Very impressive. My problem is if you have AI controlling our troops movements and AI controlling the enemies troop movements who needs a player?
The game becomes risk, I send army group North to attack Leningrad with six corps and 70 divisions.
They are faced by VVS with 90 divisions. Who wins? Well I guess we roll a dice and see.
This is not how I understand the system will work. Organisational it will follow the example above but if you choose to take the 1st Panzer division and punch through the line at point X you can.
While the army will fight in an almost generic way without your input you can and are able to micro-manage where-ever you choose.
So for the risk player he throws all 250 divisons at the VVS and he either wins or loses for the more tactical player he restructures and expliots openings.
Reinforces where needed...
My only worry is are we not asking too much of the AI.
And we have not even talked about air and naval combat yet.
Mark my words people are giving far too much credit to the command structures.
They will exist but it is unlikely they will be used as sole control of your armies.
What is interesting and appears to be missed by most is the promotion of officers can be detremental to your war effort.
A good major general may be worth his weight in gold. Rommel might fight the entire war as a major general because (again as i understand it) you will need skilled leaders in all the different tears of your army two really make the most out of the command structures penalties and benefits. A great fieldmarshal surrounded by great corps commanders can be nullified by average joe divison commanders.
Now if anything that is the only solid bit of information we recieved the rest is speculation that has been miraculusly turned into fact as this thread spreads.
You don't have to have AI controlling movement of your units, you can step in anytime, and in fact you can give orders to each of your divisions all the time. And it's not only number of divisions which will define the outcome. It also depends on what type of divisions you have, how good your officers are and what sort of equipment your soldiers have. So it's not only "gros battalion ont toujours raison”. You have command structure so you need to worry about the whole chain of commanding officers. I think that now you can involve yourself in the chosen level of command. You can be commanding officer of a single division (and not only one division, of course), of a corpse, army, army group or the theatre or, and that's probably what most of us will do, at least at the beginning, of everything mentioned here.
And for the AI, well, I guess we can only wait and hope for the best. I think that it's just natural for AI not to perform as good as human, so if you trust AI to lead your divisions to a decisive battle, go ahead, and if not, well, suit yourself.