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ORIGINAL: CDOcasualty

My wish list after about 100 hours with the game.

1. Two autosave files: One a full turn back.
2. Integrate anti-tank into infantry units by making it a fourth upgradable field. Antitank operating as a separate class of unit doesn’t make sense on this scale.
3. Allow building rail lines by investing time and MPPs. Consider preventing units from operating between ex-SOV territory and GER-territory unless the investment has been made.
4. Improve naval AI so that it anticipates a need for troop transport escort. Being able to fight the US army on the sea rather than land makes the game too easy.
5. Improve Sov AI so that it starts in a defensive mode and goes into offense only when it is sufficiently teched up and built up.
6. Improve menus by allowing UI scaling or make the menus larger. I find the buttons too small, which leads to misclicks.
7. Fix the undo function (mine doesn’t work as advertised) and apply it to choices on the diplo screen and tech screen. I have misclicked a bunch on those menus. For example, by forgetting to change the country and mistakenly having Japan declare war on Russia or having Italy research stuff that makes no sense for them.
8. I find upgrading and reinforcing to be the biggest unnecessary time sucks in the game design. There should be better ways of making this more efficient. For example, on the first drop-down unit interaction menu – separate the choices for terrain and unit upgrades to eliminate a a second step of having to choose which to upgrade. Also consider implementing an “Upgrade All Army/Navy/Airforce” function and a “Reinforce All Army/Navy/Airforce” function. It can take up to four clicks to upgrade a single unit – a real time waster.
9. Buy the IP for Avalon Hill's Rise and Decline of the Third Reich and remake that game.

I find the buttons too small, which leads to misclicks.

Allow naval units to intercept enemy naval units the way fighters intercept enemy air units.

ORIGINAL: Bylandt11


- Less bad weather. I won't play without weather, because it feels like cheating, but, honestly, the times it storms on the Atlantic or even the Mediterranean, it rains on the Asian coasts, etc. In Russia you're likely to get 4 months of good campaigning against 8 months of snow, mud or rain. In my US game I concentrated some bombers and fighters with an HQ in New Guinea. I think it was 6 months before they were able to conduct their first mission.


BTW I agree on the AT-suggestion. There were no large formations of separate AT-units. In earlier SC-titles AT was indeed represented as an upgrade to the infantry units, as the OP suggests.

ORIGINAL: CDOcasualty

My wish list after about 100 hours with the game.

1. Two autosave files: One a full turn back.
2. Integrate anti-tank into infantry units by making it a fourth upgradable field. Antitank operating as a separate class of unit doesn’t make sense on this scale.
3. Allow building rail lines by investing time and MPPs. Consider preventing units from operating between ex-SOV territory and GER-territory unless the investment has been made.
4. Improve naval AI so that it anticipates a need for troop transport escort. Being able to fight the US army on the sea rather than land makes the game too easy.
5. Improve Sov AI so that it starts in a defensive mode and goes into offense only when it is sufficiently teched up and built up.
6. Improve menus by allowing UI scaling or make the menus larger. I find the buttons too small, which leads to misclicks.
7. Fix the undo function (mine doesn’t work as advertised) and apply it to choices on the diplo screen and tech screen. I have misclicked a bunch on those menus. For example, by forgetting to change the country and mistakenly having Japan declare war on Russia or having Italy research stuff that makes no sense for them.
8. I find upgrading and reinforcing to be the biggest unnecessary time sucks in the game design. There should be better ways of making this more efficient. For example, on the first drop-down unit interaction menu – separate the choices for terrain and unit upgrades to eliminate a a second step of having to choose which to upgrade. Also consider implementing an “Upgrade All Army/Navy/Airforce” function and a “Reinforce All Army/Navy/Airforce” function. It can take up to four clicks to upgrade a single unit – a real time waster.
9. Buy the IP for Avalon Hill's Rise and Decline of the Third Reich and remake that game.

ORIGINAL: amandkm

ORIGINAL: Bylandt11


- Less bad weather. I won't play without weather, because it feels like cheating, but, honestly, the times it storms on the Atlantic or even the Mediterranean, it rains on the Asian coasts, etc. In Russia you're likely to get 4 months of good campaigning against 8 months of snow, mud or rain. In my US game I concentrated some bombers and fighters with an HQ in New Guinea. I think it was 6 months before they were able to conduct their first mission.


BTW I agree on the AT-suggestion. There were no large formations of separate AT-units. In earlier SC-titles AT was indeed represented as an upgrade to the infantry units, as the OP suggests.

I hate to say, but I think the weather is a feature, not a bug. Weather could and did impeded a number of operations on all fronts. It is not a glamorous part of it, but it does put you in the commanders' heads at the time, I'm sure they were very frustrated by bad weather, but for every one of those, there was an enemy commander who was able to slip away in the storm and avoid being crushed.

ORIGINAL: Tidavis

Allow Mods to be played pbem-online.


That's all I have to add.