A very dedicated designer on the team was trying to reverse-engineer a sort of Classic mode within the existing game - produce elites through buildings, etc.. There were programming challenges that we weren't able to overcome.
Looks like dow 3 became disaster, because relic lost their souce code with all their features, that they working on for many years, and their progammers trying reverse-engineering it, but don't be able. So, Is Game Over for relic? How will they be able create coh 3 without their source code?