Ruse with costomized Icons ?

[Salatmander]

Hey there,
I do really love the feature to be able to chose own Icons for you Divisions. But there comes a question to my mind.
How are Icons of the enemy displayed when he is a player and changed some?

Do you allways see the Icon the owner picked for a division ?
(That way it would be possible to give Infantry Division a tank symbol to misguide your enemy)
As interesting as this sound for me it would be more an issue of this feature in the end, because you really would have to zoom in to control if the Divisions you are facing are really what theyr icons show you.

I would actually prefer if would allways show the "combat strongest" brigade-type or most armored one for your enemys to actually get a quick view on whats going to come.

(still love the idea of changing the icons of my own divisions as i would like to, but only visual for myself)

Are there any informations on that ? What are your ideas ?
o7

 

[panzerzombie]

Hm, I think for MP I would demand Nato-symbols then ^^ ( although you could mod and cheat with them as well... )

 

[Wimpola]

In the WWW multiplayer game both Daniel and Johan had different symbols on their divisions so the AI didn't change their icons. However mods obviously will be created to allow the AI to change their icons. Also Nato symbols may be a rule for MP games.

 

[The Wholly Thoc]

Well as we've seen in today's stream how the National-Army-of-the-Teutonic-Order-Symbols were applied to the enemies divisions as well, so if the sprites just won't match the icons in your mp, you can always switch to those.

 

[ssb]

Ruse with costomized Icons ?

I would definitely support costumized icons. Stalin dressed up as Santa, French divisions represented on the map by baguettes, Vespa-mounted infantry for Italy, etc. (Sorry, it was too much fun to take that typo and run with it.)

 

[Salatmander]

i didn t meant modding here, i am talking about vanilla.
You can change the icon of a division in the division planner. But i am curious if another player will see the icon you "gave" this division like you will on the map, or if it will show (for example) the icon of the brigade that this division consists of most, to him.

 

[grandad1982]

It's been stated a couple of times that the icon that the game would normally give your template is the one others will see if you change the icon using the designer.

 

[Qemarar]

Wouldn't the enemy's icons be the same as the one's you've set? So if you set all of your infantry to look like tanks, all of the enemy's infantry will also be displayed as tanks.

 

[Wimpola]

Wouldn't the enemy's icons be the same as the one's you've set? So if you set all of your infantry to look like tanks, all of the enemy's infantry will also be displayed as tanks.

From what we have seen on WWW it doesn't look that way but here https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...velopment-diary-19th-of-february-2016.909353/ we can see the NATO icons for both the Soviets and the Germans.

 

[griffor]

Wouldn't the enemy's icons be the same as the one's you've set? So if you set all of your infantry to look like tanks, all of the enemy's infantry will also be displayed as tanks.

i think this is how it should be whether they do it or not is the true question though

 

[Bridger15]

it really should just look at the composition of the army and pick generic icons for your opponent players.

 

[Wimpola]

When you enable NATO icons it auto changes the icons for all nations AI or Player.

 

[Leon_Aditzu]

We need the Soviet military symbols, along with the germans one.Allies should use Nato symbols, Soviets should use WP symbols, Axis should use german/japanese symbols