Totally agree. Even better, if the player can check some sort of "Move non-organic Arty" checkbox.

New Extended Force Icon Info (EFII) offer a lot of new information to the player. But is the information really useful and necessary? The following is only my opinion of course :) Usefulness and Necessity Since you can't edit/turn off the info that is displayed in the separate EFII boxes, it...

I meant a situation when an already opened "Edit Task" dialog doesn't affect currently selected Task and you have to manually close it and open again via "Edit Task" dialog. I couldn't reproduce the situation since the first post and Dave is probably right - I could "Shift-Click" an old "Edit...

God, I hope changes to the engine won't be this straight-forward.

Agree completely. Old habits die hard.

There's a great Soviet series of books: "Тактика в боевых примерах" ("Tactics in combat examples"). It has books on platoon, company, battalion, regiment and division levels. If you know Russian (or if you can tolerate things like Google Translate) you can download all levels but company here...

Another thing. There are no "Force Info" and "Edit Task" dialogs in the main toolbar. It would be nice to have them there, especially with assigned hotkeys (for example, ALT-- and ALT-+).

Exactly. I've just checked it with the old manual, and my screenshot is wrong. Let me quote: "If you have turned orders delay on, a pink background in the Info Box tells you that orders have been sent to a unit but it has not received them yet".

I had had the same problem, until MikeGER told me about using Win7 "Lens" function. Look here (last post) - http://forums.lnlpublishing.com/threads/some-ui-elements-are-broken-if-custom-text-size-is-defined-in-microsoft-windows-display-settings.1312/

Here's a small visual aid:

Grim.Reaper, use infobox statuses (ones that you switch by F1, F2 etc.) to get quick assessment of the situation. Yes, you have to cycle through several of them to get the general idea, but there's no better thing AFAIK. For example, switch to rout status, look for orange (retreat/retreat...

That would be great, especially if these hotkeys would open AND close dialogs.

Then the interface will stay unimproved forever, because there will always be a "bigger fish to catch" :( Too bad CO2 doesn't have an option to "return to the old interface". The new one is in beta status at best.

Hmmm, strange. A couple of days ago that dialog didn't update when I selected another order to change its settings. So, it had all the "Move" options when I selected "Attack" order. I had to manually close ("Dismiss") the old "Edit Task" dialog and open a new one. Now it works completely fine...

So, as I promised somewhere on the board, I've collected and systematized my thoughts re new interface and possible improvements. People with two or more monitors shouldn't read on and must be happy (even REALLY happy :woot:) with the current state of affairs - my concern is with "have-nots"...

Thanks for the answer, MikeGer! I didn't know that I could use a hotkey for that. It's MUCH better than magnifying glass I remember (the one which devoted only a portion of the screen to the enlarged image). I'll definitely use it.

I second that. Small counters lead to worse sight and bad back (as I try to make them out by unconsciously moving my head closer to the monitor). Dave, please make an option to double or even triple their size.

Thanks for a swift reply, Dave. The benefits are there and I understand them perfectly. But the new UI system seriously slows the gameflow and, in my opinion, not very ergonomic. I will try to explore the new GUI, organize my thoughts and post them somewhere in the "Feature request" section.

Is it possible to switch to the old interface? Yes, the new one is highly beneficial for people with 2+ monitors, who can devote a whole monitor to all informational windows. But I've found myself overburdened with small (and non-resizable which is an issue in itself) windows that clutter the...

Sorry - didn't read your first post properly (yup, Internet Sin #1):)