Scourge of War Boards

Just started playing again. Really appreciate this great game. My recent play pointed out two nit picks I have had for some time that it seems should be easy to fix.

It would be great if we could locate an officer by scrolling through the command chain using the arrow keys and then go to the courier screen and have the letter already addressed to that officer. Or perhaps a better design to the order of battle screen would help ease of location.

The second also involves couriers. I send a message to an officer some 300 yard away. There is a road with a fence line running down the side of the road. The courier heads right up the fence line all the way to the recipient, rather than the road which as you know takes forever. Frustrating but there is no way to direct couriers. Perhaps this small glitch can also someday be cleaned up in some future iteration of the game.

Don't know a thing about programing but is seems that these things could be fixed without to much difficulty or perhaps not.

That's all.

It would be great if we could locate an officer by scrolling through the command chain using the arrow keys and then go to the courier screen and have the letter already addressed to that officer.

We had that in 1.6 but it was unpopular so it was removed for 1.61.

Courier routes are more complicated - they are dependant on a number of things, Norb would know. Sometimes they go by road, sometimes direct. In your case - direct and the road are almost side by side - hard to code for something like that.

We would like to improve both of these - and if we get time we will

It would be nice if the officers would be displayed in a different colour than the other units in the
courier window. The bigger your command gets the more of a hassle it becomes
to send couriers - and one has to send them quite often. Just display subordinated
officers in green, same rank in blue and others in red. Even make it an option for
all who like how the the list is now.

A colour scheme or some sort of staggered naming structure is on our to-do-list. I experimented some time back (just as a mod) adding

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symbols to the front of each commander name - it makes the OOB list easier to read but the extra characters then can cause long names to overrun the portrait window in game.