mark487

Hey Commander 152 - Never mind, I work shifts, so time of day is a relative concept for me! I'm too tied up with work and study right now to practice my DropTeam skills, but I'll come play with you guys on Sunday one day. That'd be fun! - mark

Thanks everyone for your advice: technical, strategic, and historical! With a mix of CTRL-V, the tac map, and the tab key, I've succeeded in getting my units safely hull down on one side of my targets while I sneak up from the other. You'll all be happy to hear that the paladin-bots in the first Hopewell mission no longer laugh when they hear me coming and steal my lunch money!

Thanks for the sound advice, Mr.Rocket. "No plan survives first contact with the enemy," what a great quote! My problem is not when I'm in the heat of battle - then I definitely like to be in the driver's seat of a big tank so I can do some of the shooting. My problem is when I'm moving forces into position. Especially when I'm trying to sneak up on the enemy from different directions. Imagine that I only have two units. I send my first unit off to hide in cover on the left and my second unit off to attack from the right. The thing is, I have to manually drive one unit or the other. If I'm busy driving the second unit, I can't quickly switch to seeing from the first unit's point of view because I'm busy driving. Is there a way to give both my units standing movement orders and then switch point of view freely between them without having to manually drive one or the other? Thanks for the invitation! I'll come play with you guys on Sunday once the bots in the Hopewell campaign have finished thrashing me!

Hey, thanks Jung! And good morning, it's about bed time on my side of the world. OK, I think I'm getting the hang of switching control from one unit to another on the tac map. Now, what if I don't want to directly control any of my units for a while. Can I just give them all their orders and then sit back in god mode and watch them go, or do I have to choose one to be in direct control of all the time? I'm playing the first mission of the Hopewell campaign, so I don't have a mercury command unit yet. That sounds like fun tho!

Sorry to ask such a basic question, but do I always have to have a unit that I'm controlling directly? It would be nice to be able to give movement orders to all my units at the same time, and then switch to observing one unit or another to see how they're doing as they get close to their destination. As it is, I have to be in control of one unit and drive it myself, rather than give them all movement orders and choose which one to take control of when they get close to their target. Thanks, - mark