Feature requests

[Dog Soldier]

I can't reproduce the situation at the moment, so it's possible the units either reset their preferences at some point for some reason, or felt they were spotted and thus switched back to "fire whenever possible".

I'll rephrase the feature request to: broken down units retain the opportunity fire preference of the larger unit.

Units will lose the opportunity fire settings if spotted and will revert to normal AI control for defensive fire purposes.  This is as intended.  The player does not have a fine control over units engaged in the defensive fire against their opponent.  Such control would render PBEM file exchanges impossible.

The broken down issue and then recombining feature would work as you describe.  The new units resulting from breaking down a larger battery would be considered by the game to new units for the purposes of the opportunity fire dialog.  The same behavior happens IIRC when combining previously broken down elements of the same battery.  The latter case of recombining might be a big problem as the component smaller elements may have completely different opportunity fire orders than each other.  How would the program decide which is the order that carries to the new combined unit?  this is more problematic when one considers the smaller elements usually break down to equal numbers of guns.

I found it not to hard to remember that batteries that any units that break down or recombine require new opportunity fire orders if I want to control them at that fine a level at the time.  It is just a habit I developed to check the OFD In such cases as they do not occur too much during most of my games.  When it does happen that I need to do this, it is all about the same time

I try to move all units which will be out of enemy LOS for the turn as the last actions of a turn which is a courtesy to the other PBEM opponent watching the replay.  Not always possible, but nice when you can do it.

Dog Soldier