[cbreedon]

For those who don’t know about me, I am an old grognard from the paper maps and counters days. I have been playing and purchasing the steel panthers series since the first one came out in the mid 90’s. I probably play the game at least once a week, usually the modern version and usually after 2000. I play single player campaign games usually.

I have a suggestion for this game. What gives a game longevity? It is the ability to edit and modify to ones own likes and dislikes. This game has that, as far as modifying the OOB’s. I am suggesting taking that to the next level. I would like to see the ability to edit the actual countries in the game. Right now you can edit them somewhat, by changing flags and moving OOB’s around. Even after you do these things, you still have the old country that you replaced still showing up on some of the screens. You also have the training, experience levels, etc. being derived from the old country.

What if you basically had a screen in a mobhack type program that you could upload a flag bmp, type in country name and country training, experience, etc.? This way a user could easily add/subtract the nations that he plays. I know every so often a request comes up for various nations to be added that players would like to use. I, personally, would pay extra for a editor program of this type.

I know that most of these far reaching changes are rejected but I would appreciate your consideration.

I do have a somewhat minor change that I would like to see also. In the battle mode you pick the two countries that you would like to fight. When you get to the purchase screen, you have an “allies” button where you can attach another country to play with you. I would like that option in the campaign mode. It is not available when you purchase your army in a user generated campaign. Like I said in my intro, I enjoy single player campaign. It would be nice to pick the UK and maybe have a Canadian company attached to your main British force for the entire campaign. I think you can pick them in the support portion of purchasing but you would not have them advance in experience like your main force.

Anyway just a couple of suggestions that I have been thinking about for while.