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Oleg Mastruko -> (9/7/2002 7:51:27 PM)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by pasternakski
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Bottom line: How many copies of revised NA86 you gonna sell? 20? Sorry - it's dead. Interest in Med WWII? Look at the thread (come on, you guys, back me up on this if you really want it - remember what I said in an earlier post about how barbarians are going to come stomping in here trying to kill the idea). [/B][/QUOTE]
For all that I know - Med game is already half-planned, after WITP, while no NA86 is being planned at all, so pasternakski if all goes well, we'll see Med before NA anyway, no need to be so aggressive ;)
Big con for Med game as I see it (and this goes in part for UV too) is that it was at best a secondary, if not tertiary, theatre for all the parties involved (except Italians), and that all the operations in Med were planned with Big Picture (ie, whole of Europe) in mind. Germans put all their land and air resources into defeating Russia, and what little UBoats they diverted into Med, is generally accepted to be their mistake anyway (most of the historians argue that those Med subs should be put to better use in Atlantic). As for surface units - they of course had none worth mentioning.
How is this way of strategic thinking going to be simulated in Med game, remains to be seen. What geographic areas should be on the map anyway? Up to Bay of Biscay? Black Sea? Morocco Coast? Personally I think Med game can be made REAL interesting only in hypothetic scenarios (ie. no Barbarossa, Gibraltar taken by Germans etc)
OTOH, NA86 was kinda strategically very important theatre,and the fact that it didn't happen in real life is no deterrent at all for us wargamers in trying to make it happen in virtual life :)
Now that I see this post, maybe you were right Pasternakski, nitpicking has begun :)
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