Feature requests

[wiggum]

Thanks for the answers Dog Soldier, but what is a "hidden status" ?
Can find it in the manual.

Wiggum,

I pushed this issue hard when I first started testing Normandy.  Not being able to identify the units in the landing craft until they are deployed on the map was bothering me too.  What the scenario designers told me is this was a "confusion" feature of the landings.  It works as intended.

Sorry, but calling a lacking and confusing OOB dialog a "confusion feature"...wow...
No offense.

As i have show with my photoshopped example, if someone would put a bit of work into the OOB dialog it could be much better readable and offer more informations to the player that wants to know what units will be at his disposal without getting lost in a confusing small text box.
A "confusion feature" would be if the exact turn and hex would not be shown to the player (or maybe a slightly false one).

They did have a point that it is not a game breaker. You can get your units organized in the water with a lot of right clicking to see who is in what landing craft (kind of like the memory game with playing cards children play) or you can just rush the landing craft to the nearest beach or shallow water hex, unload them and organize from there. This is the historical approach.
Organizing in the deep water while loaded on the landing craft is time consuming and can result in extra losses from defensive fire from the beaches.
Organizing after landing feels more historical. It adds some extra fun to the game to deal with this low level of confusion.

Thats not the point, i just would like to know (at the beginning - Turn#1) what units will be available during the scenario.

Will i have AT guns ?
Will i have tanks ?
Yes ?
How many tanks ?
Will i have to take this bunkers with infantry or do i get combat engineers ?

If you really want a detailed force head count, just open a scenario in manual control for both sides.  Then simply click through the turns bringing on all the reinforcements until they are all on the board sorting them out as you go.  Easy to do if one really cannot feel comfortable obtaining that information through the release and reinforcement dialogs during a game.

Dog Soldier

Yeah, but that totally destroys FOW and is a really crappy workaround.
I vote for a improved OOB dialog.