A suggestion for reworking the original PG campaign

[smashtheaxis]

I really liked the original PG campaign, but it was not without flaws. Especially the shortness of the of it if you only have major victories, not allowing the build-up of a good core to take Washington. So I reworked it a bit, hopefully improving it.

I don't know how difficult it would be to convert it to PC, and create the few additional scenarios, so this is only an idea for now. I won't be able to turn this into a mod. But I would like to hear your thoughts.

General philosophy: The campaign should follow the historic course of the war, but also offer a winnable path. The winning path should be longer than the losing campaigns and still include most historic scenarios. No easy ways out in the losing path either (i.e. winning Ardennes does not end the war in the West).

The campaign starts with a tutorial-like scenario in the Spanish Civil War. Similar to the tutorial in PC:AK, you bring the tutorial units over into the campaign scenarios after you finished the tutorial.

Neither England nor Russia can be defeated early in the game. There is no Early_Sealion/40 scenario at all. There are still the scenarios for Early_Moscow and Moscow_41, but even a MjV here won't defeat the Soviets. Taking Moscow in '41 only results in Stalin evacuating the city and continuing the war, and the Germans eventually having to abandon Moscow (so it can / has to be taken again in Moscow_43).

To defeat the Soviets, Moscow has to be taken in '43. If you stay on the Eastern front after Barbarossa, you will have to win MjVs at Stalingrad and Kursk to get there. Winning Early_Moscow allows to skip Sevastopol.

To win in the West, you have to get MjVs at D-Day and Anvil, to keep the Allies out of Fortress Europe. If the Soviets are still in, a following MjV at Byelorussia leads to a DRAW ending, i.e. the war ends in an armistice. If the Soviets are already defeated, a MjV in Anvil will allow Sealion45, followed by three scenarios covering the invasion of America (taken from PC:WH).

You get on the losing path in the West if you fail to archive a MjV Anvil (and since you only get to Anvil after a D-Day MjV, you have to win a major one there too). A victory at Cobra only lets you skip Market_Garden. No matter the outcome, the Ardennes offensive is followed by Ruhr (taken from Allied General) or Budapest, with the final battle either being West Germany (if Soviets were defeated before), Germany or Berlin (if you choose to go to Budapest after Ardennes).

The losing path on the East follows after not archiving a MjV in Moscow_43. A minor victory in Moscow_43 is the last chance to switch to the Western front, otherwise the campaign continues on the East only and eventually ends with Berlin.

Scenario Major Minor Loss

Spain (Tutorial) Poland Poland LOSE
Poland Warsaw Warsaw LOSE
Warsaw Norway Low_Countries LOSE
Norway Low_Countries Low_Countries Low_Countries
Low_Countries France France LOSE
France North_Africa/Balkans North_Africa/Balkans LOSE

North_Africa Middle_East El_Alamein/Kiev Torch
Middle_East Kharkov Kharkov El_Alamein
El_Alamein Kursk Torch Torch
Torch Husky/Kursk Husky Husky
Husky D-Day Anzio Anzio
Anzio D-Day/Byelorussia D-Day MAJOR_DEFEAT
D-Day Anvil Cobra Cobra
D-Day[NoE] Anvil[NoE] Cobra Cobra
Anvil Byelorussia[NoW] Market_Garden Market_Garden
Anvil[NoE] Sealion45 Market_Garden Market_Garden
Cobra Ardennes Market_Garden Market_Garden
Market_Garden Ardennes Ardennes Ruhr
Ardennes Ruhr/Budapest Ruhr/Budapest Ruhr
Ardennes[NoE] Ruhr Ruhr Ruhr
Ruhr Germany Germany Germany
Ruhr[NoE] West Germany West Germany West Germany
West Germany MAJOR_DEFEAT MAJOR_DEFEAT MAJOR_DEFEAT
Germany MAJOR_DEFEAT MAJOR_DEFEAT MAJOR_DEFEAT

Balkans Crete Barbarossa Barbarossa
Crete Barbarossa Barbarossa Barbarossa
Barbarossa Early_Moscow/Kiev Kiev LOSE
Kiev Moscow_41 Moscow_41 Sevastopol
Early_Moscow Stalingrad Sevastopol Sevastopol
Moscow_41 Sevastopol/El_Alamein Sevastopol Sevastopol
Sevastopol Stalingrad Stalingrad LOSE
Stalingrad Kharkov Kharkov LOSE
Kharkov Husky/Kursk Kursk Byelorussia
Kursk Moscow_43 Byelorussia/Anzio Byelorussia
Moscow_43 D-Day[NoE] Byelorussia/D-Day Byelorussia
Byelorussia Ardennes Budapest Berlin
Byelorussia[NoW] DRAW Budapest Berlin
Budapest Berlin Berlin Berlin
Berlin MAJOR_DEFEAT MAJOR_DEFEAT MAJOR_DEFEAT

Sealion45 USA_Eastcoast MINOR_WIN DRAW
USA_Eastcoast USA_Midwest MINOR_WIN DRAW
USA_Midwest USA_Westcoast MINOR_WIN DRAW
USA_Westcoast MAJOR_WIN MINOR_WIN MINOR_WIN

[nikivdd]

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[Radoye]

Here's another suggestion - if the player defeats Britain in 1940 and USSR in 1941, instead of Washington '45 there could be a Washington '43 scenario?