Panzer Campaigns - Looking to make first purchase in series!

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Disclaimer: I have only ever played PBEM as the Soviet side (and then only in the campaign once, and then after that two smaller ones against Chad awhile ago - who had the misfortune of my having had experience in the campaign game first.).

I did not find it all that static (I mean yes, it is a 1944 scenario -so you are going to be using significantly heavier formations) - at least not for the Soviet player. Even in the campaign scenario I have made some pretty massive gains by the time my opponent and I had called it, as well as some fairly significant pockets that would be eliminated eventually.

You do have to dismount your infantry and other mech formations and go on foot. Cross rivers and go isolated while you build bridge crossings, and things like that.

I don't know, though, that it would probably be all that much fun playing as the German player when a large proportion of your force is non-mechanised infantry - it is sort of its own discipline I guess... using that force to its strengths and minimising weaknesses.

I don't know though, unless I had a major interest in that campaign that I would go for it first, though...

I like Smolensk 41 for open maneuver (although it is a bit like the opposite of Minsk 44 in that this time it is the Germans doing the advancing -although with less powerful artillery forces in 41 than the Soviets had in 44 (naturally)...).