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Wild Bill -> RE: Mega Campaigns (7/27/2005 7:13:44 PM)
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You should own them all, if you love SPWAW as I do. I was the design coordinator for three of these, Watchtower, Desert Fox and Screaming Eagles. Brent "Grenadier" Richards and his magnificent team did "Lost VIctories," on which I sat in as an advisor and occasional helper.
If you think about it, the four cover major fronts in the war, Pacific, North Africa, West Front and East Front. That's a lot of gaming. Altogether with 4 MCs, you would have close to 500 scenarios and a TON of historical information, pictures and a lot of other goodies.
Screaming Eagles takes you from D-Day to VE Day. Lost Victories covers 1941 of Barbarossa. Desert Fox takes you from April 1941 through Rommel's retreat at the end of that same year. Watchtower covers the Marine Involvement on Guadalcanal from the invasion through the removal of the First Marine DIvision (The Old Breed).
Screaming Eagles stands a little apart because I had the idea of creating four separate campaigns, one on each Regiment, 501st, 502nd, 506th, and the 325th Glider Regiment.
You fight all the way through the war with each regiment with different battles for each regiment so that you don't have to repeat yourself at all.
Thus you actually have four campaigns in one in Screaming Eagles. Now THAT is a bargain.
I want to say by the way, I could never have done these campaigns without the backing, support and endless hours of work by the teams I "hired" and worked with on three I did.
I don't think anymore MCs will be forthcoming. Doing one takes more hours than you could even begin to imagine. They also take a lot out of you mentally. When I finished Screaming Eagles, I had to take a 6 month hiatus from gaming. But looking back it was worth it.
YOu just can't go wrong by having the General's Edition. And remember, when these are gone, there probably won't be anymore and a classic will have been lost to you or anyone else considering purchasing it.
Wild Bill
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