Some controvesy (for fun) no offence meant

[Strela]

Alright at the risk of sounding like a spoilt child. I want Panzer Campaigns to give me World War II or at least the whole European part of it. Of all the computer Wargames I have ever bought this is probably the only series I continue to come back to and I hate to think of the number of hours I've spent playing PBEM with it. Nothing else quite does the trick so why can't I have what I want. I know it's a great deal of extra work but some tweaking of scale and maybe the essence of this game could encapsulate WWII at the grander scale.
    I know the Total War series tried and I so wanted to like it I did indeed fall in love with the idea of it but as a game it never quite did what this the PZ series still does. As for Panzer Battles I have no doubt they are excellent I'm yet to try them but for me going down in scale is a move in the wrong direction. The whole thing I believe is what many Wargammers still want to see done really well. Give me Panzer campaigns with production and some strategic decisions I have a few years left still to play such a game and I've waited a lifetime for it to come along. Thoughts welcome controversy intended and debate encouraged :-)

Well as one of the designers that knows what is involved in building monster games with strategy options etc, I'd like to give my opinion.

In Moscow '42 I built what was probably the largest series of campaigns the PzC system has seen, based on Fall Kreml. There were probably more forces and more choices than any campaign released before - all on one of the largest maps ever.

If you check the threads here and importantly the scenarios database, no one has reported playing these. Maybe, it was an uninteresting situation, but this shows up in other games in the series were the vast majority of decent sized campaigns are rarely, if ever played.

I put it down to player fatigue, ultimately these monsters need a group of dedicated players and that's hard to find and maintain over time - going bigger would just increase the challenge.

Happy to be corrected but I think we're hitting the limit of what battalion/company can handle.

David