simovitch Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Originally posted by Philippe: Have you tried taking screenshots and pasting them together in Paint? Crude, but effective. yes but printscreen doesn't seem to capture the image at the darn Italian website??? someone in the thread said he used "screenprint32 v3.5 and it saves it pretty good." does anyone know if screenprint32 is freeware or feeware? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Originally posted by Philippe: Have you tried taking screenshots and pasting them together in Paint? Crude, but effective. It's not even that crude, really, if you align them well. I use Paint for lots of stuff - it's actually a pretty powerful tool in the right hands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simovitch Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Ok, answered my own question - screenprint32 is freeware and works great. I got a screen capture of the war-era 1:25000 Topo of San Pietro. No web hosting so I can't post it here though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoolaman Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 The maps here are excellent for scenario makers. They are definately ww2 era maps, with the old town of san pietro up the top of the hill, and all it's buildings mapped out. And as stated above you can overlay a modern sattelite view perfectly to see the lay of the land a bit better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Simonitch Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 WOMBATS AT GNEP: I agree with the general comments at the beginning of the thread--we need to give designers slack. If a scenario has problems with the map and O.B. then it stands as a challenge for the next designer to come along and improve on it. As each designer trys his hand at a particular battle he has learned from those who have gone before, and each design (hopefully) gets better and better. I'm very forgiving of a ahistorical map as long as it was carefully designed with natural looking undulations of land and potential avenues of advance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Znarf Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Originally posted by simovitch: I need to share a pet peeve. *** SNIP *** The main reason I bought this game was to get play (and develop) some faithful reconstructions of the schmegg offensive battles. Well... You gets whats you pays for! Now, to reply: 1) Your peeve is why I now always make fictional or "semi-historical" battles. Personlly I don't think I could call my battles "historical" because I don't have time to do the proper research. 2) Many historical battles wouldn't be "enjoyable" to play. The Germans were usually vastly outnumbered by the Allies and the Russians. For most battles, a true measure of victory would be to compare your casualty rate against actual allied (or axis) casualty rates of the actual battle, or to measure your sides progress vs. the acutual progress of the battle. Kinda boring, for me, at least. 3) Finally, at the end of a long week of lawyering, I need an escape. What better way than blowing stuff up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Review every scenario that you play, or even if you decide not to play it because it looks like from Disneyland. Give advice for sources if you know any. Historical-semihistorical-fictional is difficult to be accurate about. You're quite unlikely to ever achieve total historicality, and usually you are more worried about making it somewhat balanced and with historical results. But as long as these deficiencies are only minor, I think it's fair to call it historical. If the sources are scantier, it becomes semi-h. If the only 'source' is a sentence or paragraph long description of the engagement, the result can still be credible if the designer is well-acquinted with the usual OOB's and geography of the area, but the result is nevertheless fictional, only inspired by real events. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 "Many historical battles wouldn't be "enjoyable" to play." I tend to like "what if"s for that reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropey Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Originally posted by rune: I am consulting with JonS to make a New Zealand scenario in Italy, but the river crossing I was going to do mentions several "brisk firefights". When information was dug up, the "brisk firefight" lasted 5 minutes and the Germans withdrew. So, we are still working on it, but on hold temporary as I have been busy with other things here. Jon, Orsonga [sp?] sounds good, I'll follow up with you when things slow a little. Rune Rune and JonS Having been to Sangro/Orsogna battlefields last year, and currently writing the battlefield guide I would be interested to hear your plans. I have around a hundred photos of the area that may help you... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Ropey, Would love to see what you got. I am not ready to start on it yet, but for when the time comes. Rune 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrD Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 CM scenarios are tough to get right because there is very little information available down to the scale at which we're playing. It's very rare that the exact OOB for a battalion, much less company, size engagement is recorded. This is especially true as has been pointed out because units were very often "ad hoc" and bore no resemblance to what was recorded in the regimental history or standard TO+E. So if wombats are present, don't worry so much, and realize that despite anything you've read, they could have been present. Even first-hand accounts are not always that accurate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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