|
|
|
|
Better Know Your Normandy Compilations
|
Better Know Your Normandy Compilations
There is a lot of conversation about the new compilations and one of the questions that many readers and posters have had in one form or another is, ‘what’s actually in the books?’ We think that’s a fair question, so I’m here this week to give you a quick tour of the compilations.
Before we give you a preview of the forces inside the books, I’d like to first address the thought that this compilation is nothing more than a mere repointing. I can assure you that this is not the case, at all. We did look into publishing a simple update for the books, but the more we looked into it, the more we realised it was anything but a simple task.
|
Perhaps the biggest motivation was to bring the
book up to speed with the latest publications, especially the new
Version 3 rulebook. This involved a serious look at rules, updating
platoon structures (such as tank-destroyer, reconnaissance, or fortified
platoons), checking all of the warriors’ game texts, and adjusting
points (for example, reluctant tanks or medium tanks). There was also
stuff that simply wasn’t working the way we wanted, such as in the case
of the US Rangers and Breeching Groups.
These were all things that fundamentally tore
open the old Normandy books. We knew at this point it wasn’t a simple
update project, so we took it to Pete and JP and together we had a
serious discussion about where to go from here. We decided to go for the
whole hog. The Normandy books would be bigger, better, and packed with
value.
|
|
|
As a company of avid war gamers, we love
Normandy, and like many of you, we’re completists. We still had a lot we
still wanted to add to the compilations. These included Web PDFs, new
list variants, and adding old lists from Fortress Europe. Tapping into
our passions, the three of us writers added a lot of new content to
these books, making them even more comprehensive than the older books,
in terms of units involved in the Normandy campaign. While its
impossible to cover every single unit, we think we’ve got very close to
that mark with these books.
There are a lot of new changes in the book, and I don’t have the
opportunity to cover them all just at the moment. We’ll get more
information out to you as we draw closer to June, so stay tuned. But for
now, I’ll leave you with an extract from both books covering what
forces we’ve included.
|
Thanks for stopping by, and keep your men on stand-by - the invasion is imminent!
~ Mike.
|
|
|
|
|
|