It seems the map doesn't go further north than the Alps? Does that mean the game will end (on release) before the conquests of the Gauls and the time of Caesar?

Bulgarian occupation forces and mopping up DLC. You don't fight much and have no army except infantries/old artillery- the missions will mostly be to go an occupy the territory of your neighbours after they have been defeated by the Germans.

Dinosaurs!

The Italians are broken down into two cores with the same units (and flags so a bit confusing) but receiving the German/Italian CP and RP from Sandstorm. The Italians that take over the German CP/RP also have the German specialisation points.

Thanks for that! I have started the Italian Challenge using your mod and finished Tobruk on 5th difficulty with all objectives on turn 28. Damn it was tough! Replay attached (wondering if people can watch it without the mod?). Terminator, was also wondering how the specialisations for unlocking Germ...

Love this mod! Thanks a bunch. Starting Sandstorm with renewed effort as Italians only! Also really like that you kept 1 German tank the player can treasure and protect!

I'd watch a replay of the more interesting battles like El Alamein or Operation Crusader, which I believe was 3rd mission. So please post those if possible!

Ha, atta boy! That's a properly dedicated Italian challenge. And level 5 difficulty too! Even the PzC one allowed to keep the starting German ones, but I guess here it's a bit more difficult as you have the CP breakdown by country. So you gave the Italians all the German CP and RP per turn? And also...

Well, to be fair, all you need for this is knowledge of the unit date availability (unit navigator/units.csv) and the missions chronology (quick check on product page then Wikipedia of date of battles), for that. In general, most games at highest difficulty are also designed to be played with forekn...

You need to be in supply with those units at the beginning of your next turn as the above comment suggested, but there's no requirement to do nothing.

The units are perfectly usable when out of supply, they just cannot be reinforced and take a small efficiency drop.

It's PG2 that introduced artillery fire to everyone in its range- in PG they fired only at units next to the artillery like in PzC. Thought I'd clarify in case someone from the development actually reads this and may get confused. +1 for Pg2 style artillery though. I really like how some artilleries...

He's playing against a pope- those protestants have no shame (obviously joking)!

To be fair I'm not a fan of the super tight turn limits on Panzer General/Corps/Unity of Command where the game becomes more of a puzzle-solve how to get to the objectives on time, rather than a tactical game of adapting to enemy and taking different approaches. In this sense, I like OOB that it doe...

A simple "prestige gain" modifier for adjusting the amount of prestige the player receives would be a great addition to the difficulties.

Sandstorm is the first dlc where performance on previous missions impacts future mission progression. You won't find the same in any other previous DLC but perhaps in a future one!

Things that make sandstorm easier compared to bk/pk: - Most early missions have open sand terrain where enemy can't conceal and is easy to plan positioning- ex 1st and 2nd missions. This also makes leap frogging your units (moving back units first so that you move forward as a wave). - Open terrain ...

I like WW2 or before that. The Wargamer article Shards linked has People's General at the top spot and I'm sure it's great. However, something about direct, large-scale Cold War fights between super powers doesn't sit well with my immersion- they'd have nuked themselves long before it came to such c...

What's so great apart from getting a decent SPG for free and a bit earlier (but not better than the ones available 1943)?

Yeah, those buttons are sneaky, but once you find out about them, they turn out to be useful for managing a large core. I deploy air units first, then naval (if any), and lastly ground ones.

My guess is that your air units are not selected for view from the deployment menu. There're 3 checkboxes at the top left of the screen when the deployment menu is open - one for ground, naval, and air units respectively. Sometimes one of them get unselected, giving you the impression your units hav...