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I am having trouble creating force. I was trying to create a new artillery battalion with slightly modified equipment. I duplicated "WF - SS - 10.5cm FH 18 Bn " and made some change, when compile the file it showed this

ERROR: object 2803 (force): Unrecognised string value for EstabSubForceType: "Mot Howitzer".

I tried only duplicate the same force again without any change, just added another same "Copy of WF - SS - 10.5cm FH 18 Bn", it still doesn't compile.

Any help please.

Those subforces are a little buggy; some have not yet been coded. Just use 'Howitzer' and you will be OK.

thanks for the advice.

The error seems to be in the capitals used in the programming?

I got the same error with Canadian forces cloned from the Brits.


ERROR: object 2800 (force): Unrecognised string value for EstabSubForceType: "Mot AT"

However when examining the XML file I found this:

Canadian clone: <sub-type>Mot AT</sub-type>

British original: <sub-type>mot AT</sub-type>

When after this I edited the British unit (17pdr AT gun trp) to Mot AT (only choice with capital 'M' available)
I got:

ERROR: object 1706 (force): Unrecognised string value for EstabSubForceType: "Mot AT"

So it is a bug. I don't know if it is really serious. It can be worked around to use a sub type w/o capital. However I don't know what kind of parameters are attached to the subtypes and how important these are as I'm new to this game.

Huib

mmm....that's interesting. I'd say we have the subType spelled two different ways, one with the initial capital and one without. The EstabEditor, which is written in Visual Basic, has its own list of subTypes. This is is supposed to match the list in the C++ code. I'll check it out. Thanks.

Mot RL also doesn't work - I'm going out on a limb that Mot is supposed to be mot in the internal list here

Hello Dave, has this bug (Mot or mot) been sorted in the next patch ?
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Thanks
Alan
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Not yet, thanks for reminding me.