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Originally Posted by rasnell
I promise that I read the manual carefully and studied the forums. However, I need some advice for a beginner on these points:
1. Is there a place to view casualty totals for a game in progress? I see where it is listed in the far right column for each platoon or company on the headquarters page. I'm not missing a battle summary page anywhere, am I?
2. Is there a way to move an entire company, group or formation? I don't fully understand if rally or waypoints are the way to do this. If it is, I need a little bit more help than the manual.
3. My first scenario had paratroopers scattered and separated everywhere. I only knew how to move each unit one at a time using the N and P keys, but never really got them together as a group. Again, the question is about group moves or rally or waypoints to converge. I assume no matter how far away they are from their commander, if they have radio contact then I don't need to have them close together.
4. Where is the opening screen of a scenario where I receive the mission briefing. Is there any way to go back to this briefing once you have started your turns? I can't even find the name or remember my scenario by anything in the current game screen.
Sorry for the length of these questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can even bark at me like a drill sergeant if I've missed any of this in the manual.
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0) If you have not yet played through the tutorial scenario, then do that first. Read the "Playing WinSPWW2 - Tutorial" section of the Game Guide first. You should also read the "Game Play Notes" section of the Game Guide.
(You may want to play through the tutorial in
windowed mode with that Game Guide section also open in your browser, in order to easily refer between them.)
1) The battle summary of totals appears at game end screen only.
2) An entire platoon can be moved all together with the "A" key as described in the Game Guide in the "Main Map Window" section, in the box detailing the function keys. It is
not recommended that you use that function for anything other than administrative moves!. Can be useful, once you have gotten used to it.
3) Waypoints are something that only the experienced scenario designer can use effectively without spraying the troops all over the map. Not for beginners. Not a lot of use other than for AI programming for scenario designers. See the GG section entitled "Waypoints".
Also, scenarios involving paras, gliders or beach landings are most definitely
not beginner territory. Start with the smaller scenarios without special troops or situations (e.g. assault engineering) and work up.
3.1) Rally points can be set to give your retreaters a hint as to where you would like them to retreat or rout to. Only really of major use where you are mixed in with the enemy and the normal to-the-baseline rout route is blocked by the enemy, e.g. you are fighting in his rear.
4) You get the mission briefing on the scenario selection page. It is not available during the game itself. Game Guide "Playing a Scenario" section.
5) the "?" key or icon can be used in-game to bring up the quick help text files, e.g. if you cannot remember the keyboard short cuts.
cheers
Andy