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Title: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 10, 2018, 10:49:34 AM
I hope you don't mind me posting this here as well:

With Middle East 2.0 out the door, all hands at Campaign Series Legion are now on Campaign Series: Vietnam, our next tactical wargame title, with an estimated release date of late summer 2018. Campaign Series: Vietnam will be a tactical turn-based wargame focusing on conflicts in Vietnam during the First Indochina and Vietnam Wars. Other conflicts are covered as well.

To assist us on our game and scenario design, we put together a web survey, asking you about your gaming profile, gaming hardware, general preferences, and yes: what you would like to see in Campaign Series: Vietnam itself. There's eighteen questions, mostly multiple choices, and completing the survey will take approximately five minutes of your time.

If this is a game title that interests you, we'd sure appreciate your feedback:

Please enter the survey here (https://goo.gl/forms/XdqdIwSwc4KcelWr1)

And, if this is a game title that indeed interests you, do join our mailing list (http://eepurl.com/daekB9) for periodical digests and news items from our site.

Thank You, or: As you were :)

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Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Rayfer on February 10, 2018, 11:42:48 AM
Done... ^-^
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 10, 2018, 12:03:56 PM
Thank you - appreciated!  :bd:
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2018, 12:12:32 PM
submitted
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: JasonPratt on February 10, 2018, 12:59:48 PM
Done!
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 10, 2018, 01:57:18 PM
Thank you Sirs, most appreciated  :clap:
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Blucher on February 10, 2018, 02:47:57 PM
Survey finished.

Probably out of the scope of this game but how will you simulate guerrilla warfare? Will the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese be able to attack say an American outpost then withdraw? Will this be reflected
in the game? I found with Tiller's Dien Bien Phu it was frustrating in some of the scenario's that were basically Viet Minh hit and run operations that I had to hold on to the objectives while the French brought
in more firepower. Holding objectives when historically the Viet Minh hit the outpost then faded away into the jungle. I liked in the TOAW III Vietnam campaign series that the guerrillas would attack an ARVN or Free Forces Vietnam outpost for example then disappear into the jungle felt more realistic.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: bbmike on February 10, 2018, 03:15:04 PM
Done.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 10, 2018, 03:43:31 PM
Quote from: Blucher on February 10, 2018, 02:47:57 PM
Survey finished.

Probably out of the scope of this game but how will you simulate guerrilla warfare? Will the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese be able to attack say an American outpost then withdraw? Will this be reflected
in the game? I found with Tiller's Dien Bien Phu it was frustrating in some of the scenario's that were basically Viet Minh hit and run operations that I had to hold on to the objectives while the French brought
in more firepower. Holding objectives when historically the Viet Minh hit the outpost then faded away into the jungle. I liked in the TOAW III Vietnam campaign series that the guerrillas would attack an ARVN or Free Forces Vietnam outpost for example then disappear into the jungle felt more realistic.

Thank you for taking the survey!

As for guerilla warfare, there's a few things going on there. First, there's the Adaptive AI parameters we're hoping to have available to make concealment and spotting vary per nation and era. That should make it easier to indeed disappear into the jungle. As a completely new feature, there will be a mechanism to depict the extensive usage of Tunnels by VM/VC, with a chance to go and move under ground.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 10, 2018, 03:44:13 PM
Quote from: bbmike on February 10, 2018, 03:15:04 PM
Done.

Thank you - appreciated!  :)
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2018, 04:52:45 PM
Survey completed
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 10, 2018, 09:02:22 PM
Done. Thank you.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Con on February 10, 2018, 09:36:11 PM
Done good idea on the survey. Think about conjoint analysis if you want to gain granularity on trade offs of game mechanics
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Wolfe1759 on February 10, 2018, 10:23:45 PM
Done
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Apocalypse 31 on February 10, 2018, 10:46:04 PM
Done.


Maybe one day we can get a coop game mode.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 04:47:23 AM
Thank you guys, very much appreciated! I will do a post at our site for the first day results, but please do keep answering the survey if this is of any interest to you. Very good data for us for our game and scenario design efforts! :nerd:
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 09:00:17 AM
Quote from: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 04:47:23 AM

I will do a post at our site for the first day results, but please do keep answering the survey if this is of any interest to you.

Here we go then:

Campaign Series Vietnam Survey - The First Day results (http://cslegion.com/csl/campaign-series/campaign-series-vietnam-survey-first-day/)

CS Vietnam Survey will remain open, so if you're interested in the title please do join in when convinient.

Again, thanks to everyone who participated, this helps us a lot in determining what to have in and perhaps what to left out from Vietnam 1.0.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: bbmike on February 11, 2018, 09:07:40 AM
^Thanks for sharing. I like the results.  O0
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 09:28:59 AM
Very cool. Thanks for sharing the results!
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 10:35:14 AM
Quote from: bbmike on February 11, 2018, 09:07:40 AM
^Thanks for sharing. I like the results.  O0

Yeah, everything's cool but the Age survey perhaps. But hey, it's not my young age that counts but my good looks!  :smitten:
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 10:39:48 AM
Yeah, your largest demo is us old farts :P
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 10:53:11 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2018, 10:39:48 AM
Yeah, your largest demo is us old farts :P

A seasoned collegue of mine calls only those over 55 "adults". I've still got a two, three years myself, before I need to start taking things seriously, in a mature kind of way.

Got to live these last carefree years to the max, then!

First, how abot getting off the couch.

Nah.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: CJReich46 on February 11, 2018, 02:54:58 PM
I'd like to ask, will Riverine Actions be included? Those engagements also involved land forces, or even special Ops like SEALs.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: bob48 on February 11, 2018, 03:17:30 PM
Just done it - not too late, I hope.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 04:10:55 PM
Thanks Bob, we're keeping it open, each and all insight appreciated  :)

CJR, yes, Riverines and Brown-water Navy  will feature in, we implemented in-hex rivers and canals just for this purpose. Should be fun!
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: stolypin on February 11, 2018, 08:34:33 PM
Submitted.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 08:35:24 PM
Quote from: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 04:10:55 PM
CJR, yes, Riverines and Brown-water Navy  will feature in, we implemented in-hex rivers and canals just for this purpose. Should be fun!

:bd:
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 12, 2018, 02:52:49 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2018, 08:35:24 PM
Quote from: Crossroads on February 11, 2018, 04:10:55 PM
CJR, yes, Riverines and Brown-water Navy  will feature in, we implemented in-hex rivers and canals just for this purpose. Should be fun!

:bd:

Can't wait either. After the changes, Campaign Series must be one the few games that feature both hex side waterway types (Stream, Minor River), and in-hex ones too (Canal, Major Canal, River, Major River). at 250m hex scale I believe that works quite nicely, and I am fully OK with other games only having either one, with a larger scale it makes sense. 

Been quite a pain to implement it to be honest, but we're finally on home stretch for it.
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Jarhead0331 on February 12, 2018, 10:18:22 AM
I know its not traditionally the way you guys operate, but any chance for pre-order and early access at some point in development?
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Dammit Carl! on February 12, 2018, 10:55:06 AM
Questionaire answered and thank you for your work!
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 12, 2018, 01:08:30 PM
Quote from: Dammit Carl! on February 12, 2018, 10:55:06 AM
Questionaire answered and thank you for your work!

Dammit Carl!

(and thanks a plenty)

:)
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: MikeGER on February 13, 2018, 04:46:50 AM
i am a little late to the show  :-[
but done  O0
Title: Re: Campaign Series: Vietnam - Your feedback requested
Post by: Crossroads on February 13, 2018, 09:40:04 AM
Quote from: MikeGER on February 13, 2018, 04:46:50 AM
i am a little late to the show  :-[
but done  O0

Thanks Mike!  :bd: