A theme for October Game Day...suggestions?
We typically have a theme for the Game Days and are currently looking for suggestions. The idea is to have a general theme that can span multiple time periods, so that there is something for everyone- or close to it. As always, only about half the games will be on-theme. The rest will be whatever folks want to run and play.
If you have a suggestion for a theme, please post it. Suggestions should include the name of the theme, and a two or three sentence description.
Thanks!
Dean
Can we have a refresher on the Themes we have used already? So as not to repeat anything too soon?
T
Here are the ones I can come up with...
Wars for North America
Against All Odds
Winter Wars
"De Oppresso Liber," To Liberate the Oppressed
Turning Points
How about "Surprise!"
Surprise attacks such as the Japanesse at Pearl Harbour, or Hitler's surprise attack on Stalin. I am sure many of you can think of more.
Christopher
Hi Christopher.
All sorts of possibilities. Could be sneak attacks, could be battles where something occurs that was unexpected- bridge blows up, allies desert the field, etc.
Hello.
Great theme for air games, if someone wants to run a game over Germany and the ME-262s or ME-163s show up. Don't get a lot of games with them.
I can run a modern jet game of the first use of F-15s by the Israelis over the Golan a few years back. Israel 9, Syria 0, if memory serves. (I played it out when I saw it on the news and was impressed, and not a little disconcerted, to find out that the F-15 could drop its nose and walk away from the Atoll missile on the MiG-21. Yikes.)
There is also Viet Nam when the NVA tanks show up near Khe Sanh, World War I when tanks were new, the giant ambush of the Romans by Hannibal at Lake Trasimene, the US Special Forces charging into combat in Afghanistan in the initial fighting there, Lexington and Concord in the Revolution (supposed to be a walk in the sun), the arrival of Lee and Jackson at the Seven Days in 1862, and so on.
Possibilities abound....
Bob Bailey
Another possibility: Battles for Bridges and other famous river crossings! This is a Donald Featherstone book title and it sounds like another theme with good potential. It could span any period, and could include naval. air, land scenarios.
Hello.
We did a scenario a number of years back where the Romans had a Legion plus supporting characters across the river and were to secure the far side of the site of the bridge that would be built to get the rest of their army across. As they hustled to get that done, the Celts were gathering in the forest to drive them back into the drink.
You could use the Sabis figures for a game of that sort of thing.
I have that Featherstone book and there are a lot of good ideas there.
Bob Bailey
Hello.
How about "Against the Clock"? That is more than just scenarios where one side has to hold off the other for x number of turns to let the rest of the army get away. There may be a landing coming and you have to take the bridge/fortification/whatever before they get there (Pegasus Bridge and Eben Emael come to mind). There are also games like aircraft at the edge of their range or Lexington & Concord-type escape scenarios. Then there are the "lost battalion" rescue scenarios where you have to get to them before the other side overwhelms them.
Bob Bailey
