rail repair

[steverodgers801]

is there any way to take control of the small rail conversion units they are not moving east fast enough for me

[elmo3]

Nope, you can only control the FBD units.

[heliodorus04]

Not entirely accurate that you can't improve their speed.

The trick to getting these guys to build rail where you want them to is to station their headquarters someplace in the vicinity of where you want to build.

So if you look at this screenshot:




You really need to be patient in letting the automated units go where you need them, but positioning helps a lot. For hard to reach areas that are very important, you might consider attaching extra construction SUs to a corps without any other combat units into it (or an RHG if you still have them). Then you move the corps HQ to a section that's very important. Corps-level railroad/construction SUs will only build within 5 hexes of their parent.

[Balou]

Antonescu's (Rum) HQ is loaded with smaller rail repair units and thus particularly useful.

[heliodorus04]

New lesson about AG Antonescu:
If you want to ensure they don't go down a specific pathway, station a Hungarian unit there...  They have to go the other way. Romanians and Hungarians cannot stack.

[Balou]

This is great news, perfect: sometimes I couldn't figure out how not wasting Antonescus units on some useless or dead end rail lines. Thanks.