Smolensk full game

[Mr Grumpy]

No one is a idiot, I remember when I used to struggle with this type of stuff, it is only with some experience that you know what is important and what you can ignore.

In reference to renaming files, what the site is warning you of is that the download will overwrite the standard HPS graphics files unless you change their file names, most people go to the VM site to obtain his graphics files so they don't care if the standard files are overwritten, but of course it is only correct that the site should warn you, as you say you don't care about the graphics so this is irrelevant to you so just overwrite, no need to rename or backup .

As for what is "historical" ? The issue here is that this is often down to people's personal opinion, when S41 was released I have no doubt the designer felt that the campaign game was balanced and used historical values, when the S41 expansion pack was released the designers took a slightly different approach with their Drive on Smolensk campaign game in terms of set up, victory levels and unit values and when VM created his alternate version on the campaign game he chose to use a slightly different set up and unit values (standardised across all of his scenarios), so which scenario is the most historical? Well I am afraid that is down to opinion, no designer is saying the previous scenario is not historical, they created a different version to display their opinion of the unit set up, combat values and victory levels, it might be the case that it will only be after you have played all three versions and read a lot of material about the campaign that you will have a personal opinion on which version is the most historical?