Playing a PBEM as Japanese, I try to evacuate forces stranded on New Caledonia after a failed attempt to capture Noumea. The troops are stuck on the stretch of trail between Tomo and Basse-Poya (hex 50,60). My forward base to run evac-FTs from is - Gili-Gili (Luganville and Efate were found heavily garrisoned but Noumea appeard only lightly held, so I decided to gamble and sent FTs directly to New Caledonia - didn't work [:(]).
The run from GG to hex 50,60 is looong, but the DDs with endurance of 4000 and higher can manage (they run dry on the way back, luckily outside enemy LBA range). I have evacuated a few units this way during the last three weeks of the game, but at times encountered strange behavior of my FT-TFs: Sent out from GG, next turn (2 days later) my FT-TFs are about halfway to their destination. Sometimes they are okay, proceed as ordered, pick up troops and scamper back to GG. But sometimes they get stuck at that place, not moving at all, and the TF screen shows destination hex 0,0. [X(]
Has anybody seen this, too? Why does it sometimes happen and sometimes not? [&:]
[edit for sp, as usual...]
