New Map Look

[Larry Reese]

Bogs that operate like minefields. You can't see them from the map, but you can spot them if they are in LOS (just like a mine field). If you're driving around and run into it accidently, you lose X number of vehicles to getting stuck. I think there are way too many tanks, particularly super heavies, that have virtually none of the movement limitations of real life in the game. For example, large numbers of German heavies were lost, particularly late war, by driving into areas where they bogged down and were abandoned (or later recovered if they weren't overrun, but lost for the purposes of most scenarios we would play in CS).

We could also use additional variations of existing terrain (there is already some automatic rotation in the game - for example each forest hex is not identical to the next in 3d. Adding a few more variations for the program to chose from could add some additional variety in a workable format.

I personally would also like to see bunkers/pillboxes have a facing feature. while some complexes were set up for all around defense (and these would be the standard bunker/pbs in the game) most were linear in nature and "tuned" to fight in a specific direction. Units in the B/PBs would still get the added defense bonus (or could have a smaller bonus depending on facing) but would face fire penalties when firing outside their frontal arc.

This and the previous requests I made would really turn this game into something special in my opinion, and more accurate.

LR