Dear Imp,
thank you for your response! It's OK, if IC is not for you. While it is sad, we are different and have different likings. About the theme of historical reality. I'm also that guy, who like playing mostly historical battles, campaigns. It is also therefore my most loved mod the Battlefield Europe.
I tried to make my - unfinished - Hungarian Zrínyi campaign as real as possible - but still give some extra motivation for a minor "what if" end result.
With the IC it is special: it grew out from Nikivdd's almost fully fictional, non-historical, original Italian Campaign. I used many of his scns, because they are simply so great. I changed mostly just minor things, as balance is really important for me. Sometimes I could change the circumstances, the presentation to make the given scn more historical, sometimes not fully. (For example Tug Argan was original a battle for Warsaw - on the other hand, Tug Argan will be also changed in v.199, because while IC 2.0 is a semi-historical campaign, teleportation to East Africa and back is over this category
).
So, I tried to make it more historical, but if the player makes extraordinary actions (DV's), that will change already the historical path to a "what if" direction.
About Mareth: while the base story of the scn is fictional, I think it fits into a 'possible' event. About strong French airforce: I think that is quite realistic, as Vichy French had still a lot of air power left after the end of the Battle of France. So they are not fictional forces. It would be nice to give this scn a different, more historical frame, but I do not know any other in this exact time period (and the sequence of the scns is of course important as you can have different type of units at a given date).
So, I do not want to overwrite your opinion, it is fully OK, if you feel so. I just wanted to add my thoughts to it.
imp44791 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 2:03 pm
I tried this campaign, and I see the craftsmanship and love that has gone into it. The various graphical updates are stunning, and I appreciate the effort to show the difficulty that the Italians faced in the real war by going into it without the necessary material and technological resources. I always love playing the Italians in the early war and trying to make do with ghastly tankettes and inexperienced infantry. And I am certainly not the type of player who needs to win everything with a DV and build a core of uber overstrength units with thousands of prestige points to spare.
HOWEVER.
I am not the player who simply approaches PG/PC as a challenge and nothing else, either. I need at least the pretense of historicity (and I accept that the game is only very tangentially historical). By the time I got to Mareth I realised that this campaign is really not for me. The 8-10 (or so it seemed) overstrength French fighters, in Tunisia, after metropolitan France has capitulated, well, they sort of killed the suspension of disbelief. Sorry.
But fantastic and dedicated work otherwise, and other (most?) players are not like me and should enjoy it.
-, and I reload a tons of time to make better choices - and even with that it is extreme hard and I don't know, if it will be enough for later scenarios and for the winning path. Of course a lot of depends, what heroes you get - with such low stats units, every extra attack, defense, etc. counts immense. 
