Was the multimove function in the last released patch? It allows you to order your stratmap pieces to regions that are more than one season away, so you don't have to move huge numbers of pieces individually across the map every turn. Been doing this so long I can't remember which features belong to which version. Well, it's definately in the expansion pack. It's not exactly what you want, Ishikawa, but does make playing the game a little bit easier.