Wierd or what

[alfamail]

I am playing a game of the BA Woods scenario with seansmith93. Something happened which I hesitate to raise as a problem but ...

I had an artillery unit with negative morale which I wanted to move out of the firing line. I loaded the unit onto a transport and moved the transport containing the unit next to a (safe) house and unloaded the unit into the house. Immediatley I got a unit destroyed message (not sure exactly what it said). I assumed that there was an enemy unit somewhere next to or even in the house and then spent several unit AP's proving that there wasn't. I really can't understand what happened unless there is a line of sight "feature" that I am not aware of - there was certainly no graphic of an enemy unit firing or anything like that. I have played this scenario a lot and I have not seen anything like it before, in this scenario or any other.

I feel I will be ridiculed about this but ... any ideas?

[pipfromslitherine]

Certainly sounds odd. My best guess would be that you moved them adjacent to an enemy unit and they surrendered.

Cheers

Pip

[alfamail]

Thanks, Pip.

I know that if a unit has negative moral an adjacent attack will force surrender/destroy it (that's why I chose to move it in the first place). When the unit disappeared I did assume there was an enemy unit adjacent. I looked and moved into all possible adjacent locations and there was no enemy unit. As far as I can see there was no line of sight to the house from any enemy position to take a pot shot even. To the north side of the house there was the transport and two empty spaces; to the west of the house was an empty house; to the east of the house was an empty house; to the south of the house was an empty roadway and an impassable hedge beyond the roadway.

Is it at all possible that my negative-moral unit could anihilate the enemy unit that forced it to surrender - anti-matter meeting matter sort of thing ?

Cheers, Al.

[pipfromslitherine]

I'll be honest - it's a mystery! Like the missing flight 19, or the Philadelphia Experiment. I will try and dig down into the scripts and see if I can work out what happened if I can find the time...

Cheers

Pip

[alfamail]

Thanks, Pip. I accept that it will probably not be solved any time soon but I thought I should report it for those rainy days when you have nothing better to do.

In the same game, just now, and several moves further on, I got a "failed to upload to server, try again" message. I was returned to the game: I could see most of my units but none had a line of sight and none had any AP's available BUT the really wierd thing was that some of the units were not where I had left them. That is very "worrying" (ok, it is only a game). I am not sure what my opponent is going to see but I made a point in my moves of getting two of my units out of harms way but after the error message one was where it had started i.e. in harms way and in the other case neither where it had started or where I had moved it to but most definitely in harms way. I have lost the game anyway so it really doesn't matter very much to this game but you have to wonder what is going on ...

Cheers, Al.

[alfamail]

Further to the upload to server wierdness mentioned at 18:46 above, for what it is worth when I got to see the situation after my opponent's move my units were where I had put them.

[pipfromslitherine]

Yes - it's a slight oddity - when it creates the data to send the turn it resets the map back to the original state. Disconcerting but usually the player would not see this

Cheers

Pip

[sPA505Beschwitz]

I´d have a line of sight-question too, took a screen - but with message

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