Firefight - WW2 12+

Surprised that this game hasn’t gotten much attention, as it is a very detailed and accurate portrayal of WW2 strategy. But like in any other game there is plenty of room for growth and improvement. Some annoying problems are that somethings troops and tanks do not move back when ordered to when they are fired upon, and tanks may actually expose themselves despite the order to move back which results in their destruction. The Tiger I and II have very slow turret traverse, despite having electrical turret gear in reality. This has proved to be a major disadvantage in many missions involving close combat, as Fireflies can easily knock Tigers out before they can even turn their turrets. Other than that the game works pretty well. I think an Eastern and African campaign should be added, as well as more Western maps such as Bastogne and maybe even Normandy. More units would definitely be appreciated, such as the Sherman Jumbo, Sherman 105mm, M8 Greyhound, M16 MGMC, M26 Pershing, Matilda, Valentine, M10 with 17-pdr, A34 Comet, Dicker Max, Nashorn, StuH 42 G, Wirbelwind, and the Jagdtiger. For infantry units medics, US and British Paratroopers, British Commandos, US Rangers and such would be great additions. A mission editor would be pretty cool too. I also think that there should be different game modes, for example defending a certain point or capturing multiple points. Other then that this is a fantastic game, and I hope to see more updates in the coming future.

I feel like there should be more units like support units: engineers, spotters etc, and for armored vehicles have: motorcycle carriage ( to possibly go with spotters/scouts), self propelled arty (artillery), have it so if your defending u could add bushes or sandbags to hide/ protect your units( to go with engineers/sappers) they would be for protecting mortars or any arty if they are close to the battle, for tanks so they don’t get spotted and insta killed, troops so they can hide better etc, more tanks from different countries would be nice but there are already a lot so that doesn’t really matter, have land mines for killing enemy tanks and troops, have more of a diversity of mortars like for Germans they could have nebelwerfers, or any kind of smaller arty, have the coliapie for the Americans (sorry I butchered that name) but minus all those, I feel like the game would be a little bit improved, i hope you guys take inspiration from my Ideas and thank you for your time, oh and also I feel like for custom mode you should be able to mix match tanks and parts and mess around with soldiers ranks bc there are more ranks than PVT, PFC, CPL, SGT, 1ST LT, 2ND LT, and that is all I have to say, it’s a great game.

It’s a nice game, needs more maps. But mostly zero thought has been put into the armor and main gun values of tanks, or historical unit purchases. Stuart’s, ordinary Sherman’s and Churchill’s can penetrate a Jagdpanther’s frontal armor, while shrugging off multiple hits from it’s higher velocity 88. R35’s with their stubby 37 have the same penetrating power as a pzIII/35/38t. Churchills and Fireflies zipping across the battlefield killing everything like they’re an Abrams, or chasing off better armored tanks by just hitting them a few times. Infantry morale is consistently bad across the board, with little backbone unless it’s SS Grenadiers, who apparently are armed with modern small arms, night vision, etc. Turret traverse appears to be equal for all varieties regardless of whether they’re heavy, light, manually or mechanically operated. No tank was using APCR in 1940. Units are rarely damaged, when even a KV-1 that absorbs 30+ hits would lose a track. Lack of radios in early war tanks has been ignored, they all coordinate like it’s 1990. And suddenly the Japanese have the best tanks in the world in 1942, with a dozen showing up on what would have been Guadalcanal, where they had practically none. Artillery is basically useless unless it’s smoke or against infantry running in the open, or it’s the game’s artillery against a human player. Pretty game, mechanics seem to work, just not historically.