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How about a campaign that could be played from either side....I feel an Axis camp coming on and I'd really love an Allied one....

I'd like to see more campaigns from the Allied side.

USMC in the Pacific

The Bulge

Normandy (seaborne and/or airborne)

Italy

Market-Garden

Operation Cobra

I've always preferred to play the Allies, starting with board wargames back in the early 1970's.

Originally posted by GW Roberts:

Normandy (seaborne and/or airborne)

Airborne Normandy.
Now, there's some real material for a campaign. Imagine first couple of scenarios starting with your troops scattered everywhere except where you expect them to be. Complete darkness, and taking objectives and v-hexes with whatever you happen to get to the right place.

I'm rooting for that one. Could actually consider playing U.S. for once

I've made the first few battles of a US Airborne campaign. It is based on the exploits of the 508th and the 509th - sort of combining the two into one history.

It was for the whole war, starting in torch, going to sicily and italy, and then to Nomandy and then Market Garden and the Bulge. It would be a great campaign - 20 plus battles. I started it in ver. 4.5, and stopped because of all the new versions coming out. But i'll be going back to it at some point.

Sealion for now.

The Burma that WB made was historically accurate. At least as much as a steel panthers campaign can be. I wanna see a some more infantry campaigns, and/or campaigns that cover a lot of defensive battles.

A 1948 Isreali independance campaign would be interesting and work well with the campaign system as it currently works. It would have to be from the isreali standpoint as a few of their units went through a lot of combat. The real key to historical campaigns is to find a unit that has a lot of battle experience.. but usually units that fought a lot did so under mostly favorable conditions. That's no fun.

Tomo

A '41 invasion USA camp might work, and not be unrealistic. Gen Stilwell commanded IIICorp on the west coast and had 2 understrength infantry battalions, and figured in a crisis he could count on precisely 6 tanks as reinforcements from Fort Ord. This is when he got a warning saying that a Japanese fleet was 20 miles off the West coast. They also had about enough ammo to load their weapons once then shpoot themselves and put themselves out of their misery.

Of course,i want to see St Lo,the the 1st major battle to capture a major city,(which *had* to be captured before COBRA could even start...Had all the military elements of the "classic" european/American conflict..(Fallschirmjager,SS,regular Wermacht,etc,vs the just bloodied 29th and 30th inf and the 3rd armored div,(amongst others)..IMHO,this has been a VERY neglected battle in the history of the European conflict,and it's importance has definitely been forgotten..(This was technically PRE-PATTON,as far as mainland europe is concerned and was a real slugfest involving not only the city itself,but the hills and woods outside of the city..(if nothing else,this battle could even be used as a "stepping off point" for Cobra.....Also,in a few weeks,a lot of interest is going to be fanned in the exploits of the American airborne when HBO's "Band Of Brothers" hits the tubes in september.(If ya' don't have HBO now,ya been warned-it's a series based on the Ambrose book of the same name and with Tom Hanks and mr Spielberg making it in the same vein as "Saving Pvt Ryan"....(It has spw 222's,spw 251's,spw 251/22's,pzkw iii's,pzkw iv's,Brit Cromwells,and of course,Shermans!!!!)Saw the "Making" of the series,just great....bob <img src="cool.gif" border="0">