your Friendly Local Extortionist

[Matt W]

Slightly more than half of the scenarios published to date on the European portion of WW II have to do with the Eastern Front despite the fact that nearly 80% of the fighting happened there based on the numbers of men and the numbers of months of engagement. Consider the number of scenarios that would be necessary to cover Mars at the level of the Battle of the Bulge (116 scenarios to date) or perhaps the Aachen/Hurtgen campaign (50 scenarios to date). Consider that Romania alone fielded a force that varied between 600,000 and 1,200,000 men for a period of three years for the Axis, in constant combat. This experience is captured in 38 scenarios to date. In addition only one scenario depicts the experience of the 500,000+ Romanians who fought for 9 months withint the Soviet sphere and that one is in Iron Curtain and probably doesn't count anyway. I am not suggesting that we ignore the West or that there is too much of the West, merely that if there is energy to be devoted to new scenarios it might be best to focus to the east and the Pacific/Asia, or those campaigns which have been noted previously (e.g. the Low Countries, Crete, Sicily, Tunisia, etc.).