WHICH TITLE TO START?

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Hi Peter, I consistently recommend Smolensk 41 as a great game, but with one major caveat: in Smolensk, and probably most or all of the other titles, you're not going to have a great experience playing the full campaigns against the AI--the campaigns can last hundreds of turns and at one point or another the AI simple breaks down and can no longer fight back in a way that is any fun.

That said, I've played Smolensk and some other titles in solo hot-seat mode (ie, played by myself as both sides) and found it quite fun--certainly better than playing against a brain-dead AI. Not that the PzC AI is brain-dead or worse than other AIs, it just can't cope with the full campaign scenarios.

Personally I would not recommend the Minsk title as a German player. If you want to play as German vs the AI, you should pick a title where the Germans are on the attack.