Reply To: Optional Participation CAMPAIGN – Bolt Action Boot Camp

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Awesome, @bobcockayne , @damon , @limburger .

Definitely excited to see everyone getting fired up for the campaign!  Just a please remember I’d like to keep this super-simple for a number of reasons.

1) I want to keep it easy to work with the existing tables that the team is building, and not “require” them to build any special tables to accommodate our campaign.

2) Many of us will  be playing against opponents who aren’t participating in the campaign.  When that happens, we have to make the tabletop scenarios “campaign agnostic” so as not to impose our campaign conditions on other people’s Boot Camp experience.

3) I don’t even know if I’m getting an army, or if I am, which one.

4)  We’ll be limited in military realism and historical accuracy by the types of units people will have.

5) People may want to drop out of the campaign to play against other people or go back to painting, I certainly don’t want to make anyone feel obligated to put 110% into  the campaign full time.

6) One of those people may be me, since I’ll also be recording interviews on Scorpions of the Desert and Tales of the Desert, etc.

Now, so it doesn’t feel like I’m dumping a bucket of cold water on everything …

1) When a DAK  and an Eighth Army player in  the campaign are playing on the same table, all bets are off.  We can have the scenario do whatever we want.  😀   I’m picturing these to be the real set-piece “main event” battles of the campaign where we can really explore a campaign mechanic and tell a larger narrative.

2) During “free gaming time” I’ll be running at least one Panzer Leader table, western desert themed.  However, if other people want to keep playing Bold Action and add MORE narrative to the campaign I’ll certainly keep it going for as long as people are interested and the studio remains open.

3)  I also get the feeling that one we set up and start building our own “mega battle” on the campaign map, others will take notice and perhaps want to join.  This is the OTHER reason I want to keep things super-simple.  Just as we may have people want to drop out or take a break, I fully expect people to jump in DURING the boot camp and so want to the keep the infrastructure as simple as possible to give is this flexibility.

As anyone who participated in last Desert War boot camp campaign remembers, we had a constant flux of people jumping in, jumping out, then jumping in again.

And this video we shot on the campaign at the last boot camp isn’t the best on my part (God, I was a lot heavier then), but it explains some of the basics of where we’re coming from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLotdS9-9i0-UojADhTZRyYy2TiwBZAmVr&v=sTf6sNt6gXw