Feinder
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Joined: 9/4/2002 From: Land o' Lakes, FL Status: offline
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I'm all for the ability to rename units, including ALL units (land, air, and sea); or at least to add some sort of a label tag. Certainly have it default to whatever name was historica (including York 2, Lex 2, Wasp 2, whatever), but the ability to change a name allows : 1. A richer experience if the player so chooses. 2. The name or label can be very useful for quick reference to help maintain unit cohesion. Let me explain. In Panzer General, I would name my units like "I 3rd Pnz Div". The "I" was for "First Corps", and then the name and type of division (like Pnz or Inf or AAA). It helped me to maintain unit cohesion when (invariably as a battle played out), your units would slowly get scattered and end up in the wrong zone. Whereas, the quick ability of locate which formation each unit was supposed to be a part of, allowed me to maintain concentration of force. I would usually keep 3 corps, each with about 7 divisions, each corp was assigned an objective. Again, the quick notation allowed me to maintain the cohesiveness of the attack. I use the word "label" because I'm not sure that fooling with the actual NAME of the unit is a good idea. But as a commander, the ability to (optionally) attach labels to help catagorize my forces would be very useful. I don't think you should be able to simply rename units on the fly tho. Doing so causes problems, as one week you get a scouting report that says the "Kaga" is in theater, the next week you get a report that "Joe's FlatTop" is in theater. Are there two CVs or just one?
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