If you’ve never played a wargame from Slitherine, ( cliché incoming like artillery fire …) it’s easy to learn, hard to master. However, having previously played Panzer Corps, Panzer Corps 2, Order of Battle, etc., the basics were customary and easy to adapt to. Of course, with an earlier timeline, plus different countries (or, technically, a split of one nation into two factions), the first thing I had to get used to were all of the different types of equipment! Having played a multitude of WWII games, with only a few during the Spanish Civil War, I was quite unfamiliar with the majority of the Tables of Organization and Equipment and/or both sides’ Orders of Battle. Obviously German tanks, nothing to do with Russia – it’s just cool looking. They were on this side, then that side, then back to the other side… but again, that’s not what this is about. To me, it’s always been fascinating the role of the U.S.S.R.’s involvement in WWII. The Republican side got help from the International Brigades (assistance from North America and Europe) as well as the Soviet Union. The Nationalist side was supported by Nazi Germany (Hitler) and Italy (Mussolini). However, many of the ‘outside’ participants (backing forces) were later directly involved in WWII. The Spanish Civil War was actually like a ‘precursor’ to WWII, which ran from 1936 to 1939.
If you ask most people when WWII started, they’ll generally answer 1939 or 1941. but that’s not what this is about.) Prelude to WWII ( Had to be careful as there are a couple of pretty good, non-Slitherine Spanish Civil War games out there.
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More importantly, it covers a part of WWII which often doesn’t get put into PC wargames - when it does, it’s usually, but not always, Slitherine.
This is the first campaign in the game from the Axis point of view. Since I recently reviewed Slitherine’s superb Panzer Corps 2, I was honored to be able to review its first DLC: Panzer Corps 2: Axis Operations – Spanish Civil War.
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