New, rare or unreliable equipment
In my opinion, it is too cheap to upgrade equipment, and new or rare equipment is too easily available. It always pays to take the best, and there is no "rarity penalty" for using uncommon equipment. This leads to very rare stuff like Sturer Emil being uncommonly common. Also there is no problem getting your hand on the newest equipment as soon as it is available, even when in reality new equipment would only gradually reach front line units.
Historically some new and untried equipment suffered crippling reliability problems when new, for example the Panther or the SU76. This is not reflected in the game at all, your spanking new Panthers will run like clockwork from the first day they come from the factory.
So I would like to see:
* Raise the points price for new or rare equipment.
* Make only a limited number of the newest or rarest equipment available in scenarios and campaigns.
* Make breakdowns more probable for notoriously unreliable equipment like early Panthers. There could even be a chance for them to start a scenario immobilized.
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