What does B.O. attack restrictions mean in firefight turn summary?

[FroBodine]

1. In the turn summary after the firefights, sometimes it says a unit could not attack due to B.O. attack restrictions.

What does B.O. mean, please? I'm pretty sure it's not body odor.

2. Different topic - but I didn't feel a new thread was necessary for a simple question - some units have a bright pink circle on their unit icon. What does this mean, please?

Thank you!

[Ricomise]

I believe "B.O. restrictions" means "Brigade Order restrictions;" units will fire or not depending on what order their parent brigade has.

The pink circle, I think, if you mean around the actual unit sprite on the map, indicates a failure to activate on the last turn...

[FroBodine]

Thank you, Ricomise. The pink circle I mean is just a small circle next to the unit icon. It does not completely encircle the unit graphic. It's just a pink dot.

[AlessandroD]

Do you have a screenshot? I don't remember this pink dot [&:]

[ross_ntu]

I think the dot you are referring to shows what brigade the unit is in attached to. If you are playing the tutorial I think the pink dot is the divisional commander, and the other units have pink surrounded by a different coloured rectangle that shows their brigade. If you look at the unit roster / oob that you can open by clicking on the left hand side of the screen, the colours on there correlate with the ones you see next to your units.

[rickier65]

ORIGINAL: ross_ntu

I think the dot you are referring to shows what brigade the unit is in attached to. If you are playing the tutorial I think the pink dot is the divisional commander, and the other units have pink surrounded by a different coloured rectangle that shows their brigade. If you look at the unit roster / oob that you can open by clicking on the left hand side of the screen, the colours on there correlate with the ones you see next to your units.

I think ross has this right. The colored circles/squares correspond to the echelon colors that show up in the on-screen OOB.

are these the circles/squares you mean? Circles are for leader units and squares for the other units.

Rick

[FroBodine]

Yes, thank you guys. That is what I was referring to. I did not realize that circles meant leaders and rectangles were regular units.

The pink dot looked strange.




Separate question - Rick, how did you attach your screenshot? I had to upload mine to imgur, and grab the URL and post it in my response. It looks like yours is attached differently, because it has a Matrix Games URL, and there is an Attachment link underneath it. Just curious if there is a way to attach images to our postings directly from this forum.

Thanks!

[elmo3]

ORIGINAL: jglazier

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Separate question - Rick, how did you attach your screenshot?...

Thanks!

Use Post Reply rather than Fast Reply and you will see an option at the bottom to add an attachment that lets you browse your hard drive.

[FroBodine]

Aha! That darn fast reply! Thank you, elmo!

[rickier65]

ORIGINAL: elmo3

ORIGINAL: jglazier

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Separate question - Rick, how did you attach your screenshot?...

Thanks!

Use Post Reply rather than Fast Reply and you will see an option at the bottom to add an attachment that lets you browse your hard drive.

like elmos says.

Also, your commander only has the one color because he is a Division leader, the leader I used in my screenshot was a brigade leader so it shows the brigade color circle inside the division color circle.

There is a lot going on in this game.

Enjoy!
Rick