[Agrajag]

Here's a wish:
Don't simplify and don't obscure any formula.
I really enjoy playing a game when I know exactly how each calculation is made and predit quite accurately how things will turn up in a set situation.
HOMM, one of the best TBS series (lets ignore Heroes IV and the legendary V), has almost all of its mechanisms out in the open and it makes things a whole lot more fun.
I admit, I play HOMM III with a calculator handy, but having the power to predict all possible outcomes improves my decisions and makes things quite clear (now I can easily see how that pack of lowsy pikemen killed that black dragon).
Besides, lets go for a second to the most well known strategy game of all - Chess.
In chess you know all the rules, you know exactly what you can and cannot do and how your compnion/competitor/enemy can respond to your moves, every "unit" is slightly different from every other "unit" but each turn and retaliation is 100% predictable (though starting to take into consideration all the possible 10^20 moves or so that your competitor might take is impossible for humans).