Billy Yank
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Joined: 5/18/2000 From: Northern Virginia, USA Status: offline
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I figured out how to trade platoons between two companies.
1. Save your game during the deployment phase. It's easier if you layout the platoons you want to trade in an orderly fashion.
2. Quit that game and rename the saveXXX.* files to scenXXX.*
3. In the scenario editor, pull up the renamed savegame. Go to the deploy screen for your side. (No fair peeking at the enemy lined up on the other edge of the map )
4. Find the "zero" units for the platoons want to trade and hit "r" to change them. What you want to do is swap the two units. So if you're trading a mech infantry platoon for a tank platoon, change the "0" unit of the tank platoon into an armored infantry squad and the "0" unit of the infantry platoon into the appropriate type of tank.
5. Save the scenario and quit.
6. Start WAWEd and bring up the scenario file.
7. Go to the "zero" units of the platoons and write down the leader information. (When you change a unit in the scenario editor, it keeps the same leader).
8. Change the leader info of the two units. Remember the rank and number of kills is on the unit data screen, not on the unit list.
9. Save and quit.
10. Change the name of the files back to saveXXX.*
11. Pull up the savegame and go to the deployment screen.
12. Use the "Assign to new headquarters" button to shift the subordinate units of each platoon to their new leader.
That's it. The platoons are now officially part of their new companies for the purposes of rally and contact.
I'd still like to know how to add a platoon to a company, so if anyone figures that out, please post it.
In my first message, I gave a tip on creating an executive officer for your units. Well, I just saw that put to the test. In a battle against the Italians supported by those damned 305mm naval guns, my battalion commander was killed by artillery. The XO, Maj. McCarty (unit A1), took over immediately. Not only that, when the battle ended and I fixed all, Maj. McCarty had been moved to the A0 unit. So I guess that works.
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Billy Yank
I don't define "my own" the way you want me to.
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Billy Yank "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -- Thorin Oakenshield
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