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ledo -> RE: Tracking Spreadsheets (11/6/2017 8:18:10 PM)
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Spreadsheets definitely aren't exactly necessary. Again, I only started building one to be able to better understand the OOB at the beginning, much of the automation stuff came later when I saw opportunities to speed things up. When I started going through all the data bit by bit for the manual inputs actually gave me a much better contextual view of my forces (a view that I could now support by going back across the data and checking my assumptions).
However, spreadsheets have been important for a new player like myself. Having the data visualised from green-red allows me, as one example, to actually see quite quickly who has very little support and who is completely stacked. For example, realizing just how stacked Schroth's XII Corps is, while Hoth's 3rd Panzer Group and much of AGS are wallowing with minimal support, a completely useless state of affairs if you use 4th Army to take Brest-Litovsk and breach the line. As a new player, for the first time I felt quite confident in my repositioning of my support units, and my choice of who to use to make a breakthrough, guard the line etc. Moving planes to and from the national reserve is also faster and more methodical, I don't have to click through all the units and or find them one by one from the commander's report I just scroll through the list and see who's below 50% ready or has a combination of high fatigue and needs an upgraded plane model etc.
While building the spreadsheet took quite a bit of time, my turns actually take much less time now, and the decisions I make are based on far greater amount of information. However, an experienced player probably already knows all their forces like chess pieces so its probably not necessary.
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