by leopard » Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:25 am
An escalating campaign does work very well. Also its worth sticking with painted only, otherwise insanity is the end.
That said there is nothing wrong with models that are primed and have base colours on, with maybe one colour finished but the rest very plain, that then grow in detail over time.
Would love to do more escalation type stuff, as Lee notes the first time we ran Infantry Aces over several months we all had armies growing through it.
DBA doesn't need a large enough for to justify 'escalation', DBM & DBMM perhaps do (basically a very similar game, but with forces selected to point values and multiple divisions), but Hail Caesar or similar is probably better - there are a range of campaign systems you could use, then use a range of systems to fight the actual battles - The escalating system Dave C was talking about a while back sounded good.