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Originally Posted by Raellus
Agreed. I like local reconstruction campaigns where not all of the focus is on combat. Unfortunately, in my PbP experience, other players start dropping out once the shooting stops for too long.
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Well actually there weren't many times when the shooting stopped for that long - after their initial takedown of the marauders there was a period where the players had to persuade the locals that they weren't going to simply take the place of the men they had killed, then persuade them to buy into the general plan.
Then the first real test was to take care of a large group of marauders drifting towards Krakow which involved sneaking upto and destroying a tank and a big battle. There were several adventures which related to finding pieces of equipment or cattle (they had decided they were going to build up a dairy herd and sell the excess milk to Krakow - this required dairy cows, milking equipment, generator etc - finding milk bottles was an issue as I recall). Some of these resulted in combat but mostly it was scavenging or trade.
I remember the big moment for them was buying a large still from Krakow and then persuading other villages to send their excess materiel for distillation (the players gave the people bringing in material a bigger return in fuel than they could get from small or medium stills and kept a percentage of the fuel for themselves) once they had this happening they had enough materiel to keep feeding the large still. The fuel from this enabled them to bring more processes back online.
It was good fun - before the advent of the net I had to go and search the library for books on all kinds of odd things which I rather enjoyed. i'm sure there were vast holes in our logic for doing thngs but we enjoyed it.