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malfid -> RE: Detailed combat reporting (3/31/2010 9:50:54 PM)
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What about a WIR-style listing of forces engaged as either a corollary window to the above or an attached sub-window? What I mean is, for example:
Forces Engaged:
ATK: so-and-so DEF: so-and-so (as it currently stands, above)
Then, below that:
Inf. Squads x 512 Inf Squads x347
L. Art x 96 L. Art x 44
H. Art x 50 H. Art x 27
AT Guns x 12 AT Guns x 16
AFV x 12 AFV x 6
etc. etc.
Items would be categorized, with graphics next to each category (a la WIR, with small tank graphics representing AFVs, etc)
Obviously, such a window would take up more of the screen - but it might be useful to the player in visually weighing up the forces involved.
In the above case, for example, there are ~19,000 men involved on the German side, but the actual number of combat troops would be perhaps half that (or even lower). On the Soviet side, of the 5,000 men involved, perhaps as many as 3,500 would be combat troops. The actual ratio would then be closer to 7,500-8,000 vs ~3,500 Soviets (the Soviet divisional slice was more favorable to higher concentrations of combat troops). This way, the player doesn't have to assume that 19,000 vs 5,000 listed means a numerical advantage of 4:1. The combat ratio/values system also lays this out, but less clearly (if more succinctly).
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