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When starting a long campaign, can you specify map size - 6/17/2004 5:14:49 AM

rshackleford

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As the subject says, I would like to know if when starting a long (WW2) camapign, you can specify the map size, or is it always going to be random?

I've seen where you cn affaect the size of the map (in individual battles?), but this does not seem to hold over to the campaign, nor am I sure if it is supposed to,

Thanks

Rusty

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RE: When starting a long campaign, can you specify map ... - 6/17/2004 8:42:24 PM

IBTyrone

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Hi Rusty.

I've only played one long campaign (as Italy) so I am by no means an expert, but I'm fairly certain you can't change map sizes from battle to battle as an ordinary Joe. You probably could save the battle and go into the editor and change the size in there, but that seems like it would be too much work.

Were you wanting to make them bigger? Smaller?

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RE: When starting a long campaign, can you specify map ... - 6/18/2004 3:30:49 AM

KG Erwin

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Sorry, my friend--in long campaigns, you may get a large map in the first battle, but thereafter, they are usually either 40 or 60 hexes wide (north to south). This works perfectly for me in my USMC campaigns, as my force is primarily infantry. For armor-heavy forces, the long campaign battles degenerate into slugfests. Th long campaigns are designed for combined-arms core task forces, generally one tank company and two or three infantry companies with supporting arms ( engineers, scouts , AT teams and such). As such, the Windows version of SPWaW is perhaps a misnomer: it should properly be called something like Tactical Combined Arms Combat in WWII (TCAC-2) which isn't so catchy, but looks like one of those acronyms the military loves so well (Tee-kack two)

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