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About the loading of units:
It´s a pity that the SOE civilopedia is far away from beeing very useful for understanding the game. Yes Gosnork, you missed something: The different unit sizes for infantry (regiments with 2 HPs and divisions with 6 HPs) and tanks (tank company with 2 HPs and tank bataillons with 6 HPs). Most transport ships at start can only transport infantry regiments = riflemen (so for the oldest steam transport this setting was forgotten and must be readjusted). It would be too easy for Germany to use the two preplaced troop transports, fill them up with many 6 HP-units and to steamroll the Scandinavian 2 HP-units in Denmark and Norway. Of course the same is true for tank units at the start of the game. Ships that can transport tanks (company size) come later in the game.
The same with tank bataillons. You can load a normal sized tank (a company) into a bataillon and by doing this, can upgrade a 2 HP tank unit with the additional 4 HPs of the army-unit to a 6 HP tank bataillon, but you can´t upgrade a preplaced 6 HP tank bataillon to a tank bataillon (what would be a nonsense in itself) with 8 HPs.
The Ju-52 has a conflict in its loading flags that must be fixed with the next biq. Thank you for reporting this error.
There is a special setting of flags for SOE planes, that prevent planes, that didn´t operate from carriers, to operate from carriers in SOE. So King Coltrane, can you please post, what planes had the problem that they can´t be loaded on carriers and if they did start from carriers what carriers were not be able to let them land (so the flags of these units can be controlled by me).
As you can see with the buttons, nearly all settings possible for C3C were tested, even the use of teleporters and low-capacity railroads. The normal buttons can easily be reactivated by renaming in the Art\Interface folder the file "NormButtonsold" back to "NormButtons".
The unit stats of the first testversions of SOE had some serious problems, so we got the permission by Rocoteh to use the unit stats of WW2 Global for the playtesting of SOE. Later the stats for land- and seaunits were set to the new stats and the plane stats remained on the old settings as they were the last to be changed. Suddenly I noticed -as you guessed- that the AI had a tendency to build huge airforces, what was a problem in many other mods. So I only modified the WW2 Global settings for the SOE planes in the sections, where they directly influence each other: That is mostly all having to do with bombing and the range. The rest did stay.
The North of Germany can be hold, if it is defended properly. To say you here exactly what to do, would kill some fun for you, so I don´t do it here. But it is not too dificult.
It´s a pity that the SOE civilopedia is far away from beeing very useful for understanding the game. Yes Gosnork, you missed something: The different unit sizes for infantry (regiments with 2 HPs and divisions with 6 HPs) and tanks (tank company with 2 HPs and tank bataillons with 6 HPs). Most transport ships at start can only transport infantry regiments = riflemen (so for the oldest steam transport this setting was forgotten and must be readjusted). It would be too easy for Germany to use the two preplaced troop transports, fill them up with many 6 HP-units and to steamroll the Scandinavian 2 HP-units in Denmark and Norway. Of course the same is true for tank units at the start of the game. Ships that can transport tanks (company size) come later in the game.
The same with tank bataillons. You can load a normal sized tank (a company) into a bataillon and by doing this, can upgrade a 2 HP tank unit with the additional 4 HPs of the army-unit to a 6 HP tank bataillon, but you can´t upgrade a preplaced 6 HP tank bataillon to a tank bataillon (what would be a nonsense in itself) with 8 HPs.
The Ju-52 has a conflict in its loading flags that must be fixed with the next biq. Thank you for reporting this error.
There is a special setting of flags for SOE planes, that prevent planes, that didn´t operate from carriers, to operate from carriers in SOE. So King Coltrane, can you please post, what planes had the problem that they can´t be loaded on carriers and if they did start from carriers what carriers were not be able to let them land (so the flags of these units can be controlled by me).
As you can see with the buttons, nearly all settings possible for C3C were tested, even the use of teleporters and low-capacity railroads. The normal buttons can easily be reactivated by renaming in the Art\Interface folder the file "NormButtonsold" back to "NormButtons".
The unit stats of the first testversions of SOE had some serious problems, so we got the permission by Rocoteh to use the unit stats of WW2 Global for the playtesting of SOE. Later the stats for land- and seaunits were set to the new stats and the plane stats remained on the old settings as they were the last to be changed. Suddenly I noticed -as you guessed- that the AI had a tendency to build huge airforces, what was a problem in many other mods. So I only modified the WW2 Global settings for the SOE planes in the sections, where they directly influence each other: That is mostly all having to do with bombing and the range. The rest did stay.
The North of Germany can be hold, if it is defended properly. To say you here exactly what to do, would kill some fun for you, so I don´t do it here. But it is not too dificult.
I´m sorry, but at present no Slovak State is planned in SOE. Every new civ slows down gameplay. In fact, I reflected for some time even to disolve all Axis civs and only to have an Axis civ for reasons of gamespeed and gameplay. This was not done because of the existing special leaderheads, that were done by jorde for SOE and cause of the many units, that were done by Wyrmshadow and W.i.n.t.e.r. for Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. 
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Alos, BOOOOO! why did you take the recon ability from carriers? I didn't even know they had it, since none of the civs I played had one.
I'm joking of course, I don't think it will make a big difference, and with more planes having the ability it should all work out. I don't know about other players, but I build and use recon planes a LOT; I got into the habit in WW2 Global, where it is a really big deal for some nations(i.e. Japan). Incidentally, I've always wondered; if a plane has both the recon mission and Detect Invisible flagged, does that mean they can see subs with the Recon mission? I once talked Rocoteh into including a recon plane in one of the early versions, but he dropped it from later ones because he didn't see it being used much. If it could spot subs you bet I would use it! 
I put almost all of my fighters on air defense, and not one of them managed to intercept a single red air unit; just a really bad turn. They destroyed the road between Helsinki and Vyborg because I had a single HP antitank unit on it. You would think I would have remembered that little trick of theirs from the last game
