Special transport units

[captainjack]

There are several scenarios in the DLCs that have special transport units - trucks or trains that must be delivered somewhere, saved or destroyed. But when I try to deploy transport units in the editor nothing happens unless there is also a unit for it to transport.

I can work around it by creating an Opel Blitz tank with the characteristics of a truck, a portee AT unit with no gun or a non-combat unit for the transport to carry around but the DLCs use some other way. What am I missing?

[Radoye]

Try temporarily changing the unit class of your truck to tank in the equipment file, place it on the map using the editor, then change it back to transport. See if that works.

[captainjack]

Thanks Radoye. I'll give it a go.

It's not a big deal as I have a fix, but I like to know how to do things properly as well.

[Razz1]

Yes, that is the trick I discovered a few years ago.

[captainjack]

I tried the switching approach yesterday and couldn't get it to work, though as I was off work sick the cold might have had something to do with it. I used an Opel Supply Truck icon set to AT type. It's a bit odd on the strategic map having a convoy of SPAT icons, but in normal view the supply truck icon fits the part perfectly (I'd give credit to the designer but I downloaded a mass of icons from all over the place at about the same time and can't remember who designed it right now).