TBGilbert - First Impression

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30 Seconds - I like it. Short intro, lets get to the game and start playing!

Went right to the campaign, didn't look for help or manual, just wanted to see how easy it was to figure out.

5 Minutes - In Poland

Right off the bat, some of the units are hard to see. Let a Polish mountain sneak in behind my arty and maul it.
I really like the "Big Explosion" signifying the destruction of a unit. Can that be brought back? The stealth destruction is sort of anticlimactic.

No issues with alt-tab out and back, always a plus!

I am running at 1680x1050, and the next, previous etc buttons are a bit small.

I LOVE the animations! Good work there.

The weather icons are a bit hard to see and figure out. Maybe a tool tip with the forecast?

15 minutes -

OK, hit the library for a quick reference. Back to Poland. The Cntl Click is interesting, I need to play around with it a bit more.

The icon for the bridging units is... horrible.
Have a <br> artifact on some of the menus. Not an issue.

Really like the way the movement is displayed. Makes it simple, and QUICK.
So aircraft can escape encirclement now? Makes it harder to shoot them down, but more realistic. I like it.
Kind of tough to tell what is core and what isn't. The gold blends in a bit. Maybe a bit larger strength icon?
Discovered the map zoom function by accident. Clever!
Very much like the unit details.
Not sure I have figured out all the diffident colors for moved, suppressed, etc.

1 Hour -

Replayed Poland, turned it up to impossible, but didn't notice a huge difference. To early in the campaign to matter? I haven't finished the scenario yet.

Good balance on the normal setting though. Units seem a bit tougher to kill then in Panzer General.

No performance issues at all. Nicely done.

The right click to move/attack took a few turns to get use to, but I like it. Perhaps if you right click on a unit you can get the details screen?
I would like to be able to map the keys, but that's not a big deal, the current mapping is fine.
On my monitor the unit info box is a bit hard to read. The font is small.
If there is some way to tell the difference between core units on the Units List I cant figure it out.

I will play out a few more scenarios and repost.

Regards,
Tom