Feature requests

[Dog Soldier]

Wait, i thought you can set opportunity fire only global and not for single units (on map counters)...?!

Ha Ha!
You are now going down the rabbit hole.

Yes, you certainly can set every unit that is in hidden status on any turn to precisely the opportunity fire orders you want.  Those orders will stick until the unit is discovered by enemy recon elements, assaulted, or if you move them somewhere else. 

The first case is recon discovery, which you can never be quite sure has occurred to your hidden units.  This is an intended feature of the game.  Uncertainty in battle.  So pause first before reporting hidden unit bugs.  We got this working exactly the way we like it.  And I mean literally hundreds of man hours trying to find any way to break the hidden unit - opportunity fire combination feature of the PzB series.  We missed the reveals when Kursk came out in the jump map.  But really, when you have as much time spent as we do in testing scenarios over and over, and over, and over, and over....well you get the idea, who on the testing team even looks at the jump map after a while?  BTW, I got through all the Kursk testing without ever using the jump map except in Strela's giant map of the entire southern front which is not a playable scenario anyways.

The third case makes sense as I do not think the program tracks a units opportunity fire setting s once the unit breaks down, combines with other units, or moves position.  Just not coded that way.  In a way that makes things easier as the player knows these actions cancel the opportunity fire orders and just rest them based on the new situation.  The same orders may not apply t all so why keep them?

There are many more layers to this onion (PzB) which really only come out when you play a live opponent in PBEM.  And there are some pretty crafty devils in the community already.  

Very fun indeed to see a green Allied commander go up against a battle hardened veteran Axis player.  Just like what happened historically in Normandy except you are not killing people to learn to command well.  You will live to fight again.  And be wiser for the experience.

Dog Soldier