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Charles2222 -> (9/4/2002 8:21:39 PM)
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As I've been doing for the last 1 1/2-2 years I switch from SPWAW to SPWW2 in playing campaigns. I usually did it out of frustration and just plain boredom. I've yet to get beyond the first battle in Russia before I switch to another campaign, usually of a different nation, and often from the opposite SP. I may never get past the first battle in Russia, but something has started to occur to me after all this time. I think I'm actually getting to where I "like" to play that way. One reason is readily apparent, because the two are different enough that there are some surprises along the way if you've been absent awhile. If I'm really sure this sort of arrangement has promise, I'll have to remember to guard my previous saved games with the utmost respect. All too often when I do some sort of switch, say in this case I want to play the Germans, I'll completely wipe out my prior GE campaign and start all over. Maybe the ultimate would be to have the highest regards for both a USSR and GE campaign in both versions, so some continuity develops. I don't know, though, because after I've switched awhile and came back, the reason I usually restart is because I feel distant from my forces and I enjoy picking cores.
Over the period I described, I've even gone through 3-4 phases on how and what I'll pick in my forces (which doesn't help). For example, I used to alternate between infantry/tank/artillery in the order I picked them, that shifted to picking a tank company 1st, infantry 2nd, and more tanks and artillery last. Now recon infantry first, infantry company 2nd, tank company 3rd, and assorted things including artillery after that.
Anyway, I got somewhat bored with my last campaign in SPWW2 lately, so I switched back this weekend to a GE SPWAW one. Man if after all this time the GE campaign is going to last only 20-25 battles I'm going to be sore. That would just about seal SPWW2 as the favorite with me, although my track record hasn't been going beyond 6/41.
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