I've nearly finished making my first campaign, just a couple of days left, hope to complete it on Sunday. How would I get the campaign onto one of the websites so its available for download.
The campaign should be different from other campaigns. The background is;
You take command of 7th SS Gebirgs Division 'Prinz Eugen' and are sent to capture the town of Zenica just north of Sarajevo. The town is needed to prevent Army Group E from being cut off. You'll be given about 1000 points to purchase a core force and I'd recommend that its strongly infantry based with one or two med tanks/TDs. You will be using this same force WITHOUT any support or AUX troops for the majority of the campaign. You will recive NO rebuild points for the first 4 battles. I just finished testing battle 4 and I have about 10% of my force alive (I kid you not). I want to get the feeling of pure desperation into the campaign with the German forces stretched to the limit against Yugoslav Partisan and Russian attack. The Campaign will be 7 battles when its finished.
I hope that its not too easy/difficult.
Balkan Campaign 1945
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Balkan Campaign 1945
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Yes, its pretty well tested by myself and a friend of mine, I'm just adding a few finishing touches and tweaking the odd scenario a bit. I would quite like someone who is an expert on the game to test it. Any volunteers would be welcome. The battles shouldn't take too long the maps aren't huge and the forces involved are around 1000 points. Short and bloody battles!
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Thanks JR, I hope you will enjoy it. I remember you saying that you wanted something not heavily armour based and this should fulfill that. I've been testing it with the following forces.
3 SS Rifle Plt
1 PzIIIh
2 Recon Scout Plt
1 Sniper
1 Sec 75mm Inf Gun
1 Sec Pack Mules
1 Heavy Mortar
1 Kuebelwagen
1 Lightly Armoured TD (can't remember exact model but its open topped)
Battle 4 in the campaign finished and I had about half a Rifle Plt alive and the Heavy Mortar. All other forces dead but they went down fighting and took plenty with them!!
3 SS Rifle Plt
1 PzIIIh
2 Recon Scout Plt
1 Sniper
1 Sec 75mm Inf Gun
1 Sec Pack Mules
1 Heavy Mortar
1 Kuebelwagen
1 Lightly Armoured TD (can't remember exact model but its open topped)
Battle 4 in the campaign finished and I had about half a Rifle Plt alive and the Heavy Mortar. All other forces dead but they went down fighting and took plenty with them!!
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Just curious, how do you keeps the infantry from being replenished between battles? It seems like they gets backup to full strength if was not destroyed outright. So a infantry only forces probably do well even without repair if they pulls back before being destroyed 
"My friends, remember this, that there are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators."
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Yes, thats true, the infantry units unless they are destroyed will replenish at the end of the battle. As you say, trying to keep them alive and from being destroyed will help you. You have to look after all your units because you won't have any Support or AUX units to use as cannon fodder. All your units are precious.
It will be fully ready this weekend I hope and I'll try to get it posted up somewhere.
Yes, thats true, the infantry units unless they are destroyed will replenish at the end of the battle. As you say, trying to keep them alive and from being destroyed will help you. You have to look after all your units because you won't have any Support or AUX units to use as cannon fodder. All your units are precious.
It will be fully ready this weekend I hope and I'll try to get it posted up somewhere.
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Innovative idea that one of no rebuild points !! I like it very much !
I too have had such an idea for my italian campaign..but it's a pity infantry is refilled in that way..it would be nice fight till the end..like many combat groups did during WW2 !
Innovative idea that one of no rebuild points !! I like it very much !
I too have had such an idea for my italian campaign..but it's a pity infantry is refilled in that way..it would be nice fight till the end..like many combat groups did during WW2 !
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I would like to help you but I have an examination next week at University and a SPWAW's tournament with DoubleDeuce which is ready to go for my spare time..Originally posted by Kurt:
I have one playtester already (Varjager), I'd ideally like one more tester please? Any volunteers? I'm happy to take any criticism from testers.
But as soon I will be free I will try it in a cooperative mode .
I've read you are in a hurry with times so
I make a step back for my offering...
But please send me an email when it's ready to go !
(you can also send it to me at once...but I will play it within a month..maybe it's too long for your needs..)
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Wouldn't this be the 1st SS campaign for SPWAW?...And such an unusual unit too!!!!Before,anything about the SS(books included)seem to be about only the 1st 3 SS divisions....Lots written about the rest being "substandard",but from the 4th "Polizei" on(which was ENTIRELY Russian front),they all were used to the maximum...(or used up)....
m10bob,
I wanted to concentrate on a little known unit and theatre. The 7th SS seems to have a very controversial past. Most of its recruits were Croation in origin from what I've read. The campaign is loosely based on historical records. the book I've used is 'Hitlers Mountain Troops' by James Lucas. This book gives the division a lot of praise as a fighting unit in difficult conditions. Although another account I've read (in a book about SS units in general) doesn't give the unit much credit but this book doesn't go not any detail at all concerning their battles. Its hard to know which account to believe!
I wanted to concentrate on a little known unit and theatre. The 7th SS seems to have a very controversial past. Most of its recruits were Croation in origin from what I've read. The campaign is loosely based on historical records. the book I've used is 'Hitlers Mountain Troops' by James Lucas. This book gives the division a lot of praise as a fighting unit in difficult conditions. Although another account I've read (in a book about SS units in general) doesn't give the unit much credit but this book doesn't go not any detail at all concerning their battles. Its hard to know which account to believe!
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The time is close at hand. The campaign is pretty much complete and I've been testing it all day, just need to type up a descriptive text file for the campaign then its ready to go. Tankhead has kindly agreed to host it on his site. Hoping to send the files to him tomorrow.
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Campaign Introduction
Balkan Crisis
February 1945
By the end of 1944 the Yugoslav Army of National Liberation (JANL) was no longer just a partisan force. Over the course of three years it had grown from being a number of scattered bands and this growth had not just given it parity with the German forces. It was now so qualitatively and quantitively superior to its enemies that Field Marshall Loehr's Army group E had been forced into fighting a defensive campaign. This is not to say that his hard pressed formations mounted no offensive operations. This they certainly did and among the most aggressive units in the Balkan theatre of operations was 7th SS Gebirgs Division 'Prinz Eugen'.
The story of the formation during the last months of the war is a bewildering kaleidoscope of furious attack and staunch defence as the whole division or its individual regiments were detached to be rushed from one crisis point to another. That 'Prinz Eugen' was the formation so frequently called upon was due to the fact that towards the end of the war there were very few crack units anywhere in the German Army that were capable of withstanding massive enemy assaults, or leading daring assaults. The 7th SS Gebirgs Division was one such formation and its prowess in conducting 'fire brigade' operations meant that it was selected time and time again to stiffen a battle line that threatened to rupture or to spearhead a berserker charge in some short lived but reputedly vital mission. And those who called upon the 7th knew that it would never fail to respond to the call.
Formation of the 7th SS Gebirgs Division 'Prinz Eugen'
Recruited predominently from the Volksdeutsche community in Croatia and the Banat, this unit was founded in March 1942 as the Ss Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division, receiving its honour title 'Prinz Eugen' a month later. By October 1942 its title had reached its final form, being accorded seventh place in the order of battle of Waffen-SS divisions.
The division, however, was a volunteer unit in name only. almost from the beginning volunteer recruitment was backed up by widespread coercion and conscription. A number of Serbs, Romanians and Hungarians also found their way into the division.
Although the manpower required to raise the unit to divisional status was found through various means, equipment was to be more problematic. As it was intended to utilise Prinz Eugen for internal security and anti-partisan duties, the Germans were unwilling to give it large quantities of first rate arms and equipment, and in the event a large supply of obsolete and obsolescent material found its way into the division arsenal. This included French, Belgian, Yugoslav, Czech and Italian weapons. Even so the division was comparatively well manned and certainly fully if variably equipped, even to the extent of boasting a panzer detachment equipped with captured French tanks.
Text reproduced from the following sources;
Hitlers Mountain Troops by James Lucas
The SS Hitlers Instrument of Terror by Gordon Williamson
Balkan Crisis
February 1945
By the end of 1944 the Yugoslav Army of National Liberation (JANL) was no longer just a partisan force. Over the course of three years it had grown from being a number of scattered bands and this growth had not just given it parity with the German forces. It was now so qualitatively and quantitively superior to its enemies that Field Marshall Loehr's Army group E had been forced into fighting a defensive campaign. This is not to say that his hard pressed formations mounted no offensive operations. This they certainly did and among the most aggressive units in the Balkan theatre of operations was 7th SS Gebirgs Division 'Prinz Eugen'.
The story of the formation during the last months of the war is a bewildering kaleidoscope of furious attack and staunch defence as the whole division or its individual regiments were detached to be rushed from one crisis point to another. That 'Prinz Eugen' was the formation so frequently called upon was due to the fact that towards the end of the war there were very few crack units anywhere in the German Army that were capable of withstanding massive enemy assaults, or leading daring assaults. The 7th SS Gebirgs Division was one such formation and its prowess in conducting 'fire brigade' operations meant that it was selected time and time again to stiffen a battle line that threatened to rupture or to spearhead a berserker charge in some short lived but reputedly vital mission. And those who called upon the 7th knew that it would never fail to respond to the call.
Formation of the 7th SS Gebirgs Division 'Prinz Eugen'
Recruited predominently from the Volksdeutsche community in Croatia and the Banat, this unit was founded in March 1942 as the Ss Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division, receiving its honour title 'Prinz Eugen' a month later. By October 1942 its title had reached its final form, being accorded seventh place in the order of battle of Waffen-SS divisions.
The division, however, was a volunteer unit in name only. almost from the beginning volunteer recruitment was backed up by widespread coercion and conscription. A number of Serbs, Romanians and Hungarians also found their way into the division.
Although the manpower required to raise the unit to divisional status was found through various means, equipment was to be more problematic. As it was intended to utilise Prinz Eugen for internal security and anti-partisan duties, the Germans were unwilling to give it large quantities of first rate arms and equipment, and in the event a large supply of obsolete and obsolescent material found its way into the division arsenal. This included French, Belgian, Yugoslav, Czech and Italian weapons. Even so the division was comparatively well manned and certainly fully if variably equipped, even to the extent of boasting a panzer detachment equipped with captured French tanks.
Text reproduced from the following sources;
Hitlers Mountain Troops by James Lucas
The SS Hitlers Instrument of Terror by Gordon Williamson
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Hi Kurt
Another book which you may find interesting is Prinz Eugen by Otto Kumm. I bought it from J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing in 1996 for Canadian $56. They have a web site which you can check. The book has about 400 pages with detailed info, personal accounts and maps of the 7th SS Mountain Div in the Balkans.
Another book which you may find interesting is Prinz Eugen by Otto Kumm. I bought it from J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing in 1996 for Canadian $56. They have a web site which you can check. The book has about 400 pages with detailed info, personal accounts and maps of the 7th SS Mountain Div in the Balkans.