Scenario Designer's Handbook

by Michael Dorosh

Scenario Designer's Handbook by Michael Dorosh (Book) in Games
Publisher: canadiansoldiers.com
Copyright: © 2008 canadiansoldiers.com Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: Canada

Printed: 216 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect binding, full-color interior ink

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Scenario Designer's Handbook (ISBN 978-0-9782646-8-0) is intended as a reference for those interested in designing historical scenarios for the Advanced Squad Leader game system. The book features 216 full-colour pages with a variety of information to assist in force and terrain selection, including company, battalion and divisional break-downs of the major armies that participated in the Second World War. Additional chapters deal with scenario lay-out, publishing, researching, walk-throughs of the design process and discussion regarding the various components of ASL scenarios. Scenario Designer's Handbook is not an official publication of Multi-Man Publishing or Hasbro and neither the author nor canadiansoldiers.com are in any way affiliated with MMP. A full preview is available at http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/publications/sdh.htm

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21 Dec 2007
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SDH is really two books for the price of one. About half the pages are devoted to a how-to guide to building scenarios for ASL. The how-to guide includes step by step instructions, a listing of maps and overlays, and quotations of other scenario designers.

The other half of the book is a guide to the armies of World War II. The guide is useful as a starting point for OOB but may not always be totally applicable.

Physically the book is laid out nicely. Colors are vibrant. Some pictures have pixellation and numbers on counters are blurry. Photos are nice, and color coded to nationality which is a nice touch.

Text is dense, and may require a careful read. However, chapters are short - with exception of OOB chapter. Probably could have split this up. It takes up half the book! Tables seem good. More tables on non-standard OOBs would be nice, but covers most major units nicely.

Pros: colorful, useful, good descriptions, good info

Cons: info overload in parts
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