Perk "own army" doesn't work

[Invisible]

I started a new 1939 campaign and choose in the options "own army". But I start with prefab army anyway. Seems a bug to me.

[Kerensky]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2159694346

How does importing my army between Axis Operations campaigns work exactly?

One of the most important features of any Grand Campaign is to allow players to play the individual parts of the campaign, but still keep their forces between campaigns. This system allows players to experience the campaigns as one long adventure. It also is a nice way to partition up hundreds of scenarios into much more bite sized campaigns.

The game handles all CORE saving pretty much automatically, the user needs only to play, and complete, each individual campaign, and the game will know what force is allowed to import to what following campaign.

It works in just a few simple stages:

For example, at the end of final the Spanish Civil War scenario, you will see this new message when returning to the main menu after debriefing.

https://i.imgur.com/Q8DrrkW.jpg

If you choose the next campaign immediately, you will simply be sent directly into the first scenario of the attaching campaign. Making this choice allows you skip needing to re-pick your your character traits over again. To do that, you need to select the next campaign (in this case Axis Operations 1939) from the 'new campaign' menu. When you do that, you will see this new prompt.

https://i.imgur.com/cVZktFO.jpg

Now if you have more than one saved CORE, you can select which one you would like to import, and upon importing, you will be allowed to re-pick your character traits.

As mentioned, importing your CORE is not required to play any DLC content. For anyone who hasn't completed the previous campaign in the Grand Campaign, or who doesn't own that previous DLC, a ready made CORE of decent size and strength (with heroes) will be provided when starting a new campaign without importing a force.

[Kerensky]

So if you are having issue...

It's not a perk you pick exactly. No 'custom army' or any of the character traits. It's a new UI prompt that appears now.

Did you complete the Spanish Civil War, all the way to the end of Madrid 1939?

When you start a 'new campaign' of Axis Operations 1939, did you see the UI prompt asking you if you want to import your army?

And remember, it's not the Wehrmacht 1939 Poland campaign, importing only works into the Axis Operations 1939 DLC campaign. That campaign starts in March 1939 in Czechoslovakia, and then moves to the Saar Offensive before arriving in Poland 1939 for several more scenarios.

[Invisible]

To be more clear:

If you start a new campaign there is a button for "advanced options". In these you can mark a checkbox with the following name: "Custom Army".

The tooltips states the following:
"If checked, you will be able to purchase and deploy your own custom army at the beginn of the game instead of the predefined starting force"

This seems not to work!

[Black_Hole]

I think it works, though. In the deployment phase of the very first mission you can use an UI option to disband every of your starting forces to reasemble them afterwards. Or do it manually for single units . You will get the prestige costs back by doing so.

[Vathek1]

Originally posted by Invisible:

I started a new 1939 campaign and choose in the options "own army". But I start with prefab army anyway. Seems a bug to me.

You can purchase and deploy your own custom army by disbanding the prefab force provided to you or upgrading the individual units as you see fit (prestige and core slots permitting) on turn 0. After turn 0, you can only upgrade units on supply hexes and disband them on victory ones, if i recall correctly.

Think of that prefab army as a sort of "template" or recommendation for the scenario. Unless you cannot disband or upgrade those units on turn 0, then it's not a bug. If you disband them--and there's a button to disband the entire army--you'll get 100% of their prestige value back to spend as you see fit.

--Edit. Alien beat me to it, heh.

[Black_Hole]

My apologies, Vathek1

[Vathek1]

Originally posted by !Alien!:

My apologies, Vathek1

No worries; you answered the OP's question better and more succinctly than I could :) I tend to give everyone the long, detailed answer which works well for some, but as they say, brevity is the soul of wit.