Happy to hear the regions are now smaller... I always fought WWI style in HOI, full head on assault and basically no encirclements as I never had enough motorized or mechanized troops to attempt it (had planned to break through with tanks, plug the gaps with motorized and follow the tanks with mechanized, but the demands were immense), when I tried I ran myself into the ground with the war with the Soviets, no fuel after a few days. By the way have they made a more significant difference between tanks and mechanized infantry? I always thought the mechanized troops to be weaker versions of tanks, not really a correct version.

Brigades better? Explain... I usually just kept up with artillery and engineers (a few anti tanks).

Good to hear the naval and air battles are better, they always seemed impossible. Especially the air battles, it was nigh impossible to destroy enemy aircrafts, even with overwhelming superiority. But explain further.

How about intelligence? I never got the hang of that, just got a tech now and then, and basically ignored the tech part about army intel, unless it advanced the techtree.

But explain everything, tech teams? Reinforcements?