Suggestion: Long campaign and more CD-Extended features (though I'm a newcommer…)

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by tokiedian

Oh, I see. I'm sorry for my ignorance. I wish that someday I could uproad scenarios about OKINAWA campaign and campaign describing operation downfall…By the way, How about Long campaign?

The scenarios sub-forum is for users to upload their own scenarios etc.

The WW2 long campaign follows the real historic WW2 time-line only. There is no space for "what ifs".

However if you wanted to create a user campaign where an Italian core followed such a course of events as you suggest then by all means, go for it.

Either that or you could set up a campaign generator generated campaign of 10-15 or so battles with Germany as the primary opponent and RSI as the secondary.

cheers
Andy

[tokiedian]

Well…I'm sorry, but there was no relation between my saying about OKINAWA or downfall, and my suggestion of new Finland long campaign and extended Italian long campaign. After Italy surrendered to the Allies, Italian army separated into RSI army and Cobelligerante Italiano and continued fighting. I think Italian long campaign have to includes this historical fact. And I think Finland is the best country for the next new long campaign.....Above all, these are nothing but my ideas, so I don't mind if you say they are impossible.

[Double_Deuce]

I you are looking for any long campaigns outside those already included the best option would be the campaign generator. While it would never be as detailed as a user created campaign I think you would find it just about as interesting and fun to play. IMHO, nothing beats a good user created campaign but those are not things that you can just throw together on a whim. Even the smallest ones take extensive research and planning as well as continual playtesting. I think the smallest one I did, Dutch Terror, is a company level core force, is only about 4 scenarios long and took about 8 months of work.

[PvtJoker]

Originally Posted by tokiedian

Well…I'm sorry, but there was no relation between my saying about OKINAWA or downfall, and my suggestion of new Finland long campaign and extended Italian long campaign. After Italy surrendered to the Allies, Italian army separated into RSI army and Cobelligerante Italiano and continued fighting. I think Italian long campaign have to includes this historical fact. And I think Finland is the best country for the next new long campaign.....Above all, these are nothing but my ideas, so I don't mind if you say they are impossible.

I am Finnish and while that makes me biased, I do agree that making a long campaign for Finland might be worth the effort. The only problem I see with that is the fact that the Finnish Army had very few armored formations; basically just one battalion in 1941, which was later expanded to a brigade and then to a division, but still very limited compared to larger nations. Of course playing a pure infantry force in SPWW2 is entirely possible, but usually not as satisfying for a long campaing. So I'm kind of undecided if it would make sense or not.

As for the RSI army (called Esercito Nazionale Repubblicano) and the Cobelligerante Italiano: the problem with those is that their actual role was quite limited and badly overshadowed by the Germans and the Allies. Especially the ENR did mostly just anti-partisan work instead of fighting the Allies. Neither had access to the same equipment and weapons as the the pre-armistice Regio Esercito, so if you want a long campaign with either one of them, the only logical choice would be a separate campaign starting in October 1943.