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Soft targets for Wings Over Africa

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While working on some new campaigns for Wings Over Africa, I have examined many detailed orders of battle for ground units and sub-units. And always in search of ultimate accuracy, I have realized that several of these units, even at division-level, couldn't honestly be materialized on this dusty battlefield with any of the many tanks, SP guns, or even armoured cars provided with the mod. Lacking armour and engines, these units should be definitely classified as 'soft' targets. Yes, that sort of targets that allow pure fighters even carrying machine-guns only to enrich their score anyway, besides...

 

Needless to say (safe for credits and acknowledgements), this work is an adaptatation from Kesselbrut's famous mod providing infantry squads and AT guns crews as 'soft' ground objects. Some files and several skins come from Heck's work for First Eagles, a handful of other skins come from various other objects, sometimes with my own graphical modifications. Proper credits and links are given in the ReadMe file. These new infantry objects will be required for a couple of new campaigns for WoA that I plan to deliver soon.

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Baltika

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Nice work.

 

As chief campaign builder for the original WoA release, I can say that I am really looking forward to your additional campaigns.

 

I totally agree that a more historically accurate OOB would require the "soft" units you have included in this mod.

 

In our defence, all I can say is that we were working within a particular set of parameters to deliver the best we could, with what was available, and within the limitations of the software.

 

I hope that the gameplay experience of the campaigns was worthwhile. . . I spent a darn long time putting those ground unit OOBs together, and it was a deliberate choice to go with the mobile units over troop formations.

 

I strove to achieve historical outcomes for groundwars, and the campaigns were carefully plotted to achive that aim. . . given that accurate groundspeed of troop formations would not result in meaningful engagement of ground forces.

 

And eventually, of course, Charles said, "Alright! Ten campaigns is enough. . .we gotta release this baby!"

 

He was right. . . but I still hanker after completing Rommel's Gazala '42 campaign. Maybe one day I'll get it done ;-)

 

Slainthe!

 

Baltika

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