After 30 hours of play, some initial additions to the list:
Land Battles:
1) When given a command to take cover behind walls, units stop a few metres short of the destination and have to be micromanaged.
2) Units in cover behind walls will leave the cover when engaged in melee and won't move back if the attacker withdraws their unit(s) involved in the melee.
3) Depending on terrain, Artillery should mire in the mud when battle is joined in heavy rain; v slow to move lighter guns, heavier guns even slower.
4) Heavy Cav tires too quickly even on dry ground and cool weather. Uncertain effects of muddy terrain on Cav.
5) Plug bayonets are 100% impossible to remove, whereas historically only a certain number would remain jammed in the muzzle. If possible to mod special ability, suggest allowing partial restoration of firepower by removing plug.
6) Dragoons can never fire guns from horseback. Common sense suggests that, while clearly "dismount and fight" units, they could fire from horseback when necessary? Morale reduction effect could reflect horses panicking?
7) Dragoons don't seem to be able to garrison buildings in enemy cities when dismounted and instructed to do so.
8) Pirate units should be in "rabble" formation, fight like light infantry and not massed rank professional soldiers.
9) Horses don't appear truly scared of camels.
10) Infantry reloading skill too similar across all land units
11) Allied AI horrendously bad at sieges. Worse than ever.
Naval Battles
1) "Raking" a ship from astern does not have the historical effect (in fact it was devastating and destroyed many guns)
2) No "lifeboats" even on the bigger ships? Every medium and large ship had rowboats for a variety of purposes, in this case saving some crew and the Admiral would be nice!
3) Admirals always die if their ship is sunk. No opportunity to designated a ship to save crew from the water (could be a special ability).
4) Chain-shot received from bow and stern should be more devastating to rigging.
5) Ships reduced to 20% of crew can still sail effectively and return fire, which cannot be correct.
6) Right-click Attack assignments to individual ships seriously buggy due to poor pathfinding and other issues.
7) Firepower stat for Xebec seems way too high
8) Ships turned hard under full sail in strong wind should run risk of de-masting or capsizing.
9) Boarding appears seriously bugged, especially when zoomed in. 100% CTD when boarding Fluyts.
Diplomacy
1) I was about to write several things I have noticed, but in reality I think it needs a complete overhaul.
2) State Gifts: How can a thoroughbred horse cost 3 times as much as a 4th Rate battleship? The most expensive stallions in today's comparatively ultra-lucrative horseracing world are worth around $75 million, which would buy you a fraction of a battleship, not 4 destroyers. These all need to be re-balanced, especially compared to region wealth. (e.g. 1712 annual production of wealth in New Granada is 9,600). Can you imagine a horse worth more than 6 months of production from 2 gold mines and 1 silver mine?)
Strat Map
1) Fleets should not be able to retreat from attackers who have faster ships; this is really annoying.
2) Makes no sense that a fleet can run away a distance comparable to its movement points for one turn. Otherwise what's the point in saying they can only physically sail so far in a given time.
3) Merging 2 or more Fleets, each carrying Armies, is not possible. Attempt it in a port and CTD.
4) Impossible to move Agents out of ports if they arrive in the same turn. Once you tell them to disembark the Agents tab does not show up in the port.
5) Gold and Silver is treated as a taxable wealth component of a region instead of a direct resource that can be extracted and brought back to the mother country. IMO this significantly reduces the value of Spain's colonies as less than 50% of region wealth actually makes it to the imperial treasury and you can't attack the gold/silver routes. Even though it is 18thC and not 17thC, this is still important. Suggest boosting the wealth output of Gold and Silver mines as a quick fix.
6) Mini Trade Routes disappear from resource markers if you split a fleet on the resource marker; once the route disappears the trade ship(s) is permanently stuck and must be scuttled before another trade ship can move onto the marker and re-establish the mini trade route.
Game Improvements (not AI related or bugs)
1) Presumably Troop Transports are supposed to be implicit. a) They have no cost, b) there is no tactical implication if you can "escort" transports with 1 Sloop and act tactically without the need to protect these transports. Historically using smaller ships to harass a convoy was an important naval tactic, because protecting a convoy is such a task. Suggest creation of Troop Transport ships as navies can travel in groups corresponding to their zones of control. This also simulates the risk of ships losing contact with each other in transit.
2) Shallow waters don't appear to be a factor for any fleets.
3) Ports should be protectable with harbour forts. Are they in the game? It should be possible to defend a port from attack and also to shell a port in a tactical battle.
4) Privateering should be simulated differently with letters of marquee to designated fleets and identifiable revenue for the faction.
5) Fleet engagements in coastal areas and shallow waters were a fundamental part of history. Using land and shallows to ones advantage should absolutely be in the game.
That's it for round 1!
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Ok, I have one: The "surrender" button when sieging a town is useless.. No matter how many units you have and no matter how few they have, they never give up!
