I wonder if sometimes we aim too high in what we attempt. I have been an active player in many of the IHs in recent years and they seem to fall into 2 sorts - large multi player campaigns with no defined end or smaller campaign focused ones where the players are one side and the organiser is the other.

The big campaigns are great fun - 17 th century, cold war, Kage's japanesse, Carpetians to mention a few - but the dependenence of all players to keep the same level of interest as well as the ever increasing pressure on the organiser seems to mean that they reach a conclusion as they seem to implode after so long.

The smaller, campaign ones - I am thinking here in particular of the IHs from Kraxis and Franconius - engender a good level of debate, the timetable is controlled by one person, not the slowest player and they do normaly come to a conclusion.

I suppose what I am saying is that it would be nice to have a couple of the campaign focused IHs running again - from memory Franc's red heat was the last one to go the distance as Kraxis's most recent effort has stalled presumably due to real life intervening - as they do provide a good contrast to the multi player IHs. I wouldn't want the larger ones to stop - I still enjoy those immensely, but a good, history based short campaign would be complementry to the rigours of the big IHs. Perhaps it is time to do my Midway IH that I have had in my mind for a few years?????