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World War Two. You may have heard about it. It was a big thing back then, they made a few films about it and wrote the odd book. Oh yeah, and made the odd computer game of it. John Tillar's Now before you get excited, this is what the game looks like. This is, obviously, the American Paratrooper landings around St Mere Eglies on June 6th. I did say this was an old game! Here I’ve selected some of the German units, and we have our first data dump! I’m going to steal from the manual! ="John Tillar" posted:Strength (Command) – The unit’s current Strength Point (SP) value. Each SP of an infantry-type platoon represents one “half squad.” Each SP of an machinegun, mortar, or gun type unit represents one “team” (if a machinegun) or gun (for “tube” weapons such as mortars or artillery). Each SP of a vehicular platoon represents one vehicle. A SP value shown in yellow indicates that the selected unit is not at full strength. If the unit is a Leader, this is his “Command,” which is added to the Attack Strength of a unit under his command, with which he is stacked, if that Leader possesses at least as many Action Points (AP) as the Fire Cost of the attacking unit. And the info beneath them is the hex info. It’s simple, except TEM is the amount of attack strength allows to attack the hex - so 1 us 100%, 0.5 is 50% The suburb shown here allows only 60% of the attack strength to be used. So how I this going to work? This will be a goons in command lp. You will each get a platoon or equivalent of troops, or be an officer. We will start at the battalion level, and you will all try to survive to the end of the campaign. If you are killed, you are out of the game, unless there are no goons in the replacement pool. If the battalion Commander is killed, then the whole game ends! Order from the upper escalons should leave room for the lower levels of command to have their own input. So- Battalion command “1st company take that objective!” Company Commander “1st platoon take the hill to the left, 2nd clear that village, 3rd take the objective.” There are more details, but no micromanaging please - it takes the fun from the lower levels. I’ll get more into things as we go, but we have an important choice to make - what campaign do we want to play? Here is the small list of dynamic campaigns available - all can be played on both sides. Western Front The Fall of France - 10 May - 4 Jun 1940 (France or Germany) The Conquest of Greece - 10 Apr - 30 Apr 1941 (Britain of Germany) The Afrikakorps - 1 Apr 1941 - 13 May 1943 (Britain or Germany) Operation Crusader -18 Nov - 28 Dec 1941 (Britain or Germany) The II Corps in Tunisia - 8 Dec 1942- 8 May 1943 (USA or Germany) The Big Red One - 8 Dec 1942 - 8 May 1945 (USA or Germany) To Caen and Beyond - 7 Jun - 28 Aug 1944 (Britain or Germany) The Road to Germany - 7 Jun 1944 - 28 Apr 1945 (USA or Germany) Spearhead into the Ardennes - 16 Dec1944 - 28 Jan 1945 Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa North - 22 Jun 1941 - May 7 1945 Operation Barbarossa Central - 22 Jun 1941 - May 7 1945 Operation Barbarossa South - 22 Jun 1941 - May 7 1945 Operation Typhoon - 2 oct 1941 - 6 Dec 1941 Moscow Counteroffensive - 5 Dec 1941 - 14 Feb 1942 Case Blue - 28 Jun - 11 Nov 1942 Citadel and Beyond - 5 Jul - 10 Nov 1943 Operation Bagration - 22 June - 24 Aug 1944 Polish Tragedy - 1 Sep - 28 Sep 1939 (Poland vs Germany) Winter War - 1 Dec 1939 - 12 Mar 1940 (Finland vs Russia) The Honved in Russia - 1 Jul - 6 Nov 1941 (Hungary vs Russia) Romania’s Struggle - 2 Jul 1941 - 28 Dec 1942 (Russia Vs Romania) New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia) Operation Uranus - 19 Nov 1942 - 15 Mar 1943 Winter Tempest - 1 Feb - 28 Mar 1943 Budapest to Vienna - 28 Oct 1944 - 13 Apr 1945 Storm on the Reich - 12 Jan 1945 - 2 May 1945 The War in the Pacific Crisis in Burma - 20 Jan 1942 - 28 May 1942. (Japan vs Britain) Return to the Philippines - 20 oct - 28 Dec 1944. (USA vs Japan.) Struggle for Luzon - 9 Jan - 28 Jun 1945 (USA vs Japan.) Phew. one or two. For most of these we can select a Tank or infantry Division. Please vote on - A - The Campaign B - Tank or Infantry Division. C - Side. Let’s get some pixeltruppen killed and see how bad THIS game is!
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 20:39 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 13:14 |
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Whatever the longest campaign is Edit - Barbarossa South Infantry Allies Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jul 14, 2018 |
# ? Jul 14, 2018 20:50 |
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How not to get your vote to count.
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 20:51 |
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Moscow Counteroffensive Infantry Allies E: You asked for one specific campaign not a whole front
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:03 |
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Big Red One or Road to Germany Tank Allies
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:04 |
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Operation Your Anus Tank Allies
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:07 |
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Operation Barbossa, Central Tank Axis I always like to try to change history in these.
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:08 |
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you're doing this on purpose, aren't you? EDIT: other than that: Panzers towards Leningrad
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:08 |
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Barbarossa South Tank Axis Yeah, the most boring possible options, what are you gonna do about it?
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:20 |
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caen and beyond Tank British Cruising tanks rule!
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:21 |
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The Afrikakorps Tank Axis
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:27 |
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Woodchip posted:caen and beyond This, especially if we can get maybe a Canadian unit. I would love to die as a Canadian tank bumrushing a flak gun. EDIT: Just in case you need it in my post too caen and beyond Tank British
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:36 |
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sniper4625 posted:Operation Barbossa, Central Voting for this
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:38 |
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Does Italy get a decent unit selection? Cos then I'd like to see New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia) Tank Italy
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:42 |
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Don’t care Tank No Nazis
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 21:47 |
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Afrikakorps Tank Britain
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 22:00 |
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caen and beyond Tank British
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 22:08 |
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Winter War Infantry Finns
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 22:10 |
Long shot at this point, but whatever. Fall Of France Whatever France
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# ? Jul 14, 2018 22:25 |
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aphid_licker posted:Does Italy get a decent unit selection? Cos then I'd like to see This should be interesting
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 00:49 |
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New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia) Tank Italy I'm currently on something of a love for Italian tanks right now, thanks to world of tanks so this should be fun.
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 01:04 |
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don't care infantry allies Ready to die for the goondom!
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 01:04 |
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Vote changed!
habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jul 16, 2018 |
# ? Jul 15, 2018 01:05 |
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Polish Tragedy Infantry Poland Gotta start at the beginning, you queue-jumping jerks.
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 01:31 |
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koolkevz666 posted:New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia)
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 01:46 |
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Big Red One Infantry Allies
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 02:38 |
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koolkevz666 posted:New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia) This seems to be a fun set of options
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 02:55 |
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koolkevz666 posted:New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia)
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 03:53 |
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koolkevz666 posted:New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia)
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 04:10 |
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Moscow Counteroffensive Tank Soviets
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 04:59 |
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So the Italians have 6 votes and the Brits at Cean 5.
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 05:50 |
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1stGear posted:Polish Tragedy It's going to be a very long war. Dammit, changing my vote. Caen and beyond Tank British
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 05:52 |
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It's got to be Italy.
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 05:52 |
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koolkevz666 posted:New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia) Sure, will switch to this
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 06:01 |
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You guys know that Italian "tanks" were bolted together right? A HE shot nearby could literally shake them apart.... Hard mode activated!
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 06:15 |
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Honestly I kind of want to go Caen and Beyond, but Italy v Russia is more exotic. So I'm abstaining
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 07:42 |
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Operation Barbossa, Central Tank Axis
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 07:54 |
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aphid_licker posted:New Roman Legions - 1 Aug 1941 - 1 Mar 1943 (Italy vs Russia) Overly-fiddly 45mm mortars, strip-fed machine guns with far too many springs, cavalry charges with troopers holding hand grenades aloft and accidentally shooting their own horses?
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 08:31 |
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Looking forward to shattering this ridiculous propaganda about alleged shortcomings of the products of the Italian armament industry with glorious feats of arms
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 12:52 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 13:14 |
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I'll switch my vote to the Italian tanks on the Eastern Front because it will certainly be fun to watch our crappy clown car tanks get destroyed
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# ? Jul 15, 2018 13:06 |