How to keep track of reinforcements?

[Glenn Saunders]

Hi folks! I'm relatively new to the series, still learning. :) Well, my main problem for now is: how am I supposed to keep track of arrivals and reinforcements? The small dialog boxes are of very limited use, especially in large scenarios and full campaigns! :( As the display obviously hasn't been changed in all those years the devs seem to think that it is okay as it is now. So I wonder if I am missing something here?! Am I supposed to make my own spreadsheets for a better overview? Not fun! How do you guys handle this problem?

Tantalos:

I sense here you must be an old board gamer who is used to looking at the reinforcements as counters on a card and you are correct that this is not a game feature.

I will let others jump in here but I think players have just gotten used to letting the PC take care of issues that are beyond control. You can look at the reinforcments in the list. And if you click on a line you can see what units arrive and the map will jump to the hex too. But you won't see the actual unit strengths.

Another thing - as the scn developers faces this issue building larger Scn where the units arrive as reinforcements, we had John Tller create a Scn summary feture from the game editor. Just load up the scn in the editor and the Summary is available under the file menu I think - makes a text file that lists reinforcements, AI Orders and a few other pieces of info we felt we needed to have.

....but you won't see the Order-of-Appearance card from your boardgame days - sorry.

Glenn