Mkonyn... yes, it is different. Armies received per turn is generally only visible for yourself during the game. What they are advocating is a graph/figure that provides the overall number of enemy armies deployed visible to you.
Therefore, if your opponent played 21 armies in territories visible to you and then 15 the next turn, it would be tracked as a means of determining their potential income without having to do the math every turn on your own.
would you recomend it recording whether or not the person won in a battle each turn to -in other words, tally up his possible R card usage- or will that part still have to be handled by the player..