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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

To Son of Montfort's excellent summary I'd add two points:
1) Anyone following the PBEM AAR's will know how often forces do not go where they're told to, for the reasons he outlined.
2) One of the common problems for first timers is clicking on a unit so as to move it, then moving to the destination province, and then trying to send it there by clicking on something in that province -- which deselects the original unit and selects whatever is in the destination province instead. (E.g., I want to send a general from James River to the Army of Northern Virginia in Lynchburg, so I click on him and then click on the ANV... thus selecting the ANV.) When trying to move a unit ALWAYS click on an open area in the destination province, so as to avoid this problem. And on a related note, doing this for river provinces can be tricky because they're thin and bendy, so watch the pop-up near the arrow to make sure that you are indeed about to send a unit into the river province rather than an adjacent one.

Giving movement orders really does become second nature after a bit of practice.

Would have been a nice and usefull touch to have a small "go to" icon on the business end of the movement arrows that would flicker off if you had the pointer over another container..., but stay on if you had a legitimate spot to issue a movement order. User Friendly is always a good option.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.
Mike, I like this idea. Would you mind posting it in the Wish List thread? Eric might be able to add it.

(In case anyone's wondering why I keep asking people to add things to the Wish List thread instead of doing it myself, there are two reasons: 1) I have countless messages to get through and respond to, and 2) suggestions carry more weight coming from paying customers than from l'il ol' me.)

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

To Son of Montfort's excellent summary I'd add two points:
1) Anyone following the PBEM AAR's will know how often forces do not go where they're told to, for the reasons he outlined.
2) One of the common problems for first timers is clicking on a unit so as to move it, then moving to the destination province, and then trying to send it there by clicking on something in that province -- which deselects the original unit and selects whatever is in the destination province instead. (E.g., I want to send a general from James River to the Army of Northern Virginia in Lynchburg, so I click on him and then click on the ANV... thus selecting the ANV.) When trying to move a unit ALWAYS click on an open area in the destination province, so as to avoid this problem. And on a related note, doing this for river provinces can be tricky because they're thin and bendy, so watch the pop-up near the arrow to make sure that you are indeed about to send a unit into the river province rather than an adjacent one.

Giving movement orders really does become second nature after a bit of practice.

ORIGINAL: Alan_Bernardo
I think all this takes time. Once you've played the game enough and once you've found where you're comfortable doing things, then it all falls into place. Right now my feeling is that yes, the UI is a bit clunky. But that's only because I'm still trying to get used to it. Each session everything begins to get easier. A lot of stuff can be done on the city screen.
Alanb