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[Jazman]

What about the game balance of the main event?

My biggest problem with nearly all Pzc titles is that it seems the designers have never actually played the main campaign.

The vanilla Kursk '43 and Moscow '41 are great examples for this.

9/10 times the full campaigns have a completely ahistorical result (Decisive german victory in Kursk and russians counterattacking and blowing the germans away after the 20th turn in moscow)

This is why I never play the vanilla versions and use VM's mod only.


So what about this one?
Has it been tested in head to head?

thx
Sch

I gather from here that there is no main campaign; the campaign has been broken down into its discrete phases:

http://johntillersoftware.com/PanzerCamp.../notes.pdf

Start at page 54. There's one that's 149 turns, another two that are 179 each (variations), Manstein's Backhand Blow is 89 turns, Manstein Pushes North is 129 turns, another that's 80, etc. No monster, though. In reading between lines, it seems that it's as hard to playtest a monster as it is just to play it.