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This will allow both for match replays to be watched afterwards, and for E2E debugging.

Mutating configuration objects is a bad practice and could cause issues when running the same scenario multiple times.

Some aerosan units are "lightly" armored, so they get treated as armored targets, but do not leave wreck counters when destroyed.

This can be a simple boolean flag in UnitConfiguration that defaults to IsArmored.

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

These can be found at http://gregpanzerblitz.com/scenarios.htm

The scenario selection screen is pretty bad right now. Improve it to include the following if possible.

• Show scenario parameters such as turn length and environment
• Show factions
• Show deployments, including units and deployment description
• Show victory conditions
• Possible show a mini map

Infantry, CPs, 81/82mm mortars, AT and AA guns under 50mm.

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Some work has been done to this effect, but it is preliminary. This is a precursor to setting up matches with custom armies.

The Germans have a lot of units...

Not all info pertinent to a unit is on the counter. There should be a pop-up pane that displays "hidden" info such as overrun, close-assault, and anti-aircraft, armor, movement restrictions, mounted status, etc...

They should be able to because of the road.

Wheat fields should conceal units with a low profile, eg. infantry and forts.

http://www.imaginative-strategist.layfigures.com/PDFs/Arvold%20on%20New%20Terrain.pdf

Add American units from PanzerLeader

Currently the gully movement override the base tile movement, allowing vehicles to travel along them through swamps.

The code in there is getting too complicated with the different requirements for each kind of attack. It would be much easier to just make AttackOrder an abstract class with Normal, CloseAssault, Overrun, and Minefield being children of it.

Something like

AttackOrder
- AttackOrderBase<T> : AttackOrder, T is SingleAttackOrder
-- NormalAttackOrder : AttackOrderBase<NormalSingleAttackOrder>
-- CloseAssaultAttackOrder : AttackOrderBase<CloseAssaultSingleAttackOrder>
-- OverrunAttackOrder : AttackOrderBase<OverrunSingleAttackOrder>
-- MinefieldAttackOrder : AttackOrderBase<MinefieldSingleAttackOrder>

In winter conditions trucks, limbers, and wagons cannot leave roads and infantry cannot use road movement.

This should probably be implemented as part of environments rather than unit movement rules.

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

PanzerLeader maps are available on the imaginative strategist site. The only major issue will be map B, which has transitions from 0-1 elevation without any slopes (and therefor no elevation penalty).

Currently there are 2 toggles for vehicular and truck movement which are switched to get different movement rules per unit. Units such as Skis, Aerosans, and Bicycles break this convention. To keep the number of toggles from going out of control units should be able to specify custom movement costs and restrictions to some degree.

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Also only keep corrected counters when available for other factions

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Add British units from PanzerLeader

The Russians also have a lot of units...

Bicycle troops are mounted infantry with
Special movement rules

• They inherit truck movement
• But when going up a slope they spend their entire movement allowance (like a HARD_BLOCK)
  Special order restrictions
• They cannot overrun or close assault while mounted
• They cannot mount once dismounted

Blocked by #4

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Amphibious units may spend their entire movement allowance to enter water and swamp hexes (effectively a HARD_BLOCK).

While in water they

• Cannot attack
• Cannot carry passengers
• Have +2 to defense

Amphibious units are treated as normal armored vehicles in regards to frozen water and swamps.

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Some game mechanics/scenarios allow for capturing enemy units

• Forts can be captured by moving occupying its space with no defending units present.
• CPs can be captured via a close-assault

Minefields should stop movement when they are entered. For some reason this isn't happening.

The one screenshot right now is very old. Labeling this as blocking release because there should be up-to-date screenshots provided with the release.

Finnish and British armies are missing a few units. For the British, those from the early war (available alongside French units), and for the Finnish some of those used in Winter War scenarios (supposed to have been captured from the Russians).

Some attack methods require a result to be rolled for each defender:

• Anti-air
• Minefield
• Indirect fire (not implemented)

You would only know the victory conditions by looking at the scenario configuration. They should be visible (potentially along with deployment descriptions) from the scenario select screen and during the match.

The biggest blocker of this is the UX when setting up online games. I have no idea right now what this should look like.

Some are not appearing. Some passengers are getting left behind by their carriers.
ronen.log

Some units cannot close assault on their own, but can support other units' close assaults. In order for these units to close assault they must occupy the same tile as another unit within the close assault.

It would be nice for the probability of each combat result to be shown in the pane when building an attack. The CRT isn't shown anywhere in the program, and die modifiers can make figuring the probabilities mentally more difficult.

The imaginative strategist site has 14 more boards for PanzerBlitz, but they require new special terrain types.

Blocked by #8

Implement Japanese units from the imaginative strategist.

When automating orders, sometimes an entire turn is completed resulting in another NextTurnOrder being sent. The result is that the turn started callback gets called recursively for each automated turn. This is going to be a real issue if an AI player is ever implemented since the program will keep recursively calling the AI. If AIs are playing against each other this gets even worse.

France needs everything that makes a faction

• Faction image
• Unit sprites
• Unit configurations
• UCLs
  Prefer the stuff from gregspanzerblitz over imstrat.

These units cannot use the road movement rate. Aerosans additionally pay twice as much move cost.

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Add a counter/track/something somewhere that shows the number of the current turn and how many turns there are in the match. Without this its hard to tell when a match will end.

This is a feature of PanzerLeader infantry units

During positional deployments units should be able to load/unload (like in convoy deployment) and mount/dismout. Units that can not re-mount should be able to do so during deployment.

During convoy deployment units should not be able to mount/dismount (they must enter the board mounted first).

Instead of having a mostly duplicate set of boolean flags for each terrain feature, use boolean arrays indexed by a feature enum.

Stop loading image from disk every time a faction symbol is displayed.

Blocked by #4

http://gregpanzerblitz.com/Winter%20War/WinterWarRevised2015.pdf

Air units do not fit very well within the current model because

• They have infinite movement
• They have their own CRT when defending (including a new result: DAMAGED)
• Enemy AA units get an option to respond after the attack is declared, but before it is executed (maybe this can be resolved by giving AA units a stand-by order on their turn?)
• They have multiple weapons (usually 2)
• Their weapons have a limited number of uses
• They have a spotting range

Boards on the imaginative strategist site include terrain types not in the base game (wheatfields, forts, copses, etc...). These need to be added before the new boards.

http://www.imaginative-strategist.layfigures.com/PDFs/Arvold%20on%20New%20Terrain.pdf