Let us rename formations (or at least make notes on them)

[Alsadius]

As I play games, I find myself wanting to change the purpose of specific units to be for specific tasks. In particular, the air groups are awful for this - I don't know Russian or German air group name abbreviations from the 1940s, so I just see a lot of JGs and SADs and other such acronyms that are completely incomprehensible to me.

But as I change a unit to do a specific task, I want to be able to remember that when I get around to doing something with it on the next turn (which can easily be many days later), and right now I have no good way to track that. In a game like Hearts of Iron, I'd just rename the unit as a memory aid, and I've often found that to be very convenient. But in WitE, I can't do that.

I recall seeing something years ago saying that specific unit names played a role in the AI code. If that's the case, I know you're a small company, so you might not have the resources to fix that particular bit of ugly hard-coding. (I've been there myself before - it's not good, but it sometimes happens anyway.) But hopefully, adding a notes field onto units could be a substitute. The UI is generally pretty spacious, so there's room for it. and it'd let me do most of the tasks I want to do with a renaming function. It'd even be better for a few things.

Thanks.

[Wiedrock]

But hopefully, adding a notes field onto units could be a substitute.

If you find a way to get into a little picture editing you can implement notes like this for yourself (yes I know it's tedious).
You can ofc. also write right below or to the right of it smaller notes! (Note that "clean" 100% white color will not be shown in edited pictures for AOGs/AGs)

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