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Hi Folks,

I am new to Battles in Normandy and this series of games. I think it is fantastic, but I do have one question relative to fog of war issues. If an enemy unit has been completely identified, I can move my mouse over the unit, right-click, and see everything about that unit -- ammunition levels, movement points, everything -- just like it was my unit! Isn't this a bit much in terms of complete exposure? Why should I have access to this amount of information? [&:]

Thanks,
-Longstreet

If a unit is fully exposed, then you see its base capabilities (think this is done because a player could open the editor or another game and get the info anyway). 

The only two pieces of info you actually get by right clicking are:

1) number of steps the unit has (along w/ status of timed replacements) &
2) does the unit still have a combat capability (i.e. you see if the unit is out of supply and combat capability immediately... red background counters for isolated units)

Something to try is the unknown units feature.  When using this a units info is not available via right clicking until it has taken part in a close combat (this applies to your own units too!).    Excellent feature that makes the game, umm... very interesting, at the start.