Hearts of Iron 3 does one thing better...

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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That is the Chain of Command picture on the map.

There is no color coding, the COC (... ehehehehehehe [8D]) is seen with lines being drawn on the map between a HQ and all its subordinate units.
Units that are out of range of HQ are shown with red lines.

Some examples, for those who never played HOI3:

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Speaking from a purely selfish perspective, putting this in WITE (and WITW?) would help out the player a lot.
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I think it's possible to display such lines for selected HQ (to subordinates and superior).
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ORIGINAL: morvael

I think it's possible to display such lines for selected HQ (to subordinates and superior).

As in now?

If so, what's the option in the interface to do so?

If not, it would be a pretty kewl feature IMO.
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Use the Carot key (next to the 1 key on my keyboard) it looks like this: ~
Here's what it displays.


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Thank you.

This somewhat works - except in HOI3 when I click on OKH, ALL units that are connected to it have lines added, as in OKH ==> Army ==> Corps ==> Division. Here, from what I can see, it only gives the immediate subordinates.
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Click on OKH or Stavka and you will get a display similar to what you are seeing in HOI.....
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I also think that clearer chain of command lines would be brilliant. I have problems with actually seeing the lines in the game, especially all the colour coding. I'm slightly colour blind, which no doubt contributes, but also the lines are very thin. I would crave an option where the units were all linked by thick, very visible lines as in the HOI screenshots above. There's no missing those lines!
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