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Game With The Dragoons => Saturday Night Fights & Tabletop Simulator => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on April 20, 2019, 09:05:38 PM
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Streaming now on the front page :)
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/events/wn/saturday-night-fights-cc-napoleonics/
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The Battle of Rohr -- 20 April, 1809
Right on the numbers, if I do say so myself.
Got beaten in this one rather badly...
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The Battle of Rohr -- 20 April, 1809
Right on the numbers, if I do say so myself.
Got beaten in this one rather badly...
Velker's a tenacious character - he didn't give you an inch!
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The Battle of Rohr -- 20 April, 1809
Right on the numbers, if I do say so myself.
Got beaten in this one rather badly...
Velker's a tenacious character - he didn't give you an inch!
You don't know the half of it :).
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I've been following some of these combats (C&C:N and Sharpe Practice) and was wondering if and how I might get involved. I have both sets of rules and have played many C&C board games and a couple of SP miniatures games. Is there anything I need to do?
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I'm a bit in the same boat, although I admit to not having played any C&C games. Obviously a copy of TTS and a Steam account is required. Also, like me, being in the UK means sorting the time zone wosname out, since we're 5 hours adrift from our most of Colonial chums :-)
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Hi bob48:
I am a member of Steam and have purchased TTS, although I find it very difficult to put a project together in TTS. The videos seem to be rushed and I find the commentator's accent gets in the way a little (not her fault, of course). The "manual" comes across as: "If you want to do this, go to section 3 paragraph 1" rather than "to design a module to run the board game 'C&C Napoleonics', first you must have a jpg file of your game board on file; click on <Game Board> and then <Load Image> loading your jpg file... Next,..." But there doesn't seem to be anything like that and my questions elicit responses such as "It is very easy if you have a low level of creative skill..." and then actually offer no help at all.
So, I have been hoping that the guys at Armchair Dragoons will allow me access to the TTS stuff they use for their Saturday Night Fights - or at least tell me what to do to get to the position where I can create my own scenarios using their awesome based miniatures and terrain tiles. As a military historian with a specialist interest in the Peninsular War, I have visited most of the PW battlefields and written the odd book. I am prepared to design scenarios, put together new armies with accurate uniforms for use in the TTS module and generally be as helpful as I can.
Obviously, the difference in time zones is not conducive to having conversations but I am in touch with Cyrano and am hopeful of progress. If you are interested in learning C&C Napoleonics, I'd be happy to provide assistance - I have all the so-far-issued expansions. If you make use of the Vassal Engine, we could utilise that while we wait for progress in my efforts with Armchair Dragoons or, if said Dragoons were willing to allow the use of their facilities, we could start some Saturday Night Fights of our own.
Where in the UK are you based? I live near Chelmsford, in Essex. By the way, how do I get rid of my IP address on my postings?
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Hi Mike,
I think Cyrano will guide us through the proceedings, and advise what we need to do. I have only recently been gifted a copy of TTS so I'm by no means an expert, but several of the guys here will assist us.
I'm way up 't north in Newcastle upon Tyne.
As far as I'm aware, there is no way of not displaying the IP address, but either Brant or Mirth will correct me if I'm wrong.
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By the way, how do I get rid of my IP address on my postings?
That's my department. Let me see what I can do. It's a stock feature of the forum theme, but I didn't realize it was visible to regular members (i.e., not admins) until you said something
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I must admit, I assumed I could see it as a moderator, but didn't realise that everyone could see it.
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Hi Mike,
I think Cyrano will guide us through the proceedings, and advise what we need to do. I have only recently been gifted a copy of TTS so I'm by no means an expert, but several of the guys here will assist us.
I'm way up 't north in Newcastle upon Tyne.
As far as I'm aware, there is no way of not displaying the IP address, but either Brant or Mirth will correct me if I'm wrong.
I'll keep my fingers crossed - Cyrano seems like a nice guy. I am trying to use the TTS Knowledge Base to learn but, as a step-by-step guide it leaves a lot to be desired.
I used to enjoy my visits to Newcastle when I was in gainful employment (long since retired) but I haven't visited for many years - lovely people, very hospitable in my experience. Do you play wargames in any other form (miniatures, etc.)?
Do you own the Vassal Engine for playing board games online?
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Also retired, for the last 5 years anyway. I'm actually a Brummie, but we have lived in Newcastle since 1976, so we are more-or-less naturalised Geordies now :-)
I play board wargames, and have done so since the 1960's, and yes, I do have Vassal and have a few mods installed.
Any particular periods that you are interested in?
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By the way, how do I get rid of my IP address on my postings?
That's my department. Let me see what I can do. It's a stock feature of the forum theme, but I didn't realize it was visible to regular members (i.e., not admins) until you said something
I can only see my own IP address and no one else's... assumed that was the same for all....
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Vance, I can see...Eveybodies! Mwhahahaha............
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Yeah... but you run the place.... :idiot2:
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No. Brant is the Frontman, Mirth is the Brains, and I'm just the hairy bit under the nose.
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Mirth is the Brains
we're so screwed
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:groovy: :hypnotize: :clown: :notworthy: :party: :2thumbs:
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No. Brant is the Frontman, Mirth is the Brains, and I'm just the hairy bit under the nose.
suuuuuuure
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Who was that masked man?
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Welcome about Mike. There can never be too many Mike's around.
I do know that Cyrano uses the Flex Table. You can find that in the Steam Workshop.
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Cyrano, perhaps on a slow night when no one can join you on Saturday, or if it's just me, perhaps instead of playing a game you to a walk though on how you put together a game. What components you use, where you find them, do they cost anything, how do you get them all onto the table.
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^Good idea.
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By the way, how do I get rid of my IP address on my postings?
That's my department. Let me see what I can do. It's a stock feature of the forum theme, but I didn't realize it was visible to regular members (i.e., not admins) until you said something
OK, so 2 things: first, I don't have a quick answer to make them go away, but second, your IP addy is only visible to you and the admins/mods (as a spam-checking tool). To anyone else, your IP addy just shows up as "logged".
let's also migrate any other discussion on this one over here:https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?topic=1572
and leave this back to CCN discussion
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As to the OT: I've got three instructional videos up on my YouTube channel for your enjoyment.
This is the first and it will get you proximate to the other two. Unsurprisingly, it deals heavily in Napoleonics.
And, yes, let's also plan to meet...please...
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Nice! It might be time explore TTS again. :2thumbs:
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^Good idea.
That was close. Almost went the entire year without one of those.
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When you're hot you're hot :bigthumb:
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Just watched, very nice video! :applause:
That part where you tried to put the drummer onto the base and he kept falling over? That's me in every attempt to try TTS. :-[
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No. Brant is the Frontman, Mirth is the Brains, and I'm just the hairy bit under the nose.
suuuuuuure
Oh crap, I didn't know our chat was being monitored!!! I feel like I've been caught deflating balls!!! :P
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As long as they were only yours that you were deflating...........
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Ummmmmm, there is a workshop C&C Napoleonics on Steam
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409840330&searchtext=federation+command
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I must admit, I assumed I could see it as a moderator, but didn't realise that everyone could see it.
We can't. You can see your own on your own posts, but if you aren't a moderator you can't see other's IP addresses.
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Ummmmmm, there is a workshop C&C Napoleonics on Steam
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409840330&searchtext=federation+command
Oh there's a better one than that with all the pieces. It's where I swiped the cards and markers from.
Why play with blocks when you can have soldiers?
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Just read the latest on this and will migrate over to the alternate location for next comments. Cyrano says there's a better link than the one ojsdad provided but... where is it???
Cheers,
Mike
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As to the OT: I've got three instructional videos up on my YouTube channel for your enjoyment.
This is the first and it will get you proximate to the other two. Unsurprisingly, it deals heavily in Napoleonics.
And, yes, let's also plan to meet...please...
My prayers are answered! Not only step-by-step clear instructions on what to do but the raw materials for almost everything I want. I've only looked at the first half of Parte the firste but I can see I shall have pretty well all I need for now. Thank you Cyrano and all the guys who produced the originals of this stuff.
Forgive me, but I wish to check out the accuracy of the Spanish uniforms carefully. Spanish Napoleonic uniforms represent a challenging area of study - even the Spanish historians agree about that. If anyone is interested, I'll bore you silly with explanations, reasons, speculations and much more. However, I have done considerable research and believe I have a pretty sound database. I should also be able to let you know which regiments fought at which battles in the PW and their strengths & commanding officers at the time; this is from a database produced by a retired Spanish Colonel who was given the task of identifying every regiment involved in the PW - Spanish, French, Portuguese and British. He is a fellow member of the Forum for Spanish Military History Studies and his work has taken him many years and is on-going.
Once I'm comfortable with that, I'll start preparing orders of battle and scenarios for all the PW battles. I have spoken to Richard Borg about some of his C&C:N scenarios and he confirms there is likely to be plenty wrong with them. His main objective was balance and a challenging game rather than historically accurate representations. What I hope to do is provide scenarios that meet Richard's intended objective and offer historically (shall we say) "justifiable" details. As I get these done, I'll find a way of making them available to all Armchair Dragoons - with help on how to achieve that from Cyrano, hopefully.
Onwards and Upwards - and thanks again Cyrano.
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Glad they are of use to you!
Re: the units, yes, unless you're willing and able to take digital brush in hand, you must make well do This is even worse in the 1809 campaign as there's little with casques much less actual Bavarian troops and flags. In this, I see myself in the footsteps of a Featherstone. Same problem for bicornes in the 1805 campaign, &c.
And this is the C&C set from which I took all my pieces:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=436746732 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=436746732)
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SQUARE BUTTONS!
(except for Vance)
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I'm not averse to a little graphic manipulation (Paint Shop Pro preferred) and can hopefully tackle the necessary modifications and additions. It was the great Mr F that got me into miniatures wargaming via his books and a phone call where he told me the contact details for the club I joined in return for a subscription to "The Wargamer". I devoured every copy and still have all of them in store, together with his books.
I'll try to make the Bavarians one of my first artistic attempts as a thank you (although you'd better wait until you see them!) for letting me access your files. I'm now taking a half-hour off New Years Eve celebrations to look at the rest of your videos.
Have a good New Year (When it comes to you!)
Cheers,
Mike
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We'll be well oiled and dragged of to bed before most of these boys get to 2020........ ;D
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I've just had a thought (don't collapse - it doesn't happen that often). The figures are 3D constructs and I may need to use a graphics application that allows me to tackle that aspect.
I own something called "Poser" (no nasty remarks, please) which I hope will work but it's been a LONG time since I used it. Ah, well, as I've discovered the hard way, nothing is ever simple.
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I've just had a thought (don't collapse - it doesn't happen that often). The figures are 3D constructs and I may need to use a graphics application that allows me to tackle that aspect.
I own something called "Poser" (no nasty remarks, please) which I hope will work but it's been a LONG time since I used it. Ah, well, as I've discovered the hard way, nothing is ever simple.
We usually only go as far as sarcastic................. ;) ;D
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And "sarcastic" isn't "nasty"? I'll have to remember that next time I find myself being sarcastic when I want to be nasty :whistle:
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Welcome about Mike. There can never be too many Mike's around.
I do know that Cyrano uses the Flex Table. You can find that in the Steam Workshop.
You're dead right - although it can get confusing sometimes :-\
I'll check out the "Flex Table" at some point today; first, I've got to make sure I can access everything else so I can play around with the figures in my graphics software.
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Glad they are of use to you!
Re: the units, yes, unless you're willing and able to take digital brush in hand, you must make well do This is even worse in the 1809 campaign as there's little with casques much less actual Bavarian troops and flags. In this, I see myself in the footsteps of a Featherstone. Same problem for bicornes in the 1805 campaign, &c.
And this is the C&C set from which I took all my pieces:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=436746732 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=436746732)
OK, I've visited this link but could find no way to locate or access the files about which you speak. This is almost certainly because I find STEAM incredibly difficult to navigate. There seems to be no logic as to how it is organised and the whole thing is not in the least intuitive. I'm sorry to be such a pest about this but time is passing and I appear to be getting nowhere. I'm not even 100% sure my version of TTS is working properly. How do I get to the Flex Table when it doesn't even seem to exist in my version of TTS - or have I missed some vital step in the load or installation?
Your help would be much appreciated.
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Hi Mike, try this link to the Flex Table.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1169112551
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:bigthumb: Thank you from me as well.
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Thanks for the assist OJ :).
Almost all the other stuff -- figures -- can be found by searching under Napoleon in the workshop.
The TERRAIN is stolen from a fellow by the name of "lazyboy", but you can just as readily appropriate it from my mods which will include the hexmap painted by my wife.
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Hi Mike, try this link to the Flex Table.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1169112551
Thanks Mike. I have visited the link, subscribed to the table - but that's it. No Download button provided, no direction to some other part of the chaos that is STEAM, so I'm no further advanced :(. What am I supposed to do to access the table within my copy of TTS?
Cheers,
Mike
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Thanks for the assist OJ :).
Almost all the other stuff -- figures -- can be found by searching under Napoleon in the workshop.
The TERRAIN is stolen from a fellow by the name of "lazyboy", but you can just as readily appropriate it from my mods which will include the hexmap painted by my wife.
I've located all the stuff using the "Napoleon" search in the TTS workshop. However, there seems to be no way to download anything after I have subscribed. I guess I must be doing something wrong but I find STEAM to be a confusing morass of tabs, colours, exhortations to buy, pictures to look at, etc., etc. and most of it just leads to more of the same. Apart from Facebook, I find it the least user-friendly site I have to deal with. Can you offer any help, please?
Cheers,
Mike
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In TTS's main menu, if you click on create button and then single player, it then goes to another screen, and on there, next to the DLC tab, you sould see any workshop items that you have subscribed to, such as flex table. Click on that to load it.
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Well, I never.. who's Magical Mr Mystopheles, then? That worked but why the mystery on STEAM's part as to how all this is supposed to happen? Until just now, nobody told me that all I had to do was run TTS and my STEAM subscriptions would all get carried over. Oh, of course, I should already have known that, shouldn't I? (That was sarcasm not nastiness - well, irony, I suppose) :-\ Seriously, Bob, I'm very grateful.
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No problem - glad to be of help :bigthumb:
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Mike, when you subscribe to a workshop item in Steam, it automatically downloads. If you open the Steam client, on the bottom of the screen, you should see Downloads. If you click there, you can see which programs have had downloads done, whether they're updates to the base games by the developers or new/updates to workshop content.
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I just learned a trick yesterday. I was playing around with Starfire Quick Start rules and the TTS workshop module. I found I could load the QS pdf into the game. Make it very handy when learning a game.
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;D
Mike, when you subscribe to a workshop item in Steam, it automatically downloads. If you open the Steam client, on the bottom of the screen, you should see Downloads. If you click there, you can see which programs have had downloads done, whether they're updates to the base games by the developers or new/updates to workshop content.
Thanks, Mike. I think I've got the hang of this aspect of Steam - after a struggle ;). I have a feeling that my plan to modify miniatures will have to be indefinitely delayed. I don't have a working means of dealing with 3D models at the moment. But at least I can produce scenarios with what I do have.
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Thanks, Mike. I think I've got the hang of this aspect of Steam - after a struggle ;). I have a feeling that my plan to modify miniatures will have to be indefinitely delayed. I don't have a working means of dealing with 3D models at the moment. But at least I can produce scenarios with what I do have.
Would Blender work for you with the 3D models. It's free.
https://www.blender.org/
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Blender is what is used for most of the TTS 3D work.
Thanks, Mike. I think I've got the hang of this aspect of Steam - after a struggle ;) . I have a feeling that my plan to modify miniatures will have to be indefinitely delayed. I don't have a working means of dealing with 3D models at the moment. But at least I can produce scenarios with what I do have.
Would Blender work for you with the 3D models. It's free.
https://www.blender.org/ (https://www.blender.org/)
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I wasn't aware of Blender, so I'll check it out and see if it does what we want - thanks for the heads-up.
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I wasn't aware of Blender, so I'll check it out and see if it does what we want - thanks for the heads-up.
Blender downloaded and installed. I can't make head or tail of it immediately. There are video tutorials but, when I try to watch them, I get an error message that my video streaming has a problem (and yet I can watch other videos without any trouble). As usual with these things, one will just have to persevere through the lack of info and assumptions by the techhies who design the software and then (mistakenly) believe they can write user manuals. Is there a theme developing here? Anyway, when I have a month or two (well a few hours, maybe), I'll do some delving and see if I can work out what I'm supposed to do. Watch this space.
One question: does anyone know what file format is used for the 3D models that are utilised in C&C:N? I shall also need access to at least one to load into Blender and I'd be surprised if the original designers would be over happy with letting me have one. So, if anyone has a line to the designer(s), can they put me in touch, please?
LATER: I think I've sorted out the video problem - the tutorials appear to insist that I play them on Google Chrome - no idea why. However, how to get one of the TTS figures into Blender to modify it is still a mystery.
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I just learned a trick yesterday. I was playing around with Starfire Quick Start rules and the TTS workshop module. I found I could load the QS pdf into the game. Make it very handy when learning a game.
How'd you achieve that, mate???
I am becoming seriously frustrated with TTS. I don't seem to be able to undo something I just did but no longer want; It seems impossible to pick up something I want from another module/game and use it in the one I am working on without closing the existing project and opening another that has the item; I don't seem to be able to save anything; when I add a new texture to a Flex Table, it asks me to load from a URL but I have the file on my hard drive and don't really need to store it on another website which will want me to register with a password, etc. I think I need to chat to someone who knows what they're doing :-)
MUCH LATER: I think I may have cracked it! After considerable concentration and re-playing of Jim's tutorials, I suddenly had an epiphany and worked out how to access all the items I need to create and play a C&C:N scenario - at least, I think I did. Today will hopefully confirm that. As I suspected, I was the main culprit and had missed a couple of vital points which Jim made in his videos. Once I got my head around these, I made substantial progress. So far, no registration with a cloud facility has been necessary. The only thing I haven't been able to resolve is how to get the figures into Blender for modification.
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After disappearing from the radar for a while, I now report back to let everyone know that, after a lengthy period of study, mishaps and sheer determination, I think I've cracked TTS! I have completed the preparation of a C&C:N scenario of Albuera, using miniatures, plus a "standard" wargames scenario for the same battle that can be played with (in theory) any decent set of miniatures rules. In this latter case, all historical units are represented in their historical locations. Obviously, some minor modifications are likely to be needed depending on the rules chosen; at the moment, the set up is specifically geared to my Divisional Commander rule set.
I have a screen dump of the table which I can post on this forum - if only I knew how to do it! Anyway, I guess the next move is to make the scenarios available to all AD members. Presumably, that should be done on the Steam environment and I need some guidance from an experienced member in the best way to achieve that.
I propose sending a few personal messages to various acquaintances (Cyrano, ojsdad, bob48, etc. in the hope that someone will be able to offer assistance.
Cheers,
Mike