Will SoW be boring and superficial?

[leitmotiv]

I recall an old Avalon Hill Sherman Tank board game "simulator" from the late '80's which had a campaign. You started out as a nobody in the company, in the lousiest Sherman version in the company, and, if you survived, did good, and rose in rank, you received a better Sherman versions. Exactly what F_IV is urging here. The best you could achieve was command of the company, and a late-model Sherman, with the 76mm gun, and the superior suspension.