Hide troops, see city

[rasnell]

The manual mentions -- and the tutorial properly functions -- of hiding the troops so you can see the city by right-clicking on any unit on top of the city.

However, this does not work within the main April 1861 campaign.

Is there any other way to hide the troops to see the cities? This is especially an issue in the very crowded D.C. and Harper's Ferry area.

[Adlertag]

Sorry if it's not the answer you expected but why don't you click and drag ( in the same region) your units to shift them and see your city. Or drag and drop them into the city. But maybe it's a tedious operation.

[Primasprit]

The manual mentions -- and the tutorial properly functions -- of hiding the troops so you can see the city by right-clicking on any unit on top of the city.

However, this does not work within the main April 1861 campaign.

Is there any other way to hide the troops to see the cities? This is especially an issue in the very crowded D.C. and Harper's Ferry area.

Hi rasnell,

sometimes the units are very near the city and hide the city shape but are actually outside in the region, so a right click will not hide them.
In this case you have to drag them a bit aside, as Adlertag said (don't forget to lock them from merging: Ctrl-L).

[Rafiki]

If you drag the unit "into" the city, it will disappear from view upon right-clicking and simply be counted on the yellow standard waving from the city's flagpole

[rasnell]

OK. Didn't know this. Manual was not that precise, simply said right-click and it would hide.

Dragging out of the way is not an option with the incredible overload of units in D.C. But dragging them into the city to hide them is the solution.

Thanks

[Pocus]

with CTRL L (or left click on a force tab, to just lock it), you can stockpile at the same place several stacks, thus reorganizing the region.

Locking a force will now be permanent from turn to turn, starting with the upcoming patch.

[rasnell]

with CTRL L (or left click on a force tab, to just lock it), you can stockpile at the same place several stacks, thus reorganizing the region.

Locking a force will now be permanent from turn to turn, starting with the upcoming patch.

I tried the CTL L, but that doesn't let me view the underlying city. Am I missing something? Dragging all of the units, and there are piles of them for the Union around D.C., into the city does allow you to see the city, so that worked. But it's tedious with so much clutter.

Just a thought, probably too hard to program, but it would be nice if a right-click on the map truly did hide all the units in that region. Or even a filter that hides all unts on the map for a map view.

[Rafiki]

Ctrl-L has nothing to do with moving units into/out of cities; it is to lock/unclok units so that they (don't) merge when you drag'n'drop them onto eachother

Having a filter for hiding units (perhaps with variants for just land/sea units) would be nice, e.g. for being able to better see cities and the information about them provided by icons and suchlike. Perhaps a toggle to display units "in the field" with a flagpole and count (like it's done for units inside the city) could work nicely too?

[Pocus]

yes, filters can be done. This belong to the wishlist though.