new to operational games

[Strela]

Hi Ironwulf,

We did a number of campaign PBEM's while play testing Kharkov '43 pre release. The longest was Operation Star which is a full 149 turns. It took us 6 months (3 players) running from May 2010 to November 2010 (a Soviet minor victory - just). We are currently PBEM Stemming the Flow (69 turns) with 4 players and are up to turn 25 after a month - so roughly a turn a day. From this particular PBEM we will be doing a few fixes to the scenario for the first Kharkov '43 patch.

We, the designers of Kharkov '43 actually prefer campaigns and spent a lot of time on them. Most of the shorter scenarios are just subsets of the larger campaign games. So we were actually really focused on these longer games as they were the ones we liked ourselves - this game was originally a mod done in the style we liked.

Finally, I hope someone is playing Kharkov - JT told me it was their best selling release for the year - which is not bad when you think it was published with less than a month to go...

David