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Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 14, 2018, 3:05 am
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My plan for the weekend is to go through all the Eagles
scenarios feedback I've dug up and revise scenarios. I'll be
posting more on changes to individual scenarios over the
weekend.
The goal is to upload a new Eagles book, with revisions, to the
Dropbox on Sunday.
After that, I'll be calling on volunteers to help test those
scenarios in need of most attention, in particular:
E11 Things to Come
E16 Battle Over Budapest
E20 Operation Meridian II
E22 Mediterranean Melee
#Post#: 133--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 15, 2018, 1:36 pm
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I've just updated the Eagles rulebook/scenario book on Dropbox,
a day ahead of schedule. Major changes to the book include:
- Revisions of many scenarios (see the scenario playtest threads
for details of the changes)
- Addition of illustrations and examples for the campaign
I’d appreciate the immediate test effort being focussed on the
following scenarios:
E11 Things to Come
E13 Desperate Improvisation
E16 Battle Over Budapest
E20 Operation Meridian II
E22 Mediterranean Melee
(Desperate Improvisation has been added to the list because of a
major overhaul of the scenario's scoring.)
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Re: Lee's Diary
By: Okmed Date: September 16, 2018, 11:39 am
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Understood. I have a report on "Schlachtflieger" to send,
"Things to Come" underway, and "Desperate Improvisation" still
fresh in my mind, ready for re-tests.
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Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 17, 2018, 3:16 am
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Okay, the current priority list is now as follows:
E04 Schlachtflieger
E11 Things to Come
E13 Desperate Improvisation
[s]E16 Battle Over Budapest[/s]
E20 Operation Meridian II
E22 Mediterranean Melee
I've added E04 because though the scenario is in a reasonable
shape, the victory condition levels are not. I need the data
from another two or three tests to try and calibrate this.
I've put E16 on temporary hold until I've fixed some basic
problems with it.
#Post#: 154--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lee's Diary
By: Elias Nordling Date: September 17, 2018, 4:21 am
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From my first playing of Budapest, I'd say it needs an incentive
to attack the bombers at all and not just abort, much like The
Last samurai and Things to Come.
#Post#: 156--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 17, 2018, 4:28 am
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Elias, I've moved this over to the E16 scenario thread.
#Post#: 183--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 21, 2018, 1:19 am
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My plan this weekend is to review all the scenario feedback and
turn around a fresh release of scenarios with the various
adjustments. You guys should have that Saturday or Sunday.
Next week I want to look at some of the rules issues backed up
in the Rules Board. Not sure yet whether I'll make any calls on
changes, though first I want to see if I can clarify the
existing rules, particularly on guns.
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Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 22, 2018, 3:11 am
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I’ve just replaced the 15 September Eagles book with a new one
dated 22 September on dropbox. Please go grab it.
I’ve only changed a few scenarios in the new book, based on
feedback during the week. The only scenarios that have changed
are:
E04 Schlachtflieger (changed the draw window)
E11 Things to Come (dropped B-29 double-losses; increased
American veterans by one)
E16 Battle Over Budapest (halved sweep and escort force; forced
sweep set-up high or low)
E22 Mediterranean Melee (bombers stay low; moved CAP left;
restrict splits to Americans; reduce German veterans by one)
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Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 28, 2018, 5:30 pm
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My plan this weekend is to get an update to the couple of
scenarios I had updates for this week. I'll post those on
Sunday.
I've now got around 30 scenarios for the third expansion laid
out, which I reckon is plenty for now. My next step is to cut at
least a few of the weaker ones off that list. After that I'll
want to begin building my big spreadsheet o' scenarios and
assets and start looking at what ADCs I'd need to power these
scenarios.
I'm also waiting for some books on Spain to arrive. I've been
trying to verify Javier's scenarios with the help of Larrazabal
and Meredith, but I need more material, particularly on the
Italians and Republicans. I also have a major (and expensive)
source on the Legion Condór due to arrive this week. I'm going
to take my time reviewing these scenarios and tightening and
tweaking them in the coming weeks.
I should probably get a rules and ADCs update out in the near
future, to incorporate recent tweaks. (I only discovered this
week that the I-15 needed an Edge rating to make it work.) I'll
plan to do that in the next few weeks.
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Re: Lee's Diary
By: pilotofficerprune Date: September 30, 2018, 12:42 am
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I’ve just replaced the 22 September Eagles book with a new one
dated 30 September on dropbox. Please go grab it.
I’ve only changed a few scenarios in the new book, based on
feedback during the week. The only scenarios that have changed
are:
E15 Fire in the Sky (inhibited altitude changes for bombers
prior to flying a profile)
E16 Battle Over Budapest (numerous set up changes, reduced the
number of surface targets, changed how bombing works)
E17 Kuban Meatgrinder (additional German veteran and changes to
surface targets)
I’ve done a general pass on scenarios featuring medium bombers,
prohibiting them from changing altitude until they fly a bombing
profile.
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In addition to the Eagles book I have also updated the 12 August
second edition rulebook and the play aids to new 30 September
versions. These are now at the dropbox. Main changes are:
(1) Breakout section in the strafing rules on the gun special
abilities and how they work.
(2) Increased Gun Pod firepower to +2
(3) Removed AT Pod firepower bonus
(4) Added sidebar note to try to discourage bombing profile
movement sleaze
(5) Clarify that an unmodified 1 dr on an air combat loss check
cannot generate stragglers
(6) Various other sidebar cleanups and tweaks
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The Victories scenario book has also been updated, but here
mainly to add in the prohibition on medium bomber altitude
changes to those few scenarios that required it. You can drab
the 30 Sep 18 edition from dropbox.
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