New Kharkov '43 Campaign

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Hi All,

Saying Panzer Campaigns Kharkov '43 is my first love is an understatement. It was my first ever John Tiller Software release, and was actually the first ever game self-published by John after he moved away from HPS.

To celebrate the upcoming ten year anniversary of the game, César ‘Indragnir’ Librán Moreno and myself have built a 'Variant 2' version of the campaign. Version 2 takes into account both new research, changes to the game system and player feedback.

The vast majority of the work has been done by César, I have just looked over and provided some commentary. As a reminder, the first Kharkov '43 patch included a combined campaign that joined the three phases of the operation together. The Variant 1 Campaign was released after 18 months to take into account the overall balance of the campaign and this new variant reviews the whole campaign. One example of change, is that limited time objectives have been included to reflect the importance of various locations at different points of time. This removes the requirement to check the current objective totals at set times.

This is new work and we are releasing it now to get some play testing and feedback from the community. We will take any feedback given and look to update as required. The intention is that the 'official' release will happen in the next patch cycle which will happen soon with the new hi-resolution graphics. Please note that there are new OOB, PDT and scenario files.

You can read all the game notes here; Variant 2 Design Notes

The victory conditions are here; Variant 2 Victory Conditions

Scenario & Files Zip Folder; All Files - Interim Download

Please unzip this into your Kharkov '43 directory. All files and artwork should be included.

Please feel free to post any play feedback here at the Blitz please as we really want to hear what people think of the included changes.

Thanks!

David & César