Campaign: Custom Campaigning

Your friend might have done it, or you might have seen it on the AWN Boards (www.advancewarsnet.com), but sooner or later your bound to come across someone's custom campaign. For those of us who want more than just the obvious a custom campaign is someone's own, made up story line featuring their designed maps. Usually they have existing CO's already. Custom Campaigns (I'm tired of typing that so from now on they'll be called CC's) can be simply a map with a little detail or paragraph describing the situation and the armies, to more than twenty chapters, each with it's own dialogue and map plus an amazing story line.

I, personally don't have time to make my own custom campaign (no, I'm just too lazy) all in one sitting. So I've decided to make one over time, right here in my blog! Every now and then I'll think up a new chapter and make it into a post, but in between I'll still continue to examine units, CO's and strategies etc. 

Back on track, custom campaigns over players a way to immerse themselves in the game more and it gives them something to talk about on forums or during a game plus it can also express your skills as a writer. Did you know that one of the writers of Advance Wars Series actually was a fan of the first, and made over twenty five custom campaigns with over twenty-five chapters each? It's pretty crazy, but people love it, and it can be done anyway you want it to, realistic or not. 

If you don't really know what I'm talking about here's an example of a custom campaign: http://advancewarsnet.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33972. This campaign is the best around in my opinion and was designed by delta_angelfire. 

So my conlusion is go ahead, I challenge you to make your own campaign, and if you do, email it to me at keithteeple@gmail.com or post it somewhere on the AWN Boards since that's were most of my readers come from.

And happy holidays!