Troop Visibility

[Cunningcairn]

I am playing two very interesting games where both battlefields are dominated by woods and troops are not clearly visible to anyone. The armies have roughly the same composition and number of units so there is no clear advantage and maneuver is going to be a key factor in deciding the victors. My enjoyment however has been cut short during my opponents move when his moves were displayed with Fall Back icons from the middle of the woods. My nearest troops are 6 or 7 moves away and surely should not have any idea of what he was doing. Why are these clues been given to opponents? In other games where there are not so many woods a good ambush is exposed when turning facing as the opponent can here this happening or the turn of face actually means they can be seen. This is all counter productive to promoting victory by good tactics.

[rbodleyscott]

Fixing this issue is on our to do list.

[Cunningcairn]

Fixing this issue is on our to do list.

Thanks!

[Morbio]

There can also be a clue in a unit's potential movement path. Sometimes hexes that can logically moved to aren't shown because there is a hidden unit with ZOC influence. IMO the full range of movement should be shown and the restriction only applied once the hidden unit is seen. I did post on this a while back and I'll see if I can find the post and link it here.

Here it is: http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... en#p742277

[rbodleyscott]

There can also be a clue in a unit's potential movement path. Sometimes hexes that can logically moved to aren't shown because there is a hidden unit with ZOC influence. IMO the full range of movement should be shown and the restriction only applied once the hidden unit is seen. I did post on this a while back and I'll see if I can find the post and link it here.

Here it is: http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... en#p742277

Yes, this is something that might be separately addressed at some point. IIRC there were issues making it problematic to fix.

For one thing the engine won't show movement highlighting for squares that a unit cannot physically move to because of a unit on the square. Our scripts can tell the engine not to highlight tiles that were included in the default highlighting, but can't tell it to highlight tiles that were not included in the default highlighting.