Alexandra
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Joined: 12/7/2000 From: USA Status: offline
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* The campaign screen where you change/update your units is way too unforgiving and has a few flaws apart from that. If you change one unit, there's no going back, so I you by mistake happen to change your sherman into a truck you'll be sorry. Also I think that you should be able to bring new units into your 'core force' instead of just upgrading/changing. Othwerwise, players that use their last 50 points to buy a platoon of cheap units like trucks when building up their 'core force' will have an advantage by doing this since they can upgrade those trucks to tanks, making a new tank platoon. If you're pleased with your force and find no need to upgrade any units, then you should be able to bring new units onto the battlefield.
This isn't a bug as such. The first part is just a paying attention to detail thing. The second, adding to the core, is something I don't think the engine can handle. Even if it could, there'd have to be all sorts of code written for when you get promoted, how many additional units you'd be authorized, etc. I'd love to see this too, but I don't think it can be done in SP. Maybe in Combat Leader :)
* When you build up your force for a campaign, I've noticed that sometimes only one unit will appear in the units listing after you purchased a platoon, for example, even if you have enough points. Also when the units sometimes turn red in the listing after you buy them (I suppose this is because of shortage of units), they will not go back to white if you return the units that you bought. I'm not really familiar with the changes to the units purchase system yet so please forgive me if I'm wrong.
The red means a unit is rarity unavailable. The reason that once bought it doesn't go back to white if you 'give it back' is to prevent PBeM purchasers from buying a unit, seeing it then go red, giving it back, buying it again, etc, which would allow a player to work around the rarity.
Alex
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