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Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa (c) Matrix Games

08-05-2016......Release Date <-> Protection.....Serial+Activation
Strategy...........Game Type <-> Disk(s).....................1 CD

RELEASE NOTES

VR Designs has been reinforced with designer Cameron Harris to create a
new never-seen-before wargaming experience: Decisive Campaigns:
Barbarossa.

This revolutionary eastern front wargame covers the German invasion of
the Soviet Union in 1941. It blends the latest evolution of the
Decisive Campaigns hex and counter engine with deep narrative, RPG-
style people management and in-depth semi-randomized decision systems.

You are in full operational command.
Can you make the right decisions to turn the tide of war?
Features
Command a true operational structure. Can you balance and prioritise
three different Theatres in order to achieve your objective?

Are you able to work within a Command Hierarchy with both Superiors and
Subordinates in an environment where strategy and politics often
conflict?

Focus on what's important, ignore what isn't and execute a winning
strategy in order to overcome a take-no-prisoners AI. Or a devious meat
brain.

Set Army postures, assign Theatre based Artillery, allocate Tactical
Air Support and order your Theatre Commanders to provide specialised
battalions and staff assets to the Panzergruppe or Army of your choice.
Don't be upset if they refuse.

Detailed mechanical breakdown, mileage and fatigue systems. Realistic
climatic model. Every degree below zero matters. Experience the effects
on men and machines of severe frostbite and blizzards. How far are you
willing to push them? Pull a Panzergruppe out of the line for a refit
or rest an Army. Do you maintain your Blitzkrieg or throttle back to a
more sustained offensive posture to conserve fuel?

Deal with the Dark side of the war. Trade ethics off against
operational imperatives. Answer to a War Crimes Tribunal if you lose.
Or order both sides to observe the Geneva Convention and fight a
gentleman's war.

Can you stand up to the Führer? Are you willing to put it all on the
line, demand Military Independence, and risk being fired? Or would you
prefer to toe the line and support the Führer in whatever goal he is
currently fixated upon?

Receive a detailed High Command assessment of your Command Potential
each turn. You're being watched and evaluated. Pour over a
comprehensive breakdown of all your activity at game end.

Experience a realistic combat engine developed and fine tuned over many
years and three previous games. One that takes into account hundreds of
variables and is optimised for eastern front warfare.

Fight to get winter clothing and equipment for your men. Argue with
Göring over fuel allocations. Order your individual Divisions to report
their status. Fifty different stats and values are tracked for each.

Watch as your logistical pipelines visibly stretch across the vastness
of Russia behind your hard driving Panzer columns as they thrust and
encircle. Decide when to order a temporary shutdown and relocate your
Forward Supply Bases forward. Horde your precious truck columns and
hope that your locomotives can cope with the washouts, collisions,
partisans, lack of signals, poor quality tracks and frozen water pipes
typical of the Ostfront. Order the Luftwaffe to fly emergency resupply
missions when it all goes wrong.

Swap sides and play the part of a ruthless Soviet dictator, backed into
a corner, armed only with a rusty knife. Is your pathological urge to
win enough to overcome your inner demons and redeem yourself by
stopping the world's most professional, undefeated, army from kicking
down the gates of Moscow? Recall who left those gates unlocked in the
first place?

Be prepared to shoot your Marshals. Fling your troubleshooters from one
crisis to the next. Hope that they don't get delayed enroute.
Ruthlessly feed your Conscript armies into the meat grinder, trading
time and space, desperately holding on for Rasputitsa and the depths of
winter. Prioritise one Front over others. Gather your Siberians and
push back hard.

Take charge of a solidly researched Historical OOB that covers a wide
range of unit types and nationalities but one that keeps the unit count
manageable and enables the game to be played in days, not weeks.

A deep, immersive, game experience with reduced micromanagement. Make
tough, meaningful, decisions with difficult trade offs by just one
click.

Rather than providing a long list of rinse and repeat scenarios there
is a single, hand crafted, campaign that has significant depth and is
designed for extensive replayability.

Operation Barbarossa. The largest military conflict in history. June
41 to February  42. Hitler's attempt to tear out the Soviet jugular.
Divisional scale. 30km hexes. 4 day turns.

Above all, experience the myriad, conflicting, challenges of
OPERATIONAL COMMAND in a no holds barred, knock down fight.

INSTALL NOTES

1. Unpack the release
2. Mount or burn image
3. Install
4. Use this serial key at the installation screen and if needed for
activation sceen: 5711-8367-3452-2277
5. Run content from folder /UPDATE1/ and use the exact same serial key
at the installation sceen: 5711-8367-3452-2277 if it's not auto set
6. Run content from folder /UPDATE2/ and use the exact same serial key
at the installation sceen: 5711-8367-3452-2277 if it's not auto set
7. Run content from folder /UPDATE3/ and use the exact same serial key
at the installation sceen: 5711-8367-3452-2277 if it's not auto set
8. Run content from folder /UPDATE4/ and use the exact same serial key
at the installation sceen: 5711-8367-3452-2277 if it's not auto set
9. Block the game in your firewall
10. Play the game with admin rights
11. Support the companies, which software you actually enjoy!

GREETINGS

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