As a newbie here, I am surprised this isn't in the game. I thought this was standard for any game. It's like buying a new car without power steering and breaks or no windshield wipers.

I do hope they will put it in soon.

You ABSOLUTELY DO have this feature in Civ5 (I personally can't think of any other modern TBS that doesn't have this feature?). 

In Civ V you right-click to a destination square and the game shows you exactly what path the unit will attempt to take to the desired destination and also where the unit will end its movement each and every turn until it gets there.  The unit does not move until you release the mouse button, allowing you to make adjustments or cancel the movement before it's too late if you don't like what you see.

Most times I try to play Elemental I have at least 1-2 costly and irritating incidents where a unit will choose a path that I would never have chosen and frequently gets killed for no reason at all except that this very basic feature is missing.  Feeling obligated to manually control each and every unit's every individual square of movement to avoid this problem is just a silly and totally unnecessary inconvenience that has no place in any modern game (IMO)???

While I think this would be cool, I have to ask myself a simple question, "Would I really want them to take time away from any other changes/fixes/additions to make this one addition?" The short answer is hell no. A longer answer is like this. While it may seem reasonable to add this, it probably would not be easy, quick, or even worth the effort in the short term. I mean would you really want some programmer at SD to work on this rather than updating the AI, or the magic system, or tactical combat, or making new quests, or any number of other awesome things? In the long run, when time and effort are not better spent on any number of other things, sure, but with the short time table they have for FE, this is probably not that big a deal. Honestly, if you look at games which support this, it is only really meaningful when a base unit/stack can have a significant hex/grid move. For instance, in galciv2, the later fleets can move like 2 sectors at a time so it makes alot of sense to know exactly how they are going to use all those moves in advance so you don't shoot something by like 20 grid spaces.

Fuck this. If there is any proper pathfinding in the game, then overlaying that path visually doesn't take any time at all. It's been almost half a year already since the first request of this feature that I was aware of. Then again I'm not convinced there is any proper pathfinding done in this game since the units move in such idiotic ways.

The lack of this feature is starting to piss me off.

And this is absolute nonsense.

I was writing about it since the release. It was never on sort or any todo lists. It wouldn't be so painful if the game had some decent idle unit finder. Yes, there is Shift+U but scrolling through caravans is not what I mean. I always play with auto next unit and focus and still there are many times that some of my armies, especially the first one in the row was left somewher for many turns. I play lots of Civ and there it happens with the unit is autoexploring or at least doing something.

Do all enemy civilizations in the game have the same yellow border?

That should be changed along with the movement paths as well as have a ZofC(zone of control) implemented in the tactical side of the game.

I find it funny as most of the time, I use these types of path overlays to remember my own orders for units with extremely long movement paths. Yet, I still think that this is a final polish type feature and should wait until the other systems have gotten some polish before being implemented. Right now, it doesn't bother me so much since they game does show an overlay for the end position of a move order, but if we are two expansions in and it is still MIA, then I might be upset about it.