The starter is not meant, unfortunately, to be a stand-alone game. You must buy at least a few more booster packs to get a good mix of units to mix-n-match a decent army together.
That’s exactly it. You’ll need probably 4 or more boosters to make the starter actually enjoyable. Anything less than 100 point battles just aren’t fun.
After some time (about two months) there’s a new scenario!!! YEAH, but w/out PDF. I just can’t understand why they couldn’t take the extra time to put it on a PDF. It makes it so much visually better.
African maps will be available from me soon. I hear HBFronts is also working on a few campaign related maps for Tobruk. So there will be options.
Playing on the 3 inch heses is a little odd for desert combat given the possible ranges and open lines of fire, however I will be putting up a few for download soon too.
You’re right in saying that non-mountain hexes do not block LOS too. I wasn’t thinking about forested mountains though; maybe they should further improve units’ “stealth” by making them only able to be attacked at short range?