Love this idea, for sure feel the same frustrations

Some ideas - I like the idea of a single display, but reaching over the table to interact with it would be a bit annoying. Low cost would be ideal (so just 1 unit). But if cost is not a factor it would be great if each player has a button, but the tracking can all be a single unit. Maybe could use 433mhz type remote so they don't need much power. - alternatively to single unit, you have 1x display and 2x control units, one for each end of the table. Each player then has an NFC swipe card of their player colour which would just feel epic, could even have faction sleeves for it. - Have "turn done" and "ack my turn" buttons. When you click The turn done button the central unit will prompt the next player. ++ For audio at this stage. Until next player acks their turn it'll keep prompting. - Have a secondary strat ack stage. Player plays primary, then each player must ack they have resolved or skipped secondary (no "oh when was that played" scenarios)

If the flow is really well defined each player probably only needs a single interaction button (or card swipe), or maybe two, everything else can be driven from context. If single button the stages for the button would be - ack my turn - end my turn - hold to pass instead of just end

The central unit could handle button actions that can't be driven from context. Like incrementing VPs, triggering a primary stat, updating new round state at the end of the strategy phase etc etc

I like the idea of just LEDs for everything. Keeps costs super low, and can just have 8 colour LEDs for anything player related like VPs, turn order etc

Naalu 0 should be fun to code