Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: 76mm

Not sure if this has been raised before, and not sure how difficult it would be, but it drives me crazy that I need to set a uniform air doctrine for the entire front, from the Baltic to the Black Sea! It would be much much better if each air HQ could set its own air doctrine, so you could have different doctrines on differnents parts of the front.

How difficult would this be?

• Ready/Unready status - Units now qualify for Ready status if the average of TOE and morale is or exceeds 100. Non-motorized units should qualify for ready status if the average of TOE, morale and supply exceeds 100. For motorized units, fuel should be also taken into account.
  
• FOW - Highly accurate access to type and ID of enemy units should be only possible during tactical combat and even then the info gathered should be somewhat unreliable. When enemy units move elsewhere, this info should be lost.
  
• Terrain modifiers - It's unclear to me to what degree "CV enhancing" due to terrain depends on unit elements experience and HHQ leader mech or inf rating. Are these factors taken into account? If not, they certainly should.
  

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ORIGINAL: molchomor

One thing i noticed yesterday, was that some of my HI "lacked resources and could not produce", which can be pretty bad for axis and needs immediate attention. After some investigations I suspect this was caused by partisans damaging some rail lines to said resources. However the list of resource sites did not indicate anything being wrong as no damage occured to the production sites themselves of course.

Suggestion: *IF* damaged rail lines stop resources from reaching factories, could this please be made more visible ? E.g. by changing the text <town> <capacity> <damage> in the resource list to red color if the resources produced cannot be shipped due to logistical matters. Or prominently display something in the report.

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ORIGINAL: 76mm

Not sure if this has been raised before, and not sure how difficult it would be, but it drives me crazy that I need to set a uniform air doctrine for the entire front, from the Baltic to the Black Sea! It would be much much better if each air HQ could set its own air doctrine, so you could have different doctrines on differnents parts of the front.

How difficult would this be?

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ORIGINAL: Manstein63

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ORIGINAL: 76mm

Not sure if this has been raised before, and not sure how difficult it would be, but it drives me crazy that I need to set a uniform air doctrine for the entire front, from the Baltic to the Black Sea! It would be much much better if each air HQ could set its own air doctrine, so you could have different doctrines on differnents parts of the front.

How difficult would this be?

+1 & the ability to change your aircraft types & other settings in the National Reserve screen would be helpfull as well.

Also would it be possible to tweak the weather in random mode so that the Axis player could have guaranteed clear weather until the end of September of 1941 before the possibility of mud or worse. I would prefer to play with random weather because it gives you that uncertainty
but fully understand the frustrations of an Axis Player who has had all their good work on the first turn destroyed by mud on turns 2 & 3

Manstein63

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ORIGINAL: Bletchley_Geek

In my last post I only suggested UI-related stuff, here go a few suggestions regarding game mechanics:

• Ready/Unready status - Units now qualify for Ready status if the average of TOE and morale is or exceeds 100. Non-motorized units should qualify for ready status if the average of TOE, morale and supply exceeds 100. For motorized units, fuel should be also taken into account.
  
• FOW - Highly accurate access to type and ID of enemy units should be only possible during tactical combat and even then the info gathered should be somewhat unreliable. When enemy units move elsewhere, this info should be lost.
  
• Terrain modifiers - It's unclear to me to what degree "CV enhancing" due to terrain depends on unit elements experience and HHQ leader mech or inf rating. Are these factors taken into account? If not, they certainly should.
  

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ORIGINAL: morvael

1. Ability to see if units are in contact with the enemy in commander's report (useful for new rules about refit) - for example "Rft-" would mean unit is in contact with enemy and will not benefit from Refit rules.

2. Ability to lock specific support units for given HQ, instead of locking entire HQ (and the chain with it as well), while the rest could be transferred freely by the AI. That would be something for people with less love for micromanagement, who still would like to attach critical units (heavy tank battalions, siege artillery) to specific HQs or combat units and be sure they would stick.

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ORIGINAL: davbaker

Would it be possible to add an originating "AirBase" Column to the "Pick Air Units for Mission" screen you get when you Shift Click for Air Missons?

I would find it a little easier to determine where I'm getting my airsupport from.

Thanks

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ORIGINAL: Franklin Nimitz

How about allowing assignment of air assets to support particular divisions/corps?  A recon staffel would increase a division's clear hex detection levels allowing it to see further as it moves, and an increase in artillery effectiveness for any arty elements present to account for aerial spotting?  This would make Storches relevent. 

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ORIGINAL: Sabre21

I really don't see this happening. That would take any disadvantages that the German may face away in the summer but leave the advantages that may occur for him during mud or winter. That would be a pretty lop-sided change. If I was a Soviet player, i would never play someone using a capability like that. If you don't like random weather, you can turn it off.

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ORIGINAL: Sabre21

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I really don't see this happening. That would take any disadvantages that the German may face away in the summer but leave the advantages that may occur for him during mud or winter. That would be a pretty lop-sided change. If I was a Soviet player, i would never play someone using a capability like that. If you don't like random weather, you can turn it off.

As I said I would be happy to play using random weather as I think it makes for a better game, but it seems that the majority of people would disagree which is why I suggested tweaking the weather. If as you said that there is no chance of mud happening in the first 3 turns ( I assume due to hard coding) then it seems to me that it would be relitively easy to extend it further & if you feel that the end of September is too lop-sided then just extend the clear weather to the end of August instead. However if it doesn't happen well I can live with that as well.

(in reply to Sabre21)

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ORIGINAL: 76mm

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ORIGINAL: Sabre21

I really don't see this happening. That would take any disadvantages that the German may face away in the summer but leave the advantages that may occur for him during mud or winter. That would be a pretty lop-sided change. If I was a Soviet player, i would never play someone using a capability like that. If you don't like random weather, you can turn it off.

Frankly I completely disagree. Most players, even many Sovs, don't like it when there is mud in the summer of 1941, it just skews the game too much for the German.

The point of random weather should be that neither side knows exactly when the mud and blizzard will start and end in the fall and winter respectively, not that the Germans may get two mud turns in the first summer, which just screws the game.

I think it is fair to say that in its current form, random weather is very unpopular. Another related request--could we please simply call historical weather just that, instead of "non-random" weather?

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ORIGINAL: Manstein63

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ORIGINAL: Sabre21

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I really don't see this happening. That would take any disadvantages that the German may face away in the summer but leave the advantages that may occur for him during mud or winter. That would be a pretty lop-sided change. If I was a Soviet player, i would never play someone using a capability like that. If you don't like random weather, you can turn it off.

As I said I would be happy to play using random weather as I think it makes for a better game, but it seems that the majority of people would disagree which is why I suggested tweaking the weather. If as you said that there is no chance of mud happening in the first 3 turns ( I assume due to hard coding) then it seems to me that it would be relitively easy to extend it further & if you feel that the end of September is too lop-sided then just extend the clear weather to the end of August instead. However if it doesn't happen well I can live with that as well.

I indicated it can't happen in turn 1 or 2. Since turn 3 is on 3 July, it can occur then. Just not in June of 41. Any changes to this would be up to Gary, and considering the testers hotly discussed this long ago, I can tell you that it won't change any time soon.

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(in reply to Manstein63)

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ORIGINAL: Georgy Zhukov

add the historical division simbols of all units is good for a excellent historical inmersion.

for example:
17 panzer division:



historical simbol division:




other simbols divisions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_divisions_in_World_War_II

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ORIGINAL: Pawlock

I would like to see Hq lock mean lock ALL units into said hq. Im forever frustrated at allocating construction brigades to Army hqs for them all to eventually migrate to Front hq's and then having to spend Aps again to put them back.

I dont know or can see the reasoning behind the current set up, but atm as it is ,is very frustating.