The Ideal Campaign?

[Lars]

Hi there Wulfir

Although we share the same native language I'll stick to English...

I would like to share an idea for a campaign with you, wich I'm too lazy to do. I'm just done reading the book "Slaget om Nordkalotten" by Lars Gyllenhaal and James S Gebhart. (It shouldn't be too hard for you to find it). This book gave some good information to make a campaign from, and since you are from that region, I think it would fit like a glove.

It's about the allied (Russian) trust against Narvik through the northern regions of Scandinavia. It includes a lot of interesting information about most of the battles fought, and should be a good source to make a campaign about.
There are a lot of different battles to make which could include even Finnish and Norwegian troops on the allied side. Also some interesting Russian stuff, like beach landings in the arctic, partisan (spetznas) raids behind enemy lines, armor assault on prepared defenses, heroic marches through impassible terrain for flanking maneuvers, and so on.
The only drawback may be that the Germans didn't field any armor in these battles, but some artistic freedom could be used to make some "what ifs".

I really hope you can get your hands on the book and make a campaign from it, I for one would definitely love to play it...



Good luck
/Lars

[Wild Bill]

"Plays for fun!"

I can't think of any other reason that has sanity to it. Good thought Lars. Even we designers and testers need to remember that if it aint' fun, building or playing, we probably should not be doing it.

Wild Bill

[wulfir]

Hi Lars,

I have been toying with that idea. I did some research on a possible soviet campaign following the Soviet 99th Rifle Corps beginning with the October 1944 offensive in the Far North (maybe following it all the way to East Prussia) using Gyllenhaals book and an other book by his co author, American James Gebhart (Breakthrough and Pursuit).

In fact I did a scenario on the theme; a Soviet attack on a typical company position of the kind that made up the line held by the German (most of the troops were in fact Austrian) 2. Gebirgsdivision (Strongpoint Zuckerhutl). However I was not satisfied with it. My problem is the very special Arctic terrain – treeless tundra with a very limited number of roads to which basically all vehicles were confined… a campaign would be almost completely infantry.

Btw, I think Redleg did some scenarios on the Spetsnaz operations. You might want to check them out.

Mvh
Ulf