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ORIGINAL: D.K McLeod

As a player of the board game I wouldn't have said that second story buildings are useless...depending on Scenario terrain a tripod MG 42 has its uses.

I disagree. A machine gun above grazing-fire level(ground)is a waste. I think even Squad Leader recognized that.

If you out range the approaching units you can slow them down (a bit), but yes eventually you take it back down to ground level as they get closer, I should have said limited uses

ORIGINAL: Blond_Knight
A machine gun above grazing-fire level(ground)is a waste.

Is grazing fire even represented in this game? As far as I can tell so far (several scenarios and half the rules!) machine gun fire is treated exactly like rifle or submachine gun fire in this game.

ORIGINAL: 76mm

ORIGINAL: Blond_Knight
A machine gun above grazing-fire level(ground)is a waste.

Is grazing fire even represented in this game? As far as I can tell so far (several scenarios and half the rules!) machine gun fire is treated exactly like rifle or submachine gun fire in this game.

True. Machine gun fire doesn't have the pass-through ability, to effect multiple hexes, that was in Squad Leader.

ORIGINAL: markhwalker

I'd like to see the next version include second story buildings.

I hate second story buildings. No second story buildings in LnL. Ever.

I think.

I might change my mind.

Ha! That gave me good laugh this morning. Thanks.

Now, a suggestion or two of my own. First, would it be possible at some stage in the future to filter missions that are suitable for play against the AI as one side only? I'd like to be able to find missions designed for play as the Germans v Soviet AI with one click, or vice versa, or Multiplayer.

Second, would it be possible for the MG support weapon team to leave a Fire for Effect marker or something similar in a hex after it fires? The mortar SW already does this and I'd like to think that the MG is still projecting some residual firepower (couldn't help myself, sorry) in the hex it fires upon. I know this is a port of the board game to the PC so if it's not in the board game, that's fine. But if you don't ask, you don't get.

Third, I'd also like to ask for the inclusion of a toggle in options to turn off the Rally Voices. They are quite funny to start with but, like any joke, stops being funny after the 3rd or 4th tellings.

ORIGINAL: Fascist Dog
Third, I'd also like to ask for the inclusion of a toggle in options to turn off the Rally Voices. They are quite funny to start with but, like any joke, stops being funny after the 3rd or 4th tellings.

er, yes...I didn't care for them the first time I heard them, now they are really irritating. If I have time this weekend I might see about modding them out, because I don't need an option to turn them back on.

I put an option in 1.04 to toggle them off, just for you. [:'(]

More zoom levels, or better yet zoom to the mouse wheel as in Flashpoint Campaigns.

Information windows and a map interface that don't take up so much of the map.

And multi-storied buildings.

ORIGINAL: Tom Proudfoot
I put an option in 1.04 to toggle them off, just for you. [:'(]

heh, thanks.

Is there any prospect for some kind of quick battle system for this game (ie, players select the forces, etc.)?

Also, I've only played a few scenarios so far, but all have been rather small, with maps 20-30 hexes across. Is there any reason why much larger scenarios wouldn't work? Does the game "scale" well given the impulse system, etc.? It seems to me that the impulses would work even better with more units, but maybe not...

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A different color for the path line when not all unit in the stack have sufficient MF to reach the destination hex. Actually, if only one has enough MF, the line is white but when moving the stack, it stops at the hex of the slowest unit.

Filter scenarios....

Yeah, good point. We'll work on it. As for now... Multiplayer scenarios are marked as such. Single player... they boot with "Human Player" selected for the side that the human should play.

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Hopefully I'm not overlooking something when requesting the option to turn off units. I hate having to hover to see what terrain a unit is in.

ORIGINAL: Eduardo X

Hopefully I'm not overlooking something when requesting the option to turn off units. I hate having to hover to see what terrain a unit is in.

I'd like this myself. There are times when I'd like to be able to hide all units to get a better look at the terrain all at once, since I can forget every once and a while who's where if there are a lot of counters on the map.

It'd be nice to be able to scale the music volume separately from the game sounds.

ORIGINAL: Eduardo X

Hopefully I'm not overlooking something when requesting the option to turn off units. I hate having to hover to see what terrain a unit is in.

+1

ORIGINAL: macob30

A different color for the path line when not all unit in the stack have sufficient MF to reach the destination hex. Actually, if only one has enough MF, the line is white but when moving the stack, it stops at the hex of the slowest unit.

Ok, I realized there's a very thin red line very close to the white one that indicates there's a unit not able to complete the path. Completely missed it until now, but I suppose I'm gonna get used to it...

ORIGINAL: markhwalker

Yep, board game does. We meant to take all reference to second level out of the book. If I redesigned the board game now, I wouldn't include second level. They're useless.

Well that's very disappointing to hear. In the other thread where I asked if there were any changes to the boardgame this was not mentioned. I consider this an important feature of tactical squad level boardgames and hope it can be added in the future, but your response tells me I shouldn't hold my breath. I wonder what other features have been taken out that I don't know about?

2nd level buildings are the only thing taken out.