obermeister -> RE: Can WIF follow history? (3/3/2010 1:20:02 PM)
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I'm still playing my first WiF game, and it's been going since January 09. We are currently in July 1942. Our game, and the games that were played before it by this group are very ahistorical. While it's technically possible to fairly accurately track history with this game, I don't think anyone does. I don't think it's a flaw in the game, I think that since *most* WiF players are big history buffs they mostly want to try strategies differenent from those used in WWII, to try to do better than what happened historically. We play with a number of options that open up new strategies and untie you from the historical path. First, we play with politics in flames, basically a really simplified Days of Decision that allows you to influence and align minor countries. Second, we play with the option that allows Germany to attack any one of her neighbors on the first turn, not necessarily Poland. In our current game, Germany decided to attack France first. The BEF never had a chance to get beefy before Germany took Paris. This really helps the german timetable in that they don't have to take poland, rail their army back to the west in time for winter to hit, and then rail them back to take out yugoslavia after france falls in the spring. They also managed to align turkey which not only sealed the fate of Suez but also led to a very successful barbarossa. So yeah, very ahistoric.
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