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The Future
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With the newest edition to the
Panzer Campaigns Series, France '40 covers one of the classic and
definitive blitzkriegs of World War II and beyond. In the role of the
Germans, you have your chance to try to storm through the Ardennes
and reach the coast at Abbeville in two short weeks of fighting. Or,
playing as the Allies, can you stem the tide and prevent the Nazis from
overrunning Europe? For it is May of 1940. Germany has overrun Poland and
Scandinavia, but now must face the Western Allies. The combined
British-French armies have more tanks than the Wehrmacht, and the Maginot
Line blocks any German advance westward. Yet within six weeks, the
Wehrmacht will fight one of the most decisive campaigns in history and
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$49.95
Smaller
scenario lets players re-fight battles such as Sedan (1940), The Gembloux Gap,
Dinant, Stonne, and Arras. This was a time when tank tactics were in their
inception, and players can use their armor to gain the decision. Campaign
optional setups allow for either free Allied play from 10 May or Allied
commitment to deploy historically in central Belgium while lightly screening the
Ardennes
--until it is almost too late.
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France
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France '40 contains
twenty-five scenarios and campaigns focusing primarily on the period from
10- 24 May. This was the critical time while the panzers cut like a scythe
through the Ardennes, and when the Luftwaffe was unleashed against the
British and French troops trapped in the pocket at Dunkirk. For players
who want to see what would happen had Hitler not halted the panzers before
Dunkirk, there is an extended campaign portraying the apocalyptic battle
on the English Channel. How long could the remnants of the Allied armies
have held Dunkirk if the German had not let up the pressure?
By default, units are of battalion
size. However, players may break them down into companies for more
realistic play. France '40 comes with an extensive historical
order-of-battle that includes German, French, British, Belgian and Dutch
units. It is played on a massive map covering over 78,000 hexes that
encompasses northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg and southern Holland.
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-Pentium-based 133mhz+ PC with
32 megabytes of RAM |
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280 megabytes of hard drive
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Windows XP or greater. |
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DirectX 8.1+ is required and will install if not already present and not superceded.
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"Windows" is a registered trademark of
MicroSoft
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$49.95
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Be sure to visit:
The
Unofficial Panzer Campaigns Home Page!
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John Tiller Games ring site
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