coop multiplayer?

[smashtheaxis]

Wouldn't it be great to have cooperative multiplayer in PC? Players playing for the same side, each one commanding a different nation or army group. Ideally, making their moves at the same time.

It would be interesting to play an epic Barbarossa scenario with 3 players in command of the 3 army groups.

[Tarrak]

I think this idea was voiced already before. While i am myself a big fan of coop multiplayer i am afraid within the current design and game engine it will be really hard to implement but it may be a very good idea to keep it in mind for a possible PC 2.

[Shrike]

I don't see this working on the current engine to be honest. In co-op the turn sequence becomes a potential game breaker, unless a different approach in turn processing could be found. There are games which have all the players upload their turn and then the PBEM server processes these simultaneously, but how would you do that for a game where the battles depend on sequential player input?