Hi Stephen, yes this is a known problem. It's not really anything to do with the mod directly, as the same thing can happen with the vanilla Skirmish Generator.stephenterrell wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:54 am Thanks for giving BA2 a new lease of life.
I have been experimenting with altering the points for each side after selecting very large map and very large force (Wilderness defend). Something strange seems to happen to the Soviet force size if i give it around 4800 points. It often results in a very small force of perhaps 10-20 infantry and a few tanks. Nothing like the size of force that it could have been. Sometimes it generates the size of force that would be expected so it is rather confusing.
Somewhere between 4000 and 5000 points something seems to occasionally go wrong. Is this a known problem?
It seems that the Skirmish Generator can sometimes have problems generating a full points army, this issue gets worse as the available number of different units decreases and the target points total selected increases. So the armies in my Skirmish mods with relatively few different units, such as the Italian EF and Japanese EF, suffer more from this issue than others.
The two armies in the Cold War mod do have a huge number of available different units, but the issue can still happen if the points total selected is very big, and 4800pts is way above what the Skirmish Generator was designed to handle!
Luckily, all you have to do to fix it is keep creating skirmishes until you get one that is unaffected, although if the issue affects the AI army it can be rather difficult to spot.
