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Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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I was wondering if you guys working on WitE have looked at or used any information from the books on Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, by Nigel Askey. If you haven't, it might be a good investment.

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Yes, we are using it extensively. It is an phenomenal resource.

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I was wondering if you guys working on WitE have looked at or used any information from the books on Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, by Nigel Askey. If you haven't, it might be a good investment.

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Excellent. I am looking forward to an improved Soviet OOB.

(And I have found the author, Mr Askey, to be responsive when I have asked for clarification or correction of typos).
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http://www.operationbarbarossa.net - is it his project/site?
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Yes, it is.
Yes, we are using it extensively. It is an phenomenal resource.

Too bad it doesn't cover 1942-1945 [:)]
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From what I understand this project will end with a monster scenario made for TOAW IV, which was only recently released (TOAW IV, not scenario).
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http://www.operationbarbarossa.net - is it his project/site?

That site looks like latent nazi propaganda.
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From what I understand this project will end with a monster scenario made for TOAW IV, which was only recently released (TOAW IV, not scenario).

Yes, I have heard tidbits myself on this.
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ORIGINAL: RforRush

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http://www.operationbarbarossa.net - is it his project/site?

That site looks like latent nazi propaganda.

Why would you think that?

The website and the books are written completely neutral, without narratives and very dense on numbers and facts.
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http://www.operationbarbarossa.net - is it his project/site?

Yes it is. And the book is excellent.
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ORIGINAL: RforRush

ORIGINAL: Dreamslayer

http://www.operationbarbarossa.net - is it his project/site?

That site looks like latent nazi propaganda.
The author does express some points of view on the website which I would not necessarily agree with (See WW11 Myths section) but the book, Volume 111A, (700 pages!!!!!) is excellent. There is no commentary or propaganda - it is full of weapons descriptions, production history, TOEs etc etc - a great resource for our game, and I come away with the strong impression that the Soviet OOB in WiTE is incomplete.
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I've just bought volume I and IIB it's the best resource I've been seen ever!!

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ORIGINAL: RforRush

ORIGINAL: Dreamslayer

http://www.operationbarbarossa.net - is it his project/site?

That site looks like latent nazi propaganda.


care to back that comment up with some facts?
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