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ORIGINAL: loki100

I've been thinking about this quite a lot, and there are a few unavoidable problems.

I think you could play WiTE2 with enhanced TB but keep to the scheduled changes till July 43. In theory the German player could then mirror any transfers from July 43 in both games (any differences in the OOB are at the sub-divisional scale). If you play both with historical transfers you avoid this but that perhaps removes the incentive for the Axis side - not least to test out Hitler's brief idea of concentrating on the Western Allies (which meant he weakened the Soviet front at a critical stage but didn't really do the extent that might have made a difference).

The core problems are that:

a) Soviet gains in WiTW come off the EF box system, so if the axis player decided to send more west than historical because they were doing better in the East this can't be reflected (or in other words you might in WiTE2 still be defending central Poland and in WiTW the Soviets take Berlin);

b) Allied gains in WiTE2 come off the TB system. Now most of this is chrome but the fall of Frankfurt is critical. It will usually leave the Axis side with one functioning NSS and at that point their economy collapses. So again, you could be holding securely along the Rhine in WiTW while WiTE2 awards Frankfurt to the Allies.

It is, to put it mildly, an intriguing idea.

The alternative route of adding the Allies to WiTE2 is vastly more complex and hits a couple of conceptual aspects of the game system. In part you'd have to treat the Allies as sharing pools with the Soviets and no-one knows how multiple, dispersed clusters of NSS would work.

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ORIGINAL: kirkmcgill

Given that the WITW OOBs are present and the map itself covers the entire European war, I'm hoping that if WITE2 does really well we might be looking at an official true two-front game at some point combining both games such that we can actually fight both fronts at once (perhaps throwing in a third player to play the western allies so one could have a two player combined-allies or a three player separate SU and WA). Or at least that's what I tell myself each night when I go to sleep with my WITE2 manual under my pillow.

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ORIGINAL: Hardradi
War in the Pacific kicks off in Dec 41. Is there a later campaign?