Request for more icons

Byzantine Productions Pike and Shot is a deep strategy game set during the bloody conflict of the Thirty Years War.

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Morholt
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Request for more icons

Post by Morholt »

I get that the look of the game is based on miniatures, and so it's intentionally somewhat sparse. However I would like to be able to tell more information at a glance. Perhaps an option could be added to display more icons next to the unit flags?

#1 most important would be showing whether a unit is a Keil or not. This is important to know when positioning your cavalry, and it's annoying to have to mouse over units every turn to tell, especially since units can lose the Keil status due to casualties.

#2 would be an icon telling that a unit counts as Light. This is already reasonably easy to tell, but an icon would make it easier to identify flank threats at a glance.

#3 would be a Disorganized marker. Rough ground is not always obvious, especially when a unit is standing on it. Maybe it could be yellow for moderately disorganized and red for severely?

As has already been said elsewhere, some kind of indication what units can still move would also be nice. Perhaps units that have not been moved could have a glowy border around the flag?

Something like this:
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rbodleyscott
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Re: Request for more icons

Post by rbodleyscott »

All good ideas, but unfortunately the engine will not support any more icons or icon variants. (We are already using all of the 8 permitted columns of icons, although you will only ever see 2 at once, because we need a lot of variant icons to show unit state - cohesion and losses).
Richard Bodley Scott

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