Here is the new map sample for the week. More news this weekend, as well as another sample.
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HMS/GRD returns Europa to its roots and revisits the best selling Europa title Fire in the East. The new game covers the same time period as the older ones (summer of 1941 to the spring of 1942) but uses a completely new Soviet OB, a new map, and the latest rules for the Europa system. Buyer's who preorder Total War will also receive the Red Army from September, 1939 to March, 1942 in preparation for Grand Europa. Total War gives the Axis player the opportunity to see if he can improve on the massive offensive that pocketed and captured millions of Soviet soldiers. Can you take Moscow or Leningrad? Or are you condemned to suffer the Soviet winter short of victory. The Soviet player must build a strategic reserve large enough to stop the advancing Axis forces and throw them out of Russia.The Soviet player is aided by massive reinforcements that allow him to form new defensive lines in an attempt to slow down or stop the Axis armor thrusts. Published counters will be the same high quality counters players expect from HMS/GRD. Total War is a historical game on the German invasion of the Soviet Union, from summer 1941 to spring 1942. It charts the titanic struggle of the largest ground campaign in World War II, from the Axis offensives that brought the Germans to the gates of Moscow to the Soviet winter counteroffensive that hurled them back. Total War is a two-player game. One side controls the forces of Germany and its allies while the other controls the forces of the Soviet Union. The maps cover Eastern Europe and the western USSR from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, from the plains of Poland to the steppes along the Volga River. Ground units represent corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, and battalions. Air units represent groups of 40 to 80 aircraft. Naval units represent task forces of warships.
Total War is a complete remake and updating of the classic Europa game, Fire in the East. The game's Soviet order of battle makes extensive use of formerly secret Kremlin information on the Red Army forces that fought the war. The game includes a Soviet order of battle for all of the USSR from 1939 to 1942 and is the most comprehensive game OB ever published on the Red Army in peace and war. The Axis order of battle also is updated, reflecting new research since the publication of Fire in the East. The rules for Total War incorporate the latest rules for the Europa system, with on-demand air power, armor effects, combined arms, and much more, recreating both the German blitzkrieg that captured entire Soviet armies and the Soviet deep operations that nearly splintered the invaders in the depth of the Russian winter. The price is $234. |
Outstanding!
Looking forward to the release. Plus contemplating signing up for the news lettter and ordering Storm over Scandinavia. Amongst other titles you have available…of course the list seems to be about a year old so should double check.
What’s the spelling of Kiev supposed to be on the map?
Greg, it’s common Europa practice to render place names with local spellings, except in a latin alphabet without diacriticals (accents, umlauts, …). My speculation is that Kiyev is a transliteration of the place name from Russian, Ukranian or both. A Google search on Kiyev does give many hits for what appears to be the same place as Kiev.
While you can have Kijev as a transliteration by replacing the Russian soft “e” with a “ye”, it isn’t normally done. A transliteration from the Ukrainian spelling would give Kyiv which doesn’t look so great either. The city name is normally seen as Kiev when transliterated.
All of this would be just a pedantic argument except for the fact that whatever transliteration is being used should be in force for everything on all of the maps. The map of the Valdai (and it really should end in “i” and not “y”) has the city name of Rzhev. If we’re transliterating Kiev as Kiyev on the one map, then Rzhev should be Rzhyev on the other. The original Russian spelling of these city names are identical for the last two letters. Given the amount of time that is being spent on these maps (and they look great in my opinion), the transliterated spellings of the city names should follow the same patterns throughout whatever method is finally chosen.