Charles22
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Moonpie: Goodness, if you're willing to put all that time into it, then why not go for the gusto? Would you rather fight with five Panthers or 10-15 (as the campaign progresses)? All that extra time a large force requires is quality time, time which otherwise would have been spent on racing around with smaller units.
I know one problem you might have with larger forces, and that is that it takes so long to give all units the orders and then if you're wanting to save the game and do something, then you hate that the next time you get to playing you may have forgotten which unit you were last issuing orders to, given that a save goes back to the A0 unit. My little semi-solution to that problem, is generally, I will run through my units in reverse order using the P key. For one reason because in that way I'm more apt to expose the support, rather than the core, to drawing fire or doing the more bold stuff. In any case if you can pretty much go through your units in continual order, you can reliably write down the name of the last unit which you gave orders to, and then returning from the save to go right to that unit. Going through one unit after the other, in order, seems to speed things up, but one has to balance that with different formations concentrating on the same area and the selecting the ones that you want to take the heat first. For example, it's kind of dumb to expose spotted infantry to gun fire, by moving them first, if you know that the same gunfire won't put a dent in your Tiger, though there could be argument for not unnecessarily adding more suppression to the Tiger that way.
Here's a question folks. Why not give us the ability to tweak the organizational structure of the force? What I mean by that, is why not have the core force with all the self-propelled weapons as the first formations, and the foot troops as the last ones, with of course the same thing working in the support forces? I haven't played it enough, but I THINK this may be actually happening to some degree with SPWAW (seems the SP series placed a formation as you picked it). Often I find that my third platoon picked, shows up as the 'D', but as I get deeper into picking the force, that 'D' formation may have changed to 'H'. I could see advantages to being able to also wanting formations laid out just as you pick it (sorry to be so self-defeating). For instance, perhaps I always want one formation of engineers to tag along with a certain tank formation, so that having them in order more easily accomodates me placing them together. In my case, anyway, I think I prefer self-propelled as the early units, while foot as last. If you want to execute tank orders first, you use the "N" key, and if you want to do the foot units first you use the "P" key.
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everyday for hours since it was released. I haven't played a game to death like this in over 10 years!
Gawd...my hand is shaking.....I gotta get back to my SP habit. Think I will quit work. 
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I can't think of anyother options for your type of battle. I wouldn't shed any tears for knowing what you're up againest, buy some King Tigers and have a go at them, you'll need the tears for your lost units. 
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