Re: Cross attaching unit ...
I've run into the above problems and some other frustrations in a generated campaign as the USA. MY original core was a Ranger company reinforced by an Abrams Platoon and 4 Javelin teams. I quickly realized that I would need to mechanize my rangers, or at least their heavy weapons, if I were going to make full use of them. To this end, I purchased an APC platoon and 3 support APC sections. After much confusion as to why I couldn't load my troops onto the APCs, I discovered that infantry can only load onto vehicles belinging to the same platoon. I looked through the manual trying to find ways to modify platoon assignments and found that it could be done in the deployment menu. However, the command unit for each platoon can not be reassigned, so I was forced to break half of my ranger platoons into 3-6 disorganized platoons of varying sizes in order to mount them in APCs, the other half remaining on foot. I haven't played a battle with the new command structure, but I'm wondering if there will be any morale/rally or command/contact issues as a result of the new (dis)organization of my reinforced company? I know it will cause me some confusion, and I was wondering if there is another way to do this or if there might be in a future patch? My original intent was to keep the ranger company more oe less as is, except with a javelin team and a few APCs attatched to each existing platoon as add-ons, and I was disappointed at how much time and thought I had to put into finding a way to make it work, and that at the expense of a convenient and logical force organization. (I have Ranger 1lts commanding single squads and APC sergeants commanding heavy platoons now. I can probably fix that with another 20 minutes work, but it just seems wrong.)
Anyway, thank for listening and I look forward to 2.0 regardless of whether the above issue is addressed.
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