I've been digging in Thomas Kolleys' "House of Cards 1945" Eastern Front scenario (not to be confused with "Rotten House of Cards" which is a Barbarossa scenario.
HoC is quite huge but otherwise pretty straight forward and nice to play vs the PO (in place for both sides, but of course most challenging vs the Soviet PO because of the balance of power)
I saw some things I wanted to change.
Here's what I did"
-Map clean-up; geographics in Poland, Hungary and Austria made more accurate.
-Units and formations renamed; use of acronyms standardized but OOB untouched except for a few tiny corrections (reference Axis History Factbook website)
-Added Komarno, Nagykanisza and Zistersdorf. The loss of the oilfields near these cities will affect Axis supply, but total loss remains the same compared to the Kolley scenario.
-Reconstitution set as "fixed". You won't see Cetniks popping up in Silesia.
-Soviet PO set to "aggressive"
It plays darn well.
There is a sisterscenario, Gotterdammerung 1945 which covers Eastern, Western, Italian and Nordic fronts (different than Gotterdammerung Im Osten, which is like HoC but PBEM only)
I'm implementing similar changes in G'1945, but the map seems more accurate in the East. I'm picky about geographics though especially Belgian
, so a few changes have been made there.I'd like to share these with members interested in play vs the PO but I can't find the designer Thomas Kolley to ask for his permission, three email addies seen in Rugged Defense, but all bounced.
And also -but for private use only- have I been dippin' into Brian Topp's excellent 4-part eastern front scenarios. I never looked into them deeply, but now noticed that they use parts of the nice 25KM-hex Atlantic to Caucasus map used in AWW/Trotsky, so made the changes I did to the map for Trotsky.
About time to start playing a scenario again, seems I'm more modding than playing lately[:D]
