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[Strela]

Maybe this is why i feel Sealion40 being the only what if in PzC (until relese of "PacifiZ Campaigns") is a little .... flat, no room for move out of the academic what if to enter in the more crazy part of what if.

Variants to explore what can add "kamikaze battlalions" could be interesting, working a little like the add of stragglers in Berezina scen in the nap title, add some nationalist chinese units, lower presence in 45 campaign but stronger presence in 1946 campaign... even with "mercenary" german units or french units.

I am curious if engine can deal with "reinforcements" triggered by enemy taking an objetive... i think in made capture objetives near an important cithy a way to spam militia units in this city.

I think the solution for air-navy suicide units is correct, in the end game doesnt needs we control that kind of units.

Is going to be an interesting title cant wait to see more about title, after see the image of units i am curious about quality of units and the way to arrive to the released values in OOB.

Xaver,

I understand where you're coming from, but there is no plan to go beyond what was actually planned. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective we have tried to keep our hypothetical scenarios as rooted in fact as much as possible. That means we model whatever historical plans were available using the committed and in some cases available forces.

This approach was the basis for Sealion and is definitely the approach for Olympic (Japan '45). We absolutely would entertain mods the community makes for inclusion in a future update, but we don't want to go too far down the path of esoteric forces ourselves. No Nazis/Dinosaurs/Aliens here!!! 

As a reminder for all, this will be the third hypothetical included in Panzer Campaigns. The first two were Sealion '40 and the Fall Kreml campaign in Moscow '42. Sealion & Olympic have a lot in common as planning was reasonably advanced and well documented. Fall Kreml, was always a cover plan for the drive into Southern Russia, but was convincing enough that the Soviets placed 75% of their armored formations on the Moscow front. This actually contributed to the initial success of the German Fall Blau offensive. It was not hard to model the actual Soviet dispositions and use the Fall Blau forces to attack towards Moscow. Again a possible what-if, using forces that had been committed for action.
We have mentioned Japan '46 (Operation Coronet) and if that is published will be the next hypothetical campaign. I believe there is more scope for variance in forces for that title as much more of the 'free world' would be available to fight.

One final world (published at the Grogheads forums) link;

Al Nofi, a founder of SPI, told a story about this.

After Tunisia, there were a lot of german POWs picking peas in the US.  After a year or more of farming, many were ready for a change.  Some of the POW leadership offered to form a panzer division to fight the Japanese.
The thought of veteran panzer troops forming a division for the invasion of Japan was very appealing.  Dubbed "Panzer Korps Kwanto".  Some officers in the Pentagon started to lay out plans for creating the force.
Then it was mentioned to Chief of Staff George Marshall.
"Hessians," he replied.  "You want mercenaries in the American army?"

The plan was dropped in no time.  
Wonder what he would have thought of Black Water and those groups that fight as contractors? 

David