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This began with SPI and an effort to use more fog of war than the Panzer Gruppe Guderian system was offering.
Based on the Wacht Am Rhein system, the thinking evolved into Operation Typhoon, our founding mother/father or whathaveyou and stemed into what is now known as the Victory in the West series that includes Pattons Third Army, Operation Grenade and Sicily: The Race for Messina.
I put the system through a filter and produced Iron Tide: Panzers in the Ardennes, after more than ten years of tinkering and delays in production. It lingered on the top ten at BoardGameGeek.com for over 3 years, just to show you that the popularity for the system and its offshoots still exists.
After many years of non-production, more and more offshoots of the original have come down the belt including the fabulous The Killing Ground along with its expansion Overlord, to give the system a complete D-Day simulation.
Numerous reprints by Command Japan, additional award winning games like Red Star Rising and now, on the horizon, another set of offshoot games is slated to appear if the preorder numbers are met.
Don't look for this to go off your radar real soon. I feel that the innovation is not complete in simulating within this system and its relatives. The best part is that it just keeps on coming.
Based on the Wacht Am Rhein system, the thinking evolved into Operation Typhoon, our founding mother/father or whathaveyou and stemed into what is now known as the Victory in the West series that includes Pattons Third Army, Operation Grenade and Sicily: The Race for Messina.
I put the system through a filter and produced Iron Tide: Panzers in the Ardennes, after more than ten years of tinkering and delays in production. It lingered on the top ten at BoardGameGeek.com for over 3 years, just to show you that the popularity for the system and its offshoots still exists.
After many years of non-production, more and more offshoots of the original have come down the belt including the fabulous The Killing Ground along with its expansion Overlord, to give the system a complete D-Day simulation.
Numerous reprints by Command Japan, additional award winning games like Red Star Rising and now, on the horizon, another set of offshoot games is slated to appear if the preorder numbers are met.
Don't look for this to go off your radar real soon. I feel that the innovation is not complete in simulating within this system and its relatives. The best part is that it just keeps on coming.
Discussion Forum
Replay of Operation Grenade 2 Replies
Started by Ola Palmquist. Last reply by TallBlondJohn Nov. 30, 2009.
Replay of Patton´s third army
Started by Ola Palmquist Nov. 30, 2009.
Replay of Sicily: The race for Messina 1 Reply
Started by Ola Palmquist. Last reply by Eric Walters Nov. 29, 2009.
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Comment by Greg Blanchett on December 22, 2009 at 1:08am - Yeah, let's go people... support the system and pre-order! :-)
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Comment by Nate on December 22, 2009 at 12:56am -
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/63823/vcs-salerno
Its your chance to stand up and be counted. VCS Salerno can be the future wave in variable strength combat simulation.
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Comment by Stephen G on December 18, 2009 at 7:33pm - Got my pre order in for Salerno..and I've got thi idea for the 1944 Walchren campaign...
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Comment by Nate on November 28, 2009 at 11:46pm
- Greg, when the orders get close to 550 you'll know its time...:)
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Comment by Nate on November 28, 2009 at 11:45pm
- Thank you TallBlondeJohn... nice counter there btw :)
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Comment by Greg Blanchett on November 28, 2009 at 2:29pm
- When I get further along with my Fall Blau hybrid... I can get back to Kharkov 1942 for Nathan's VCS. Anybody got Glantz's Kharkov book for sale... ;-)
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Comment by TallBlondJohn on November 28, 2009 at 1:10pm - Salerno pre-ordered. What's next?
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Comment by Nate on November 28, 2009 at 10:53am
- Yes John. It is now on the P500 at MMP. TKG and its expansion, Overlord, are VitW family, but not directly part of the series.
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Comment by TallBlondJohn on November 28, 2009 at 6:50am
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Pardon my ignorance, but is VCS Salerno the same project as the Decision Games Salerno I pledged for a few years ago? I assume it is, two VitW games at once would be too good to be true.
Is Killing Ground still considered VitW? Just got Overlord, beautiful...
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Comment by Nate on November 27, 2009 at 1:50am
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Nate http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/preorder.php VCS Salerno is now up for preorder.
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