Ah, I see. I only remeber the Rome Scenario in the PC1 Mod. The allied planes have something like +10/+20 as a trait and can cross the whole map.

2) These historical heroes would start out weaker but have 5 upgrade levels (just like the 5 stars for units), each unlocked after 5 or more—or fewer—standard scenarios.
I’ll illustrate this with the example of Carlo Rivolta.
He would start as a hero with the ReducedSlots and Readiness traits ...

Does the base game have a Campaign or just scenarios? Do I have to buy the AO DLCs to get a Campaign?
Try the base game. But compared to the AO series the campaign is just like a tutorial ;)
If you can get a cheap bundle I recommend to buy everything at once.


The reason I've never bought this ...

Not exactly sure why, but I think its always wise to start a campaign and import your core manually.

For the AI in general, quality can be a lot better for new games, thanks to advances in LLM-based AI. That would make the game more difficult in the best way: playing against a more human-like opponent. With fewer quirks or obvious weaknesses. And hopefully, no 'illegal' information.


Yes, that ...

Well, it could be a feature for PC3!

Imo a defender should have more vision than an aggressor. I mean normally you fight on your own land, which means you know it better. Retreating units have information about the enemy, civilians might help to spread information and so on.
So the defender should ...

What I can say from over 1000 hours, if you have a 21cm gun and the enemy has one plane left, it will find it :D

Escpecially on larger maps, when you fight the enemy in waves, the AI always finds your forwarding units asap. I dont know it its using planes to scout if nothing is in range, but it ...

Not a big problem, a Tiger I cant get hurt a lot in 1943 in the vanilla game version. But you are right, its always better to have one ammo left for the worst case scenario.

But in this particular case, Dir is an infantry hero and tanks already get overrun, so the only hero you could give is ignore entrenchment. That might be ok if the Tiger had vigilant, but I prefer giving ignore entrenchment to Azul infantry. Unlike tanks, they can access the close defence of ...

Is it perhaps too powerful? It just goes through enemy units like butter, the only limit is how much ammo it has.

Give the heroes to a Tiger I + 1,5x rapid fire and some overstrength. 6 ammo ==> 6 kills, doesnt matter what you attack.
Some hero combinations are just broken. Either you dont use ...

I am not sure what 1944 and beyond will bring, but in PC1, Prokhorovka was a peak for your core deployment and in PC2, I can usually field less than two full divisions, often cutting back on infantry or tanks, or the air wing, depending on the scenario.

Yeah, during kursk your army is at a ...

You already mentioned two good arguments.
In the historical path you are most of the time still attacking, but somehow you still lose. There are just no mechanics for defensiv scenarios, the AI is just too stupid. It never feels like you are losing the war. In 1945 there are some stupid missions to ...

These traits are completly unbalanced.
In SCW this trait is no problem, in 1944 its game over.
I am more a fan of slider to make it harder/easier. More/less prestige; more/less stronger units and so on...if I am manipulating the game by picking dpoor abilities on purpose I wont have fun. Its like ...

Introduction: First, a massive shout-out to the creators of PanzerCorp1-Grandcampaign, AO Redone and Storm Over Europe for modding a new system of hero management, enabling players to purchase heroes with prestige at the start of each scenario.


Yes indeed, but...for me this led to a core that ...

How many tanks you use dictates the terrain, the mission, the enemy of course.
I wish it would be like that. But I cant name 2-3 scenarios where you actually should change your core big time.
Of course not something like Crete, where you just cant use several units.

Next time no heroes. But ...

KOLOZSVAR
Calm before the storm, easy map like you say, no problem with it.

BATTLE OF PLOESTI
Not that hard, it even feels like the vanilla one is harder.
It might have bugged a bit, the orange elite devision came in pretty late...not sure what they did or if they should defend an area instead ...

How many core slots do you have?
I think even in Kursk with >200 core slots you cant field half of what are mentioned and you did not even name some air units.

OPERATION PANZERSCHRECK

Well, always have been a strange mission. You have to kill a whole high end army of your ally, to make them your ally again.

Not sure if bugged or intended, the russians did not really attack at full strenght. I would say about 50% of their ground units did not move.

LVOV 1944

You called it medium yourself, and yeah it is. The map doesnt really work for me, for once the german defenses were strong enough to stop the russian until my core arrived. And we all know that the AI cant cross a river, when there is proper defense. So I easily killed everything, the ...

Np, but you owe me 4000 prestige