LCM multiple units

[AGentry]

Probably anouther pretty basic question but...

I am playing a scenario with removing a large numebr of units fomr a beach/dock with LSMs. A few posts talk about 2 tanks, and in other cases, multiple infantry units fitting on an LCM. However I am only able to load one unit to an LCM. Am I missing something? Is there a clever key combineation with the 'L' key or toher that I need to load multiple units?

Help please.

[FlashfyreSP]

No, there isn't a trick you are missing. In-game, you can only load 1 unit into a barge/landing craft unit. Only during the Deploy phase can you load multiple units into the transport vessels.

[Korpraali V]

Isn't that possible during the game if land troops can move to sea hex so that they can enter the same hex than barge?

[chief]

Whomever:

I may be senile but one time in a scenario I pulled a barge next to a damaged bridge and loaded 2 tanks, I did this 2 or 3 times during this scenario. I was not able to load more than 1 from the rivers edge though. This may have been a fluke but I beat the scenario. FWIW

[FlashfyreSP]

Yes, if the land units and the barge/transport occupy the same hex...which is very difficult. It works with bridges, since the game considers the bridge to be at the same height as the water in order for the water units to cross through it...and it may work with amphib vehicles that can "drive" through Water and Deep Water hexes.

[sabrejack]

You can do it, but it's difficult to get the situation exactly right (as the others have said).

In the 'Red Storm Rising' scenario (M4 Jess?) you're supplied with barge carriers, but I found it very difficult to use them until I tried it from the (destroyed) bridge hexes.

[chief]

Flash: AHA ! Again I see I was not senile ......thank you fer veryfacation....youse 2 Sabre...youse guys has mad me day. I know I know why it harpoons.

[sabrejack]

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