Development ideas

[John Given]

You have some great ideas Rod.

I'm glad someone besides me supports the armored recovery tanks (I mainly, though not exclusively, envision them as wreck removal units). They'll probably be too rare to appear in more than a handful of scenarios, but I still look forward to having them. Perhaps other members here can think up a few new abilities for them?

I love the idea of being able to "rubble" hexes. Perhaps the aforementioned armored engineering vehicles can "clear" these to regular vehicles over a period of several turns? (they often sport a large bulldozer blade, like on the Bergepanther).

On bridgelayers, Jason said the other day that they are going to be included for East Front, as I recall. I'd love to see them appear in
West Front - remember the old Valentine Bridgelayer from Panzer Leader? I always thought it a shame how Divided Ground had the bridgelayer tank, but it could not actually lay bridges...

I had also mentioned to Jason that there needs to be a German (and perhaps U.S. and British), SMG unit - I had the German MP40 in mind at the time. The later MP44 (Sturmgewere) was even more powerful, an assault rifle actually, but Jason says these units are assumed to be mixed in with the regular platoons, so that explains that I guess. In the old Panzer Leader / Panzerblitz, these units are represented separately with their own platoons.

I still like the idea of FO vehicles and ammunition carriers being included in the game, but no one else seems to...yet.

Almost forgot to mention. I love the new trucks / soft-skinned halftracks - higher sp value, and defense factor wisely set to "2." However, the truck-based and soft-HT based combat units are still running around with their old defense factors of "1." Like the AAA halftracks and trucks for example. Can we have these sorts of units defense factor's increased to "2" for 1.05? I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned this issue yet. The trucks are tougher than many of the support vehicles, lol...