War Cabinet 0.8.0 is available!

[ErikCumps]

Hello fellow wargamers,

I am delighted to announce the release of War Cabinet version 0.8.0!

The release can a be found here (on GitHub), screenshots can be found here (also on GitHub).

The development of 0.8.0 has seen many difficulties and challenges, but I hope
you'll agree with me that it was well worth the wait.

This release introduces many new features:

Full support for the SP:WaW and winSPWW2 games:

• date-specific OOB nation info and flags
• map hex connection and tramlines detection
• map hex height range expanded and unified
• unified unit and formation types
• (SP:WaW) formations can contain core units as well as support units
• (winSPWW2) month-only battle/turn dates
• (winSPWW2) Disabled time-based axis for dossier graphs.

Unit History Tracking. The entire history of units in a campaign is now tracked.
This includes additional units commissioned after the start of the campaign,
units decomissioned before the end of the campaign and units cross-attached to
different formations during the campaign.

Full campaign history preference. This preference enables full campaign history,
which also shows data for decommissioned units on the following Dossier tabs:
Overview, Status, Progress, Kills, Losses, Roster and History.

Full, limited and None intel mode. Three intel modes are available (full,
limited and none) to select the amount of information about the opponent forces
that should be available.

• Full: all information is available
• Limited: limited information is available:
  • The opponent's OOB is available, but the battle status is not.
  • The stratmap shows the uncertainty of the frontline.
  • Only destroyed, abandoned or spotted opponent units are indicated.
• None: no information is available:
  • Victory hex ownership by the opponent is not available.
  • The opponent's OOB is not available.
  • The opponent's unit history is not available.
  • The stratmap shows the uncertainty of the contested map.
  • Only destroyed, abandoned or spotted opponent units are indicated.

Additional height color fields for stratmap. To liven up the stratmap a bit,
additional height color fields are provided:

• grey: the original greyish colors.
• topographic: washed out colors, derived from topographic maps
• terrain: washed out colors, based on the map terrain type

Campaign battle results. The results of a campaign battle (Decisive Victory,
Marginal Victory, Drawn Battle, Marginal Defeat, Decisive Defeat) are now
recorded and reported. Note: they are not reported for older dossiers (when
battle results were not yet recorded).

Local and global preferences. Warcab preferences can now be stored globally (in
the registry), or locally (in a warcab.ini file).

XML reporting. The spwreport tool now also supports reporting savegame
information using the XML file format.

Many other improvements are provided:

Much improved unit detection for SP:WaW. Based on information learned from
winSPWW2, the SP:WaW unit detection has been much improved, significantly
reducing the risk of misdetection.

Initial support for unit designations. Although unit names are initialized by
the games to reflect the unit equipment name, these names are actually unit
designations which can change during the course of a battle and/or a campaign.
Initial support for these unit designations has been added.

Changed unit 'radio' status to 'contact' status. The old unit radio status is
now reported as a unit contact status (No Contact, Radio Contact, Direct
Contact)

Updated loaded unit position recording. For the position of a loaded unit, the
position of the loading unit is recorded.

Victory hex statistics reporting. The occupation status of the victory hexes is
now reported for each battle turn.

Campaign battle index. The campaign battle index tracks the position of the
battle in the campaign, compared to other battles. It is used to distinguish and
sort the different battles of a campaign, replacing the date-based mechanism
which did no longer function with month-only dates.

Updated documentation.

• added SP:WaW and winSPWW2 OOB file format documentation
• updated SP:WaW save file sections format documentation
• added winSPWW2 save file sections format documentation
• updated existing and added some new demo dossiers

Enjoy!
Erik