17poundr
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GREETINGS FROM FINAND..
AS an old TOAW-ACOW, and now, toaw-III player (with a history going back through the panzer general series, and then avalon hill boardgames, my first one being a cheap but simple game called 'armour at prokhorovka', that didnt even have a hardback playing board, but it got me hooked when I was nine back in 1979-80)...
And having learned all kinds of rulebooks, up to squad leader and cross of iron, which was getting too micro managering for me, and was a pain, as I never got to play the brits in 'crucible'...
Anyway, some games have just clicked, like from boargames, avalon hills, Barbarossa, and *Panzerkrieg*'Von Manstein on the southern steppes of Russia' (anybody remember that, what a classic)!
Then I got too old to be counting ever falling piles of small cardboard chips... But later when I got my pc, Panzer General came in, and although it didnt have any supply, ect, I loved it, and have loved a fiew other games, I played close combat 2-5... Aand, i just Looove TOAW. they work for me, it's so easy to start, then I got a game called 'decisive battles in Europe, Italy', and I thought, do'h! This coulnt be more boring, I mean I get it, essentially the same, but hey, way behind toaw imho.
Ok, then I hear about this series called Panzer Campaigns, I'm asshured it wont be a dissapointment, the guy is a good guy from www.armchairgeneral.com forums, and we have debated military history there... He recommended the Market Garden 44 for me.
I'm not shure it was a good choise for a guy who is on his first run, a clean desert perhaps would have got me focused on learnign the controlling, as it doesnt 'go' as easy as TOAW for example...
Some games are like automatic cars, toaw is one of them, others are gear shifting car's. And you have to take your time in learning the clutch, ect... If you dont have the patience, you will never get to the streets...
Panzer Campaigns, seems like a good ride, but it's a hand shifter all right.
No prob's, I'm european, our cars all have gear shifting sticks and foot clutches...
But, anybody, please after trying to play the tutorial minded stuff, I feel I'm just not getting it...
I have a funny way of learning, things go in steps, not an even curve, and I just havent got onto that step where I can take off and start playing for real, and then slowly learn the rest...
So, Please, give me some pointers, as what to try to do with a couple of units, and which scenario/campaignette, whatever, to choose to get the units that would get me on the drivers seat the fastest... I was figuring trying with lots of ss armour and fun stuff against some fairly helpless polish paras, but with the XXX corps coming along, so I hopefully get the grip, in time for the enemies armour... Something like that could 'trick my brain', into learning the way to play! 
So, humbly yours,
Mr Poundr... And, btw, after I learn some, if anybody wants to pbm as a teacher, I wont forget, I have swapped books, dvd's ect with guy's in the US and Russia via my ranting in the Armchairgeneral forums, and I'm totally reliable... So, if you are interested in knowing or learning about Finnish based military matters, medals, films, ect, just dont be a stranger... I'm very friendly.
And I'm half British, so my english is good, even if I mispell the odd word...
Mr Poundr.
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