Summer Harvest Now Available

[Shawnt63]

Summer Harvest is available here:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/GWSHII

Shawn

[fred]

Good stuff, Shawn - a loss common front of WWI.

Can you give a few more details about the battles and the sizes of the forces involved?

[Shawnt63]

Thanks Fred the battles include the major engagements on the Serbian front in the first few days of the invasion centering on Mt Cer. the Galician battles cover the battle of Komarow, Krasnik and Gnila Lipa. I picked actions that either side could win so not all the actions were worth while.

The book is based on Great War Spearhead II so they are normally Division level and above. Most of the actions in Summer Harvest involved 2 to 4 Divisions in total some a bit smaller some a bit larger. there is one action - Gnila Lipa where you can join the tables and forces together and have about 8 divisions total on the table.

A regular Austrian or Russian division has 4 regiments each with 12 to 16 infantry stand plus an hq and MG. Add to that 4 to 7 artillery batteries and some cavalry and engineers and there you have a generic idea of forces size. Roughly 64 Infantry stands, 4 MG stands, 5 HQ stand (1 div and 4 regt) 2 - 4 Cavalry stands, 2 - 4 Engineer stands and 4 to 7 stands of artillery.

Hope that answers the questions Fred?

Shawn

[fred]

Thanks Shawn - yes that extra detail is useful.

I still have rather a lot of Western front forces to finish before being tempted by other theatres though!

It would be nice if there was the odd smaller battle (a division a side) was included in the scenario books - its useful if you have less time to play, or are in the process of building forces and want to be able to play with what you have managed to get painted.

[Shawnt63]

Fred, many of the Serbian battles involve one division against part of a division or a full division. The Russian battles are normally one vs one as well with a couple bigger ones.
For example first contact (Austrians crossing the Drina has 24 Austrian Infantry stands against 16 Serbian stands (thats just the infantry). Mount Cer, Jardar Valley opening and south each comprise between 48 and 64 infantry stands per side.

Shawn

[fred]

That's suddenly more tempting!!

16 stands isn't much to get painted...

[Shawnt63]

I have had a few emails asking me if the game has Tannenberg scenarios in it.

The short answer is no - sorry - Tannenberg is one of the next books we are working on.

Shawn