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ORIGINAL: RyanCrierie
There's a ton of things open to us:

1920s Pacific Carrier Warfare; with the carriers as scouts to find the enemy for the battleline to clash with.
1930s Pacific Carrier Warfare; they're starting to get some recognition in fleet problems; rather than just being scouts.

All the never built european CVs, like the French one, German ones, Italian ones; ripe for what ifs...

OR

This is a big IF...I bet we won't get it for free; but probably in an expansion, since it would require quite some code to be done....Hunter/Killer Operations against U Boats by CVEs in the Atlantic.

ORIGINAL: Gregor_SSG

We have made a number of changes to increase replayability in the patch. There is a new Random Selection variant which means that you don't know what variant you are playing. In order to fully exploit this there are now 38 variants for Coral Sea, so there's no way you can tell what forces the enemy has just by looking at your own. We will do multiple variants for the other scenarios as well, and release them when we can, but it takes time.

Gregor

I wish...

That the 'Startup Warcards' were not activated until AFTER the player hits 'Start Game'. That way the scenario designer could use some of the Startup Warcards to change the initial dispositions and aims of each sides' forces, introducing some variability and unknowns into the game. Also, this would require adding % possibilities and threadout values to the Startup Warcards to accomodate the initial 'branching.'

For example:

Shift TG Location - to alter the starting location of Taskgroups
Alter TG Mission - so that the player would not know definitively ahead of time what the enemy was attempting to accomplish
Transfer Warships - to alter the make up of Taskgroups
Transfer Squads - to redeploy aircraft to different airbases
Delete forces - (maybe) to remove some forces the player thought would be present from his force pool or the enemies (surprise!)
Conditional Missions and Conditional Ship Preservation - to alter the victory point value - thus the player might need to change their strategy to suit these changed conditionals
Change Naval/Change Air VPs - like above
Redeploy submarines - so that a player could never know for sure where they would be lurking

As an example...it is the fall of 1942 - Japanese forces are spotted steaming Southeast from Truk, the group includes a large invasion fleet, you believe they are headed to Guadalcanal, but maybe they'll go for Pt. Moresby...or northern Australia? OK - far out example but the uncertainty would add to the game. The initial forces could be altered for each possibility.

Some of these warcards may need to trigger a pop-up window to inform the player about changed conditions - these could reflect FoW, imperfect intelligence, Acts of God, Ship breakdowns, unforseen events whatever.

I realize implementing some of these warcards would necessitate a large amount of branching - especially altering TG Mission - and a corresponding increase in the amount of 'work' the scenario designer would have to do in the Warroom. However, it would introduce some variability (and excitement) into the game that I believe players would appreciate.

Thanks.

Yes, we will be making more scenarios for CAW.
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There is a new Random Selection variant which means that you don't know what variant you are playing.
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A "Random Selection" also has the following in-game effects : 1. You can no longer select your opponent's forces in the report screen (so you cant see their list of ships etc) until the end of the game, 2. You can no longer select the opponent's flag in the victory screen (meaning you can't see the enemies missions) until the end of the game, and 3. You cant mouseover the victory level window to get the margins required for each victory level (ie Alld Decisive, All[ie]d Marginal, Draw etc).

ORIGINAL: flintlock

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