This was not included in the base game and as of this typing, I have yet to beat that (expletive deleted).
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Yet, and full disclosure here, there is one particularly big exception, and that is the Battle for Warsaw. Combined with the rugged terrain and Russian intervention had Hungary and Romania allowed passage… well, Hitler did note to Goebbels privately that, “we would have shed a lot of blood.” There was still a strong fortification line stretching from Lenesice to Vedomice, and another larger fortification line beyond, ringing Prague and running from Dolni Berkovice in the north to Lasenice in the south.
But the Czechs had planned for defense in depth.
Yes, the occupation of the Sudetenland robbed the Czechs of its first line of fortifications facing Prague. They would not have appeared in the scenario under any circumstances. Yes, there were no heavy casemates available because those had all been built to the far north and east of Prague. But more curious is the near total lack of the Czech’s fortification system (see below). Likewise, in the Czech scenario the Germans get a hotshot unit of Spanish Azul (Blue) Infantry, evidently a nod to the Wehrmacht’s 250th Spanish Azul Volunteer Infantry Division that didn’t even begin recruiting until June 1941. Thus, while the German’s have more military power in the Saarland than was the historical case (there were only 100 guns and no tanks present), the French response is limited to the actual 2d Army Group that participated. Otherwise in most scenarios German force structure seems to be elevated while those of their adversaries are not, and in some cases degraded. I have to invade the place, but I can’t shoot anybody? Similar non-aggressive ops include the Saarland scenario where the objective is to lay mines using three, poppy red truck units, if nothing else confirming the service of the Berlin Fire Department in the der Sitzkrieg. Indeed, conflict avoidance was evident in at least two scenarios, with the Czech scenario affording the player a Bonus Objective of not destroying any Czech units. One reason seems to be the way the scenarios were designed, with time constraints and geographic objectives substituting for destroying your adversary. However, I didn’t seem to experience the same nail-biting intensity I did with Spanish Civil War. Sort of like, “let’s make sure the player doesn’t have too much trouble making it thru, so he’ll be ready to tackle Fall Gelb in 1940.” It’s not that the games were not competitive, because they were, and I’ll admit to having my head handed to me more than once with a couple of scenarios. Otherwise the rest of the scenarios seemed to me to be almost a leisurely walk across a bridge from the Spanish Civil War on one side of the river, to the Maginot Line on the other. Thus Germans replace the Finns in the two Winter War scenarios, one based on a Soviet attack on the Mannerheim Line (relieving the Finns so they can rest – really?) and the other on the massacre of the Russian 163d and 44th Rifle Divisions at Suomussalmi. Because the player represents a German general serving throughout the entirety of his military career, there is a need to have him present and in charge during every scenario in the game. The Panzer Corps franchise has always been looked at to use a Hollywood term as historically inspired gaming much more than historical gaming, and AO39 really pushes that envelope IMHO. On the other hand, the two Finnish scenarios are optional depending on whether the player would like to enhance his career by leading a full corps of German volunteers (replete with FLAK 88’s and He-111 bombers) to help the plucky Finns. Yes, Poland was included as a “Wehrmacht” campaign in the base game, but these are different battles and admittedly better, one in particular. To that end AO39 includes a single scenario on the invasion of Czechoslovakia after acceptance of the Munich Accords, five scenarios covering a French invasion of the Saarland assuming Paris had pushed the issue, six on the invasion of Poland, two on the Russo-Finnish Winter War and a single final scenario covering the 9th April 1940 four-hour invasion of Denmark.
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As such it allows the player to continue his game personality of a German panzer corps commanding general after his successful deployment in the brutal, knock down, drag out war in Spain, thru a series of second tier expeditions, all leading up to facing off against the big guys for real in the 1940 battle for France. AO39 is a narrative continuation of Axis Operations Spanish Civil War, the first DLC for the new Panzer Corps 2 franchise.
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