Several Observations/Suggestions
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:50 am
Hi,
After playing for a while, I have a couple of observations and suggestions.
1. The maps are very well done. If playing an infantry battle they seem huge, and the lack of "terrain compression" makes them quite difficult to advance over (a Good Thing, IMO).
2. Indirect fire should be at least somewhat adjustable. Just played a scen where I directed mortar fire at an inf gun that unmasked itself. The gun was killed in short order as the other one also unmasked. The rest of the fire mission was spent pounding a now empty copse of woods, while the other gun squad happily pounded away less than 100m away. This being a very accurate closed sheaf 81mm barrage, it was nowhere near harmed.
3. When an enemy is seen, far too much information is given away. For example, I detect an infantry squad and it says "1st Rifle Company/6" - thanks, I now know there are at least 5 other squads somewhere.
4. Direct targeting shouldn't, IMO, be a platoon related command, you shouldn't have to get your platoon cmdr to engage in order to be able to direct a sqaud's fire. I was rushing a platoon into various wooded positions. One of the squads arrived way before the cmdr but I can't direct its fire without changing the commander's order to engage->move which is of course slower than rush.
5. Allow squads to mount in one go. Currently you have to move somehow next to the building, then wait out the phase before you can mount in the next phase. I had a squad rush right up to a building, then have to wait about 30 secs until the phase ended. Needless to say, it was killed by the above mentioned inf gun
before the phase ended and I could mount it (not to sy that it would have definitely survived had it mounted the building, but at least it would have had some cover...). Another suggestion would be to add a pause order to at least with some experience you can time the movement to end just before the phase ended.
All in all though, I am enjoying this greatly. Good job and thanks!
Cheers
After playing for a while, I have a couple of observations and suggestions.
1. The maps are very well done. If playing an infantry battle they seem huge, and the lack of "terrain compression" makes them quite difficult to advance over (a Good Thing, IMO).
2. Indirect fire should be at least somewhat adjustable. Just played a scen where I directed mortar fire at an inf gun that unmasked itself. The gun was killed in short order as the other one also unmasked. The rest of the fire mission was spent pounding a now empty copse of woods, while the other gun squad happily pounded away less than 100m away. This being a very accurate closed sheaf 81mm barrage, it was nowhere near harmed.
3. When an enemy is seen, far too much information is given away. For example, I detect an infantry squad and it says "1st Rifle Company/6" - thanks, I now know there are at least 5 other squads somewhere.
4. Direct targeting shouldn't, IMO, be a platoon related command, you shouldn't have to get your platoon cmdr to engage in order to be able to direct a sqaud's fire. I was rushing a platoon into various wooded positions. One of the squads arrived way before the cmdr but I can't direct its fire without changing the commander's order to engage->move which is of course slower than rush.
5. Allow squads to mount in one go. Currently you have to move somehow next to the building, then wait out the phase before you can mount in the next phase. I had a squad rush right up to a building, then have to wait about 30 secs until the phase ended. Needless to say, it was killed by the above mentioned inf gun
before the phase ended and I could mount it (not to sy that it would have definitely survived had it mounted the building, but at least it would have had some cover...). Another suggestion would be to add a pause order to at least with some experience you can time the movement to end just before the phase ended.All in all though, I am enjoying this greatly. Good job and thanks!
Cheers