Air Assault BPs

[Tazak]

Putting together a air assault BP making a few mistakes but kinda enjoying figuring out how it works. I do have a couple of questions while I rebuild my scenario after making a complete mess of things

FM5 says that embarkation affects the whole scenario, I figure that means that loading troops into helicopters before creating the BPs, which would then limit the same troops to the same helicopters for every BP, Question - can I manually disembark troops and embark them on different helicopters for each BP or is this likely to break things.

Having created BP1 in which I kept the forces in the same locations as originally deployed in the setup. Got the BP to work as expected after a couple of attempts and would say I have enough understanding to create a BP in another scenario with no issues.

Creating BP2 I then choose to 'un-deploy' all forces to select a different area of the map for them to start from. However this tags the troops as undeployed which the scenario editor will normally flagged as a issue that needs addressing before the scenario is finished - Question is, does being embarked disregard the 'undeployed' tag

[CapnDarwin]

Kicked this over to the BP gurus. Hopefully, you get answers soon.

[Tazak]

Thanks CD,

Question is, does being embarked disregard the 'undeployed' tag

got a 2nd BP working and the scenario editor allowed it so the question is now, is this correct or have i missed/messed something

[cbelva]

Putting together a air assault BP making a few mistakes but kinda enjoying figuring out how it works. I do have a couple of questions while I rebuild my scenario after making a complete mess of things

FM5 says that embarkation affects the whole scenario, I figure that means that loading troops into helicopters before creating the BPs, which would then limit the same troops to the same helicopters for every BP, Question - can I manually disembark troops and embark them on different helicopters for each BP or is this likely to break things.

When I first read this, my initally reaction was that, "no you can't". However, I realized that I never tried to do that myself. So I took the First Dance scenario and created a new BP and disembarked a couple of the assault plts and moved them to a different location and then loaded them on different helos. When I ran it, the BP worked. So, it appears that you can do that.

Having created BP1 in which I kept the forces in the same locations as originally deployed in the setup. Got the BP to work as expected after a couple of attempts and would say I have enough understanding to create a BP in another scenario with no issues.

Creating BP2 I then choose to 'un-deploy' all forces to select a different area of the map for them to start from. However this tags the troops as undeployed which the scenario editor will normally flagged as a issue that needs addressing before the scenario is finished - Question is, does being embarked disregard the 'undeployed' tag

Don't "un-deploy" them if you just want to move them "disembarked" to a new location. Hover your mouse over the hex where the helo and embarked assault units are located and select the assault unit (infantry) you want to disembark and select "disembark". It will then be unloaded and you can then move it to the location on the map that you desire.

I hope this answered your question.

[Tazak]

thanks Charles, spot on with the info

trying to create a WP mixed ground and heliborne assault so ideally looking to have the forces appear from different locations and take different routes in each BP

[WildCatNL]

FM5 says that embarkation affects the whole scenario, I figure that means that loading troops into helicopters before creating the BPs, which would then limit the same troops to the same helicopters for every BP, Question - can I manually disembark troops and embark them on different helicopters for each BP or is this likely to break things.

We didn't envision this and thus did not test for this situation. I would expect the "new BP" to work, but the old one to be potentially broken, especially when you change load units from different task forces on the helicopters for the new BP.