Suggested Option: Alternative army setup display.

[Ballbarian]

First let me say that I have always liked the stacked/mass display of the units in the army setup screen. I have also always become distressed over trying to work with the stacked/mass display of the units in the army setup screen.



In the above image, as you can see, I have neglected my horde of Pan, and somewhere in that mass of Maenads are about 23 White Centaurs. The number of units in the garrison box was over 1300, but I have been distributing the masses to try and get the Centaurs displayed. At this point, I am not even sure that they are still there. I have also lost the ability to double click on a unit and have all like units selected. The only alternatives are shift+click and the all (a) key. Which is fine in this situation, but not when there is a hefty mix of different unit types scattered throughout and I only want one type.


What I would absolutely love to see is an option in the filters menu (or under display options) to check a box and switch to an icon, or summary view of the province garrisons. In theory, the same mechanics for unit selection would be applied with double click grabbing all like units, single click selecting a single unit, click & shift+click selecting all of a range of units, "a" selecting all units.

Following is a rough example:




That's the idea anyway. How easy it would be to implement in the current code... well, I have no idea.
JK, please feel free to give me hope (or promptly squash it so that I can look for something else to wait for. )