Player Survey - Campaign Series: Cold War

[Crossroads]

With the reimaged Campaign Series: Vietnam 2.00 and Middle East 3.00 updates soon released, it’s time to look ahead once more.

Please find below a set of questions where we’d appreciate your insights regarding our next Campaign Series game: Cold War 1948–1985.

• Link to Campaign Series: Cold War Survey (Opens Google Forms page)

Your feedback is highly valued and will help guide our design decisions during development.

Note: All answers are optional. If you prefer not to answer a particular question, simply move on to the next one.


As with the previous survey, we’ll share the results oncw they are available

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

- Campaign Series Legion

[Hoplite1963]

Hi Guys
I am very pleased to see that you are considering setting the game so that in can be played using the PBEM++ system as my experience has been that this makes it much easier to find opponents.

If you do decide to do this perhaps something like the system used for the FOGII & P&S games for allowing players to download user created scenarios from within the game could be looked at also.

Finally on the subject of campaigns have you looked at using something like the system employed by WDS’s “Squad Battles” “Panzer Battles”, Napoleonic, ACW and Musket & Pike games series.

Strong points of this model are that you can fight whole campaigns using PBEM and that its relatively straightforward to the community to make campaigns for the game as well.

It is worth having a look in particular ad the campaign that they have done for their “Battles of Normandy” and “Battles of North Africa 1941” titles.

Kind regards
Ian

[Crossroads]

Cheers Ian,

The survey certainly points to direction of PBEM++ for H2H play, and now that we finally have the new front end available, something to discuss with Matrix. I am not familiar with the games you mention, but I am sure there are game play videos I can have a look at figuring how they have implemented the interface.

We'd love to have some type of a campaign mechanics back in the game. That would likely require more hands at Visual Studio though. Linked campaigns have not been actively dropped, it is just that there's not been enough time to keep it constantly updated as the engine and data has evolved.

[Phoenix100]

I said, in the survey, that I was very keen to have full CSEE scripting for CSME, but didn't manage to add what I'll add here, that if it's a choice between getting something Cold War out quickly and spending time scripting CSME then I would hands down prefer you get on with the CW title! Thanks.

[Hoplite1963]

Cheers Ian,

The survey certainly points to direction of PBEM++ for H2H play, and now that we finally have the new front end available, something to discuss with Matrix. I am not familiar with the games you mention, but I am sure there are game play videos I can have a look at figuring how they have implemented the interface.

We'd love to have some type of a campaign mechanics back in the game. That would likely require more hands at Visual Studio though. Linked campaigns have not been actively dropped, it is just that there's not been enough time to keep it constantly updated as the engine and data has evolved.

Hi Crossroads

Actually you can do better than that the WDS website https://www.wargamedesignstudio.com/ has articles in the "News" section on how the campaign system works (one for the "Squad Battles" series and one for the "Musket & Pike" one and their free Demo for the "Squad Battles" game that deals with the US invasion of Grenada includes a couple of simple campaigns. The "Squad Battles" game "Advance of the Reith" that covers fighting on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1942 also has additional documentation on how to build campaigns and now includes a straightforward user created scenario .

Hope this helps

Kind regards

Ian

[Jason Petho]

Any chance you can point out specifically where they describe the campaign?

I took a quick look through the news section and nothing jumped out for me.

[Crossroads]

I was looking at this post Campaigns in the pre-twentieth century games, it was an interesting read.

Our Linked Campaign code remains available in old and deprecated front end source code. I would very much like it to have making a return at some stage. Maybe after the Summer update? Fingers crossed.

[Hoplite1963]

Hi Guys
The headings to look under are.

Campaigns in the pre-twentieth century titles Feb 23, 2024

Behind the Lines Campaign for Squad Battles Advance of the Reich ·Aug 27, 2023

You might also find the following documents of use that I have attached.

Kind regards
Ian

Creating a Campaign Game for Squad Battles.pdf

(347.91 KiB) Downloaded 6 times

Campaign Notes - Behind The Lines.pdf

(633.9 KiB) Downloaded 4 times

[Crossroads]

Thanks, Ian! I will have a good look at them.

[Crossroads]

The first day results are in!

https://cslegion.com/cs-cold-war/campai ... y-results/ (opens a page at our CS Legion website)

Survey remains open, though. If you haven't answered yet and would prefer to do so, your insight and comments are appreciated.

[Crossroads]

140 responses in so far, thank you so much for your insight and feedback!

If any of you still wants to respond, we're keeping this open for another week.

Thanks in advance!

[Crossroads]

We'l keep this survey open until end of play this coming Sunday.

If you haven't responded yet, please do - your insight and views are appreciated!

[Crossroads]

Only two days left to have your say as polls close early Monday morning!

We're at 171 responses—can we push it to 200?

A big thank you to everyone who’s participated so far!"

[Crossroads]

Survey is now closed with 183 responses in - thank you for your time and insight!

[Crossroads]

I finally got the chance to compile the final survey results.

Take a look here: Campaign Series Cold War Survey - The Final Results

It was great to review all your responses, they will definitely help shape our plans moving forward.

A huge thank you to everyone who participated!