I don't know if this is possible at all, but could we get numbers instead of percentage values? It would be very, VERY satisfying in a Göring-ian way, to see how many planes you have in a Fliegerkorps. I read somewhere that you can use the formula 100/engines to figure out how many planes you have in a wing; for example a fighter unit would have 100 planes while strat. bomber units would have 25 planes. I don't know if this came from the devs or the players.
If this was implemented, an air unit of 4 interceptors would show 286/400 instead of 71% strength. You would know that you lost 114 planes in the last aerial battle, and the number rising (through IC spent on reinforcements) would represent heavily damaged planes being repaired and new planes reinforcing the unit.
Would the engine permit something like this?
This would also work incredibly well with tank brigades. 3,000/3,000 barely works for infantry units, it does not work for tank brigades or motorized/mechanised brigades. Do I have 3000 tanks in a brigade? Of course not. Do I have 3000 crew members running the tanks? That means 600 tanks with 5 crew members, which is still too much. Entire Panzer divisions had approximately 300 tanks at best. What would be perfect in this case is, again, numbers. You could even click the brigades to see how many of each model they have.
36/40 Panzer IV
22/60 Panzer III
Wouldn't that be nice? The brigade in this example is upgrading its tanks, and some of the tanks they have are shot, and require repairs.
If these were implemented, more realism could be achieved by having the game keep track of how many tanks of which kind have been lost, and how many enemy tanks have been destroyed.
These would be incredibly nice to have, right?