Maybe, one day, people will stop wishing for a hippo with the neck of a giraffe. Just saying. Mixing HoI with TW would be about as good an idea as to mix civilization with panzer general - and we all know, how great that worked, dont we? I dont know more than anyone else here does, but i´d be willing to bet, that nothing like this is in any way compatible with PI´s design philosophy and what they want their games to be like. You want TW? Go play TW! Nothing personal, just me getting annoyed by the persistant reoccurance of this (completely useless, imho) idea, cluttering up suggestion-threads. I wonder if CA´s forum is also full of suggestions asking them to make their strategic maps run on real time, just like PI-games...
Good franchises can actually be ruined by player request. I knew silent hunter V was going to suck, when i read what the players asked for in the fora (full 3D walkable sub-interior - like that mattered in a subsim...) - sometimes some people actually do get what they ask for - for better or worse. Keep clamoring for 3D battles long enough and HoIX will have all its ressources poured into that, with very little left for the actual game, with the likely result, that it becomes a crappy game, which cant even compete in that 3D-department, for there will always be other games, doing that much better.
(once upon a time, map-change requests were forbidden on this forum... now, i know, i am not supposed to discuss forum rules, and thus will leave it at that)