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You obviously never played Computer Third Reich!
It isn't the greatest, but "unplayable" is a bit strong. And frankly, I can forgive many, many sins for a work of this magnitude.

One suggestion, in Win10 the game totally dominates the screen and the only way to switch to another application is to open the Task Manager.

ORIGINAL: Vinya

ORIGINAL: Krasny


The UI renders this game borderline unplayable.

ORIGINAL: dgb100

You obviously never played Computer Third Reich!
It isn't the greatest, but "unplayable" is a bit strong. And frankly, I can forgive many, many sins for a work of this magnitude.

One suggestion, in Win10 the game totally dominates the screen and the only way to switch to another application is to open the Task Manager.

ORIGINAL: Vinya

ORIGINAL: Krasny


The UI renders this game borderline unplayable.

Blimey! You're right! I didn't pay attention to that... Yeah, it would be nice if we had the old-fashioned minimize/maximize window buttons up there...

I would like see:

1 - Smoke grenades *****
2 - Bypass and Dash movement


3 - Multi-Hex Firegroups
4 - MGs fireline
5 - Spraying fire

6 - Better LOS checker *****

7 - Hexside terrains
8 - Multi-Level Bulding
9 - Ground Snow- Mud
10 -Low Visibility modeling
11 - Factory buildings
12 - User-placed foxholes
13 - User-placed road blocks, mines, wire

14 - Zoom
15 - H-t-H online game





Another thing that i like to see is an option that show the solution breakdown process (i.e. start FPs + halved/doubled reason + drm + tem + final odd ect. ect.)

Hello Peter. I just picked up TotH today and am really enjoying it so far. I've only skimmed the manual and run through the first scenario but I think this may finally be the wargame I will stick with for a while. There have been a lot of good suggestions here but as a new wargamer who has had a lot of difficulty finding his feet in this genre I believe focusing on clarity and ease of use would encourage newer players to drop what is a relatively large amount of money for a video game (compared to your average steam game).

After my first game the things I think would have helped me the most are,

-clicking on a unit in the information window and have that unit become highlighted
-clicking on a fire event (unit X fires on unit Y) and having the units involved be highlighted (when I'm distracted by the baby and miss the action going on it is tedious trying to figure out who got fired on and where from)
-mouseover tooltips for status effects (out of command, ROF, broken etc) in the information window to save you going back and forth to the manual to see what that means while learning the game
-when a hex is moused over and the terrain type is displayed on the right hand side of the screen show what the terrain effects are

Thanks Peter for making such an excellent game!

Would like a better way to scroll the map. Moving to the edge of the screen is very old-fashioned. Would like some way to grab the map and pull it any direction a few hexes. Maybe something like CTRL-click on an empty hex could allow you to drag the map.

Couple items.
Hidden Initial Placement for ord.
At least concealment for infantry.
Units entering from off board should not beable to Prep Fire in their first turn.

In scenario 2 the US sets up first, Germans get to set up AND fire before US can do anything.

Not sure this is the place for this request, but unless I miss my guess, there is no participation of any air forces in the scenerios. Stukas? IL2s? Thunderbolts? I guess it would work like off board artillery. The radio contact would be pretty much the same as it is with OBA, only it would be deemed aircraft spotter.

Thanks

ORIGINAL: pupikiza

I would like see:

1 - Smoke grenades *****
2 - Bypass and Dash movement


3 - Multi-Hex Firegroups
4 - MGs fireline (firelane
5 - Spraying fire

6 - Better LOS checker *****

7 - Hexside terrains
8 - Multi-Level Bulding
9 - Ground Snow- Mud
10 -Low Visibility modeling
11 - Factory buildings
12 - User-placed foxholes
13 - User-placed road blocks, mines, wire

14 - Zoom
15 - H-t-H online game

Another thing that i like to see is an option that show the solution breakdown process (i.e. start FPs + halved/doubled reason + drm + tem + final odd ect. ect.)

This list covers about everything that I'd like to see for this generation of the game with smoke grenades, hexside terrain, multi-level buildings and multi-hex firegroups being the biggest.

I'd also like to have the ability to completely disable the C&C/OOC feature for both player and AI.

One petty request is to do away with the little arrow that shows the turret and vehicle facing and make the counters rotate and have a small turret overlay for the actual turret facing.

I trust that the UI will be enhanced over time. It's not the prettiest or most intuitive around but it's functional.

Oh, thought of one more while playing earlier. If I select a unit to fire and find that I don't have LOS, I should be marked as having fired (and a roll for malf. for any SW as well). Obviously only works if you're not cheating by having the game always tell you who has LOS to what.

Make everything; map, counters (I use the SL mods), and especially text bigger for us old guys in bifocals. Or at least enlarge the text and include a zoom feature.

It looks great on my 40" monitor.

Played some more last night. I tweaked the ASL mod to suit my own needs. Can't stand the silly OOC/C&C thing and wish it could be totally disabled but I understand why it's there - to balance the AI (which really needs it frankly). I'm actually enjoying it however as a quick ASL(SK)-lite type of thing. Playing the real thing this weekend however.

Features? How about in 2016 you publish games that don't look like they were made in 1994 and sell it for how much? Lol

ORIGINAL: GJK

It looks great on my 40" monitor.

Played some more last night. I tweaked the ASL mod to suit my own needs. Can't stand the silly OOC/C&C thing and wish it could be totally disabled but I understand why it's there - to balance the AI (which really needs it frankly). I'm actually enjoying it however as a quick ASL(SK)-lite type of thing. Playing the real thing this weekend however.

Think C&C is not there in Normal level.

Appears you guys should save your breath on a wish list. I just went to report a bug that if you kill all the units before all VP hexes are taken, then they are awarded to the defender. Mostly low value type of stuff, but it turned into an argument with the developer and the original poster. I suspect this thread will never be read. A lot of potential for this game, but likely headed towards another Matrix CF of a game.

ORIGINAL: dave68124

Appears you guys should save your breath on a wish list. I just went to report a bug that if you kill all the units before all VP hexes are taken, then they are awarded to the defender. Mostly low value type of stuff, but it turned into an argument with the developer and the original poster. I suspect this thread will never be read. A lot of potential for this game, but likely headed towards another Matrix CF of a game.

To be fair, the post you're talking about actually turned into adding an option to the game to disable that particular feature. Basically the best result since people now know how it works and if they don't like it they won't have to use it.

I hear you but I don't see how the decision could be defended in the first place. If the objective is to take buildings you should be given the 7 turns to do that. If you are doing your job so well that you kill all the enemy along the way you shouldn't be punished for it. But thankfully Peter has made it an option now.

At the end of the day, it is his game to do what he wants with. I was just struck that a reply as easy as "It's working as intended, but let me take a look at it." would have saved a lot of back and forth over a meaningless item. However, I am fearful that when meaningless stuff becomes a 5 post argument over why he was right and you are wrong doesn't suggest that there is much openness to different ideas and changes the community wants to see.

I could be dead wrong and hope that I am as I am enjoying the game, but clearly it needs some improvements in the UI area and many of the suggestions here are very good ideas to improve the game. Let's hope the developer chills a bit and is open to changes otherwise this game will just be another game with potential that never makes it to the great list and will be selling for $9.99 in about a year.

ORIGINAL: GJK
request is to do away with the little arrow that shows the turret and vehicle facing and make the counters rotate and have a small turret overlay for the actual turret facing.

+1 As much as I like some armor in play I prefer just inf for TOTH for this very reason. Some way to change default view to top down vehicles (rotating counter/turret) would give this significant upgrade aesthetically and fun factor.

Some re-design would be needed I think to make the tank counter dynamic. Would love to see it. Lock and Load had it.

Great game, will be a classic I think.

Things I would like to see:

Zoom
Smoke
Captured weapon use
2 support weapons for squad
1 support weapon for team or half squad or leader
Click on stack for top counter first time subsequent click cycles stack
Double click grabs all units in stack
More nations
Vehicles and turrets rotate

Oh. And the ability to rotate maps.