Panzer Battles Demo - Released!

[ComradeP]

Sadly, I have one of those modern ergonomic keyboards without a numpad, but I agree that keeping a single button shortcut for T-mode was the right step. I use custom hotkeys now through autohotkey and it works fine.

As another example of the fire modifiers: firing into a hex giving a -50% modifier and through a hexside giving a -50% modifier currently makes the defender invulnerable, and it's this example where the higher quality units have a very real advantage.

C quality Allied units trying to hit men in bunkers won't do any damage through the bocage, instead of having their fire modified by x0.25 in total, which is a stiff but fair penalty and better than not being able to damage defending units.

There's no magical solution for the way vehicle/gun/aircraft interaction with elements composed of men is handled, but I appreciate that progress is being made in terms of adding more tools for tweaking that part of the combat engine to see what might work.

Another thing I've been thinking about is if it might be possible to have an alt assault rule for elements that are organically soft but become hard through fortifications, whilst not adjusting assaults against bunkers. This would give the scenario designer the chance to limit infantry assault effectiveness against tanks early in the war whilst still allowing them to assault bunkers. The current alt assault rules make it nearly impossible to assault bunkers, so it would be nice if that rule could be split in two flavours.

That would result in early war tank combat scenarios like Hannut being about tank vs. tank combat, instead of the current infantry vs. tank situation.