What would cause this behavior of infantry?

[Waycool]

Playing a CM:MG 2.10 real time quick battle single player on defense as British versus attack by Waffen SS. There was an issue that arose with a rifle platoon in houses in one of the victory locations, I ordered them to strengthen a flank as the Waffen SS were hitting it hard but only 2 units did as ordered a section and mortar team. However the others would not move I tried multiple times to order them to flank or merely move outside but they wouldn't exit the building. They weren't to my knowledge pinned I checked, one section said cautious. There were not under fire. Any ideas?

[JasonC]

No door in the direction you ordered them to exit, perhaps?

In older versions of CM, building exits were abstracted, but in CMx2 they are explicit. If you order a movement that is physically impossible because in would entail going through a solid wall, the men will just ignore their crazy CO and sit tight.

[Waycool]

Hmmmm I did just drag waypoints out so not sure about the exit. Will have to try it again. Thanks for the heads up re: abstracted versus explicit exiting..

[Squeaker]

Don't the units pathfind a route out? I'm sure I've done this to my cost when telling a unit to exit to the rear of the building, and they ran out the front door into enemy fire. When I checked, there was no back door, so they were just trying to follow my stupid order. To their cost, unfortunately.

Shame they can't jump out of windows, I suppose that'd be hard to code?