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From another thread:

ORIGINAL: CptWasp
.........passing through a full German battalion in Monshau WITHOUT ANY infantry support: 0 losses!!!

In this game series, I have never been able to work out whether I am taking any losses.

How do I determine whether a unit is taking losses?

How can I compare the current strength of any unit with its strength at the start of a scenario?

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Hi,

On the bottom right of each unit icon a little light lights up:

• Blue - Your unit is firing
• Orange(ish) - You are being fired at
• Red - You are tacking casualties
• White - The cowards are surrendering!

You can also look at a units log and see it history which will tell you when they took casualties (not how many unfortunately).

Moreover if you look at the General tab for th eunit and look at its Pers Qty bar you will see a light blue bar that represents current strength and a darker blue bar underneath, which represents scenario start strength. Does that help?

Also, in the unit's log, you will see the sad demise of your men being reported.

ORIGINAL: Arjuna

look at its Pers Qty bar you will see a light blue bar that represents current strength and a darker blue bar underneath, which represents scenario start strength. Does that help?

If there were just one unit yes it would.

But there are 40 units on the map.

I need a short cut way to see those blue lines for a specific battlegroup as well as for my force as a whole.

And I don't want to micro manage.

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In HTTR I sometimes make a quick glance at HQ's
HQ's also provide the total equipment of the whole formation.
Just track the changes once in a while.

Anywhat of adding what starting numbers were of the unit? Like ( tanks 1/7 (1 left / started with 7)) it realy can't be that hard.

ORIGINAL: Joe 98
...I need a short cut way to see those blue lines for a specific battlegroup as well as for my force as a whole....

That's a good suggestion for the task tracker Dave - a popup box (moveable) showing a list of forces and being able to view Organisation, Personel etc...all the blue bars you can see when you select a unit...with the added functionality of clicking on the unit to go to it on map...shows you where it is, why it's personell/org (whatever) is affected...

Of course all good Task Tracker items should come after a campaign [;)]

Nice one JD! [;)]

Why not instead add another function to the UnitInfoBox so that it showed losses realtive to start strength. We already have the F3 Strength function. So why not overload this to have a strength since start display.

Being as that functionality is already there, makes sense to reuse it.