MP Battles With a Friend Suggestion
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:02 pm
My friend Alan and I agreed to play a series of P&S skirmish battles where the sides and scenario types are determined by the Wiki description of a historical battle. We decided to use the Wiki List Of Battles from 1600-1650: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... %80%931800 and work our way chronologically through the list.
The first battle in the list is the Battle of Portobello (1601), but because it wasn't a field battle, we skipped it. The second battle was the Battle of Wenden (1601) between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden. We agreed that Alan would take the left column nation and I would take the right column nation from the Wiki entry for each match to mitigate favoritism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wenden_(1601) so he is playing the PLC and I am playing Sweden.
Reading the description of the battle, the PLC were outnumbered and received reinforcements during the course of the battle, so I setup a MP challenge with a scenario type of Reinforcements (Enemy), and away we go. I didn't bother to adjust the default force size, map size, or terrain type since we are not trying to simulate an actual battle. Even if the historical battle was one-sided we would play a balanced MP game instead. We also wanted to have more variety in scenario type than just repeated open battles.
The first battle in the list is the Battle of Portobello (1601), but because it wasn't a field battle, we skipped it. The second battle was the Battle of Wenden (1601) between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden. We agreed that Alan would take the left column nation and I would take the right column nation from the Wiki entry for each match to mitigate favoritism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wenden_(1601) so he is playing the PLC and I am playing Sweden.
Reading the description of the battle, the PLC were outnumbered and received reinforcements during the course of the battle, so I setup a MP challenge with a scenario type of Reinforcements (Enemy), and away we go. I didn't bother to adjust the default force size, map size, or terrain type since we are not trying to simulate an actual battle. Even if the historical battle was one-sided we would play a balanced MP game instead. We also wanted to have more variety in scenario type than just repeated open battles.