Curtis Lemay wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2026 3:58 am Here are those topo maps I used (and note that I had use of the SPI CNA map). This info is contained in the scenario document:

One of my favorite scenarios of all time.

Sorry but I am not really sure what the ask is. If I sign up does that mean I play just as Japan in one game or am I signing up for two games? And do you need a German player or a Japanese one? or both?
Sorry, I admit I am easily confused sometimes.
If it's only one game as Japan I could do it if ...

Hi Bob,
I can help playtest. Last time I messed with it I couldn't really get it to run very well. That was years ago now though. I thought you might have spruced it up a bit since then and maybe it's ready for another go around.
If it is then I'm in.
Cheers

When do you think this might be ready for a game? Seems like there is still a lot to work out.


Considering how many issues just running through the events in the above revealed, actual play will probably reveal far more. But there's no other way to sort those issues out.

But there's also the ...

When do you think this might be ready for a game? Seems like there is still a lot to work out.

It was one of the first, if not the first, to convert those old Avalon hill, SPI etc. games a lot of people played as kids, to the computer. The first version came out in the 1990's. When all that stuff was being put on computers for the first time.

Computer doing crazy math again unless there is a logical explanation for this.

altipueri wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 7:07 am Was this like Popski's Private Army - a mini LRDG?

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/W ... rivateArmy

A shorter link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popski%27s_Private_Army

I think they are represented as Commando units. I don't think they have arrived yet.
Great info on them.

Yeah, to bad. It was a fun game. It was worth an AAR.

The latest versions of CFNA out there do use an Overextended Threshold of 5.

Which is what we are playing. The units are able to make the trip, roam around a little and then go back. Those that were not destroyed by Poles in armored cars.
Most were. I don't think they stopped the trains for more ...

So here it is by the numbers.
Motorcycles of that era= 50miles/gallon
Those motorcycles traveled approximately 800 miles per the scale of that map
so
800miles/50mpg= 16.5 gallons.
They wouldn't need camels to carry the gas. Just a few jerry cans each would easily do it.

You can use Camels to carry gas....

The biggest trouble I had when playing the attacking side was figuring out how to do something unexpected. Not unlike the Germans in 1940. The biggest difference though is that everybody knows about the Ardennes attack who plays this game. So there is no element of surprise. That as well as abysmal ...

The guys shooting the guns are not camels.


No. Its these guys. :) and they look like desert raiders to me.
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I don't care what kind of raiders they are. Camels can go days without. People cannot. The people are the ones carrying the guns. :lol:

Without ...

Most are actually getting rounded up by the Polish Brigade fairly easily.

Lobster wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 5:08 pm The guys shooting the guns are not camels.

No. Its these guys. and they look like desert raiders to me.

They are desert camel units. They can't stay out in the desert forever but can roam far and wide. Company strength. Seems like made to be supply line harassers to me.

nemo69 wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2026 7:50 pm Reckon that'd be me

Hi Marc,
No. Our game was almost three years ago. I started another and this time I am playing Axis.

I am playing a game of North Africa and Axis player is sending camel cavalry and motorcycle's around to harass the British supply line. It seems legit to me because harassing a supply line is good policy when it's an enemy army advancing into Mussolini's territory. But I don't know.
Which is it ...

It's kinda hard to say. The game auto ended in a German victory once the BEF was cut off from the channel coast, but they hadn't capture Paris yet. So sPzAbt653 (the scenario designer) adjusted it so that we could continue. The Germans did not capture Paris in the time frame that the Germans did ...