Can't find embarked troops

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Can't find embarked troops

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Europe:early Italian Option, Axis mid-1944.
So this is becoming a World War and North America is beginning to be invaded by the Axis. I didn't know this but evidently the Axis can lose transport ships when they are attacked or intercepted by Allied air. This has left me with a reduced number of transports and even though I've scoured the countryside far and wide, I cannot find my complete complement of transports.
20 points are missing and I cannot find them.
It would be a good idea to mark embarked troops in the 'reports and statistics': units order of battle lineup, so one can quickly find embarked troops (that are "lost").
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Good idea +1
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I can add something maybe
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Yes please!
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Would be especially useful for Pacific also...
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The other problems that encourage this is the mixing in of transported troops with regular naval troops in a stack, rather than a separate counter (different color?) to allow special naval stacking or when one checks the unit box -- have a background beneath the font that is a different color. So with one look at a stack you can tell there is a transported combat unit.
Also a German transported embarked combat unit can get "lost" when it combines with say, an Italian naval unit -- the gray German transported unit "disappears" into the green of the Italian unit and then you have no idea what's what.
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The 3rd number on the list of the fleet on the standard counter display shows the number of land and air units transported.
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I see that now.
Middle number: # naval units.
1st number: # carriers(?)
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Yes coloring the 3rd number only makes it confusing to see. I tried it before. The eye and mind can best discern between 2 different factors.
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