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General concepts

Unit cards

Each unit is represented by an unit card. Unit cards are displayed inside of unit views and you can choose from a number of levels of detail for each view. The information available on each unit card depends on the selected detail level

The level with the highest detail is exclusively used by the selection unit view (aka the selection list) and by the unit tooltips. On this level of detail, an unit card can accommodate a virtually unlimited number of elements.

Example: An unit card at different the levels of detail

The following information is present depending on level of detail:

• 0: Unit name only
• 1..5: Counter icons show the types of all the elments (regiments, wings or ships) that make up the unit.
• 1..5: If an unit is under AI control, this is indicated by a small lime rectangle in the top right corner.
• 1..5: Formation level markers ('crosses') indicate the formation type of the unit. The possible formation types are: brigade, division, corps, army, army group, theatre, air group and fleet.
• 1..5: Units tagged by the user are marked by a small fuchsia triangle in the bottom right corner.
• 2..5: The name of the unit
• 3..5: The current strength and experience of the unit
• 4..5: The information about the commander of the unit, including name, portrait, traits and skill level
• 4..5: Icons to indicate that the unit is embarked, is transporting another unit or that the unit is affected by an attack delay
• 5..5: The current location of the unit
• 5..5: The name of the transport if the unit is embarked
• 6: The name of the theatre and superior HQs to which the unit is attached

Tooltips

If you have unit tooltips enabled, you can move the mouse pointer over an unit card in an OOB view to show more information about an units. The exact information shown dependends on the position of the mouse cursor on the unit card. tooltip.

If you move the mousepointer over specific parts of the unit card, additional information is displayed:

Combined arms bonus

From softness (FTM)

Up to and including FTM, the combined arms bonus is decided by the overall softness of a ground unit. The color of the tag at the left bottom corner of each unit card indicates the softness of the unit.

The softness rating for each element and the combined softness rating of a division in numerical format are available from the unit and element tooltips. You can use this information to fine-tune an unit's softness so that it becomes eligible for the combined arms bonus.

From different brigades (TFH)

In TFH, the combined arms bonus no longer depends on the softness but the composition of an unit. The color of the tag at the left bottom corner of each unit card indicates the size of the combined arms bonus. Effects from tech are taken into account, but not from leader traits.

The softness rating for each element and the combined softness rating of a division in numerical format are available from the unit and element tooltips.

Selecting units

There are a number of methods that can be used to select an unit:

• Left-clicking selects or deselects an unit. Hold down [CTRL] to append/remove the unit to/from the current selection.
• Clicking and holding down the left mouse button and drawing a selection box will select a group of units. Hold down [CTRL] to append the units to the current selection.
• The sub items of the Select command in the view context menu can be used to select certain groups of units. The Selection dialog can optionally be used to refine the results from the Select command further.
• The QuickSelect tool can be used to select units based on their formation type and/or their composition. The Selection dialog can optionally be used to refine the results from the Quickselect tool further.
• There is also a command to select all tagged units and vice versa. Hold down [CTRL] to add the units selected this way to the current selection instead of replacing it.

If an unit is selected:

• The unit card that is displayed in the main or side view is marked with a colored border. The border of the first selected unit is colored red, all others are blue.
• The unit is added to the selection list in the left panel.
• The unit can be targeted by actions.

All selected units together form the current selection.

Tagging units

The tagging feature helps in easily keeping track of a custom subset of units. Tagged units are marked with a fuchsia colored triangle in the bottom right corner which makes them easy to spot in groups of units. The currently selected units can be tagged as easily as tagged units can be selected.

Actions and commands

Actions are all functions that modify the OOB. They can be found in the action bar and the unit view context menu. Actions triggered from the context menu only affect the clicked unit and, in general, do not change the current selection. Actions triggered from the action bar target the units in the current selection. Left-clicking an action button will apply it to the first unit in the selection only. Often, while right-clicking the button execute the action in batch mode to each unit in the current selection. After an action from the action bar has been applied successfully to a selected unit, this unit is removed from the selection, otherwise, the unit will remain in the current selection.

Actions that are triggered from the view context menu usually do not require that any units have been selected beforehand. They target only the right-clicked unit and leave the current selection unaffected.

Commands are functions that do not modify the OOB but control the way ART operates, e. g. search functions, display options, file operations etc. They are accessed through their respective buttons in the command bar and their items in the view context menu.

For many actions and commands, keyboard shortcuts are available.