UHU Italian Campaign AAR

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Why play this Mod
Why this campaign is unique? Because all battles are with an Italian core!
The Mod introduces an interesting path of alternative history, in which the Italians are doing fine on their own in N. Afrika and many other fronts, like east front, or even Sea Lion 1944, where they invade alone from the south and Germans from the north.

Of course there is an interesting losing path, which starts in second El Alamein battle and ends with Anzio and Rome.

Another interesting thing is that there lots of unique Italian units, not found in any other Mod.

Third reason to play this Mod, are the unique maps presented. Ethiopia, Spain civil war, lots of early ’40s scenarios in the desert and many more scenarios never presented before!

Finally, the game difficulty is very high, for those veteran players wanting a real challenge.

For this brilliant Mod, we have to thank UHU, who has done a very fine work, with the balancing of the maps, avoiding many of the Panzer Corps pitfalls in game design.

To start the campaign select 1936 -1944 from the game screen
Difficulty: General, really even this level sometimes is too much…
Starting scenario Ethiopia 1936 with 55 prestige
Core: 5 infantry units, two tiny tanks, one 105 mm artillery, one tact Bomber and a biplane!

The whole campaign consists of 25 maps for the winning path and the losing path is 22.

Core building and development
Core development is a major challenge in this Mod.
First of all, you are not going to deploy any German units! Second, building is slow because in the early maps, you can buy limited classes of units. Finally, in the final scenarios you can deploy 35 units.

The player needs to think strategically, which types of units to buy and what kind of core composition he should build. To do that better study the Italian equipment and know their weaknesses and possible strengths.

Italian infantry is best used on the defense in my exp, so invite the British to attack your positions, rather than attacking them. Alpini, is an interesting option, since there is lot hilly and mountain terrain in almost all maps.

In terms of armor, Italians suffer greatly in tanks and anti-tanks guns, so develop a strong artillery force of up to 10 units to be available at the end the campaign. The heavy guns are fine, but the star of the show is called Semovente – a similar to Stug artillery unit, that is able to switch and pose a threat to armor. Italian tanks are so fragile, that I consider them as scout cars, rather than armor.

Recon force, buy as many as three or four, with their recon move, will help to surrender and destroy many units.

The air force is another challenge, since Italian planes, suffer mostly in all characteristics mostly initiative. Prefer this trait for a hero. A force of six to seven capable fighters should be developed in my opinion, along with 4 Tactical bombers and 5 Level Bombers.

This does not mean that all the above units will make an appearance in the maps, but the player needs to build such a collection, in order to be able to fight all the tough battles. When at times enemy tanks and infantry seem unstoppable, go for surrenders.
As for the many ships present a sizeable level bomber force is the answer.

Download and comment with UHU the Mod from here
https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32748

To install the Mod simple and easy use the GME software
https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27158

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[rubyjuno]

Great tips in the first post. This one is on my play list so thanks for posting.

[bondjamesbond]

Third reason to play this Mod, are the unique maps presented. Ethiopia, Spain civil war, lots of early ’40s scenarios in the desert and many more scenarios never presented before!

Just for these three scenarios, I want to play this mod ! Since the Italians were lucky and they somehow managed to win and not give up further, it is already frank fiction very far from realism)))

Last edited by Uhu ms. May 31, 2023 at 11:43, edited 44 times in total

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Where are the links to the new mod if the theme has not been edited since May ? )






























































































































Why is the price of one of the planes different if all the others only differ in camouflage and the price in prestige is the same ? )

[Uhu]

Can you write which of the plane has this anomaly?
What I found, that there are two planes which are not in the same family as their desert-skinned pairs. It will be fixed in the next version.

Why is the price of one of the planes different if all the others only differ in camouflage and the price in prestige is the same ? )

[bondjamesbond]

Can you write which of the plane has this anomaly?
What I found, that there are two planes which are not in the same family as their desert-skinned pairs. It will be fixed in the next version.

Why is the price of one of the planes different if all the others only differ in camouflage and the price in prestige is the same ? )

This is the Fiat G-50

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