48Close Combat
Using the Team Monitor
You monitor the status of your teams using the Team monitor. To view all the teams in the monitor, use the scroll bar.
To select a team, click its panel in the Team monitor. If you click an enemy unit during game play, the list is replaced by the text “Enemy unit selected,” and the enemy soldiers appear in the Soldier monitor. In either case, when you click one of your teams in the Team monitor, or an enemy team in the View Area, the Soldier monitor lists the soldiers on that team.
To center a team in the View Area, click its panel in the Team monitor after you select it. To select the team and center it in the View Area,
When you select a team in the Team monitor, the team is highlighted by a blue box, the Soldier monitor shows information for each soldier on the selected team, and the team is selected in the View Area.
Using the Soldier Monitor
You use the Soldier monitor to monitor the status of individual soldiers. When you start a game, the Soldier monitor is not displayed; it appears only when you select a team in either the Team or View Area.
To select a soldier, click the appropriate panel in the Soldier monitor. When you select a soldier, a yellow box surrounds the soldier’s name in both the Soldier and View Area. If you select an enemy team, its members appear in the Soldier monitor. However, question marks may appear in some portions of the panel if you don’t have complete intelligence information. As an enemy team remains under observation, these question marks are replaced with more complete infor- mation about the enemy team.
Using the Message Monitor
You monitor the messages from your teams using the Message monitor. When you start a game, there are no messages displayed; messages display only when events affecting your teams occur. The Message monitor displays messages radioed, or shouted, to you. To see all the messages sent during a given battle, use the scroll bars.
You can also filter messages by using the colored buttons at the top of the Mes- sage monitor. First you decide which levels of messages you don’t want to see, then click the appropriate button. For example, if you click the red message filter,
