Equip Soldiers - Team-Setup

[HaJo]

Currently, at the start of a mission the soldiers are placed quite randomly,
at least, they are not grouped in any useful way.
It would be nice if the player could specify teams of soldiers
that should be placed next to each other.

For example:
* Team-A (front-left): #1,#5,#7 (Assaultrifle, Smg, Flamer)
* Team-B (front-right): #2,#3,#8 (Assaultrifle, Shotgun, Smg)
* Team-C (rear-middle): #4,#6 (Rocketlauncher, Sniper)

This could be done with 'just' a simple pulldown-menu
in the equipment-screen for assigning teams or positions.

[TorF]

It's right that soldiers are not often grouped in an useful way !

Maybe the good thing to do is :
* soldiers start from inside the aircraft
* possibility to assign the position of each soldier in the aircraft

[HaJo]

Maybe the good thing to do is :
* soldiers start from inside the aircraft
* possibility to assign the position of each soldier in the aircraft

That would be even more work, because the starting-positions
are defined in the maps - so the maps would need to be changed,
in addition to the changes in datastructure, engine, and the GUI.
BTW, some maps don't have a dropship (e.g. Bristol/Bunker).

My idea requires just a new string or integer for each soldier, to hold
his team-assignment, and a way to set this in the equipment-screen.

Then the code that places the soldiers onto the map would keep
men with the same team-code together.

[HaJo]

Issue 1535244 on sf.net, see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1535244&group_id=157793&atid=805245