Yes, that's how I got my copy.

The new crowdfunded edition has an optional solo expansion. Without that, it is a 2-player game.

People either LOVE or HATE that mechanic. I happen to like it in Hannibal. I also like the alternate combat reslution in Hamilcar. Nice thing is that we get to have BOTH. I see no reason why you can't retrofit the Hannibal combat system into Hamilcar. :-)

I haven't tried it yet, but I kind of think it would work.

@@joeltoppen Thancks!

I believe so.

July 29, 2022. I did the Floral Park Traverse (long off-trail route) from Logan Pass to Lake McDonald in a day last August. If you do this route in a single day, be sure to get plenty of water before making the descent from Sperry Chalet. It can be quite hot and you're pretty much exposed for much of that segment and you'll hit it at the hottest part of the day too.

Good point.:)

Pending admin approval at vassalengine.org

Negative: a 3-step armor elite (Canadian) + 1-step Detachment IIRC. OKW was way behind on initiative and the West had an available order to then move into Amsterdam. By the time OKW could respond with a movement order, the Allies were well-established. I only needed the beachhead briefly for the landing.

Thx Joel

I plan on releasing it this weekend. Part of the purpose of doing the video series is I also get to test the module one last time before release.

LOL I know that's the rule and I STILL keep forgetting to implement it! Rulescreep from COIN is all I can say...

It is the same as People Power, maybe a volume you didn't play. That small detail aside, I really like the format of the video and the talk! You are very good at voice over and include strategies etc@@joeltoppen

@@MatJtube Yep, Ken's "People Power" is the only COIN game I have never played. It came out about the time I was getting pretty burned out doing the module overhaul for Fire in the Lake. I've been involved with COIN since developing Andean Abyss for Volko way back in the day. Anyhoos, I think I just cracked the shrink and never set up People Power. Now I should probably get around to it... LOL I'll mention the errors in my next episode.

You cannot believe the grief I've gotten over the map orientation. I swear, the people that play this game are some of the most demanding (entitled), rude, and ungrateful lot it has ever been my misfortune to have to deal with.

@@joeltoppen I believe it, as I got into it with someone on Consimworld over the stupid map orientation of previous modules, a number of years ago. And they can't come up with a compelling reason why the map orientation should be anything different from the way you have it. In my opinion, there are three main reasons to orient the Vassal module map as you have it, as follows: 1) It is the normal way a person looks at a map of Europe, with west being toward the left and east being toward the right. Why this game's module, contrary to practically all other games dealing with the same subject, should have a different perspective doesn't make any sense. 2) It presents the game in a neutral point of view, without some subconscious psychological nod toward the German point of view of previous modules. Frankly, this aspect speaks toward the predilection of many players to only be interested in "Conquering Russia" (ie, the German perspective), which is also why many of them only ever play the first year of the game. 3) Ostensibly, there should be at least somewhat less "Shift Scrolling" necessary with this perspective, because the front line is shown mostly vertically on the screen, not mostly horizontally as in previous Vassal modules. I've wondered why the individuals who made earlier Vassal modules chose the obviously inferior west-east map orientation, and I can only come up with two reasons, neither of which is compelling. The first, which adherents of that point of view like to point out, is that most of the labels on the map of the earlier versions of the game (specifically the city names) are facing "west". Okay, I get that, but frankly, that's Avalon Hill's and JEDKO's mistake, in my opinion, and this mistake shouldn't be repeated in a Vassal module. They got that wrong from the start, because those labels should have been facing south, even long before anyone ever heard of personal computers or Vassal. Regardless of which way the map labels are facing, they are not a compelling reason to orient the entire Vassal map the same way. The second reason for the earlier west-east map orientations is what I think is the real reason for doing that, namely, because players of this game are obsessed in seeing this game from the German perspective because they are mainly interested in "Conquering Russia", and not much else. That's why so many of them only ever play the first six turns or so. Anyway, I could go on with this, but I'll leave it at that. Your Vassal module is compelling my to once again playing this game, after ignoring it for so long because of the ridiculous previous modules.

There is one serious omission from the module: no AV markers are available, and there are times when it really matters to know whether a unit has participated in an AV.

@@A.CharlesCatania Use an Attack Arrow and change the label.

LOL Heavens, no! It's one of RBM's studio posters of the history of wargames.

Historically, yeah. But I chose not to do what the Germans historically did. And the OKW suffered ahistorical consequences. ;-)

@@joeltoppen maybe you should get a live opponent

@@cwcsquared This was a learning game. My first time playing the game to get a feel for the rules. Thanks for the advice.