I agree with weather in the game since it would make the game more realistic. For example, the weather played a big role at the Battle of Kiska, where it was American and Canadian troops vs American and Canadian troops due to the inability to see because of the fog

Yes. Yes yes yes!

It supports the idea of planning and takeing risks!

Imagine: It's stormy, your planes have reduced their movement range, therfor you can't bomb the enemy to the extent you want/need. Your soldiers and armor are forced to go through mud and therfor are slower, So you have to wait for the weather to clear, and in that time your enemy has time to prepare and take you on.

This way, you have to watch the forecast carefully to plan your attacks. Brilliant idea!

What value / benefit would have weather / climatic conditions in a game, where 1 day on a normal map equates to about half a year, so 1 hour ingame equals more than 7 days?

.. it would be just another, separate X-factor whether it's snowing or raining or if it's a sunny day or a moonless night, or if it's a spring-morning, summer-day, autumn-evening or winter-night at the moment when a unit / army shoots next time ..
(and it would be an annoying, flickering graphic if every few minutes the weather and time of day would change)

.. but, all such things as e.g. unfavorable weather / clime, blizzards, cloudbursts, morning dew, glaring sun, full moon, abrupt night blindness, fear in the dark, fail shots, sudden engine damages or axle breaks, unpredictable very experienced opponents, ambushes, diarrhea epidemic, low morale / lack of concentration due to poor breakfast or too little sleep (or whatever), tangled fishing lines, torpedo failings, drunken officers, the afterglow (later then), arrogance mentality and underestimation of the opponent, lost lucky charms, etc. are allready abstract simulated by the unpredictable great X-factor.




CoW is not a trivial action game -- even if that direction has unfortunately already been taken ..