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DESIGNER'S NOTES: THE SCHELDT CAMPAIGN (by Brian Train)

DESIGNER'S NOTES: THE SCHELDT CAMPAIGN (by Brian Train)

      In his book The Complete Wargames Handbook, the noted wargame designer James F. Dunnigan had two basic rules for aspiring designers: Keep it simple. Plagiarize. Later he euphemized the second one as “use available techniques”, but still, these are words to live by. And once in a while a game system comes along so loaded with good ideas and potential directions it simply has to be used! Giving due credit to the original thinker, of course… we do stand on the shoulders of giants, and they all have names. In the particular case of The Scheldt Campaign,...