A poor lonely observer corps

[wwengr]

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

ORIGINAL: Yaab

Isn't it a disabled squad? Emaciated, feverish, moribund soldiers trying to reach their destination?

They should show up under 'other troops'

May want to check the pulse on them

Observer Corps is not troops. It is listed as a "Surface Radar" in the database, so doesn't count as troops. Also, at a cargo load cost of 60, I don't think a PBY or most submarines could pick him up.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: wwengr

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

ORIGINAL: Yaab

Isn't it a disabled squad? Emaciated, feverish, moribund soldiers trying to reach their destination?

They should show up under 'other troops'

May want to check the pulse on them

Observer Corps is not troops. It is listed as a "Surface Radar" in the database, so doesn't count as troops. Also, at a cargo load cost of 60, I don't think a PBY or most submarines could pick him up.

At this point the observer corps is irrelevant. If the object is to save a fragment of the unit to rebuild, then any of the new bits and pieces will do for rescue and transfer to a nice safe place to be rebuilt. The observer corps will be replaced with radar anyway!
But do try to march those very nice 3.7" AA guns back to civilization.

Part of the mystery of the original situation is that the troopless "observer corps" devices were still able to progress through the jungles. Local coolies, I suppose?

I had a similar experience with the Japanese "Static Device" that is part of their BFs in early game. I assume this is some large listening device that is too big to move and can't be disassembled (like a concrete structure?). On several occasions the IJA BFs were wiped out except for the "Static Device". Allied troops would move into the same hex with the static device and attack it, only to have it flee to the next hex in a decidedly non-static way. Repeat this five or six times and you get pretty annoyed.

Eventually the static device was surrounded on all six hex sides and disposed of. As Stretch says, this pursuit was entirely a sideshow just to find out WTH would happen.

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

...I had a similar experience with the Japanese "Static Device" that is part of their BFs in early game. I assume this is some large listening device that is too big to move and can't be disassembled (like a concrete structure?). On several occasions the IJA BFs were wiped out except for the "Static Device". Allied troops would move into the same hex with the static device and attack it, only to have it flee to the next hex in a decidedly non-static way. Repeat this five or six times and you get pretty annoyed.

Eventually the static device was surrounded on all six hex sides and disposed of. As Stretch says, this pursuit was entirely a sideshow just to find out WTH would happen.

That was an early "bug" which was fixed in a patch.

Alfred

[Alfred]

1.  A LCU which has already traversed part of the distance to its destination cannot be picked up by ship/sub.
 
2.  Only a commando type unit can be in combat mode and be picked up by a sub.  All other units must not be in combat mode to be picked up by a sub.
 
Alfred  

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

1.  A LCU which has already traversed part of the distance to its destination cannot be picked up by ship/sub.

2.  Only a commando type unit can be in combat mode and be picked up by a sub.  All other units must not be in combat mode to be picked up by a sub.

Alfred  

I hate to be anal Alfred, (no I don't, I'm having fun), but the word "a" precedes a consonant sound, "an" precedes a vowel sound.
So it matters not the spelling, (consider French where the spelling has little or anything to do with the pronunciation, did you know that "Reims" rhymes with "France" [as pronounced with an 'ahhh' sound])?
So, the English word "hour" would be proceeded by "an" because the h is silent. I'm noticing more and more that writers don't get that, nor their editors, even in newspapers with a respectable reputation.
[:'(]

[BBfanboy]

geofflambert: I hate to be anal ...

Shouldn't that read an-al in this context? [;)]

And maybe Alfred intended the reader to sound out the full meaning of LCU, so instead of a leading EL sound of the acronym you get the consonant L sound of the word Land. [:)] My head hurts from thinking up all this inanity .....

[Lecivius]

You know your gonna get within sight of home and then get "Unit disbands for lack of supply" message [;)]

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

You know your gonna get within sight of home and then get "Unit disbands for lack of supply" message [;)]

Wouldn't that beat all!

[stretch]

It would appear the unit is going to make it !

[Zorch]

[8D][8D][8D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: stretch

It would appear the unit is going to make it !

I think you should probably change the prep to someplace they are likely to be in the next three months.

[rustysi]

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

geofflambert: I hate to be anal ...

Shouldn't that read an-al in this context? [;)]

And maybe Alfred intended the reader to sound out the full meaning of LCU, so instead of a leading EL sound of the acronym you get the consonant L sound of the word Land. [:)] My head hurts from thinking up all this inanity .....

Well, you lack the convenience of not having a brain. I can assure you that it is much better to not know how stupid you are and to go on thinking you know it all. I did a crossword recently that involved a quote of Abraham Lincoln.
He said "Tact is the ability to see others in the same way they see themselves." I expect everyone to apply this important lesson when dealing with me.

[geofflambert]

In case that made no sense to you, here's something that will. Give it 18 minutes, it's one of my favorite pieces of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEem_aEttE

[BBfanboy]

Some of us prefer to enjoy our ships without a Liszt ...

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: stretch
It would appear the unit is going to make it !

Too bad that paradrops on non-base hexes are not possible.

Oups, that's the JFB inside me speaking...

[stretch]

Closure

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Some of us prefer to enjoy our ships without a Liszt ...

Then you probably don't like your ships Leonore ing over. Colonel Klink had a hand in this, sort of.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOS2l83uIUA

[geofflambert]

In case you've Leo.ignored my previous posts, play this while you're doing your turn. You don't knead more time.

Part of this was used in a Tom and Jerry short at the Hollywood Bowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGVE2uYFfnE

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

ORIGINAL: stretch
It would appear the unit is going to make it !

Too bad that paradrops on non-base hexes are not possible.

Oups, that's the JFB inside me speaking...

[:D]