Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — orbats

FROM THE ARCHIVES: ORBATS (by Tom Russell)

Mary Russell

Tags game design, orbats, order of battle

FROM THE ARCHIVES: ORBATS (by Tom Russell)

I've been designing wargames for a while now. Back in my salad days - during which time I was actually a lot more carnivorous than I am today in my non-salad days - I was a little obsessed with obtaining an accurate order of battle, and more than a little terrified that I was going to botch it. I assumed that I would make some seemingly small mistake - a misplaced regiment here, an imagined brigade there - and that my design's ability to function as a simulation would be fatally compromised. This panic was only helped along by the...


ORBATS (by Tom Russell)

Mary Russell

Comments 3 Tags game design, orbats, order of battle

ORBATS (by Tom Russell)

I've been designing wargames for a while now. Back in my salad days - during which time I was actually a lot more carnivorous than I am today in my non-salad days - I was a little obsessed with obtaining an accurate order of battle, and more than a little terrified that I was going to botch it. I assumed that I would make some seemingly small mistake - a misplaced regiment here, an imagined brigade there - and that my design's ability to function as a simulation would be fatally compromised. This panic was only helped along by the...