tank movement orders

[Hilts]

My tank is on a reverse slope. I want to move up to the crest hull down, pause for 30 seconds to check for targets and then reverse. I issue a move order then a slow move to hull down, click on the waypoint and pause for 30 seconds and then issue a reverse order. I notice that the reverse order will only take me back to the preceeding waypoint. (I had intended to reverse back much further) This seemed odd so I redid it and the same thing happened. I decided to proceed anyway. To my horror the tank moved to the first waypoint and then instead of slow moving to hull down it turned through 180 degrees and proceeded to the hull down position in reverse and then paused like a sitting duck for the rest of the turn with it's arse nicely presented to all and sundry...... I half expected my crew to dismount and bend over as well! WTF?

[YankeeDog]

My guess is that you accidentally kept the second waypoint selected while you tried to plot the reverse order. So when you hit the reverse key, you actually modified your Slow order into a Reverse order.

Done that before myself.

[ClarkWGriswold]

Sounds to me like you didn't deselect the waypoint before you tried to issue the reverse command. So, you essentially turned what was supposed to be a forward movement command into a reverse command. Make sure you click off your movement command before you issue a new one.

Edit: What ^^^he said.