Thinking about larger battles.........

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

I used to play those, but not really good enough, IMO. Limited to small amount of troops and usually control of one man was the result of the rest of his group being killed and he was rarely controllable. Plus, you still didn't get the room to room clearing type of stuff, multi level, etc etc. I'm hoping someday for an individual man type of scale where you have to use small unit tactics where you have to set a man or two to cover down the road while the rest move across to the next building. Stuff like that. Never have seen a good game like that. The closest would be the old Xcom game.

Then again, I am still holding out hope for a SBs that would be similar to Campaign Series or Steep Panthers where you have all the countries available and forces for each year and be able to have some large, medium and small maps for random battles with force sizes of Company, Battalion, Regiment/Brigade and KG/TF/Division sized forces. Two opps take a div each to fight their battle. You can have unlimited points to start or limited to start. They choose what units they want to enter within the points alloted that turn. Every turn there would be a reinforcment phase with x amount of points to select units to enter and may take several turns to save those points up to get the unit you want or leave it open to where you decide what, if any units to bring in. You have a whole div to choose from, but may only use one bde for the whole fight. It would be entirely up to them what forces to use or not. But would rather see specific units, not generic ones like in CS. You want an SS div, you get to choose which one you want, not an average generic oob and it also depends on the year of the battle. You want 12ss, you would have to have a battle in 1944, not 1941. Part of the beauty of it is that you use as much or less as you think , but not more than the unit you choose to start the scenario with. Scenarios would basically have no time limit instead fighting til one side concedes to the other. It would also have to have the changing dawn/day/dusk/night turns. I wouldn't expect this to be an extra patch for an existing title, I would expect a whole new title for it. It could even be split into several titles with one covering the EF, WF, Med/NAfrica/Balkans and one or more covering all or different areas of the Pacific and then more again maybe covering post ww2 to modern day. I'd sure find a way to eventually buy them.

I'm a dreamer, what can I say?