12OperationVesuvius:
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End of the feedback of my very first playthrough!
MV at end of t 35 / start of t 36 (out of 48)
At the 28th turn, there was only a single pri location left to capture in order to Liberate Corsica. At the 29th, this place became empty of any enemy garrison… Then I had to wait until having destroyed enough auxiliary vessels!
It was then a little annoying, having the entire island under control to use several turns for this… well, perhaps, no, probably, I should have sent more ships sooner toward this exit hex. Probably I’ve lost too many time dealing with Schnellboats on the East whereas they don’t represent a threat anyway (or almost) to our ships… Yeah, I should have focused directly on the targets for this obj instead of dealing with subs and Schnellboats.
=> Still, perhaps
reducing this
threshold from 15 to 12? (
As the main focus should stay inland…)
About the hex ownership change around Bastia, I definitely think
it would be better to wait until the “Divisione Friuli” appears…
(
Okay, it seems to be fixed, already. 
)
‘Perhaps
adding
two supply ships together with the landing troops?
Well, we’ve enough supply at Ajaccio, that’s not the point. But one could try some side-landing at the nearby beaches straight to the East (so southwards to the river that the Italians are defending), to create some pincer/flanking move… but then there is some lack of supply… and that’s why I suggest this… then, only one of them may “phone” the info… per symmetry, then, perhaps the second one on the other side… 
At this river, during the fight between the first Italian Division and the Germans, the later won’t be very aggressive indeed… mostly artillery fire, then one or two units moving upwards each turn… first taking the flag (the name of the river) and then using one of the bridges… not much. It’s really tempting to cross the river to chase them. Not necessarily the best idea, though, because the arrival of German troops may have quite an effect there…
Perhaps add some warning for the player about staying on a defensive stance behind this river for a while?
Anyway, with their actual aggressivity level, there is no way these German could retake Ajaccio…
BUT I see you've already adressed this point.
The
Schnellboats in the South stayed idle…
they haven’t moved as you’ve triggered them with the defense of an hex that is far away…
Perhaps simply putting them to S&D would look better?
With no
armored recon unit together with our tanks? A little early to see some US recon model of unit, but perhaps some (old) French “Panhard 178”?
If yes, they should be two… These units are now relatively weak so they shouldn’t unbalance the fight…
There is now
no XP at all for our (French) tanks, artillery, AA nor AT units…
I’ve seen a little strange thing… the units about to land spawn
one turn before their escorting planes and ships… it’s not really a problem in itself, but it’s a little strange and, it seems to me at least, according to the triggers you’ve set up, they should spawn together… If yes, perhaps merging these two triggers may do the trick, but it would take some time…
Anyway, while at it (or not), probably good to deploy our Casabianca sub more northwards…
she’s slow to move, so it could help to have her already deployed closer to the exit hex west of Sagone. (She won’t be of much use against Schnellboats anyway.)
The first aerial fight is well-balanced, with 10 planes on each side (
if I’m not mistaken 
)… I’ve seen the usual “issue” with enemy planes being exited but never showing back again.
It’s really good that you’ve planed some enemy air reinforcements, but I would say that, first, they should appear sooner (at turn 30 there was no more action inland and I was just chasing various support ships)… I would say this last wave should come more around turn 25.
Then, I would suggest adding a smaller wave of reinforcements, in the South this time, around turn 20…
perhaps only 5 or 6 planes (to replace the ones that have exited for never returning and compensating their first losses), without any event… if they spawn near the eastern border of the map, their arrival should be relatively discrete anyway!
So, the
main wave (in the NE) several turns sooner and another extra little wave (in the SE) to maintain some action in the skies…
(
And with our planes more occupied by this little extra wave, that’s another reason to reduce slightly the amount of support ships to seek and destroy!)
On the campaign map,
before the scenario about
Operation Diadem, I’ve only one "pin" related of the XP bonus (+1/2 star) for our pilots instead of the usual two that I shall see (having achieved both)… well, perhaps we won’t have French pilots, but still…
And...
I think that's it for now!
So...
Et voilà ! 
which does not make the defense of Ajaccio very difficult at all!
a “15. Tabor Marocains (Goumiers)” would do the trick… then, by overall coherence, perhaps just the number everywhere before “Tabor” or the number followed by a point before “Tabor”? 
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Hem... With the coastal gun, you could try switching from "Kill" to "Remove" and vice versa...