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Great thread;

Lots of stuff that's been covered before, but some good new suggestions as well.

I especially like the truck pool discussion. I've felt that not only B44, but N44 and MG44 would benefit from the Allies being able to truck battalions around for long operational moves (like from the beach to the front line) without making them motorised. I've always thought along the lines of units for this, but the suggestion to track it like the "on-foot" units makes a lot of sense. The British army usually had enough truck companies assigned to each division to lift one brigade at a time, throughout most of the war. The Italian infantry divisions in the desert were actually "auto-transportable" or "semi-motorised" which meant that there were enough trucks to lift one regiment, though Rommel usually stole those for other purposes.

Another area I'd like to discuss is the fortification/minefield/obstacle process. While I understand why the game engine makes these disappear when not spotted, this brings up a point someone made in another thread. Since the game engine treats these as "neutral" units rather than map features, and they can be placed on the map during scenario design, why can they not "arrive" as "reinforcements" during the game? This would surely help the Germans in N44, and the British in EA42, and many other situations. You could either have them arrive at locations fixed by the scenario designer at creation of the scen (either at historical locations, or where ever he feels they best assist the game flow), or maybe they could just arrive and be placed by the owning player wherever he wants, within restrictions (must be out of view of opposing units, not isolated, etc).

And yet another idea is engineer bridges. As it stands, any bridging unit can build a heavy bridge. I would like to see bridge engineers assigned a bridging strength, so that they can only build light, medium, or heavy bridges. Then the engineer battalions in infantry divisions, in nearly every army would only build light or medium bridges, while the heavy bridges would be limited to mechanised divisions, or higher headquarters. This would require players to husband these assets and concentrate them along the main axis of attack, etc.

Just my two cent's worth (actually three cents!)

Bill