Specific transport (Eqp editor 0.8.5)

[AugustinMalar]

How do you assign a specific transport to a unit with the new Equipment editor 0.8.5 ?
I tried but still unable to do it.
Ex: Pack horses should only be assigned to mountain units.

Thx

[McGuba]

Hi,

Sorry, I just checked your PM.

I do not use the Equipment editor, so I do not know how to do it. I am editing the unit stats in the equipment.pzeqp file direcly with Excel but you can also edit its contents with any text editor like Windows WordPad. If you open the file you should look for these columns:
(Obviously you need PC v1.1 or later, and these values are from the work-in-progress Hungarian campaign)

So just as an example:



Explanation:
The Pack Horse (line 1531) is a land transport unit (class = 14), which itself can be transported by sea, rail and air transports (Usable Transports). I also gave it a transport category, and named it "pack" for simplicity, but you can write any single word (no space allowed!). The transport category, in effect, is a sub-category within the (land) transports and that is how you can specify different (land) transports for different uses.

The 15/35M 75mm (higlighted line 1527) is an artillery unit (class = 4) which can have sea, rail, air, and pack as transports (Usable Transports). And nothing else. Thus it cannot have any other land transports apart from the "pack" that I specified previously. If you write "land" instead of "pack" it can have all land transports, including "pack".

Note that you can add more than one previously specified land transports to a single unit. For example, the 37M 105mm (German 10.5 cm leFH 18) in my e-file has two possible land transports (bottom line). So it can have sea, rail, 37M and horse as transports. I specified "horse" for Horse Transport (which is not the same as Pack Horse!) and 37M for the 37M Hansa-Lloyd halftrack (German Sd.Kfz. 11) in the same way as above.

I hope it is not too complicated, but if so, you can send me your equipment.pzeqp file and I will edit it for you. (I PM you my e-mail adress).

[mgarnett]

Hi,

You can add transport categories using the transport category text box. You can't add user definable "Usable Transport but that's pretty easy to add so I'll do that over the next day or so. Then in order to achieve the same result as McGuba's example above, you would bring up unit 1531 and type "pack" in the transport category text box and save the unit (this you can already do with the current version). Then you would bring up unit 1527 and right click in the "usable transports" window and add "pack" as a usable transport (this is what I'll add in terms of functionality) and save the unit.

Cheers

Mark

[AugustinMalar]

Thanks guys !
It worked.