dieseltaylor Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I have not seen it anywhere on a thread so I was wondering if anyone knew why the dead disappear. 1. In terms of realism its not great. After all a pile of bodies does help identify the interesting areas of the battlefield 2. When I look at a unit on the GUI I have very large icons of the weapons and even wounded weapons. Why not show me weapons in red so I can instantly gauge how the unit is suffering/suffered and what my guess is to its morale state. Guessing a US units original strength is not too difficult but I do not want to have to memorise all the various German units and their original strength. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVulture Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Only buddy-aided bodies are removed. And the reason is so that you can see bodies that haven't been given buddy aid, so you know who you might want to give first aid to or scavenge weapons from. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Field Marshal Blücher Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Also, you can see in the bottom-left corner, with all of the soldier status indicators (e.g. Firing, Aiming, Cowering, etc.) "Casualty" indicators. These also disappear when they are buddy-aided but to be honest I prefer it the way it is; if I see no "Casualty" indicators down there then I know that I've buddy-aided all of the downed men in the unit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MengJiao Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I have not seen it anywhere on a thread so I was wondering if anyone knew why the dead disappear. 1. In terms of realism its not great. After all a pile of bodies does help identify the interesting areas of the battlefield 2. When I look at a unit on the GUI I have very large icons of the weapons and even wounded weapons. Why not show me weapons in red so I can instantly gauge how the unit is suffering/suffered and what my guess is to its morale state. Guessing a US units original strength is not too difficult but I do not want to have to memorise all the various German units and their original strength. I like seeing only the unplundered dead. It's like having pirate-eye vision or something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I would really like to be able to see how many casualties a unit has suffered so far in the fight, whether they've been buddy-aided or not. When, for example, you start a scenario with some understrength units, and are able to buddy-aid the fallen, it becomes unnecessarily onerous to remember which units have taken casualties in the current fight, and which started off with them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildman Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 The "dead" bodies do not disappear although you can lose LOS to the enemy KIA bodies. As others state, WIA that have received buddy care are "evacted" and leave the field...exactly like surrendered troops do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I like it how it is now: the "pirate-eye" comment hits it nicely. The dead show me who I can buddy-aid for plunder and treasure. Or ammo and weapons. What I'd like is to have the endgame screen show all the dead where they fell. "Here is where the 300 from Sparta held." That would be a pile. Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Childress Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Or, BFC felt it was a matter of good taste. Even if the German laws preventing its depiction didn't exist, one wonders if they would have included the swastika as a graphic. They don't live in a societal vacuum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Field Marshal Blücher Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 The "dead" bodies do not disappear They disappear as well once "buddy aid" (which in the case of KIA represents soldiers taking their weapons and gear) is administered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyBucket Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 It'd be nice to have an indicator of how many total losses a unit has taken, even if it was just a number or tally marks on the GUI. Then one of the morbidly artistic modders could change it to dog tag icons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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