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Talonsoft?

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Just wondering if any of you have ever heard of the Campaign series from Talonsoft:
East Front
West Front
Rising Sun

There were several editions of each, when I bought them many years ago I got the pack with all 3 and they were the latest editions. All the units are platoon sized so the scale is set in stone. One of the things I didn't like about it was that you cannot replace any units or "reinforce" them by repairing strength points. Other than that they were awesome TBS games.

EDIT:
I found them for sale through a different brand - http://www.matrixgames.com/products/318 ... ign.Series
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The whole reason I brought this up is, I would love to see these games revamped with the engine from OOB. Using supply lines and efficiency like in OOB (and the ability to replace troops). Although they did have a supply line aspect, I never thought it was very good.

Though because of the way the game is played it might make more sense to pull a unit from the front to give it replacements, it would still make it much better!
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Just for clarification, an idea for the future, obviously the devs are busy with OOB and will be for quite a while.
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Hi Decaff, I love the Campaign series and even wrote a few scenarios for it. The scale is different though with most scenarios only representing a few hours or a couple of days at most. So for me I think the units have their intrinsic supply. The game is really a port of the old Avalon Hill Panzer Blitz/Leader games. Matrix are still making these games at the moment.

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I have all the Talonsoft games you mentioned Decaff. A revamp of them would be interesting. The only fault with them as I recall was that they were very slow, as the computer AI took a long time to complete its turn. I will check out Matrix to see what they have done with these games.
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I also bought the series a long time back. In fact I think I still have them on one of my computers. I enjoyed them at the time. I bought every game I could get my hands on hoping for something that would be a well constructed game. It's funny how various games each have good points. I wish one game would incorporate all of the good features.
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Yep play them often..I remember Jim Rose from when he did board games and ordered Gettysburg from him years ago.And did play Panzer leader\Blitz along with a few Avalon Hill titles
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got them all, but strange post to be put here, in general would maybe be a better place :wink:
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zakblood_slith wrote:strange post to be put here, in general would maybe be a better place :wink:
Probably Zak, but this is the only part of the forums that I dwell.
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