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1925frank -> RE: What's the word????? (11/16/2007 5:20:45 PM) My recollection is that BG Ardennes was platoon level.  I purchased it after having already purchased WF.  I saw BG Ardennes as a test run for Campaign Series and did not play it very much as I already had WF.  They were very similar games, except the graphics in BG Ardennes were not nearly as good (16 bit versus 32 bit?).  BG Ardennes went through phases within a turn like BGCW and BGNW.  When Campaign Series came out, there were no longer phases.  I don't recall, but I think Campaign Series removed the phases and implemented the Opportunity Fire feature.  I ran across at least one scenario from BG Ardennes that I recognized in WF.  Anyone who was interested in BG Ardennes would prefer Campaign Series, but for anyone who wanted to see what Campaign Series' predecessor looked like, BG Ardennes would be it.

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Leopejo -> RE: What's the word????? (11/16/2007 9:24:33 PM) Oh, thanks. It is fascinating how John Tiller games evolve from each other, with the newest games not necessarily better than the older ones, and with no 'barriers' between Civil War/Napoleonic and WWII.   I am learning his Panzer Campaigns, and I realize that HPS Napoleonics owe more to these than to BG games in game mechanisms, while obviously importing graphics, scales, parameter data from BG. Now if you consider that Panzer Campaigns derive from Talonsoft's Campaign Series, and this evolved from BG Ardennes, which I suppose owes much to the other BG games, it's a kind of vicious circle...

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