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sdkfz2512 -> RE: Loading Barges (6/2/2005 6:05:58 PM)
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Hey there,
New to this forum and just ran across this the other day. Had a scenario where the barges were in the water, but couldn't load them up. Been playing SP since the old days of DOS, so know all about the "shift" load routine. In my case, I had the same problem as you did. Upon closer inspection, it appears that the terrain on the shore line may have had something to do with the non-utilization of the barges. Looking at the map, it was prety clear that light vehicles e.g. barge carriers etc could get to the shore edge, but anything heavier just couldn't do it the way the m3's (half-track) could. Previous experience with barges has always been to pull the barge up to the beach, drive the vehicle into the same square and load. In this case, the vehicles were not permitted to do to this. But I could load infantry. Once again upon closer inspection of the map, the river actually ran in a deep ravine, with fairly high, rough terrain on either side the whole length of the river (and on up the map). One wooden bridge to cross over on was all that was allowed. So I'm betting that you may have run into the same type of situation. The caveat here is to really inpect well the map of the AO you are going to be operating in. I could've saved points by not having 400 some odd points worth of barge carriers as opposed to something more useful. As it was, the barges were nominally useful as riverine recon.
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