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First off, its about time we had pop-up/drop-down menus. For instance, with soft-factors, there should be no need to cycle through all the options to get to the one you want. You should be able to hit the button and have a drop-down menu appear from which you make your choice. This is a widget that can be coded once and then used in any future 2x3 games.

I especially would like to see a drop-down menu for highlighting units of a certain type. For instance, I would like to be able to highlight all my cavalry units, or perhaps all my armor units, etc. I might also like to highlight brigade size units, or corps size units, etc. John Tiller's panzer campaigns has various ways to highlight units, such as units that expended movement points. I think WitE2 should be able to highlight units as well. This would make managing and finding particular types of units much easier and would speed up game play.

I would also like to have a way to cycle through my HQ's so that I can check on what support units they have attached. A "next/previous HQ" button would be nice.

Lot's of GUI improvements have been added including drop down menus - screenshot shows the one for soft factors.

Good to see. Hoping for unit type highlighting still.[:D]

It’s there too, and if I remember correctly was in WitE1. Look on the hot keys: cntrl & a number.

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It’s there too, and if I remember correctly was in WitE1. Look on the hot keys: cntrl & a number.

Highlighting in WitE 1 was for enemy units, not your own.

Edit: OK, I take that back. My problem was that I had some other option picked at the same time. I needed to unselect all info stuff and it showed up. Glad I tried it again.

I am seeing in the photos that the historical names of the Luftwaffe organization have been greatly improved, thank you very much for the improvement, this simulation is also for me a living encyclopedia!

Does this have support units like the first WitE? I quit playing because I found them too tedious to manage. If so, will their management be any more user friendly?
Thanks.

I also hope that some changes have been made when it comes to handling supportunits...
WITEs model was NOT good imo...

Any chance of getting an answer to my support group question?
Thanks.

Ooops - missed that - sorry.

Support Units are the same as in WitE but their re-allocation and management is I think different and easier (I say that as I haven't played WitE for over 5 years and don't have it installed to be able to check).

Thanks for the answer. If it's a lot easier I'll consider buying.

Hi I'm not a dev or beta tester but from the info they've released/WITW design I think I can be pretty certain that the game will continue to include off-map support units.

I think from a gameplay perspective the options to set HQ support commitment levels and automate the movement up and down the chain worked pretty well as a way of avoiding the Support Unit micro if that isn't your thing.

One bugbear that I had with the SU system as it is in previous versions is that when you click the assign button for a lower HQ to pick an SU from a higher HQ you just had the categories and no way to separate the different individual units. So say if you had a SU that was worn down that you wanted to rest/refit and a healthy SU of the same type that you were transferring from one Army Group to another you couldn't tell them apart and the only way I could see to do it is to move the healthy unit step by step to where you want it to be which entails a lot of additional clicks. For me the SU screen you access in a HQ should be like the screen you get when assigning air groups to an airbase in WITE1

[edit - just thinking about this it was actually better in WITW - it's a while since I played that but I think you did get the individual SUs as I describe]