one of my all-time favorites: PIERCING FORTRESS EUROPA

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one of my all-time favorites: PIERCING FORTRESS EUROPA

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I have many wargames and have been playing since 1965 with Avalon Hill's D-Day and Gettysburg. But Frank Hunter's Piercing Fortress Europa has been one of the few that has held my interest since I installed it years ago. It is also one of the few that I have played the scenarios/campaigns all the way through to the end without losing interest. The games combination of supply/fuel/combat/replacements/airpower is un matched in a divison sized we go game. This salute is to Frank Hunter's excellent game and I wish him best of luck in future titles. June 6th D-Day would fit this game system perfectly. Buy this game if you don't have it yet. Thank for reading!
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I agree. Have all his titles from Matrix [&o]
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Frank Hunter, author of Piercing Fortress Europa also did Campaigns on the Danube - also here on Matrix - which is in my view the best depiction of pre-railway and telegraph era operations.

The orders you give (as Napoleon) to your corps commanders are so like those he actually gave - and the consequences of orders not received or understood exactly.


Try it; or at least look at the AARs on the forum for an idea of what it does.
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yes , COTD is great also; he had a American Civil war game 20 years ago that was light years ahead of anything else. He also had an 1806 Napoleonic game too
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I have PFE too. It's a cool game. I wish he had expanded the system to other fronts.
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I agree too, an excellent title. Are we sure there will not be another title using this system? I still hope there will be.
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Don´t forget "Guns of August 1914-1918". All three of his titles are great and have a very different feel to other wargames.

I too wish he would either expand these titles and/or make new one´s.

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Agreed, excellent WW1 game, IMO.
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