Hi! 
I’m not sure if it came up already, but I didn’t find a similar suggestion with a quick search.
I hope I’m not just echoing this idea: Let us select the individual soldier “slots” 1-7 (or more, sooner or later?) with the corresponding number on the numpad. While soldier switching is an absolutely neat feature, in the heat of battle, with losses mounting up it quiet quickly happens that you switch a soldier too far, which usually results in frantically hammering Z a couple more times. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone with.
It’s a game selling, brilliant feature, but switching to my engineer, which always is on slot number 1 - or my assault, always on number 7 - could be a lot more intuitive, especially when time is of the essence.
My little group agrees that it could be a quick fix that enhances the squad-mechanics by a lot, at least for PC-players.
I hope you will give it a thought.
Thank you for your attention
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That is actually a really good idea and would be a Nice feature. And would make controlling your squads easier.
I know its not of the same topics. But to be able to set your squads into smaller teams and give them orders would be nice
More control is on the roadmap 
Sure looking forward to it. And I really hope they improve their interaction with cover, even if it’s just a rudimentary system in the likes of Company of Heroes, so they can stop with accidentaly blocking line of sight - and get into a proper “aiming & fighting” mode while maintaining proper distancing. But that’s beyond the scope of this suggestion.
To quote the roadmap itself, tho:
AI Soldiers
- We will keep working on improving behavior of AI soldiers under your command: their reactions in different situations, more available orders, ability to control formation, etc.
Even just a cycle to previous soldier button would be a great improvement. But I do love being able to select each one individually.