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| Is that Panzer General on PC? That was an awesome game. How about Iron Storm on the SEGA Genesis? That was a great game for its time. |
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Was playing PG SE just last night. 
As for the early war games, now I need to go back and buy up all those French, Brit and Polish pieces I traded away when I got in because I was so sure there would never be enough pieces to make a viable army with those countries. Well, the Brits have more than enough pieces, but the others were minor and I needed Germans and Russians so I could field both sides of a game. Now I have Romanian, Hungarian, Finns, Italian and to a fairly good degree U.S. pieces. I don't know if I spend another thousand bucks I will have enough to make me satisfied.  Stuff's like crack!
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| Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:22 am |
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| MrKen wrote: | Was playing PG SE just last night.
As for the early war games, now I need to go back and buy up all those French, Brit and Polish pieces I traded away when I got in because I was so sure there would never be enough pieces to make a viable army with those countries. Well, the Brits have more than enough pieces, but the others were minor and I needed Germans and Russians so I could field both sides of a game. Now I have Romanian, Hungarian, Finns, Italian and to a fairly good degree U.S. pieces. I don't know if I spend another thousand bucks I will have enough to make me satisfied. Stuff's like crack! |
I understand that crack is a less addictive and far cheaper habit.
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| Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:24 am |
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I have been playing early war France 1940 and Finland War for some couple of years now. Mind you I use a different system and different units with different abilities then typical AAM.
It was definitely the better part of the war to play, as using realistic rules for later parts of the war tend to be more of a bloodbath then early war. The Finland front requires new maps and ways of looking at warfare but I will be helping there.
It should be interesting to see how WOTC comes up with new ablities and units that suit 39-41, because I find the current ones very weak when it comes to replicating the true Blitzkrieg nature of the war. Hopefully there will not be any prejudices towards France that you find in some other games. |
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| Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:49 am |
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In early war, you don't run into the problem of making the wrong army and then running into behemoth tanks. Those games are the least fun.
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| Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:11 am |
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| Thuddeus wrote: | I just played the Polish 1939 scenario. It was a blast. Lvov looks to be really fun. I just like scenarios and they occur from all stages of the war.
I like open build tourneys, too, but scenarios are the shiznit. |
Are you referring to my " Battle of Mokra" scenario? How did it go? |
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| Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:17 pm |
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| Sharpe wrote: | | In early war, you don't run into the problem of making the wrong army and then running into behemoth tanks. Those games are the least fun. |
Or 'Run and Hide' Germans with unfair range advantages.
(Run and Hide Phrase, Meaning: Players who Win Initiative, choose to go second, and hide at vantage points that enable them to get shots due to range, but disable you from being able to return fire for the same reason, SEE ALSO: 'German Army Players' and "MG-42's & Grazing Fire")
1941 is the only way I agree to play North Africa, otherwise I would be annihilated under unfair and insane amounts of no-cover Machine Gun and Extended Range fire.
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| Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:26 pm |
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| Quote: | | 1941 is the only way I agree to play North Africa, otherwise I would be annihilated under unfair and insane amounts of no-cover Machine Gun and Extended Range fire. |
You need to play on my maps using my rules then. I have added some lesser terrain that infantry can gain cover or LOS protection from like low vegetation and low rises, which is something that AAM maps sorely lack (reducing your tactical options greatly).
When you are talking the wide open spaces of the El Alamien area of the desert, that was the brutal reality they faced. After getting through mindfields and barbed wire, the German machine guns and artillery make fast work of most units. When your tanks are gone and no longer provide cover, then you retreated or attacked at night to reduce casualties.
We played a desert scenario last year where the British outnumbered the German defenders 3 to 1 and still lost horribly.
The german player put his 50mm guns behind concealed ridges protected in front by hidden minefields and a couple of point scouts. He placed his tanks on the ridges where they could gain superior range.
While the British player (ironically german) did a good job of sending his LRRDP jeeps ahead to cause mayhem and tie down the MG positions, the 8 British tanks got bogged down in the mind fields and behind the dunes which left the British and New Zealand infantry to be shelled to hell until the survivors got into the Broken Rocks. The game was over before the British got half way across the board. Such happens when desert warfare goes horribly wrong.
The more I read about desert warfare in North Africa the more I wonder what things my two older relatives had to survive. Make no wonder they both came back messed up. |
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| Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:13 pm |
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I am a "play out the whole war" - guy, so early is a must.
I hope the EW set is out before my French are beaten.
Ita slready too late for the Poles and the Belians are fighting desparately ( last turn they managed to hold their definsive line with 1! Infantry remaining...
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| Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:16 am |
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I play mostly early war games.
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| Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:21 am |
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I don't consider myself a power gamer but I am very competitve and play to win. I'll use whatever units I think give me the best overall advantage.
For me to use a lot of EW units year restrictions would have to be in place.
Also, I find most power peices by your description ( Elephant etc ), are really over priced and actually hurt your army more than help. Infantry rules AAM, vehicles are just support.
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