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Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:03 am
by JohnDillworth
I moved the Australian 6th divison to Perth and combined it. I put it into strategic move mode, waited 2 turns and sent it to Brisbane by rail. After a few turn I noticed it was in the desert, with no train, hundreds of miles from nowhere. So now the unit is useless until I can get it to somewhere where I can try the train again. Where did the train go and can I get this unit back in a reasonable amount of time. This will probably cause me to lose my game.
How can the game just switch something from strategic move to regular move? Bug?[:@]
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:27 am
by JohnDillworth
Here is the turn before the train disappeared:
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:31 am
by JohnDillworth
and here is the turn after. Bug!![:-]
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:45 am
by JohnDillworth
And the best kind of bug! If there is such a thing. An entirely repeatable bug. Just load up the turn before, let the turn run and the train disappears right out from under an entire Division! and a good Division! Defenseless! The Aliens come right out to the desert and snatches the train without anyone firing a shot! Anybody remember the series Firely? I think something like that happened there. Or maybe a balloon bomb got the train?
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:15 pm
by witpqs
Was the unit attacked by air (or by ground, of course)?
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:32 pm
by JohnDillworth
Was the unit attacked by air (or by ground, of course)?
from space!! because it was in the middle of the desert just chugging along and the train was gone! No attack, just transporter beams! load up the save and give it a try. just run it and pooff! alone, in the desert, walking. 700 miles from nowhere!
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:50 pm
by BigJ62
Found the problem.
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:59 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: BigJ62
Found the problem.
Spacemen? [:D]
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:08 pm
by JohnDillworth
Found the problem.
Do tell! Aliens? Divine intervention? Who is that magician that makes whole island disappear?
any quick workaround?
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:24 pm
by BigJ62
Don't select destinations that are greater than 25 hexes for rr strat.
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:56 pm
by herwin
ORIGINAL: BigJ62
Don't select destinations that are greater than 25 hexes for rr strat.
Oh-oh. About a 1000 miles.
That means you can't move troops from the US East Coast to the US West Coast...
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:17 pm
by JohnDillworth
Don't select destinations that are greater than 25 hexes for rr strat
thanks, seems to work. BTW, I have not had this problem in North America. Also thanks for looking at this so quickly.[&o]
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:20 am
by medicff
ORIGINAL: BigJ62
Don't select destinations that are greater than 25 hexes for rr strat.
I think this only happens sometimes. For the most part I have moved Strat rr greater than 25 hexes without problems. I have had 4 instances where they stopped. Thanks, now I know why.
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:00 am
by scott64
That is probably why an Indian unit was slogging through the desert instead of using the railways [8|][&:]
RE: Trains disapear stranding units in the desert
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:38 pm
by dasboot1960
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I was wondering where my units could've gotten off to, I have to look...............The IJ better watch out if they ever take Ind.........