retreating helis

[DRG]

Did you check it's suppression ?

Next time you get one like this save the game and post it here.

Don

[Wdll]

Originally Posted by DRG

Did you check it's suppression ?

Next time you get one like this save the game and post it here.

Don

ok, the two latest turns of my current single player campaign. It looks like the same problem.

The units in question are O1 and O2, both Apache gunships. Supression 1, says retreating, but they don't move on their own or accept manual orders.

This is the first battle for this campaign, as Greece starting in January 1996, against USA. The other two opponents in the campaign are Russia and Turkey.

This is the first time in recent memory I face USA forces and I have to say, those M1A1-2 MBTs are a HUUUUUGE pain in the *** to destroy. I am still doing well in this battle, but, damn!

Oh, you might notice I have some allies, cyprus a couple of tanks and recon squads. I was curious what they had available while purchasing support units and then I couldn't find a way to go back to choose my own units, so I bought some.

[zeiss]

I've also encountered the problem of frozen damaged helicopters. It only happens on very large maps when the helicopter has a long way to retreat to reach its own side.

It happened to me a lot in the LZ X-ray campaign. The line between normal retreating helos and frozen helos goes on the east edge of the LZ battlefield.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by zeiss

I've also encountered the problem of frozen damaged helicopters. It only happens on very large maps when the helicopter has a long way to retreat to reach its own side.

It happened to me a lot in the LZ X-ray campaign. The line between normal retreating helos and frozen helos goes on the east edge of the LZ battlefield.

Yes - the bug is the original SSI path finding routine which uses magic numbers for whether or not the path finding has gone on too long or not. That constant was OK for SSI sized 100 by 80 maps, but not for our new bigger map sizes.

Changing that constant to MAXINT means the retreating helos now can find a path to the baseline, and follow same.

Cheers
Andy