Two Thoughts...

[ObssesedNuker]

First, does anyone feel that leaders accrue XP way too slowly? I just finished a two year march across Eastern Europe as the USSR and the guys in charge of my tanks armies only have 70 XP out of 700 towards getting Panzer Leader despite having the Armored Expert trait.

Second, why can't I do anything to Denmark or Poland in the subsequent peace conference? The game just acts as if their territory was liberated as normal and I can't touch it or even puppet them...

 

[Lykanion]

Yep, I conquered Poland, Denmark, France, England, North Africa and had several years of an extended slugfest against Soviet Union. And all I got were a maximum of two additional traits per General. Might work better for constant man power burning in China, but the way XP works now, it's just disappointing. You're presented with a full screen of traits, and you don't get to do anything with it. I didn't even have much choice regarding the two traits I could pick, due to prerequisites not met in most cases.

I guess they didn't adjust for the fact that pre 1.5, people would put 200-300 divisions under a single field marshal, while you're now more or less limited to 120? And of course the age old problem that successfull warfare isn't really rewarded.

And then podcat tells us that the german officers get lower starting stats because they're supposed to level up during the war...

 

[Terantor]

It also seems like some of them don't work. The trait that would give you stronger cavalry, mechanized and motorized requires you to have divisions with >40% cavalry, mechanized and motorized.
I have divisions comprising only motorized troops, but after 2 years of fighting Russia, guderian still has made no progress for that trait, although he had made progress for that trait while fighting as a volunteer for Japan.

 

[Louella]

I think leader trait gain isn't working properly.

I bugreported slow trait gain for admirals, maybe you should report this too ?