Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — The Scheldt Campaign

ON PUBLISHING THE SCHELDT CAMPAIGN (by Tom Russell)

ON PUBLISHING THE SCHELDT CAMPAIGN (by Tom Russell)

In 2012, Brian Train's game Summer Lightning came on my radar. If you haven't played it, it's a game focused on the German invasion of Poland, and as you might expect, it's a tough game for the Poles to win. This, along with the unusual combat system, fascinated me, and I put it on a list of games I was interested in playing. I mentioned that I had heard that the game took an extraordinary amount of time to set-up. Brian stepped in to let me know that this was not true. Shortly thereafter, we arranged a trade by which...