Interesting news over at Matrix guys.......

[Mad Russian]

The only thing I ever did with higher commanders in CM was use them for spotters for indirect fire. Of course I suck at CM...

Any CO can spot for off map arty (within the rules) and on map needs LOS.

In some respects PC is a simpler game than CM but a good wargame in it's own way.

You were missing out on very powerful tools in CM if you didn't use the extra leaders. They allow for a much broader area to be covered with leadership modifiers. Also, helping to have units come back from levels of disruption.

PC seems to me to me more simple only in the fact that you don't have to micro manage the game like you do CM.

Artillery is worlds apart in their modeling in the two games. Both work. Both are an abstraction. I don't see one method any better or worse than the other.

Good Hunting.

MR