CC MIL units

[Dabrion]

Is there a known problem with the CC MIL units when playing w/o extra Chinese cities? They did not appear in the setup units. There should be a [4-2 Lan-Chow MIL] and a [3-3 Sian MIL] for the CC, they start with one on the board for Global War.

[Courtenay]

I just tested it on my game, and the MIL was there. Everyone has gotten these units in the past, too. Somehow your game has gotten out of sync with everyone else's. I don't know what you should do when you have a bug that other people don't have.

[michaelbaldur]

ORIGINAL: Dabrion

Is there a known problem with the CC MIL units when playing w/o extra Chinese cities? They did not appear in the setup units. There should be a [4-2 Lan-Chow MIL] and a [3-3 Sian MIL] for the CC, they start with one on the board for Global War.

they should only start with one of them

[paulderynck]

ORIGINAL: Dabrion

Is there a known problem with the CC MIL units when playing w/o extra Chinese cities? They did not appear in the setup units. There should be a [4-2 Lan-Chow MIL] and a [3-3 Sian MIL] for the CC, they start with one on the board for Global War.

There was a prior bug report that maybe is related. See:

tm.asp?m=3672985

[Courtenay]

I just tested it with and without additional Chinese cities. In both cases the Chinese communist MIL was there.

What was the complete set of optional rules you were using? I will test on my computer using it.

[Dabrion]

Was just presuming it might have to do with the Chineese cities. Here are the some pics and a save game.

I think there was a warning/error telling about not finding the Chineese Communist MIL during setup. The two Chineese communist MIL are somehow missing from the game.

Options:


CC forces:


Units in game with filter "Land unit types"="Militia"+"Controlling country filter"="China":

[Dabrion]

Ok I found them:


Sian MIL has Year: War
Lan-Chow has Year: Reserve

I cant make much sense from this without explanation. There should be one MIL available for setup to the CC.

[Courtenay]

OK, thanks. Before I go to the work of using your optional rules, one more question: Which version are you using?

[Dabrion]

1.2.0.7, I got the download from the product page.

[Courtenay]

OK, using the 1.2.0.7 executable and your optional rules, the Communists got their MIL. It is possible that some data file was wrong in that release. I just spent some time, and can't figure out which file contains the scenario information. Does anyone know where that is stored, so Dabrion can look at his and see if it is right?

Sorry I was not more of a help.

[paulderynck]

Somewhere on these forums there was something very close to this problem that was posted, but I can't recall where that is now.

I think it has to do with skipping a phase during set-up.

[WarHunter]

You cannot save the game prior to China setup.
If you do the CC militia will not be part of the setup.

It was reported before.
tm.asp?m=3677173

[paulderynck]

Thanks for the assist on that.

...or in hockey parlance, my assist - your goal...

[Dabrion]

Ok, there might have been a save during setup of China.

Can you recover this issue somehow (from any issue in a savegame for that matter) or are we supposed to start over?

[paulderynck]

Looks like from post 7 you can build them in JF40.

[Dabrion]

The year says "War" and "Reserve" for the MILs. If we make it to 1940 i'll report if they are available.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

There was a bug that I fixed related to this. I forget for which release the correction was made - but it should be part of the release notes.

If you were restoring a saved game from an earlier version (when the bug existed), you might still see this problem.

Note that this bug was newly created sometime in the spring[:(], so really old saved games won't have the problem - nor should recently started new games.