ScenHack and a modified OOB

[RecruitMonty]

Dear Don, Dear Andy,

Good evening.

My apologies, if I have posted this up in the wrong forum.

The message has only been popping up in ScenHack when I try to load those "problem" scenarios.

I will take a look at the OOB in question and make a few changes to unit names and see what happens when I try and load the scenarios using the modified OOBs in ScenHack after.

I don't recall using any special characters in either of the modified OOBs in question, as I remember reading that anything accented kills the game. I learnt this the hard way when I wrote the descriptions for some units in my German OOB, first time round.

I seem to have narrowed it down to the game having a problem with the Guards Infantry and Guards Squad unit classes. I am going to do an experiment in another oob and see if this is where the problem actually lies.

Best Regards,

Recruit Monty

[RecruitMonty]

- UPDATE -

I have been able to solve the problem I have encountered by doing the following:

I renamed one unit "Imperial Guards" to "Konoe Shidan" (Imperial Guard Division in Hepburn Japanese) and another unit "Kenpeitai" to "KPT Rifle Sec.". "Kempeitai Squad" was not liked. Neither was "KPT Rifle Squad". Perhaps they were too long?

In both cases the scenarios now load fine in ScenHack.

I also changed their classifications from the original to something else. In the case of the Imperial Guards, now Konoe Shidan, I reclassified them as "Light Guards Squad" from "Guards Infantry".

In the case of the KPT, I deleted the old entries in Mobhack and pasted them back in. Changed the names of the formations to reflect the new names as well.

That seems to have fixed the problem.

I am guessing at this stage that perhaps one of three things could be the root cause:

1) The units did not write properly the first time I created them in MobHack.
2) The unit names are a problem.
3) The unit types are a problem.

I will carry out some more experiments to narrow it down and see what happens.

Best Regards,

Recruit Monty