The LAST PANZER CAMPAIGNS GAME?

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I too would like to see Berlin '45.
I believe there was a SPI boardgame on the topic that had one player controling the Soviets and the west front Germans vs the Allies and the east front Germans. SS Panzer army would make for an interesting strategic option.Perhaps the game could even move into an Allied - Soviet conflict.

I totally lost interest in these games when it looks like possibly the last PzC's title was published for a very long time.
This move towards WWI is not for me and although WWI is interesting to read about, sadly for me it is hardly the fluid movement of WWII. I have heard all the aurguments to the contrary of course, but dress it up as you like, once things settled down to trench warefare it was simply a war of attrition.
Each to there own opinion of course but that is my take on the way these games are going.
With this post I simply wanted to point out we are not all happy with things in the Operational Series.
Lucky for me at least there are still some new games out there that fit my crieria.

Gordon

The problem with this is that the First World War Campaigns did not displace Panzer Campaigns -that's Ed Williams' series - full stop. I imagine if he wants to elaborate on this he can - but I believe his is not only the Scenario Designer but also to project manager for that series.

I get the idea that David Freer had the opportunity to work on some PzC, did that ... was offered the opportunity to work on PzB ... did that, and that proved to be a pretty big success (in terms of JTS -and that according to what JT himself was saying on that video interview from about a year or so ago) - and basically an educated guess is that as a business you pursue what is likely to be your bigger success (and in this case success = sales) -so other things end up on the back burner.

There are only so many guys to go around - and while I have not been that involved with things on that end of JTS ( I guess the way I understand it is this -there are different project teams - several of them - it is not necessarily limited to a project manager per series... it can be several series under a project manager, or maybe it is one ... dunno - just know that the separation means that if you work in one area you are going to be much more familiar with the processes and work flow of that area. I have done most everything under Rich Hamilton's teams -with a fairly brief excursion into the apps testing earlier this year.

Anyway - I don't know that any series is ended - some are dormant I guess ... but nothing is done as far as I understand it. FWWC doesn't mean anything as far as PzC goes - it is a separate project under Ed.

-That being said if I had to guess - and knowing how research goes - I would guess that something in Galicia would be next - if only because it was probably likely that the same source material for the Russian 1914 East Prussia OOB would probably have the same sort of info on the armies facing Austria-Hungary.

-PzC? Who knows - I get the idea that at the moment PzB has precedence; that and I think Glenn is enjoying his time working CFL games (who can blame him ... ok I think he got an injury in one game -so it sorta screwed up his schedule for football this year.  Its pretty funny really - he'll usually ignore my hockey stories (being about as old as him - I got a few - let me tell you).. unless I say something nice about the Calgary Flames.  And to show that I can ... let me end this on: I still remember Lanny MacDonald's mo ... it was legendary - to me it is synonymous with Flames hockey (nevermind that I think he started on the Leafs ... :) )