The “just sit and wait for the Phony War to end in April 1940” option is a bit perplexing as an answer to “You are the German High Command! What is your next Combat Movement?” because it seems to imply that the Phony War was operating on a fixed timetable, and that this timetable was in someone else’s hands. The lack of action on land on the Western Front is certainly due in part to inaction by France and Britain (whose strategy was basically to sit around for a couple of years to built up their strength for a showdown, while simultaneously hoping that the Nazi regime would be overthrown by a coup), but it was also very much a deliberate choice by Germany. The Wehrmacht needed to analyze the Polish Campaign, fix the tactical and operational elements that hadn’t worked as well as expected, plan the upcoming campaign against France and the Low Countries, rest and replenish its forces, give them more training, provide them with additional equipment, and redeploy them to the west. Doing this properly took time, but Germany could afford to take the time to do the job right because of the lack of Anglo-French pressure on the western front. ( In other words, by sitting on their collective hindquarters France and Britain surrendered the strategic initiative to Germany, which gave the Wehrmacht the luxury of attacking at the time and place of its own choosing.) Moreover, the time period during which these activities took place were the fall of 1939 and the winter of 1939-1940, which was conveniently timed because this meant that the Wehrmacht wouldn’t have to fight in the fall (manageable, but rainy and muddy) or in the winter (far less harsh in the West than in Russia, but still potentially nasty as veterans of the Battle of the Bulge will recall). The late spring / early summer period chosen for the offensive in the West was much more congenial for military operations.
Best WW2 Videogame you have played!
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What are your favorite WW2 videogames you have played…whether based on fact like Call of Duty, or based on fiction like Wolfenstein?
My favorites
Strategy: Hearts of Iron III by Paradox Plaza
Grand Strategy: War in the Pacific by Matrixgames
Tactical: John Tiller’s Campaign Series by MatrixgamesFirst person: Call of Duty 2,3 and World at War
Fictional: Return to Castle Wolfenstein Xbox
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Crusade in Europe for Commodore 64…it started my interest in Wargames.
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Iron Storm on Sega Saturn
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The WWII scenario on the old Civilization II (gold edition) PC game.
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Panzer General
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Microprose and Silent Service 2
I think it was out around 1982
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Hearts of Iron II is better than Hearts of Iron III: more historical and more quick to play. They did a really big mess with HOI3, specially making it 3D, that was not needed and sucked many resources really needed in gameplay, balance and historical accuracy. I heard of Mexico invading Germany in 1939 in HOI3, go figure! :lol:
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wth?
sudden strike of course!
the first and forever were the best, the second was less
and the ones behind that…
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Call of Duty
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Anybody play Company of Heroes? That is a great RTS game!
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Yes, Panzer General the first two versions. @frimmel:
Panzer General
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The arcade classic 1942.
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Panzer General and CoD…
I started w. MoH but as soon Cod came out I knew it is way better…The most I miss on Ego Shooter WWII games is streetfights… -
Hearts of Iron II is better than Hearts of Iron III: more historical and more quick to play. They did a really big mess with HOI3, specially making it 3D, that was not needed and sucked many resources really needed in gameplay, balance and historical accuracy. I heard of Mexico invading Germany in 1939 in HOI3, go figure! :lol:
I like HoI3 better, except how hard it is to declare war. Makes alt history harder. I haven’t heard of any bizarre things in HoI3 as you have, but in HoI2, I had an Axis of only Germany and Nationalist Spain, who, I might add, began invading Newfoundland once France was finished.
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Yes, Panzer General the first two versions. @frimmel:
Panzer General
Allied General is okay. The Russian Campaign is very tough.
But nothing beats rolling into the White House with your tank unit that’s been with you since Kutno and Lodz in Panzer General.
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The awesome of CoD is summed up in this one video:
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Blazing Angeles 3 on the PS3 Tom Clancy’s End War on PSP and PS3 (I know it’s based on a future war, but they had Pearl Harbor in it.)
I don’t really play first person’s that much.
There was also some old game for an old Nintendo or Sega game I can’t remember it was at an obscure friends house
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Call of duty 2
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the 2002 Medal Of Honor: Alllied Assault
The best Omaha beach mission of any FPS.
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Medal of Honor Frontline you essentially play as James Bond in WWII
Medal Of Honor: Alllied Assault
The best Omaha beach mission of any FPS.
Very true Allied Assault was really good the last level was a bit anti-climactic but the D-Day and operation torch missions were really cool.
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