"Need help conceptualizing a recreation of WW2 on PC " Topic

Hello fellow wargamers!

So, I'm going to try and start a massive, potentially multi year long WW2 campaign via PC gaming and some miniature gaming.

95% of this will be done via PC games. Mainly the Battlefront Combat Mission v2 series and Men at War Assault Squad 2

Aerial gaming is up in the air (HA!!…no pun intended!) I'll start by playing some Red Sun/Blue Sky games @ 1/300 scale but NO WAY can I recreate air warfare in WW2 by mini's alone…..cannot find a PC game out there that covers this or even helps.

Naval engagement will be done via Victory at Sea PC game.

Land warfare is my primary concern, so aerial/naval engagements will be secondary.

My reason for posting this is to get others who have done this or attempted to do this.

What was your plan of attack? How did you play out your battles? Small engagements? Larger ones? What games/rules did you use?

How would you allocate resources? I'm breaking down production by months, so for instance…..May 42 Germany get's 100 Pz III F (hypothetical here)…..how would you allocate them?….20 for homeland defense….30 to North Africa and the other 50 to the Russian Front?

Any comments welcome. Thanks for taking the time to read this and contribute in any way!

To be honest, I'd just fire up Hearts of Iron and let that do all of the number crunching for me. :)

-Will

HAHA…thought about that Will, but the Combat Mission games are just too juicy for me to do that :)

Thanks though

HoI series is pretty slick though.

Holy crap…..Hearts of Iron 4 might be the ticket! Thanks for reminding me about this Will

Yea, REALLY looking forward to HOI 4. The whole series works really well for this sort of thing tough; you can drill down quite far if you want to manage the battles for maximum effect.

-Will

Looking at that now…amazing the production detail…can make Pz II's….Pz III's….can branch out from there and use the chassis for Stug III….awesome looking game!