Command madness

[HansBolter]

Last night Jamie and I had a chance to play our PBEM game in pseudo HTH mode as we meet each friday night for a team mega board game and we processed our UV PBEM turns while our teammates were doing their part in the boardgame.

I had a single ship AP TF set on continuous supply from Rabaul to Lunga (CS: Lunga). I had been sending troops and supplies to Buna and Dobadura via fast transports and under no circumstances had I ever run a normal transport TF naywhere near those two locations.

After loading my turn I noticed a transport TF about 4 hexes east of Dobadura. Examination revealed that it was teh CS:Lunga TF with a destination set for BUNA. Immediately I thought WTF!

We are near the end of the first week of scenario #16 and niether of us has any carriers that could cause a TF to react wildly and set a new destination for itself as a result of running from carriers.

Assuming it was a program glitch with autocontrol I changed the setting from CS:Lunga to "player control" and manually reset the destination for Lunga hoping it would get out of LBA range before it got pounced on.

What do you think happened in the next resolution phase? The damned task force defied my new orders and headed for Buna anyawy ending up in the Dobadura hex come morning. Of course every plane in PM came out to pummel the AP and it promptly sank giving valuable dive bombing experience to the American A24s.

Does anyone have any idea what happened? I can understand if I had left it on autocontrol and there was a glitch with the auto control that it might do what it wanted to do instead of what I wanted it to do. However, since I took it off of auto control and issued completely new orders I cannot fathom why my AP commander chose to kamikaze his ship.

[tocaff]

Never, ever place anything under control of the computer.  Why your orders went unheeded beats me.

[anarchyintheuk]

What tocaff said. However, if you do need to maunually overide a CS convoy, set the home base for your destination then use the 'return to' buttions on the bottom of the tf screen so the desitination is set to the home location and retirement is on. It should work.