[PhilD]

Originally posted by st.patrik:

+ Zoomable map. This is great.

Missed that one.

+ Information about province scales and level of magic searching are great - very very helpful, and a most important addition

Agree totally with this one.

+ It tells you how many units you have in each squad in the deployment screen. This is another really helpful addition.

Agreed, but I'd like to have a text reminder with the type(s) of units as well. "5 Light Infantries, 5 Archers". Something like that, both in the squad description and in the "commander description" in the nation overview. It's awfully hard to ditinguish these units by sight; imagine how it must be for a newbie like me, when the names themselves aren't immediately linked to a set of strengths/weaknesses...

- Now here's the big one: The units in the recruitment screen (and the commanders in the main screen) are harder to differentiate between than they were in Dom I. It is noticeably harder to tell which unit is which, because of the extremely light-coloured background they are against. This is hard on the eyes, and makes the units look like blotches. I strongly urge the developers to change the background colour to a darker shade. Darker background makes it easier to see colours, whereas light background drowns out colours. It would be great (for all our eyes, if nothing else) if this could be changed.

Once more, the unit names should be printed as well as the unit icons.

Overall, while the UI is much better than the DomI UI, I still believe it's hard on the new player.