Im still on Sylverters approach, currently building a 3D continent as a strategic map with 4 factions to battle over it. I aren't a massive fan of tables, so adapted the alliances section. This helped me determine the largest power is the aggressor. The smallest, militarily is the only power with a coastline. My imagination suggested they are small but rich through trade, their armies are well equipped and will have a high proportion of elites and powerful friends across the water (with elephants!) Im going to use Age of Hannibal with significant house rules. Love a bit of world building!
Great video, went out and bought both solo wargaming guide and Henry Hyde's book based on your past videos. Glad to see you coming back around to this.
For Naming Locations: use the names of the game book authors, and/or your favorite authors - unless you think of something you like better. You've already honored your audience, how about honoring your favorite authors?
Another good video and glad to see a return to some campaign play. I think you are spot on in saying that HH's book is a great resource of ideas, but might disappoint some looking for hard rules for campaigns. My own efforts at the moment tend to be a mix of Featherstone, the solo guide and a dash of Tony bath thrown in. One thing - each to his own of course - I tend to focus on the actual military side of the campaign and not so much the socio/political stuff and economy. Especially as a solo player , this avoids a rabbit hole of somply going into detail that can swamp my actual gaming side, generally I do just enough to get back story and reason for the campaign
I really love your book and the options it provides for us to develop an awesome world to play in, and this video was fantastic showing us how to use bits from wherever you find them and inserting them together.
@@bigbattleslittleworldsThank you, I’m so pleased you find it useful and that’s exactly what I intended - like a menu, just choose the bits that suit your own world vision and improvise whatever else you need.
The political situation is interesting. Both sides have major stability concerns, and should major challenges be faced or either side backing the others opposition. Perhaps the North's Regent is Loyal to a Parliament, while the Heir wants to restore Royal Power to prior glory. As such, the Heir shelters in the South after a failed coup of the Regent with enough connections and popularity to give the South the just cause for war in exchange for a cut of the silver production and the northern coast of the lake. Maybe an ACW or Victorian Era Campaign would be a way to go!
The Hyde campaign? I thought Mr. Hyde stayed pretty much in London! Incontinentia? LOL Is that where elderly heads of state spend their last days? PS. Save the Magic Space Baby!!!
I think this map may be ripe for riverine warfare with ironclads or small shipping. Even if Abstracted, it could make for some interesting maneuvering!
I gave you a thumbs up purely for the first recorded instance of the use of the word "riparian" in a wargaming video. (Oh, and for the fact that I absolutely love your campaigns, and the myriad ways you develop them! Brilliant)!
Interesting vid. I've never been a fan of campaigns, staying with tournament balance point encounters or narrated conflicts with assymetric win conditions (inflicting x% damage, holding position for y turns, using low value points units etc. and being different for each combatant). I've found that unless there is a very good balancing mechanism, a single poor or a couple of sub optimal encounters, a campaign can enter a cascading failure mode. The campaign becomes irrelevant and not interesting for one of the parties. It then needs intervention and then doesn't differ from a narrated encounter above. YMMV. It looks and sounds as though you had great fun deriving this world and narrative to go along with it. The only part of the narrative that doesn't quite gel with me is the north south boder in the mountain/ river region. Putting the US/ Canada border aside, a lot of borders are set by natural barriers. Mainland Europe, tends to follow either rivers or high mountains and passes, with borders in the mountains defined by the watershed. The borders in the Low countries Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg etc seem to be based on old feudal claims and carving up the low feature terrain and forming/ following social and cultural links and identities. My building of narrative would look at how did it develop to the border it is today? What are the logistic, govermental, trading, conditions? What motivates the people to side with who they do? How is control/influence exerted? How would it be defended if attacked? Gibraltar, Cyprus, Basques in Spain, etc all add further complication and nuance onto the subject. However I am now interfering in your campaign!! The irony is not lost on me, passing judgement on your campaign but not wanting one of my own 🤣. I'm really interested in how this progresses and look forward to your updates. Thanks again for a thoughtful and engaging vid, stay safe and have fun.
Back when I was a fool and collected Magic the Gathering cards, I had an idea for generating terrain using them. Just take a bunch of land cards, shuffle them, and deal them to generate terrain. These should be mostly basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests), but a few nonbasic lands as well which indicate the locations of cities or other major landmarks. Treat Islands as bodies of water. Plains may be considered desert terrain if you want to have some deserts.
Your maps are always fantastic. When I do my next big battle I have a whole bunch of different colored dice and with a little a manual. Justin blue for water, green for grasslands, yellow forestland, browns hills low mountains, black high mountains. 20-25 dice/color(?). I'll see how it goes...😮...😊...😳...🫣
