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Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 5/29/2020 7:21:09 PM

RyanCrierie

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Basically, the game is really nice; but it's a bit limited.

I think there need to be a few "alternate history" war cards that can be played for a massive loss of VP points:

Soviet Union

Obligatory: "Stalin is not Paranoid and doesn't purge everyone in 1937-1938" card -- so that the Soviet Player can actually mount useful offensive actions during the Summer. You'd have to playtest it to find the right balance; the Blitzkrieg of Summer 1941 was due to a lot of factors such as better C3I by the Germans.

There may be more ideas others can think up.

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 5/29/2020 11:18:13 PM

lancer

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Hi Ryan,

If Stalin didn't purge his officer Corps in '37 & '38 Barbarossa would, in all likelihood, have been a fizzer. The Germans were massively outnumbered and with even half decent Soviet leadership and an absence of 'decision paralysis' Moscow wouldn't have a lot to worry about.

Cheers,
Cameron

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 10/3/2020 1:48:36 PM

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A very interesting alternative ipotetical scenario could be " Operation Burian " the soviet pre-emptive attack planned for september 1940 and little known in western sources!

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 10/3/2020 10:06:16 PM

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Hi Nikdav,

Interesting picture.

Cheers,
Cameron

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 10/4/2020 12:57:51 PM

nikdav

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Hi Cameron,
taken from a very good russian book by M.I.Meltyukhov
thanks google translate you can read online the full book, very interesting !

Ciao
Davide

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 10/4/2020 4:16:41 PM

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Sounds very interesting indeed.

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 10/4/2020 4:22:07 PM

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Link to rar file does not work :(

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 10/5/2020 8:10:48 AM

nikdav

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Hi Ernie,
The book is in Russian, you must open a Google translate page, copy and paste the link of the index page and you had a good English translation !

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RE: Any chance of a patch with a few new war cards? - 1/21/2021 7:10:30 PM

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I have often wondered about this scenario.

Would your ordinary Ivan have fought as tenaciously as he did in real life if the USSR had been the aggressor; or were the finer details of international relations too remote for him to give a damn?

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