Smolensk full game

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Yvan and I played many of the short Stalingrad scenarios. Last year he asked me to play the whole game. This is over 300 turns! Well, we are at turn 130 or so and I have found the whole battle to be much more interesting than any of the scenarios. Last year I would have never said that. The freedom to adopt any strategy with almost no time limit makes the game really interesting. The demand to keep units organized and supplied is a welcome challenge.

Anyway, I have only one other tiller game with the possibility of duplicating this experience and that is Smolensk. It is not as big a game as Stalingrad and the total game is only 170 turns! (I can't believe I wrote that!).

Does anyone want to devote a year or so to the playing of one battle?

Typically, it takes me and hour and a half to two hours to play a turn of Stalingrad.

Has anyone else tried playing the whole battle with other games? Would you recommend any particular game?