Winter War - Suojärvi

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Winter War - Suojärvi

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Hello everyone! I have been working on a Winter War campaing of my own. I have all missions planned and many done but not polished yet. It's a big undertaking to get them to the quality I want, so I'd like to know it there are people who are interested in it before I see more work. :)

So I finished one mission. This would be the second scenario in the campaign and features the desperate delaying actions at Suojärvi in the first days of Winter War.

Suojarvi 1.0 25-1-2025
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interested
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Perkele :D I think every new campaign will be warmly welcomed here due to the lack of new official DLCs. Could you share more details about your idea for the campaign? How many missions will it include, and what will the scale of the battles be (divisional, regimental, battalion, or company-level)?
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I welcome it as well. Always nice to see a different take on something you have created yourself.
Tumpio sounds like a Finnish name...?
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Looks interesting :)
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tumpio wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:04 am Hello everyone! I have been working on a Winter War campaing of my own. I have all missions planned and many done but not polished yet. It's a big undertaking to get them to the quality I want, so I'd like to know it there are people who are interested in it before I see more work. :)

So I finished one mission. This would be the second scenario in the campaign and features the desperate delaying actions at Suojärvi in the first days of Winter War.

Suojarvi 1.0 25-1-2025
It's curious but watch out for the methamphetamine ))
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Hmm, I might have to finish it some year. :)

There would be both regimental and battalion level missions mixed. One hex would be about 2 km and 0.5 km respectively. About 15 scenarios I think.

I want to try to stay true to the maps and to the actual units and equipment present, if possible. Also I would like to try to create new kinds of secondary objectives and maybe AI behaviour. I also like that there are multiple phases in one scenario instead of just one attack or one defence. In the posted scenario I think these are incorporated, getting extra turns for the second phase which is stopping the enemy forces after they have captured the villages. I also want it to be quite brutal, forcing you to conserve your limited resources and favor defending. In the (possible) next campaigns about Continuation War things would be different.

As a source I have been mainly using "Talvisodan taisteluja", which is a joint work by Ari Raunio and Juri Kilin, which is interesting as the book tells the events from both sides.

Tumpio is not a real name but it derived from my Finnish name. :D
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tumpio wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 5:20 pm Hmm, I might have to finish it some year. :)

There would be both regimental and battalion level missions mixed. One hex would be about 2 km and 0.5 km respectively. About 15 scenarios I think.

I want to try to stay true to the maps and to the actual units and equipment present, if possible. Also I would like to try to create new kinds of secondary objectives and maybe AI behaviour. I also like that there are multiple phases in one scenario instead of just one attack or one defence. In the posted scenario I think these are incorporated, getting extra turns for the second phase which is stopping the enemy forces after they have captured the villages. I also want it to be quite brutal, forcing you to conserve your limited resources and favor defending. In the (possible) next campaigns about Continuation War things would be different.

As a source I have been mainly using "Talvisodan taisteluja", which is a joint work by Ari Raunio and Juri Kilin, which is interesting as the book tells the events from both sides.

Tumpio is not a real name but it derived from my Finnish name. :D
Well I wish you good luck and the muse will not leave you )
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Post by Korvessa »

Interested

And before you ask, although my "handle" is Finnish I am not.
It's a comment on where I live (Northern California mountains)
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So, are there enough people interested to continue the work ?
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Soviet cavalrymen ‘towing’ fighters of a ski squadron.
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Finnish Forces Cavalry
Cavalry patrol returning from reconnaissance mission during the great winter warfare exercise of 1937.
https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/finn ... 00/cavalry

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http://samlib.ru/k/krasilxnikow_o_j/lo_cav.shtml

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Soldiers of the Finnish Häme cavalry regiment (HRR) passing along a road in the village of Velikaya Niva (now Medvezhegorsk district of the Republic of Karelia). 15 March 1942.


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•Käsihevoset saapuvat ratsuvääpeli Viljo Huhtisen johdolla Tolvajärven itäpuolella vuonna 1941
http://www3.lappeenranta.fi/museot/verk ... index.html


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Re: Winter War - Suojärvi

Post by tumpio »

Thanks for the comments! I'm also interested in doing some branching, but I know that everyone always want to just play for the best win. Still I might add it because I find it interesting historically. And I hope that on the first playthrough people just did their best and see where it gets them, without too much save loading. :)
Korvessa wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 5:58 pm Interested

And before you ask, although my "handle" is Finnish I am not.
It's a comment on where I live (Northern California mountains)
:D
terminator wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:19 pm So, are there enough people interested to continue the work ?
Sure! The only problem now is to find the time to finish it. :)
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terminator wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:19 pm So, are there enough people interested to continue the work ?
tumpio wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:30 am Sure! The only problem now is to find the time to finish it. :)
Make a ROADMAP 2025 :idea:
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