Slitherine

Is there something special I need to do to enable my units to embark for sea transport during a custom scenario?

I have now several types of naval TPs, and they all work as intendet as long as I preplace them for TP-ed units in the editor. But whenever I want to embark into sea TPs in the game it doesn't work.

The bubble help says there are enough transports available (I gave over 50 in the scn params), but the button stays always greyed out. Also, as far as I can see all those hexes are port hexes indeed. I tried around with specifying several TP units(both the stock sea TP and my custom types) in the editor as standard, but none seems to work in the game, unless those pre-placed for units already embarked at the start.

Has anybody an idea how to deal with this prob?

bebro wrote:Is there something special I need to do to enable my units to embark for sea transport during a custom scenario?

I have now several types of naval TPs, and they all work as intendet as long as I preplace them for TP-ed units in the editor. But whenever I want to embark into sea TPs in the game it doesn't work.

The bubble help says there are enough transports available (I gave over 50 in the scn params), but the button stays always greyed out. Also, as far as I can see all those hexes are port hexes indeed. I tried around with specifying several TP units(both the stock sea TP and my custom types) in the editor as standard, but none seems to work in the game, unless those pre-placed for units already embarked at the start.

Has anybody an idea how to deal with this prob?

First thing that pops in my mind...are the hexes next to the ports SEA hexes? not shallow or lake.

They are shallow indeed, but in my mod those TPs can travel over shallow sea, it works for the pre-placed TPs.

However, I see to change them to sea and look if its works then...

bebro wrote:They are shallow indeed, but in my mod those TPs can travel over shallow sea, it works for the pre-placed TPs.

However, I see to change them to sea and look if its works then...

I keep my fingers crossed .

Thanks for the help, but so far no progress

I tested lots of possibilities, with and without sea hexes, different tp types etc., but the embark button stays always inactive.

If anyone has still ideas I'd appreciate any help. In the worst case I have to change some scns so that multiple navtranspoorts are not needed, but I'd prefer to get them to work...sigh.

I recall a similar problem, i think it was, with airtransports.

viewtopic.php?f=147&t=31774

Perhaps this wil shed some light on your problem.

Yeah, I read that too, my problem is different however. I can select a number of transport unit types in my editor's scn params fine since I had modified the html already for that. But none of those (incl. the stock PzC allied sea transport) seems to enable my units to embark. Still, as said if I place the same types in the editor to transport a unit right away they work fine....


Hm, maybe I need to check again the html edits I made, could be there's a mistake...

It's an obvious question but it's the only one not covered in what you've said above - has the default sea transport been set to a valid one in the scenario params (as well as the number allowed)?

Got it fixed, it was a rather silly thing: I had rivers ending in some harbors. Since TPs can't travel on river hexes, you cannot embark on those either. Once the rivers were removed, all went well...