For some of the user-gen MP scenarios, it can take days (weeks!) before a challenge is accepted... probably because there are multiple versions for the best maps...
So here's a post to link up MP players once you've put a challenge out there... Just 'host' your challenge from OOB in the usual way, then post up here to tell the rest of us that your game is available... Include some details, the version (preferably the latest) so we can match it, and a download link.
To kick the ball off... I've posted a couple of MP challenges this morning... I've gone with two of Erik's gorgeous MP scenarios... The full range of his brilliantly researched maps is available from here -> viewtopic.php?f=374&t=64991
MIDWAY '42 MP - Classic USN carriers vs IJN flat tops: Are you as good as Spruance? Can you halt the invasion and handicap Japan's carrier operations in the Pacific? Or can you succeed where Nagumo failed, by executing Yamamato's plan to lure Pearl Harbour's survivors to their destruction?
Version 6.3 - Download zip from here -> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/168 ... 201942.zip
(what you start with is what you fight with; no reinforcements)
OPERATION WATCHTOWER '42-43 MP - US Marine Corp's first major landing of WW2. Guadalcanal. Combined ops on a massive scale: The Allied invasion fleet has evaded detection and prepares to land in force. You should be able to take all of your major objectives. Henderson Field is mission critical... But Guadalcanal is a major staging point for the Japanese. They are going to fight long, hard and dirty to take it back. Jap resources which had been earmarked for Port Moresby have now been diverted towards you... The Americans called it 'Ironbottom Sound'. The Japanese nickname was 'starvation island'.
Version 6.3 - Download zip from here -> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/168 ... 942-43.zip
(waves of reinforcements for both sides, some scarily substantial, approximately sized/timed to match historical events)
At the time of posting, there are two challenges available for each scenario... One as US, one as Japs... My level of play is probably about 6/10. I've owned OOB for about a fortnight, so am still figuring my way around it... I've designed a couple of not too bad scenarios for Battle Academy, but I'm a better map designer than I am a fighter, lol... I can usually return 1-2 turns every day, sometimes more if I'm off...
MIDWAY - Erik's game map (so both sides have fair intel on enemy dispositions at the start)
Plus a map of what actually happened in WW2
WATCHTOWER - Erik's game map (so both sides have fair intel on enemy dispositions at the start)
Plus maps from the actual campaign (from Westpoint.edu no less!)
And a map of some of the major diving wrecks
