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sebagonzalez -> (11/6/2001 6:06:00 PM)

Hello Tombstone.
Yes, u r right, the kind of fight that will be in the campaign will be like what u say, pockets of resistance, close combat in major citys, and so on but in adition, u will see also plenty of parachute and glider OPs in adition to your army, Elite infantry that has been trained in this subject since 1936 and that in April 1942, with more man, and plenty of transports are ready for action.
I am now looking for maps of major citys and topogrfical maps of the diferent regions to make the maps for the campaign. I found some interesting sites with maps and all that that i will share with u here and the rest of us as soon i get back home at night.
Which would be the axis of atack in your campaign project?



sebagonzalez -> (11/6/2001 6:10:00 PM)

I forgot to mention, i also considered as u making campaigns based on the hipotetical situations of the war in case that ther germans achieve some goals they never achieved, like kicking the Brits out of Africa, gaining the Oil rich Middle east and then, a new strengthened German army in colaboration with the italians launching an atack from the Caucasus.
Also i thought about a "Defending the Reich" campaign, that gives the german player, the posibility (but not the security), of kicking the Brits and Us troops out of france to the sea, then focusing again on the East Front.
Maybe we can do something in common in the future.



Stirling -> (11/6/2001 10:32:00 PM)

Hello fellas,
I am in favor of "division" scens and camps as well...was it you, Redleg, who named the infamous SS Totenkopf?
Well there's a very old book on SSTK, (I got it at Concordia Library (Mtl, Qc.)), showing its path from its creation from indisciplined death camp guards to its death throes in Hungaria (I believe...).
With their role as Hitler's own firemen, they fought mostly in defensive posture and lost a few thousand percent casualties over the course of the war in the east.
Also, their equipment changed alot from the early days where SS were equipped with the material the Wehrmacht outmustered to the late war, where they would get only the best.
Leadership could as well play a large factor:
SSTK was badly let in the attacks during the beginning of the war, creating huge losses which lead to the massacre of allied prisoners (highlanders, I think) in Le Paradis during the 1940 offensive in France.
Such failures in attack (due to self recklessness) mostly let them to be designed as perfect defensive unit (for their self recklessness...).
From the beginning of Op. Barbarossa on, SSTK stayed on the Eastern Front only. If my memory serves me well, they saw nonstop combat (only traveling from one hot spot to the other were "timeouts) from 1943 on. Needless to say that I'd like to see a campaign on those freaks... Greetz, Stirling



panda124c -> (11/6/2001 10:33:00 PM)

Wake Island -A Heroic Defence-
Singapore
Japaness Paratroopers in Java (I think that's right)
New Guinea
Burma
French vs British in Palistine
Canadian's at Antwerp (Lots of Buffaloes)
Remaggen Bridge



Mikimoto -> (11/6/2001 11:04:00 PM)

Hello. I would like to see partisan/guerrilla warfare. Some examples: The french resistance against Vichy police, Germans, Hiwis... Yugoslav/Tito partisans causing havoc against Italians, Ustachis, Croatians, Germans, etc... Ucranian/soviets partisans against germans, bulgarians, rumanians, hungarians, etc.. North Italy communist guerrilla against Fascist Italians and Germans (and all those ucranians, cossacks, croatians, tartars, bosnians, etc... serving with the gerries). Spanish republican maquis fighting Spanish fascists in the pirineos...



Redleg -> (11/7/2001 12:27:00 AM)

Man! What creativity and great ideas! Guerrillas:
Try Commando Force 133. Brit Commandos and Yugo partisans vs Germans and their sympathetic Yugo partisans. Simultaneous assault on 2 of the Dalamation islands. Historic based. Should be at the Raider site. If not, I will send it to anyone who wants it. Ebro River. Gotta love SCW. I made a half dozen of those and want to update some when time permits. They were on one or the other of Versions of SPWAW. Expect to do something more with this theme. Also must mention my beloved 250th Spanish Blue. Malta. Try Maltese Falcons 1 and 2. German/Italian airborne and gliders assault Malta in 42. Italian paras must repulse British armor counter-attack. Second battle is beach assault to link up with Italian paras on-shore. Features Italian commandos who must assault gun emplacements. These might be at the Raiders site. If not, ask and you shall receive. Send email to artifice@fireserve.net and I'll send promptly. Somethings I am thinking of to add to the idea list: Lithuanian Jewish Division in Red Army and the Jewish Brigade (erroneously often described as the only Jewish unit serving with allies). Thanks for the wealth of ideas, guys.



Fabs -> (11/7/2001 5:44:00 AM)

Redleg, how do you find old scenarios at the new Raiders site? I can only find the latest batch.



sebagonzalez -> (11/7/2001 6:33:00 AM)

For designers who want Konigsberg city, i made a map of it for the second scenario of my campaign "Red Plan" and is in http://spwaw.tripod.com/englishsection.htm Is is based in a Map of it i found in the web See ya



Redleg -> (11/7/2001 6:35:00 AM)

I think the Raiders have an archive problem that is being worked on. I hope so. In the meantime, anyone who wants anything I still have copies of (my own creations), just ask and I'll send them. No problem. Glad to do it. Happy gaming.



deggo -> (11/7/2001 10:10:00 AM)

How about a Austrailia vs Japan Kokoda battle? From what I've read it wouldn't involve large forces. Would be interesting to see realisticly presented but may actually not be all that much fun to play.



Alexandra -> (11/7/2001 10:40:00 AM)

Operation Mars is a solid book. One could design a campiagn around the Recon Battalion of LAH in that series of battles, as it saw action against the Soviets on all the fronts. I've started to work on a little known armor battle in Belguim in '40 - it was the largest tank battle - until Kursk. Alex



Gen.Hoepner -> (11/7/2001 4:17:00 PM)

A very big armour battle in Belgium??you never stop learning in this life^__^



Alexandra -> (11/7/2001 10:30:00 PM)

Yep. Most historians are so busy looking at Guderian -at Sedean and Rommel in the dash for the coast (ignoring the fact that they were up against conscript divisions with no armor, for the most part), that they forget that the elite French forces were fighting in Belguim. The Belgians fought well, too, especially thier Cav - the Chassures Ardennes. It was a corps sized fight, that lasted from the night of May 12, until May 15th. It was mostly a French delaying action, pitting General Prioux's Cavalry corps - with infantry from the French First Army, and Belgian support against General Heopner's corps of the German 6th Army. The Allies had no air power - the French and British AFs *refused* to fly ground support, but they had a lot of arty. The Germans; had mostly Mk Is and IIs, and lost a lot of panzer's - and more importanty - panzermen. In one fight, during the battle, near Breda, the German 9th Panzer Division fought against the spearhead of General Giraud's 7th French Army - which was coming up as reinforcements - and killed 5 French tanks while losing 100 of it's 150. Alex



Gen.Hoepner -> (11/7/2001 10:52:00 PM)

Yes Alex,you're right.Your thesis is not proved because i do not know that episode,'cause i read only nearly 20 books so my culture in this subject is not so good,but in the general ww2 books like Liddel Hart's ones or like Lost Victories by Meinstein there's nothing that talks about that battle....
BTW lookin' forward to see your scen



Tombstone -> (11/8/2001 4:49:00 AM)

My intended campaign set in 1946 had the larger strategic context focused across a strip of land that roughly cuts Germany in half. From the line of Magdeburg-Dresden to Dusseldorf-Mainz. The course of the campaign itself was to start with a penetration of the front-line at Leipzig moving to Jenna, Erfurt, Eisenach, Bad Horsfeld, then along the Ruhr toward Dusseldorf/Essen area. The plan being to push the other allies to the Rhian and claim as much of Germany as possible. Tomo



AC -> (11/8/2001 5:19:00 AM)

Redleg, what I'd like to see are battles of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia, specially those concerning the Alpini divisions. The Italian retreat in January 43, mostly by feet and with insufficient weapons and equipment against the overwhelming Red Army would give, IMHO, a lot of interesting scenarios or even a campaign.
(Could help with some info and maps). AC



brianleeprice -> (11/8/2001 6:48:00 AM)

A 'what-if' idea that I've been bouncing around for awhile is based on a possible linkup between German and Japanese ground forces. Not sure how remotely realistic it is at all, but it is intriguing to consider German equipment and Japanese infantry in a combined force. I'm still uncertain as to where the most realistic area would be for such a linkup to have occurred. Opposition forces in such a scenario or mini-campaign would be fun I think. Brian Price



troopie -> (11/8/2001 8:20:00 AM)

quote:

Originally posted by Mikimoto:
Hello. I would like to see partisan/guerrilla warfare. Some examples: The french resistance against Vichy police, Germans, Hiwis... Yugoslav/Tito partisans causing havoc against Italians, Ustachis, Croatians, Germans, etc... Ucranian/soviets partisans against germans, bulgarians, rumanians, hungarians, etc.. North Italy communist guerrilla against Fascist Italians and Germans (and all those ucranians, cossacks, croatians, tartars, bosnians, etc... serving with the gerries). Spanish republican maquis fighting Spanish fascists in the pirineos...
I once did a campaign with hacked OOBs, Spanish Republican guerrillas and Free French SR Regulars against Spanish Nationalist Regulars. It began in August 1945. By Christmas the Republicans had taken Madrid. I saved it but didn't back it up when I upgraded to ver 5.0. I lost it. troopie
(Who will now Back Up Everything he wants to save.)



Mikimoto -> (11/8/2001 4:18:00 PM)

quote:

Originally posted by troopie:
I once did a campaign with hacked OOBs, Spanish Republican guerrillas and Free French SR Regulars against Spanish Nationalist Regulars. It began in August 1945. By Christmas the Republicans had taken Madrid. I saved it but didn't back it up when I upgraded to ver 5.0. I lost it. troopie
(Who will now Back Up Everything he wants to save.)
Good What-if Troopie.
Sad thing it was not saved... The objectives of the Maquis (a mixture of Republicans, communists, Catalans, Vasques) in the exile was to involucrate some western nations in his fight against Franco's regime. Most of them were veterans of Spanish Civil War and had fought in the French Resistance and in the Free French Forces (whole spanish companies in the 2nd DB) against the axis. And some were supervivants of the Nazi camps... Well, I have spoke with some of them, personally. Most are hungry with France, because they fighted for and France not returned the Favour... And never said, officialy, thank you. The fight lasted until the 60's. I remember, when I was a child, seeing the "guardia civil" controls in the roads of the Pirineos...



bradmbrown -> (11/8/2001 4:40:00 PM)

We have a local hero in these parts. Ernest Smith, none as Smokey Smith. He was awarded the VC for this fight. It would be tiny, very tiny. I have already tried, but am useless creating scenarios.
A small blurb about Private Smith
[img]http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/images/smithVC.gif[/img]



Redleg -> (11/9/2001 1:13:00 AM)

So many ideas. So many great battles to come. I recently acquired a book entitled, "Behind Fascist Lines", by A. K. Starinov. Anna was a Soviet specialist in partisan warfare, sabotage, and explosives send to Spain to train Royalist forces. When I can, this will be the basis for some small scenarios. Italians on the Eastern Front also interests me very much.... along with Rumanian and Hungarian forces. For example, what happened to the 4000+ Rumanians in the Stalingrad Cauldron? How about the dwindling Spanish volunteers who remain to fight after the 250th Blue was withdrawn? I'll be referring to this forum often to refresh my mind about your preferences and ideas. Bear in mind that finding information at a level appropriate to SPWAW is, at times, extremely difficult. Finding maps to translate into SPWAW is also quite difficult. Often, I am reduced to resorting to a couple of paragraphs and a lot of imagination in making scenarios. I have even tried emailing people who live in Stalingrad and Spain for descriptions of terrain and locations of things in S'grad and along the Ebro river. ;-)
Very difficult. Occasionally, I find a book written at the tactical level rather than focusing on what Eisenhower, Montgomery, and other generals were doing.



Nixk -> (11/9/2001 2:33:00 AM)

I would like to see a scenario about the '41 battle of Borodino.
I have done some research, but find out that there is little to no info other than some expensive boardgame which I unfortunately cannot find since moving last month.
From what I gather it was a series of battles that preluded the Battle of Moscow, ranging from the end of Sept to around 13 Oct '41.
Anyone with some insight on this would truely make my day go better



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