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>granular unit customization at the production queues
being able to granularly customize units would still end up with having a few units that are effectine at one thing and not effective in another, as that's just more efficient. kinda like what the games already have with different unit types.
See also XCOM EU/EW/2 multiplayer, where you could deck out your soldiers however you wanted, but most comp players just gravitated towards archetypes like "grenades guy" or "machinegun guy" or "Squadsight abuse" or "cheap cannon fodder for spam".
>variety in terrain effects
some games already have variety of terrain features that do everthing from modifying how much damage units take, to how far they can go (if at all, for example cars can't into mountain travel and ships can't walk on land). More games can use this, yes, but such a feature is a delicate balance, not every game needs to be bloated by useless terrain.
Weather effects could be interesting, if done correctly. But people are gonna (rightfully) say that weather benefits more to one side of the turn order (good weather benefits the attacker/first player, bad weather benefits the defender/last player). So a lot of games don't do it, or tie it to abilities like Advance Wars' CO Powers that sometimes turn the whole battlefield into a land of snow and low movement ability.
>sameness of units
Wargroove fixed this with unit formations/critical hits. Each unit has a condition upon which it'll deal double damage, and it's different for different units, so if you wanna squeeze the most out of your army you'll need to plan ahead on not moving your achers so they can aim their shots, moving your spearmen together in a phalanx, moving anti-air mages through high cover areas, and so on and so forth. Other turn-based strategy games can learn from this, and also get a "units get bonuses when doing a thing™"
>sameness of maps
factually untrue for good games with player-made mapping support.

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