Semper Fi : First Screenshot

[Johan]

How the order of battle browser will be in the game.

 

[Johan]

It seemed to me before seeing this that the best option would be a full screen tab for order of battle. This looks a bit cumbersome already.

Well, its something you really want to see the map at the same time with.

 

[Johan]

Anyone want to try the original HoI3?

Use 5Y61-6OYN-2PBT-KM1T-OBQ7-7SVW at www.gamersgate.com/digitalcopy

 

[Johan]

Will this function all you to drag and drop units into different hierarchies? Say the 1st Gebirgsjager division gets reassigned to the Italian front, you can simply S-R the unit, then in the hiearchy window drag them from say the Eastern theater to the Italian theater?

y

 

[Birken]

It would be difficult to put that division into a particular corps within an army within an army group within the Italian theater, would it not? That would require some serious room to see the heirarchy, rather than a big version of the outliner. Obviously I have not used it, so I cannot really provide a useful opinion.

You could always scroll the hierarchy, get a bigger display or drag from the unitview or outliner.

 

[Birken]

But will it be possible to have two rows of the hierarchy? Say one row is OKW, the second one is OKH and you could freely drag from one to the other?

It will depend on the feedback we get from our betas. Currently we haven't found the need for this.

 

[Birken]

Question, while I'm thinking about brigades...will this editor allow inter-divisional brigade swapping?

Yes, as long as the swap is legal (in terms of command and locality, ie the units must be in the same province and both units must be valid after the swap).

 

[Birken]

How about displaying the commanders name and traits in the OOB editor? That way we could easily see if a panzer leader is in charge of an infantry division, and it would add flavour too see commander names.

The leader portrait in the browser has a tooltip with this info, we considered more info directly visible in the browser, but it quickly got bloated.
Also, when dragging a leader, it will show name, traits, stars... so you quickly can compare it with other commanders while dragging.

 

[Birken]

No probs. Personally hope it's optional, as it seems to add to the clutter to my eyes

The rate at which they gain size and whether it applies only to zoomed out counters or zoomed in stacks, will be modable in the interface files. Not sure if we'll put an option in the gui for it though.