Full of Eastern Promise

I'd never really felt I could share in the general outpouring of enthusiasm over the various commands & colours games. Battle Cry had some well-known problems and showed it's age. Memoir, though marginally my favourite, lacked much in the way of depth or historical value. Ancients had some depth but I've always felt that the extra weight of rules overburdened it somewhat. Battlelore was similarly overburdened but substituted depth for chrome. So although I'd often heard that the Eastern Front expansion for Memoir was an improvement on the base game, I approached it with mixed feelings.