Hi All
Here it goes! I would like help in putting together a LCG project that spans the entire EF war from 1941-1945.
The LCG would be a semi-historical work. I am working on a story line based around 8 SS Panzer Brigade aka Kampfgruppe Jahns. I do have the unit operational history all sorted out and prepped.
However this is a very large project and I do need help. I find the project would benefit from the creative talent we have here to make this work. There is quite a good deal of freedom in how one person wants to do the scenarios for a any particular operation they choose:
Time lines are already sorted out in the major operations selected as well as the number of scenarios required.
Below is a sample for 1941
1941 Major Operations:
June: Army Group South: Reserve (Warsaw)
The Battle of Uman (July 1-August 8) 28 scenarios required
September: Army Group South Reserve (Lvov)
The German Advance on Khar’kov, the Crimea, and Rostov (18 October-16 November) 21 scenarios required
December: Army Group Centre Reserve (Minsk)
If anyone is interested in this project please let me know by e-mail. There are a total of 21 major operations from 1941-1945 that would be covered in this project. Ideally 15-21 people working together could get this project done in about a year..probably in time to be included with and released with patch 1.04.
Osiris
Hi.
Very ambitious. Small, medium or huge scns?. I will try, but we need more people in.
Cheers.
Chema
HI Chema
Yes ambitious..small medium or large scenarios are good..Each operation would be designed by an individual designer and than all the lcg's would be linked. But unless we get at least 10-15 people involved it's not going to work.
Osiris
Hello.
We can start to check the whole operational history. What about maps and OOB? Could you send a sample of that? I can start with maps if they are available
My e-mail is
[email protected] , we can talk about the project. :stir:
Chema
Good project - Take a look at Matrix -mods, on the Matrix forums.
I may here only none left set, since it is otherwise again deleted. (More like edited, because you did have something nice to say about a Campaign Series project?)
H.Balck
HI Guys
I will send you the operational history. The battles in the operational history actually happened on the eastern front, they are just not talked about or found in many history books..even the good ones. The dates are all accurate as well. I also do have information on some of the red army forces involved in the various operations, not to divisional level but at least to front and army level. I will send the OB set up for the periods 1941-1945 later this evening.
Osiris
Your bibliography is not sufficient, in order to work on this topic historically correctly, partly only secondary American garbage, everything already outdated. Read times Heydorn: The Soviet marching-up or before all division stories of the 16 armored division and the regiment history 15. Tank regiment of G.W.Schrodek (before all to Uman). Which maps do you want to use? Do you have all 30's-annual maps 1:100000 or 1:50000?
H.Balck
PS: Go to Matrix to see what Herr Balck is doing.
Hi
If you read my first post its a semi-historical LCG..
The bibliography is sufficient to make a fun LCG...the whole idea was to give players an alternative to the DCG's and regular campaign games on a large scale..historical accuracy was not intended in this project..however I at least wanted to perserve some historical sense by following some of the more obscure unknown battles on the eastern front, some fun and some education, an abstraction of the terrain the battle was fought on..to give a sense of what it might of been like.. since most of the western world still thinks that the western front won the war..
Maps: each designer makes them themselves.screw the 30's maps..waste of time and money..get google earth learn how to over lay as I have and use your creative mind to figure out what it might have looked like in 1941..its faster and reasonably accurate..
I would not discount anything from David Glantz as garbage. Most western authors on the eastern front still believe the SS had panther tanks at kursk and hordes of tigers..NOT!!! The russian authors wont admit they got their asses handed to them including Zhukov who published his work on the battle which very cleverly avoids the subject by being very ambiguous as to the number of repairable tanks....its like discussing the meaning of "is" by Bill clinton when reading that book..you need a BS detector instead of a mine detector...I would advise much caution about information coming from russian authors as much as from western authors.
The operations that were selected was to give the each designer a start-end date for a particular period and a location from which to start and end their LCG..nothing more nothing less.
Finally this idea was give some people a chance to design with out getting in to hardcore details.
So I dont need the criticism and negativity from you. If you dont like it dont take part..a very simple solution.
Osiris
Hello Guys,
A couple of items.
1: To H.Balck
Stop causing trouble in this thread. You have had one post modifed and are not contributing to Osris's project. If you can't be helpful with this then stay out. Next time a moderator needs to step in you very well will be looking at a week's break from posting. If you do not understand please send me a PM.
2: To Osiris
If you are having problems with another poster please don't hesitate to send me a PM.
Thanx!