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I'm having a problem loading troops on transports(naval). I select the TF,then selected a destination. I then gave the command to Load Troops,selected the force I wanted to load and hit Done. The very next turn my transports,AP's, are off and running for the DH I selected,minus any troops. I'm sure the Japanese would be overjoyed to see empty transports pull up to the beach,but on my end it would not be very helpful.
What didn't I do or what did I do wrong?

Thanks
Bill Keys

Sounds like you are doing everything right. Did you waiting for the status to change to "loading troops" before you hit the "done" button?

No I didn't wait for any status change, I will try that and see what happens.

Thanks for your replay.

Thanks a lot Drex,I must have been too fast on the trigger. Took your suggestion and waited,sure enough the status showed how nmany troops I was loading. Working great now.

Gosh I actually gave some correct advice. Now I really feel like a "Matrix Hero".

Originally posted by Drex
Gosh I actually gave some correct advice. Now I really feel like a "Matrix Hero".

"What a clean old man!"
"Aaah, don't press your luck."

What do mean "Clean"!:D

Originally posted by Drex
What do mean "Clean"!:D

Hee hee. Watch "A Hard Day's Night." The "clean" and "dirty" old man joke was applied to Paul's grandfather.

John: "But I've seen your grandfather, he lives with you in your house."
...
Paul: "Well, everyone's entitled to two, aren't they, and he's me other one."
...
John: "He's a nice old man, isn't he?"
Paul: "He's very - clean."

That explains how I missed that. I never saw the movie and wasn't a Beatles fan until Sgt Peppers- well, I did like "Rubber Ball".

Many serious critics consider "A Hard Day's Night" the best B movie ever made. I tend to agree, obviously. I pull it out every once in awhile when I'm having trouble loading troops (a desperate attempt to make this post relevant to the thread topic).

Give it a look, Drex. It's just about weird enough to appeal to your sense of humor.

I was pretty wierd myself when it came out. I know Richard Lester directed it and He liked slapstick. He later directed the Three and Four Musketeers with Michael York,Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, et.al. I just might do that. I, after all, did see the Yellow Submarine.

One of the great things about "A Hard Day's Night" is that it pretty much invented (okkay, popularized) the idea of music videos. The seven or eight song performances embedded in the movie are almost worth the watching themselves.

Be careful. Once you get hooked, next thing you know you're digging up a copy of "Help!" You probably remember that the primary villains were religious fanatics from "east of Suez" wanting to recover a ring sent to Ringo (who else?) by "a Mideastern bird." He got it on his finger and couldn't get it off, so most of the movie is spent following the cultists' attempts (led by Shakespearean actor Leo McKern) to kill Ringo in accordance with religious dictates about human sacrifice (George: "That's all gab, disembowelling"). Catch the mad scientist and his fiendish, subhuman assistant for a giggle, too (the mad scientist is the same actor who played the TV director in "A Hard Day's Night").

There was supposed to be a third movie in the sequence, written by the same screenwriter, Alun Owen, who did the first two. It was to be called "Up Against It" and feature a washed-up rock band on the skids. Too bad. The lads were too far gone into drugs and self-importance by then to have anything to do with a project like that. They had to do something memorable, like "Magical Mystery Tour" - yech.

One last thing about problems with loading troops. There actually was some serious talk at one time about the Beatles doing a movie based on the Ring trilogy. Paul was to be Frodo, Ringo was to be Samwise, George was to be Gandalf, and John was to play Gollum (or Smeagal). Interesting thought, eh?

The Beatles as Hobbits? They must have been into some bad stuff. I'm glad they waited 30 years to cast it.

Originally posted by Drex
The Beatles as Hobbits? They must have been into some bad stuff. I'm glad they waited 30 years to cast it.

Well, you know, Ringo maybe ... When they do Yassir Arafat's biography, I'm sure they're gonna want Ringo to play the lead.

A dead ringer! Now that's casting but hhe's got to get rid of that accent.