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You can use hotkeys to see roads better by pressing 'r' like so:

For you new players I do recommend Combat Reporter, found here: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2456864
It presents the latest turn reports in a manner that I find very easy to view. You must include the -archive switch in your command line switches.
It is a checkbox in SeaBee.

Welcome.

This post has an attachment for a Hot Keys PDF and some other info.
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I believe most of it is up to date.

Got it BillBrown thank you! Anachro thanks for the tip. Not sure I have java on my laptop (surface pro3) or not. Will have to dig into this.

Yes, "r" for roads and "y" for rail. Probably the most important are "6" for seeing sub patrol routes, "1" for hex terrain detail, "3" for hex weather, and "z" for plane search arcs.

Thank you all 3 for your input/help. Much appreciated. Hotkeys for map road and rail overlays will be of much help. PDF reference sheet is great, need to print it and have it in front of the monitor for sure.

Got me a combat reporter too. Do I need to run the game in windowed mode in order to be able to use it?

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Thank you all 3 for your input/help. Much appreciated. Hotkeys for map road and rail overlays will be of much help. PDF reference sheet is great, need to print it and have it in front of the monitor for sure.

Got me a combat reporter too. Do I need to run the game in windowed mode in order to be able to use it?

You should be able to use [ALT] + [TAB] to swap between various programs running in the background.

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Thank you all 3 for your input/help. Much appreciated. Hotkeys for map road and rail overlays will be of much help. PDF reference sheet is great, need to print it and have it in front of the monitor for sure.

Got me a combat reporter too. Do I need to run the game in windowed mode in order to be able to use it?

No, you can ALT-TAB to get to it if you need to. I have two monitors and I like to run my game in windowed mode so I can just move the mouse over and click though things on other programs.

OK, great, thank you.


SPOILER ALERT FOR NEWCOMERS - don't read below!

Started the Coral mission just to see if I can move ships around etc. Apparently I can. [:'(] I guess I need to use the naval planes to scout the area where Allied Carriers are expected to come from. Don't yet get how their patroling arcs work and also not how the aircraft carrier scouts work. My Tulagy naval force was attacked straight ahead. I fought of merging my CVL task force with the main CV task force to boost my chances. The invasion force will wait in the port. After the merge is done I'll send the carrier force after the enemy's one and send the invason force en route to main target port only after that so that they by chnace don't get mopped up. Hope I'l have enough time to pull this one off. What do you say, doable or not?

I never use patrol arcs for ship based aircraft. Not worth it. Some say to not use arcs even for land based air. I have tried both ways
and I am still unsure which to use.

Never use patrol arcs for ship-based nav search. For general land-based nav search as well, it's very effective to leave it to normal full circumference search without arcs if you simply want general spotting and warning. However, if you want to pay attention to or saturate a particular area of interest with nav-search coverage, patrol arcs are very handy.

Oh, I see. One less thing to click then.

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