My Suggegtions

[autumnvibin]

Hi Vic! I fucking love this game and I'm currently earning more and more hours into my steam account too. Here are some things that I would love to see added or changed!

Design Model variant Names:
While I love the model designer, the biggest issue for me is that when you create a new variant of the same model, it defaults to a roman numeral and it can't be changed. I like to make the actual model name equipment, an example would be the Tokva AVT-89 IIII from my current game. Having the ability to rename the variants independently would open up a lot more opportunities for immersive equipment names, like maybe iterations with a different model number. An example would be

Tokva SVT-64 -> Tokva AVT-72 -> Tokva EVT-84 -> Tokva EVT-84/T-86c Power Armor

Unit Names and Upgrades:
Upgrading regular units reset the name of all the units which can be annoying since I like to name all my units and subunits with immersive OOB designations and sometimes even nicknames. If I have a unit, lets just say the 23rd 'Eagles of Vistok' Tank Brigade, its rather annoying to have to rename this unit every time I need to upgrade or downgrade the unit. This only gets worse if I have multiple units in a SHQ that have nicknames or different names than the unit template upgraded too. Having at least a togglable box on the upgrade screen that prevents units being renamed upon change could remedy this.

Cavalry Units and Towed Equipment:
I think you have already mentioned making cavalry a potential unit that players can make in the future, but if you have not I'm suggesting it now. Perhaps in game they could be added to be used like motorized/mechanized units. This game's tech starts around pre-ww2, and at this time cavalry was not used in normal combat but as transportation. This could be represented in Shadow empire by making them a slow but extremely cheap motorized unit. This also would add the benefit of being able to pair towed equipment with cavalry in infantry units to bring them up to infantry speed without using fuel expensive motorized, like armies did historically.

[xerjin]

Unit Names and Upgrades:
Upgrading regular units reset the name of all the units which can be annoying since I like to name all my units and subunits with immersive OOB designations and sometimes even nicknames. If I have a unit, lets just say the 23rd 'Eagles of Vistok' Tank Brigade, its rather annoying to have to rename this unit every time I need to upgrade or downgrade the unit. This only gets worse if I have multiple units in a SHQ that have nicknames or different names than the unit template upgraded too. Having at least a togglable box on the upgrade screen that prevents units being renamed upon change could remedy this.

I 2nd this, I am always having to go back and do it.