Layered Command System

[sinisteral 10]

First of all, this is no newbie screecher thread. I'm a long time player since the flashpoint days and this keeps getting to me.

This is a design for a more robust command system, an alternative to the buggy High Command.

------------------------

We all know those little icons of our squad mates, some like the idea some hate it, for me, it gets in the way. I'm tired of <10 man missions due to the overwhelming micro management it takes to get a 26 man platoon functioning well in combat.

Now many of you might say "Well use the colour team system, that works rather well". The color team system is clunky for me, and inaccessible to the more inexperienced player. What I suggest is a kind of, collapsible framework.

So lets say the default is your standard Arma layout, with all your squad mates visible. For this example the squad is 10 men.

I want to separate the squad into three fire teams to un-clutter my space, so I select my teams and press the keys required to sort them into a fire team.

The long line of Icons is now reduced to a nice and neat three.

[Fire1] [Fire2] [Fire 3]

Now there should be three keys assigned to the commands:

Open/Collapse All

Open Team

Close Team

Now this system can be used for how many AI you have in your squad, no more endless use of F11/12 to get through your ranks!

Now we are able to have tight squad control of Platoon + size forces!

[Baff1 0]

I'd like my squads Sargeant to order the medic to heal people and to rearm etc. instead of me.

And an option for me to set an override to that preventing him, for when he does so inappropriately.

[helling3r 10]

The long line of Icons is now reduced to a nice and neat three.

[Fire1] [Fire2] [Fire 3]

A simple trick, posted elsewhere here is, to set up the first 4 soldiers as fire team leader, so soldier 2 is red, soldier 3 is green etc.

The squads members follow then. So you have easy access to your Squads but are also able to issue individual orders to any member if necessary.

If the FTL gets down, you can easily replace him after combat, because arma saves the groupslot for him. (so FTL2 again becomes FTL2)