Slitherine

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1. It would help to have equipment quality level between current obsolete and low, in which the equipment would not be sent back immediately, but would be effectively treated as a lower tier of losses - i.e., replace with acceptable quality equipment if logistics capacity is present and no lost subunits need outright replacement.

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4. I think the game could use a land recon OOB consisting of several units of buggies or motorbikes - i.e. a group that is generally sent out to chart and claim wild territories or raid vulnerable enemy targets. (In theory these would probably not be under command as rigid as frontline OOBs, but there's still enough examples in history of such groups acting under unified command (although given Earth's history, its exploration groups existed before vehicles appeared)

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9. Given that surplus army equipment is traditionally a big source for various militias, it seems that there should be an option to hand over obsolete models that you just replaced to militia, rather than scrapping them. I can understand that it may be exploitable if you design a new model and then immediately hand it over to militia who would field it without fuel requirements, so maybe such equipment would go into a hidden pool and would only get assigned to units once the model's age makes it eligible for militia (who may not have trained personnel to properly operate state-of-the-art vehicles immediately)

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11. The small white number in the upper-right corner of a unit's icon signifying its number can be lost on bright backgrounds. It would help if it was black instead if the background color is light enough (this number helps e.g. if you have 6 brigades of the same type and you want to make sure their units don't get separated all over the place)

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1. It would help to have equipment quality level between current obsolete and low, in which the equipment would not be sent back immediately, but would be effectively treated as a lower tier of losses - i.e., replace with acceptable quality equipment if logistics capacity is present and no lost subunits need outright replacement.

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2. At the moment the logistics handling of missing troops replacement on one hand and upgrade/replace on the other is different - replace/upgrade will use any hex with sufficient points within operational logistics range, while replacing missing troops apparently needs points on unit's hex. This can be confusing and is somewhat counter-intuitive (sending a replacement unit is actually simpler than shipping stuff there and back). It would help if both used operational logistics consistently.

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3. It would help to be able to designate public assets as having priority access to the workers. For example, if on a given turn a town experiences labor shortage, the workers will be first pulled from something that is not a truck station. Yes, you can resolve it for future turns by playing with asset percentages, but when losing productivity in a certain structure even for a turn causes further problems, and total worker requirements fluctuate when construction is involved, it would help to have a way to handle it preemptively.

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4. I think the game could use a land recon OOB consisting of several units of buggies or motorbikes - i.e. a group that is generally sent out to chart and claim wild territories or raid vulnerable enemy targets. (In theory these would probably not be under command as rigid as frontline OOBs, but there's still enough examples in history of such groups acting under unified command (although given Earth's history, its exploration groups existed before vehicles appeared)

5. On the other hand just about every other OOB is obvious enough that I'm not sure it makes sense for "Discover OOB" to be a thing. Discovery is used by other councils for original ideas that are not immediately obvious. On the other hand, once you develop RPG soldiers the idea that it would help to have some of them sprinkled in with your troops to give them anti-tank punch should be obvious (even if actual operationalization would still take time). Even more so would be the idea to have motorized and mechanized version (after you operationalized a moto/mecha version or two you can bet that the very first formal meeting discussing the new formation proposal will already touch on the possibility of having its moto/mecha versions). At the very least perhaps moto/mecha versions should just be discovered once and unlock these versions for everything, and similarly e.g. there should be no need to discover heavy armor storm formation if you already have an idea of light armor storm one.

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6. It's a bit strange that you can have laser rifles, but aircraft are stuck with machine guns for direct fire weapons - it seems that aircraft-mounted energy weapons should be a thing, as currently aircraft weaponry is limited to 20th century while everything else marches on to Warhammer.

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7. It seems that once your empire has orbital flight, at the very least any dark spots on the map should be removed - some of Civ games already do that. It could be after researching any tech in the early orbital group, or perhaps satellites would be a separate tech in that group. Or perhaps basic map would be filled on getting any orbital tech, and a proper satellites tech would provide a low amount of recon on all hexes - enough to know the map and keep track of cities, roads and assets.

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8. Logically, since at the start of the game your regime has been around for some time, it should be largely self-sufficient at least at the initial levels of consumption. So it can be strange that if planet conditions mean that you start with a domed farm, you don't actually have water income for it. Maybe there needs to be an alternative version of the starting degraded LE mini-reactor for such planets that would also provide 200 water (but named differently of course).

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9. Given that surplus army equipment is traditionally a big source for various militias, it seems that there should be an option to hand over obsolete models that you just replaced to militia, rather than scrapping them. I can understand that it may be exploitable if you design a new model and then immediately hand it over to militia who would field it without fuel requirements, so maybe such equipment would go into a hidden pool and would only get assigned to units once the model's age makes it eligible for militia (who may not have trained personnel to properly operate state-of-the-art vehicles immediately)

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10. In many matches most or all of the opposing regimes are similar or even the same colors. E.g. in one of my games all except one of major regimes were different shades of green, in another all except one were shades of yellow. It would help for the game to try assign more differing colors.

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11. The small white number in the upper-right corner of a unit's icon signifying its number can be lost on bright backgrounds. It would help if it was black instead if the background color is light enough (this number helps e.g. if you have 6 brigades of the same type and you want to make sure their units don't get separated all over the place)

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12. It would help if when in road construction mode the hexes were marked according to the extra cost of the road - either by color (the redder, the pricier) or by outright displaying the cost modifier on each hex.

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13. Given that mascots are a career path for popular soldiers, maybe their icon should be a human rather than a dog (unless old GR genetic tech is involved).

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14. The current name of the hitpoints can be confusing for starting players since SE's hitpoints behave nothing like traditional hitpoints (which is a health counter reduced by successful attacks). SE's hitpoints on the other hand are what is traditionally called defense - i.e. they reduce a chance to take damage from an attack. It may be simpler for new players if "hitpoints" were renamed to "defense" and current "defense" was renamed to counterattack" or "return fire".

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15. The game treats turbojets as an upgraded version of jet. IRL while turboprop is indeed an upgraded traditional propeller engine (driven by turbine rather than piston engine), a turbojet is actually the first jet engine type developed and the most basic one. The "turbo-" just means that it's powered by turbine, like all jet engines are, not that it's more powerful - so there is no separate "jet" before turbojet. The more advanced jet engines are actually turbofan (more efficient) or ramjet (more powerful).

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ORIGINAL: Zanotirn

I had a bunch of small suggestions and it's probably easier to put them in one thread:

3. It would help to be able to designate public assets as having priority access to the workers.

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4. I think the game could use a land recon OOB consisting of several units of buggies or motorbikes

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6. It's a bit strange that you can have laser rifles, but aircraft are stuck with machine guns for direct fire weapons - it seems that aircraft-mounted energy weapons should be a thing

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12. It would help if when in road construction mode the hexes were marked according to the extra cost of the road - either by color (the redder, the pricier) or by outright displaying the cost modifier on each hex.

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14. The current name of the hitpoints can be confusing for starting players since SE's hitpoints behave nothing like traditional hitpoints (which is a health counter reduced by successful attacks). SE's hitpoints on the other hand are what is traditionally called defense - i.e. they reduce a chance to take damage from an attack. It may be simpler for new players if "hitpoints" were renamed to "defense" and current "defense" was renamed to counterattack" or "return fire".

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ORIGINAL: Arcalane

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1. It would help to have equipment quality level between current obsolete and low, in which the equipment would not be sent back immediately, but would be effectively treated as a lower tier of losses - i.e., replace with acceptable quality equipment if logistics capacity is present and no lost subunits need outright replacement.

You're approaching the situation from the wrong angle, technically speaking. I think what you're really asking for here is a step between Disallowed and Tolerated? Obsolete/Low/etc. and how they're handled are entirely player-determined.

Essentially you've got a grid of Disallowed / Tolerated / Allowed, and Obsolete / Low / Regular / High / Elite. Obsolete is always Disallowed (units are retired to SHQ depots), but the others can be set per-unit either at formation or afterwards in Unit Admin at player discretion. Tolerated units are phased out and replaced with Allowed units if any such units are present at SHQ, but otherwise left in place if no replacement units exist.

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ORIGINAL: Arcalane
Given the nature/purpose of recon units the better solution is just 'raise independent formations and attach them to a larger unit, or leave them independent', really. Your recon units won't benefit from commander skill bonuses if they're roaming far and wide anyway, and as long as you're not using them to fight tanks then reasonably well-designed buggies are more than a match for roaming critters even without stance bonuses. Beta version is also adding the ability to customize OOBs somewhat.

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ORIGINAL: GuardsmanGary
Armoured transports share the same recon class as buggies so they are just as effective at recon as them. Once you deploy mechanized formations there is no need for sprinkling in recon battalions in your front lines.

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ORIGINAL: zgrssd

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6. It's a bit strange that you can have laser rifles, but aircraft are stuck with machine guns for direct fire weapons - it seems that aircraft-mounted energy weapons should be a thing, as currently aircraft weaponry is limited to 20th century while everything else marches on to Warhammer.

What is currently preventing the use of Laser weapons and Electrical Engines in airplanes in the real world is the energy density. Airplanes are much more vulnerable to weight then ground vehicles.
You can always stop a tank halfway for a refill - hard to do that with a plane.

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ORIGINAL: GuardsmanGary

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3. It would help to be able to designate public assets as having priority access to the workers.

Public assets already have worker priority in the form of higher public wages. If people will get paid more working for the state than private entities they will more likely choose public jobs than stick with the private sector. It's not unusual to see public assets operating at full production while there are some private assets that have been completely mothballed in cities with population shortages.

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ORIGINAL: Zanotirn
In this case the goal is to have not an individual recon unit, but an expeditionary force that can claim territory from marauders and wildlife. Recon units do very well in this role since they are fast and their combat abilities are adequate for the job, while heavier mechanized formations are usually overkill, and also are harder on the limited supply capacity that you often have in these situations.

Think of American forces sent into indian territory, large European expeditions into Africa or Russian forces claiming Siberia - on Earth this kind of activity was finished by the time vehicles arrived, but if we had to do it now, such kind of vehicles would probably be used. In game terms a group like that can spread out to quickly cover more territory and can converge to handle and potentially encircle enemy groups. Although it would work adequately in war by dealing with stray and weakened units while your heavier mechanized formations may end up needing to form the front.

While these groups would often operate more independently than regular troops, they may still end up converging, so a commander in charge of the whole group would provide benefit (as well as handle things like making sure lessons learned from some units are adequately integrated in others).

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5.10.15.2. Combat stePs looP
[...]
Scroll through all Subunits
As already explained above, we cycle through all Subunits and then test for
each one whether it can attack. It can attack if it has made fewer attacks this
combat round then its statistics allow. Furthermore, the Subunit must not be
in the process of retreating.

Find a target
Then (semi)randomly an opponent of the enemy side is chosen. Semi
random because the randomness depends on the number of tries the
Subunits statistics allow. If it has only 1 try in finding its favourite target, it is
purely random. But if it has more tries it will pick the target it likes the most.
A Subunit can only attack an enemy backbench Subunit if the attacking
Subunit has either accomplished a breakthrough or if it has artillery range.
Furthermore, artillery capable Subunits cannot fire on enemy Subunits that
have broken through.

Find preventer
It is possible the target Subunit is of a type that another Subunit from that
same side wants to defend. This may lead to the “preventer” being attacked
instead of the original target.
[...]

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar

5. "divide caliber by 3" penalty already doesn't apply to tanks.
(Also, tanks and artillery get different modifiers to firepower to calculate the 4 attack values.)
Higher techs defenses like Liquid Armor and Shields already have reduced vulnerability against Hollow weapons.

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar

2. No jobs are given by calling a leader, they all happen on the next round that a vacant position exists.
It would be nice if you could spend PPs to have the selection committee review the potential candidates *right now*.