CMBB: Unit Transfers?

[KC]

This topic has probably been discussed elsewhere, but I would like to know if CMBB will support unit transfers.

It's pretty frustrating when your MG/Mortar/etc team can no longer move due to losses and the 10 man team next to them can't help or otherwise pickup a functioning weapon. It would seem not too complicated to allow transfer of men from one team to another, thus you could rebuild the MG team and allow it to move again.

[Schrullenhaft]

No, I don't believe 'unit transfers' will be available in CMBB. While it may make logical sense to have such a feature; coding-wise it may be a nightmare to fit into the current engine. With the engine rewrite (CMII) there should be some more flexibility with units that may allow such actions to take place.

[Boris Balaban]

If this happends the skill factor should suffer but the unit could function.

[MikeyD]

This sounds like an issue related to an earlier chain-of-command thread. The consensus on that topic was command (like unit) transfers may be logical, but perhaps not within the intense half-hour timeframe of the normal CM battle. If the game lasted a whole day then you'd be able to get the CO to reassign troops, resort the chain of command, give instructions to the transferred units, etc., but not so much during the fur-ball of an intense firefight.

[KC]

I've thought it should work along the lines of being able to transfer men from one unit to another, and require being within leadership radius. For example a platoon leader could order unit transfers within his platoon, company leaders could order transfers between platoons.

I think this is something that is within the scope of a battle in CM, maybe not a permanent transfer but just a battle situation, make shift arrangement.

I know that American troops were at least trained on a wide variety of equipment and while they may not have used it on a regular basis, they had some familiarity with it.