``The first thing that you should be aware of is that this is scenario does not really model world war two, as its title suggests, but merely the battle of France.``

``You are given the choice of playing the French or the Germans. I chose to play Germany - who can resist getting there hands on panzer divisions and fleets of stukas?``

``The first thing you will notice is the detailed map including the Ardennes forest through which, historically Hitler's Wehrmacht swept into France, and the Maginot line, populated with stacks of French troops. Okay, so far so good. But hang on, where are all my cities? Where's Berlin? Hamburg? Vienna? They've only included two German cities. Britain is similarly cut down, represented by just London. ``

``The units for the tanks are pretty enough (two varieties of panzer are available), as are the planes (Me-109 and stukka but no bombers). There are "General" units which make all the units they are stacked with into veterans and the tanks are able to transport infantry units. Just don't forget to unload them or they'll just sit idle when you get into combat.``

``Unlike other WWII scenarios, there were very few events. I marched into Paris expecting a message about Nazi troops parading, Hitler visiting the Eiffel tower or whatever but instead just got a standard message about capturing an objective city.``

``Partly because of the lack of British cities, invading London was easy. The only defences seemed to be artillery. Oh and there was no specially written message here either.``

``Overall, a wasted opportunity here. Other scenarios (written for civ2) have been so much more interesting. This scenario was purely "Tank Movements in France" (In fact the map would lend itself quite well to a WWI war on the western front scenario). No war of the atlantic, no economics, no science advances, no eastern front, no afrikakorps. No contest. dig out thos