So had the game for a week now while being sick so had alot(!) of time to play.
The good:
1. Much better arty system!
2. Infantry assaults seem more "alive".
3. Graphics better
4. The original game was so good that the fact it hasn't changed too much is really really important
the bad/improvements that could be made:
1. Air attacks look alot better but achieve nothing... if air attacks where this useless why did anybody use planes in ww2?
2. Dumbing down of the icons in operational phase
3. Halftracks and tanks driving into trees and then being to dumb to reverse one meter and going around it
4. Sometimes the map sizes are simply to big to make any coherent battle possible (just one more company would make a huge difference)
5. No english manual - i still dont understand the new re-inforcement-repair-resupply system. It might be good but for now all my support teams just run out of ammo after 1-2 battles.
My personal conclusion:
Really really good game! The best RTS ive ever played - but still alot of room for improvements
keep up the great job!
EDIT: adding tactical bombstrikes would be cool... you know... smashing up a large area before an attack