1.7. Brigade HQ

[SIDE HQ]
    - Welcome screen
   - Squad selected
   - Town selected

   - Platoon selected 

[PLATOON HQ]

   - Mission member display

   - Mission leader display 

[BRIGADE HQ]

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   With the current design, the information that can be found on the main brigade screen or in the "communications" tab, is limited, unclear or not very useful. Furthermore you can no longer access some needed information once you joined a mission.

The new design tries to give more useful information to brigade members and leaders, makes it available everywhere it's needed, and tries to make coordination and organization much easier thanks to this. Many features contained in the next sreenshot have already been introduced in previous topics.

 

Typical brigade HQ display

#51. The same list of active missions ordered by category then the one that can be found in the side HQ (topic 1.1) is displayed on the left of the screen.

#52. When selecting a platoon or a squad mission, a zoom is performed on its target in the little map on the right. At the same time, extra information can be found bellow the left screen :

• Target;
• Current orders; (only available if selecting a platoon)
• Countdown status;
• List of current mission members, ordered by unit type. Unit type, spawn status and last selected origin are displayed as well. Note that somehow multicrewed vehicles should be announced;
• Platoon stats (duration of platoon's existence, number of kills, number of deaths);
• Platoon specialization displayed with an image, if any;

#53. The OIC name tag is reminded;

#54. Current AO(s) status are displayed, showing for how long they have been active.

#55. The supply status is displayed as well. Note that at this level a distinction is made between light units (infantry icon) and heavy units (tank icon) to allow leaders to better establish a supply awareness;

#56. As introduced in feature #38, a list of MSPs currently available for the brigade is displayed at this level as well;

#57. A mission display filter allows to find a specific mission in the list.

#58. A part of the screen now displays all units that don't belong to this brigade (ground, air, naval), but which are currently also involved in the same areas (home town and target). It would actually just gather missions filtered when selecting the towns on map in the side HQ (feature #29).

Selecting one of these platoons would also display its details on the map and on the left. This becomes valid for squad mission as well, in opposition to the side HQ level where you read squad informations instead. Note that mercenaries are not taken into account.

This important feature would allow brigade members and leaders to get an excellent situational awareness of available troops, allow easier coordination with air/naval units and other ground forces, and allow players to more easily know if there's another more pertinent brigade to join then the one they're currently in.

#59. In the chat window you'll notice notifications about the membership candidature being approved by the leader (feature #46), and a change of the platoon status which means an automatic spawn signal is imminent (feature #48).

#60. When leaving the platoon thanks to the "leave platoon icon", you would land in the brigade HQ and be allowed to join another mission.


Note : Some feedbacks pointed out that the information displayed in this screen is very useful, but is a bit too much because of spying issues. Therefore, some of the information could eventually be filtered and displayed only for MLs and OICs.