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How to keep track of reinforcements?
11-05-2007, 10:56 AM,
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RE: How to keep track of reinforcements?
Tantalos Wrote:...What I was hoping for was an OOB dialog (like "strength"), that shows arrivals and releases within the OOB tree, perhaps with different color or format or whatever. This alone would make my life so much easier...

That would be nice iIn any game of this kind, honestly. Interface design somewhat lags in almost all operational-level wargames. Even TAOW, which has the best UI I've ever seen in an operational scale game, still makes you hunt for reinforcement arrival hexes. And it doesn't have HPS's lovely jump map and find-hex-by-coordinate features.

Many grand strategic games (I'm thinking of Civ IV, AEGOD's ACW and many of Paradox's games) have detailed "ledgers" that have a variety of spreadsheets full of useful information that let you sort data in various ways. I would dearly like to see this sort of thing in games like PzC or TOAW. But in the meanwhile, you just have to get used to it, and thank God you aren't playing the old SSI games I was playing in highschool. The interface on those things was a bear, let me tell you.
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RE: How to keep track of reinforcements? - by Bigwig - 11-05-2007, 10:56 AM
RE: How to keep track of reinforcements? - by FLG - 11-05-2007, 07:27 AM

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