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I hope that the development team look at some information visualization approaches and make it possible to enable some of them in the game view.

https://informationisbeautiful.net/ is a good starting place.

After some hours of playing there are 3 tips that I don't like:

- Map in upper left dont rotate with the main map: In Omaha Beach you start with the main map upside down about the other.

- Putting the mouse in the map you cant see the height of terrain, with olders series there will be possible.

- To move in steps you must order the first point, select the unit again, push Shift+2WP, select the unit again push Shift+WP3, etc. In the old versions you can put waypoints directly in the first step more easy.

I want to see the next new CC go back to the GTC style strat map...not this linear type like CC3 and be able to fight both allies AND GERMANS like GTC...proper force pools for both sides etc. I don't know why matrix thinks a linear strat is a step forward and only able to really play one side is a step forward. IMO this really blows for multiplayer...the german player having NO continuity.

Thought it was a no brainer but the reviews on Steam are tanking.

What I always loved most about Close Combat was the connection you develop with the soldiers and this aspect of the game really does shine in TBF. In previous releases you lost your soldiers when placing them back in the 'force pool'. Now this is not so, you keep them and wounded can even RETURN in subsequent operations. This is an awesome leap forward and hasn't really been marketed as a selling point in the game, when it is. Now I don't find myself resetting my PC like I did in CC2 when my favorite soldier gets wounded, because there is a chance he will return to fight another day [:D]

The infantry combat is very good and realistic. Morale can be very fragile. Mistakes are unforgiving, you'll pay a price for unsupported advances. Good cover is everything. Under constant fire, suppression will wear on your soldiers and take its toll. I feel like I'm playing with real soldiers, having played CC and CM2 since the beginning. I think the developer has captured this, well done.