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Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 2:16 am
by milesjb
Is there a way to add trucks to infantry or artillery after the grunts and arty are deployed ?

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:24 am
by bebro
Upgrade? You can just keep the same unit/type and activate a TP additionally then.

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:23 am
by GabeKnight
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Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 4:22 pm
by bru888
Keep in mind the "hidden cost" of one additional command point required for each truck. That mounts up when you are trying to mobilize an entire army.

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 9:56 pm
by milesjb
I thought there might be another way because I had an empty truck show up in Sandstorm. Don't know where it came from. I just suddenly noticed it. It can be moved around like normal, it just is empty.

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:46 pm
by bru888
Just curious; would you say which scenario? I'd like to take a look.

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 11:37 pm
by milesjb
Don't know what is called, but it's the one where you're trying to control the coastal road to Bir el Sarahna

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:53 am
by bru888
That be Buq Buq but I don't see any German trucks on the map initially. I do see these empty British trucks but all they do is turn around and head east, simulating a "Retreat Column" for some reason.
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Your truck is German and yours to command?

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 1:23 am
by bru888
So here is one possibility. In Operation Crusader (the second scenario), the player receives this truck as a handy safety valve mechanism; I am guessing the purpose is to save your core units by agreeing to defeat:
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I was thinking that this was your empty truck that would be carried forward in your core and show up in Buq Buq but the truck is not generated as a core unit.

So I am at a loss unless . . . you are actually playing Operation Crusader and not Buq Buq. That would explain your empty German truck. Do you see these objectives? They are from Operation Crusader:
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Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 1:39 am
by milesjb
That might be it. Would it carry over to Bugbug from Crusader ?

Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 1:42 am
by bru888
milesjb wrote:That might be it. Would it carry over to Bugbug from Crusader ?
I was editing my post when you replied. No, I don't think so. The truck would have to be a core unit for it to carry over from Operation Crusader forward to Buq Buq. Are you actually playing Crusader, perhaps?
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Re: Adding trucks

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 2:24 am
by milesjb
Well, I thought it was in my current scenario, but from what you've said, I'm doubting myself. It probably was Crusader. Sorry for the trouble, but at least I know how to add trucks to a grunt unit now. :-)