Update the base games.

[Xerxes77]

I would love to be able to fix some of the issues in the base games and then get them to the publisher so they can release a new update to include the fixes.

One of the things that annoy me endlessly are the top down graphics displaying more than one person on a commander - it has his name for freaks sake. I still prefer the original graphics to the top down version - but I have gotten used to the top down version, now can we just make the top down version work properly and display the units correctly please!

How they changed the graphics without consulting all the players mystifies me.

Personally the 3d view can be removed entirely from all the games - unless they improve them tremendously.

And all the screenshots on the product pages still show the original graphics... a bit misleading really.

As a relative newcomer, I agree with all this and share the frustration at the unrealized potential of the series. Currently I'm bummed that there's no way to see some sort of after-action report of what happened in a turn! I know other series have it, or at least give the player some sort of feedback. Here, I often get into this long, chaotic firefights and after the dust settles I only realize I've lost a leader in a stack when I see a gun on the floor.

It's the really small things that can go a long way, e.g. a big red "X" flashing over a stack, or a particular sound effect could play when a unit is destroyed instead of having it silently disappear. The manuals are thorough but the game itself can be so morose when it comes to communicating info to the player...

Re: the graphics issue. I've met the challenge halfway by using topdown for the units on the ground and classic portrait graphics for the big pictures, which IMO are absolutely required. I've also fixed the 3-guy problem with the leaders by editing the 2dunits files and now the leaders are just a little dude. It helps a lot with troop recognition in the battlefield.