 very different kind of game :

solo mission
where the story and the realism have a great importance to ensure immersion of the player in a mission or a campagne.

MP mission
where the more important thing is
1) the balance of side
2) replayability
3) good choice of objectives
4) and mission duration.
Realism is not a priority here.

Quite different objectives for these 2 kind of scenarios.
I try to make my MP mission playable also in solo, and this is not always really easy (scripting each plateform).
Finally, I don't take the realism (I mean geopolitical realism) in consideration when making a MP mission, just because its limit a LOT the possibilities to make a good and exiting MP mission

But I actually work on a KILO campaign, and this campaign won't be playable in MP (because of mission duration).
This campaign will be as close as possible from the actual geostrategic worldmap.

[Bellman]

Good summary - I would like to see this post under the 'Working examples' thread,
which is an excellent starting point for we 'Learners'.

Good enough I think for a 'Sticky' ?

Done!

[timmyg00]

[timmyg00]