Back from the front again. I've started to feel more comfortable with more advanced stuff, like various kinds of artillery, better maneuvering, etc. Still enojying the game, and it's still a challenge.
But I also keep finding some strange situations:
1: In the last battle, an enemy tank blew up for apparently no reason. Checking after the battle, there were no impact hits at all. Clicking the button to show which unit destroyed it, the camera moved to a dead enemy infantry squad.
2: I was attacked and stacked the defending square with three platoons of infantry. At the end of the battle, I had still loads of troops there, and the enemy had one platoon and a tank. The game decided that the enemy took control of that square. I thought I would have kept it. Sure, they had a tank, but I've read that tanks count as less than infantry for deciding area control.
3: I can't figure out how to order a platoon to take up a nice, even defence in a tree line. During setup, I can deploy each of the three squads along the edge of the trees, but the squads clump together. I want each squad to form a line. When battle starts, there's a movement option to make squads form a line, but it only works while moving, and I cant seem to control facing at the end point. Giving a "set up defence here" order seems to make squads deploy pretty randomly, some in the trees, some in the open.