The future?

Piercing Fortress Europa is a new game from veteran game designer Frank Hunter, which covers the campaigns of the Western Allies from July, 1943 through the end of April, 1945 in Sicily and Italy. Each area has its own map and time scale to best represent the campaigns for Sicily and Italy and the player is offered complete freedom, limited only by a historical order of battle and logistics model, to plan his operations and explore all of the many “what ifs” that the Italian theater has to offer.
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Michael T
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The future?

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I am curious about this game and I am seriously contemplating buying it.

However I have a couple of questions.

1. Does the designer intend to expand the series to other campaigns if the game sells, i.e France 40, France 44, Russia, North Africa?

2. Will the system get enhanced and improved if it moves forward to new campaigns?

If the answer is yes to these questions I think I am in. But I doubt I would invest if this is a one off and the only campaign is Italy.



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+1
Yes, I'd like to know too. Curious how long it will take for these questions to be answered.
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The sequel covers the France '44 campaign from D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine and I hope to start playtesting it in a couple of months. I have tentative plans to do other campaigns but we'll see how it goes.
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That is excellent news. Consider a another copy of PFE sold [:)]
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Yes, it is great news. I realy want to see Western (and Eastern) Front game in such scale with WEGO systerm
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As much as I've been somewhat critical of the game, I will say the WEGO system is a welcomed change from my last decade of gaming. To me if the development team can polish up a few areas and make this game into something that appeals to a broader range of war gamers (more features..), they could really have something big here. I'd love to see an east front game on the WEGO system, would buy that for sure.
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I normally don't like wego - spend a lot of time giving orders and watch it go like a movie.

I haven't read the manual on this yet and played a few turns and didn't quite realize it was wego which means it's integrated nicely :)
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Frank, I'm sure this game/system has a lot of potential, but I think that should be improved with some important changes. Some of them are being posted here by other users.

I'm writing ideas, bugs or things that could be improved and I will be posting them here while playing.
I think that tech-support forum is the right place for it.
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