Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa

Are you willing to put it all on the line, demand Military Independence, and risk being fired? Schaal, their commander fumbled the assault, ColGen. Under pressure. Fighting a war. Guderian declined to cover for him and now F.M Von Bock is on your back demanding an official sanction.COMMAND. How far are you willing to push them? Or a devious meat brain. Set Army postures, assign Theatre-based Artillery, allocate Tactical Air Support and order your Theatre Commanders to provide specialised battalions and staff assets to the Panzergruppe or Army of your choice. Pondering army realignments. Bolshevik cold overwhelming a proper Germanic wood fire.Sipping mud. Experience the effects on men and machines of severe frostbite and blizzards. F. Judgments. Or would you prefer to toe the line and support the Führer in whatever goal he is currently fixated upon? Receive a detailed High Command assessment of your Command Potential each turn. Requests. Again. Berlin demanding you drop everything. Strongly defined personalities. Answer to a War Crimes Tribunal if you lose. Pull a Panzergruppe out of the line for a refit or rest an Army. Squinting suspiciously at the growing pile of reports on your desk. Pour over a comprehensive breakdown of all your activity at game end. Experience a realistic combat engine developed and fine tuned over many years and three previous games. Argue with Göring over fuel allocations. Staffers spiking ever more teleprints and summaries. A nagging, slow burning, realisation of just how big it is. Murky ersatz coffee not doing its job. Delegation.AND CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHY THE HECK F.M VON BOCK WANTS TO SANCTION THE 10th PANZER DIVISION?Because you ordered them to make a hasty attack, 30 km southwest of Smolensk, low on fuel, in poor visibility with limited reconnaissance. Ostland. Grey Dawn. Something to do in between incessant phone calls. Order your individual Divisions to report their status. One that takes into account hundreds of variables and is optimised for eastern front warfare. Fight to get winter clothing and equipment for your men. It’s this gnarly, gritty experience of front line, Operational Command that the game seeks to capture.   VR Designs has been reinforced with designer Cameron Harris to create a new never-seen-before wargaming experience: Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa. This revolutionary eastern front wargame covers the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Don’t be upset if they refuse. Detailed mechanical breakdown, mileage and fatigue systems. Because GenLt. Fighting for their own corner and agenda. You’re being watched and evaluated. Bustling headquarters. Equally capable of helping or hindering. Colonel Rattus Facius, currently in dispute with your Quartermaster General, is impatiently waiting for you next door, striding up and down in his black, SS, leather boots, demanding that you intervene.People. Markers relentlessly pushing eastwards. Can you balance and prioritise three different Theatres in order to achieve your objective? Are you able to work within a Command Hierarchy with both Superiors and Subordinates in an environment where strategy and politics often conflict? Focus on what’s important, ignore what isn’t, and execute a winning strategy in order to overcome a take-no-prisoners AI. Arbitrations. Decisions. Realistic climatic model. Every degree below zero matters. Bottom corner of the map flapping in the draft. Oberleutnants pinning army dispositions on the wall map. It blends the latest evolution of the Decisive Campaigns hex and counter engine with deep narrative, RPG-style people management and in-depth semi-randomized decision systems.You are in full operational command.Can you make the right decisions to turn the tide of war? Features Command a true operational structure. In competition with a second pile. Do you maintain your Blitzkrieg or throttle back to a more sustained offensive posture to conserve fuel? Deal with the Dark side of the war. Fifty different stats and values are tracked for each Because they unexpectedly ran into three dug in Soviet Divisions. The Führer has called a conference. Trade ethics off against operational imperatives. Or order both sides to observe the Geneva Convention and fight a gentleman’s war. Can you stand up to the Führer? It’s a big map.

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Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa