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Hi,

I'm just starting with BftB and trying various things with the tutorial. One of the first things that happened was this:
Essentially I want the armour to assault the bridge, so set a forming-up point and an attack target. Rather oddly the AI then decides to send units in column through the attack point to form up in a completely different place. I think this didn't happen if I moved the attack point slightly nearer the bridge objective (though possibly I also moved the FUP in the process).

Can anyone explain what is happening here, as I wouldn't want it to happen in the middle of a big scenario ?
Thanks
Chris

That is odd. Do you have a saved game with the task options for the order you gave. If so please zip and upload it here or send it to me at "support[at]panthergames[dot]com". If not, do you recall what options you had selected for your attack order. If you just used the deafault options then let me know too.

I ran the tutorial scenario and gave attack orders to the 35th Tank Bn as you had done and sure enough I got the same effect. I have investigated and it found that this error occurs only with human ordered attacks andonly if the attack objective is on the far side of a crossing and there are no other alternative routes to it other than the crossing. It could potentially trigger in cases where there is other blocking terrain that effecttively creates a map island.

I have made some mods here to correct this behaviour. This will be in the second patch which I aim to have out by the end of the month

That is a truly impressive service !
Many thanks for this
Chris