Project: Shadow of the Force

[The Question]

Welcome to the Project: Shadow of the Force thread. Here I hope to both receive and share ideas for a Star Wars campaign I hope to run in 2007. Any idea is welcome here, unless it's pro-Gungan, which violates Rule 2.

Here's an idea I would like to kick around first. Would a Star Wars: Battlefront 2 style be feasable for a map based campaign? By this I mean the style of a Galactic Conquest-mode style map, with fleets moving from planet to planet, landing troops and such, if two fleets move so they would encounter each other, there would be a fleet battle, that sort of thing.

Comments anyone?

[Analytical Engine]

Using Battlefront 2 as a basic sounds good.

But rather than an ambitious galaxy-wide campaign, I think it should be set in a specific star system or something. Players could be part of or in charge of a task force sent in the achieve something. This helps keep down the book-keeping and focuses the action. You could have players vying for different zones of control on a world, instead of BF2's unrealistic one-battle-one planet structure.

[The Question]

You could have players vying for different zones of control on a world, instead of BF2's unrealistic one-battle-one planet structure.

I have to disagree here. With zones of control, percentage of control etc, it turns into eye of terror (which I'm sure no one wants:D ) plus it would be more difficult for me to manage things.

[Analytical Engine]

Okay. Well, I wasn't part of Eye of Terror, so I have no experiance there. I'll leave it up to you.