Designers Wanted

[Airlifter]

Hi fellas,
Mike Perryman, Jay Townsend, and the rest of the current designers are doing great work, but we could use your help. There are SO MANY campaigns that have not seen the light of day in PG (or IA or MG for that matter), and many of you are widely read in those campaigns. We'd like you to put pen to paper (well, fingers to keyboard anyway) and crank out a game attempt.

You don't have to worry too much about your writing skill--it does not have to be perfect, and my job is to help you make it into a fine game. What it usually takes is lots of detailed knowledge about a series of battles because you have to represent it at the tactical level. Often that means you, the designer, will interpret what you read because it just does not give you all the data in the book. For example, you read a great book like Army At Dawn, and it talks about the battle at Kasserine Pass, but it only talks about the division or maybe a brigade involved. If you can find the data on the lower level units form other sources, perfect. But if not, you may have to look at generic OOBs for that period of the US Army and make some assumptions about the forces (3x PLT per CO, 3xCO per BTN + mortar and heavy MG section, etc.

Plus Dr. B will pay you million in royalties...okay, no he won't. But you'll get your name in print and at least one free copy. :-)

So what would I like to see from you? Well, anything we have not done really, but some personal choices would be...

For PG
-Canadians taking the Scheldt estuary
-Japanese vs. Chinese
-Communist Chinese vs. Nationalist Chinese
-Stalingrad done right
-Crete
-Sicily
-Dieppe

For MG
-Vietnam (could be up to three+ games--Marines, Army, Laos/Cambodia, SOF, etc)
-Yom Kippur War '73
-Falklands
-Iran-Iraq War

For IA
Your pick, east or west front

Thank you for your interest in our games. And please keep talking to us and telling us what you like and don't like.
Cheers,
John Stafford
AP Designer/Developer for IA, PG, and MG