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paratroop drop problem - 8/26/2001 4:13:00 PM

philbo

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This is my first post to the forum and I would like to start by saying THANK YOU!!!!! to everyone at Matrix. The job you have done to SPWaW and the MCNA is fantastic.

Now on to the problem I'm having. I started a long WWII campaign(not generated) and I purchased as support troops some paratroopers. During set up I assigned them drop hexes and designated that I wanted them to arrive on turn 4. Turn 4 came and went I you guessed it, no paras!!

What if anything did I do wrong????? If anyone needs more info to help me with this problem please let me know. Thanks
Phil

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- 8/26/2001 4:56:00 PM

john g

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quote:

Originally posted by philbo:
This is my first post to the forum and I would like to start by saying THANK YOU!!!!! to everyone at Matrix. The job you have done to SPWaW and the MCNA is fantastic.
Now on to the problem I'm having. I started a long WWII campaign(not generated) and I purchased as support troops some paratroopers. During set up I assigned them drop hexes and designated that I wanted them to arrive on turn 4. Turn 4 came and went I you guessed it, no paras!! What if anything did I do wrong????? If anyone needs more info to help me with this problem please let me know. Thanks
Phil

Except for the pregame drop, all paradrops are approximate turns, they may arrive before or after the turn specified. Not all drops in WWII went off on split second timing.
thanks, John.

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- 8/26/2001 10:40:00 PM

RockinHarry

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..you need some aircraft maybe??

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- 8/27/2001 7:26:00 AM

Alby

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Im assuming you bought some cargo aircraft and loaded the paras in them?

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- 8/27/2001 10:44:00 AM

philbo

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Yes guys I did buy cargo aircraft and load the paratroopers onto the planes. It is now turn 7 and still no para drop.

Phil

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- 8/27/2001 1:00:00 PM

Mai Thai

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To philbo: i hope you changed the ETA before you assigned the drop hex to the cargo aircrafts and that you clicked the target hex for each unit before choosing them and, by anyway, in the deploying screen you must see the little round parachute icon on the hex you assigned as target, if you don't see it you did some mistake and rimember, afaik, para can be assigned in deploy screen only.
Bye

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- 8/27/2001 7:42:00 PM

adantas

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quote:

Originally posted by philbo:
Yes guys I did buy cargo aircraft and load the paratroopers onto the planes. It is now turn 7 and still no para drop. Phil

Hi mate, Check the post frm Mai Thai, hi is right!

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Senta � Pua!!!

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- 8/28/2001 4:36:00 AM

philbo

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Thanks guys for the quick responses. Mai Tai, I did change the turn before everything and yes I did see the little para symbols for where the drop would be. I think I figured out where I made my mistake. I moved the transports off of the baseline during deployment. I am going to run a few tests to see if that was the problem. Once again thanks to everyone.

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- 8/28/2001 4:38:00 AM

philbo

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Oops!!!!! sorry mai thai(I musted have been a little thirsty

) didn't mean to spell your name wrong. Phil

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- 8/28/2001 5:10:00 AM

Mai Thai

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To philbo: No problem about my nick, just let us know what was going wrong with your para
Bye

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- 8/28/2001 6:18:00 AM

philbo

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Mai Thai and all who tried to help. It was my mistake. I did not change the drop turn before setting up the drop hexes. I went back and did a few tests and sure enough they all worked, even moving the transports off the baseline. The only one that didn't work was not setting the turn of arrival before the drop.