Scenario Database

[MarkSheppard]

Version 1.0 uploaded; using it as a base here are some rough statistics, I didn't count every thing so this is sort of incomplete:

12 Scenarios dealing with the Arnheim (A Bridge too Far) Campaign

12 Scenarios dealing with the Balkans 1940-1944

4 Scenarios dealing with the Battle of the Bulge

3 Scenarios dealing with Burma 1942-1943

2 Scenarios dealign with China 1937-1944

3 Scenarios Dealing with Crete 1941

1 Scenario dealing with East Africa 1940

121 Scenarios dealing in one way or another with the Eastern Front 1941-1945

4 Scenarios dealing with Finland 1941-1944

25 Scenarios dealing with France 1940

2 Scenarios dealing with Guadalcanal 1942

4 Scenarios dealing with Hungary 1944-1945

3 Hypothetical scenarios set in Germany 1945, Gibraltar 1940, and Sweden 1940

4 Scenarios set in Italy 1943-1944

5 Scenarios dealing with Iwo Jima 1945

2 Scenarios Dealing with Kursk 1943

30 Scenarios Dealing with Normandy 1944 (and possibly France 1944)

26 Scenarios Dealing with North Africa 1940-1942

6 Scenarios dealing with Norway 1940

5 Scenarios dealing with the PTO from 1941-1942

2 Scenarios Dealing with the Phillipines 1941-1945

23 Scenarios dealing with Poland 1939

4 Scenarios dealing with Sicily 1943

4 Scenarios Dealing with the Spanish Civil War

8 Scenarios dealing with Stalingrad 1942

23 Scenarios dealing with the Western Front 1942-1945

3 Scenarios dealing with the Winter War

[Double_Deuce]

OK, its just a start and more can be added. My skills are limited so don't expect anything too fancy or complicated (I'm using a scripting program for this with some minor html editing).

I can envision a DB for WinSPMBT like this and ones for the campaigns for each version as well.

Anyone can edit this data at present so please don't play around in it too much. At some point I can add security levels (if we block visitor editing) and email notice whenever a file is edited. If we keep it open more or less then more people can plug stuff in and take off some of the workload.

Questions and comments are welcome.

WinSPWW2 Scenario Online Database

[PatG]

It looks great. Thanks for doing the work.

A "nice to have" would be to lock the official scenarios but allow users to add their own. If so extra columns to allow others to rate the scenarios, to list any special requirements(e.g. custom oobs) and to specify where to get the scenario would also be useful.

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maybe a wiki format?

[Double_Deuce]

Hey, thank Mark for the work, I just imported his data.

Maybe I can find a way to incorporate it into my WinSP Wiki somehow. Surely these 2 can be set up to complement each other.

Also maybe add an upload section for user created scenario's with an embedded DL link in the listing.

[MarkSheppard]

The description field is there anyway to make it only viewable when you hit "view"?

because looking at scenario 001, it's a lot of text and messes up the formatting of the main database

[MarkSheppard]

I imagine the TYPE field to be useful to help identify unique scenarios like:

INFANTRY - an infantry only battle, basically; with perhaps 1 or 2 tanks trundling around

TANK - Tank only battle, with a few infantry squads around

PARA - Basically, a scenario which starts with an airborne insertion

AMPHIB - Basically, scenario which starts with a amphibious invasion.

RIVER - Basically, dealing with a river crossing

COMBINED - Combined Arms scenarios; a nice mix of every type of unit.

COMMANDO - Scenarios designed to recreate commando raids, like St. Nazaire.

[DRG]

All of this is very nice work guys. Very nice work.

Don

[Double_Deuce]

We could implement a dropdown menu OR just allow manually entered data.

What about;

1) # of Turns,
2) Map Size
3) Force Size (i.e. Small, Med, Large, etc OR go by echelon, I.E. Company, Battalion, etc)?

The good thing is users can search by keyword and/or sort to find the criteria that interest them.

Guess I better start reading the manual for this program, see what it can do.

[Double_Deuce]

MarkSheppard said:
The description field is there anyway to make it only viewable when you hit "view"?

because looking at scenario 001, it's a lot of text and messes up the formatting of the main database

Working on it. Will get it off of the front page. "VIEW" will open a single screen for the scenario so we can actually have more listed there since there is more room.

[MarkSheppard]

Highly cool.

You know, adding the scenario descriptions to the database would only add what, 400 kb to them.

I'll put in scenarios 0-5's descriptiosn and then we can see if it's good or if it becomes too unweildy that way as viewed.