9/10/2006

Pick New PG/AG Campaign Ideas

I consolidated my thoughts with others' recent forum posts (including PG2 forums) about WWII 1930-1945 topics for Panzer General / Allied General.
  • I would like to see a Black Sea campaign that includes the overlooked naval war of u-boats, patrol boats, and landing-craft operations.*
  • An Indian Ocean campaign could include Singapore to Syria to South Africa and mix the Imperial Japanese Navy with the Kriegsmarine's u-boats/armed commerce "cruisers" and the Italian East African warships.*
  • I also would like to see a "Bulldog v. Rabid Poodle" (Britain v. Vichy France) campaign that would include Syria, Madagascar, Oran, and Dakar (either British core or Vichy core--a Vichy core could add a hypothetical battle with Japan over Indo-China).**
  • A campaign that stays in one battlefield such as the Balkans where you are the German who fights the British, then the partisans, then the Soviets, and finally the Western Allies entering from northern Italy might be interesting.
  • Some campaigns have followed a unit type (commandos) and so a Gurkha campaign might be interesting.
  • Others have followed a particular division around the world (British 7th Armoured).
  • The Central Pacific is difficult because small atolls do not fit the normal AG scale easily.
* The "ocean"-named battlefields are land battles with the appropriate naval aspect, such as in PG's Norway scenario.

** I generally dislike hypothetical scenarios because history is full of real battles but I can live with one hypothetical per campaign if compelling and done well.

Geographic Battlefield:
  • Southern France
  • Italy
  • Balkans
  • East Africa
  • Arctic Circle / Northern Russia
  • Caucasus
  • Black Sea
  • Indian Ocean
  • Middle East
  • Burma-India
  • Manchuria
  • China
  • Philippines
  • Central Pacific

Core "Country":
(many have several possible stages as France and Poland do)
  • Italy (Axis, Co-Belligerent)
  • France (pre-invasion, Free, Vichy)
  • Canada
  • Brazil
  • Poland (pre-invasion, London, Lublin)
  • Hungary
  • Belgium
  • Norway
  • Finland
  • Rumania
  • Slovakia
  • Croatia
  • Greece
  • Yugoslavia (pre-invasion, Chetnik, Titoist)
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
  • South Africa
  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Siam
  • Manchukuo
  • China (Nationalist, Maoist)

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