![]() ![]() Because you wouldn’t believe the incredible amounts of overlooked original materials that are really out there.Ĭreating Zitadelle 43When creating the initial concept for the campaign structure of Zitadelle 43, a sister campaign to Kursk, we were looking at a very clear design problem. * As an aside, if you happen to read Russian, you can easily choose a random research topic and become a citizen historian. So when I wondered what weather to set in the Kiev mission, I looked up Voronezh Front’s operations record log for late November, found the reported temperatures and allusions to ‘roads only passable by tracked vehicles’, and BAM! the scenario is full of dirt now! You can rely on us going the whole nine yards, to make your playing experience a gloopy living nightmare! ![]() Books and memoirs, too, gave a general understanding of the events, as well as the mood on a personal level, but everything you see on the map in the game - individual units, their relative strengths, even the locations of individual specialists - would have simply not happened without archival documents, including the massive daily German Situation East maps, captured Army Group Centre maps, online collections like Lexicon der Wehrmacht, and even the occasional browsing session in the Bundesarchiv.īut there is no way I couldn’t mention the fact that Soviet military documents from the period were declassified wholesale back in 2008, and in recent years, Pamyat Naroda (‘People’s Memory’) has become a vast and continuously growing repository of digitised stuff*, with first-hand operational maps, often meticulously prepared, sometimes at as low a level as the regiment, and obviously colossal quantities of other documents. ![]() Found dirt in the archivesFor half a year, talks and videos about this period of the war became the background noise in my home. ![]()
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