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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6582705" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Same here, though if it were intended to be a war along the lines of WW1/2, the Punic Wars, the US Civil War, etc. I might break it up into campaigns, years, major battles, or some other sort of thing.Maybe even go for a "meta skill challenge." That is, each major "battle"/"year"/divison is a skill challenge that can be won, lost, or drawn (perhaps a total of 6-10 quick rolls), and between battles/years/etc. you figure out resources won and lost and how things feed into future challenges. Then you appraise the whole war and look at how the battles went; if you've fought for 3 "years" (or whatever) and won substantially or secured key victories, whether through brute strength or cunning action, you win the war. It's also conceivable that the war could simply find no victors (what with the whole many rolls trending to the mean thing), which is a result not uncommon in real wars, e.g. WW1 was "won" by the Allies but the victory came at pretty high cost (to everyone except the US, of course, given that we weren't fighting on our own soil) and didn't even resolve several of the underlying issues. Similarly, the US Civil War was primarily ended by the South having destroyed its economy (driving up the sale of cotton until buyers were forced to look elsewhere), its armies run ragged and devoid of food and supplies.I could see running First and Second Bull Run(/Manassas), Antietam, Fredricksburg, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Appomattox as the "key" battles of the war (not that there weren't others, just that the list started to get overly long!) As long as the "skill challenge battles" weren't overly complex, and had interesting (and useful) interludes of reconnaissance, planning, sabotage, and (possibly) diplomacy, I could see this actually being a pretty cool experience. Particularly if the interludes impressed on the players the weight and horror of war, rather than glossing over it all to make it seem like just an exercise of numbers and probability.</blockquote>

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