Soviet Campaigns

[Mobhack]

Hmm - thinks - how about some Black Sea/Crimea operations, as then you have the opportunity for water-borne landings. On the Eastern Front, those were rare but did happen.

Cheers
Andy

[narwan]

From the Soviet perspective the fighting to reduce the Kuban bridgehead and the subsequent landings across the Kerch straight would allow for some very interesting scenario's indeed. Off course, it is related to the Stalingrad campaign...

[DRG]

Veliki Luki

Don

[Smersh]

thats one possibility, it could be interesting designing a campign around "the battle of crimea".

-like you said, water-borne landings (nothing like d-day of course, crimea much more shallow then the english channel )

-and the liberation, retaking of sevastapol could be interesting.

like double deuce said it could be some time before we narrow down to a particular area.

I think the limiting factor as the "german baised?" general consensus showed would be finding maps and information on the area. not to say certain areas would be "impossible".

[Double_Deuce]

Not sure about others but when I do a campaign I try to concentrate on the telling of a story while still trying to keep the game fun for the player. By the time the campaign ends the player should have grown attached to his "men".

I like my campaigns to be based on history but not necessarily historically accurate, if that makes sense.

[Smersh]

good philosphy

[serg3d]

I'd love Crimea campain. Amphibious tanks in action !
About map - here is what I found on the net. They are not topographics, and not enough resolution, but something to start from.
clickable:
http://travel.kyiv.org/crimea/map/
another clickable
http://209.82.14.226/ua-maps/road-map/page-i08.html

[Smersh]

My school (university) library apprantly has a huge map collection. I'll give it a visit this week, and see what maps scans or copies I can make. I'm told they have historical maps too. I'll check out the crimea area, any other particular areas I should look into?

edit: are we talking about the crimea in 41 or 44? I personally would perfer 44. the early stages of the war, are always covered, alot less on the later stage. (heroes of the motherland, covers moscow battles in 41, russian steel mostly early war, ends in 43.)

[Double_Deuce]

Smersh said:
My school (university) library apprantly has a huge map collection. I'll give it a visit this week, and see what maps scans or copies I can make. I'm told they have historical maps too. I'll check out the crimea area, any other particular areas I should look into?

I would search for any topo's at 1:50000 scale and make a list on some paper. Then see what battle/historical info you can find on those areas. This way you can see what you have to work with and pick from that. Then the fun part begins . . .