The first MA had two minor "features" which are missing from MAN2.
1) The ability to send your opponent messages after the game is over. When one person won, either player could view the final map and use the Enter key to send messages. I had a number of enjoyable post-game debriefing discussions with my opponents. It's awkward to do that with MAN2 because you have to exit the game, find the player in the list and send a message. And you can't link you messages to certain portions of the board - as I understand it, when my opponent views my turn his view flys to where my view was when I left him a message: hence, linking your messages to certain places on the board. As in: "HERE's where my main attack was supposed to go..."; change view; "however, your attack over HERE caused me to reconfigure"; change view "unfortunately the mountains HERE slowed my support such that I couldn't effectively counter and you won." change view "I thought about attacking HERE"; change view "but I was worried about your navy HERE". This small feature change would greatly increase strategic discussion, something I find a little lacking.
2) The computer surrenders too soon. I'd like the option to continue a battle until 100% balance is reached. I could try out new tactics and units I don't usually use. More importantly, the massive navy I've been building all game would have a chance to crush his puny fleet of destroyers and one or two battleships. Or the attack copter army I just spent $30 on could lead the final assault on his (oops - her) main strong hold
Thoughts???