Hi Wodin, you realise that you can allow an external view in PE's difficulty options during the mission briefing process? The camera control is somewhat different but I find it provided situational awareness as god as SF's. Plus you can switch to controlling any tank in your platoon, and usually, call down artillery or mortar fire. As in either sim, difficulty is liable to be down to how challenging the mission builder decides to make things. As for platoon command and control, PE seems particularly good in that respect, much better than SF (which is limited but not non-existent, albeit nearly everything that you can do has to be done from the F8 map).