Command or key for units to swap positions? And about reinforcements.

[Fast Johnny]

I know it must be there, I just can't seem to figure it out.

Also, I am playing one of the Grand Campaigns as the Americans in N. Africa and I am currently playing the Kasserine Pass part. I have been trying to use my prestige points to buy reinforcements, but nothing shows up. It takes my money, but doesn't put units in my pool and I have less than the max amount in the core pool. Anyone have any insight into that?

[cerberusiv]

Not sure about swapping positions.

As for reinforcements, first you buy the unit then you click the units list (not sure but one of the row of small round buttons on the right anyway) and that brings up all your undeployed units. Provided you are not already at the maximum number of units that can be deployed in the scenario then you select the unit to deploy, the available hexes to deploy into are highlighted and you deploy the unit.

[Fast Johnny]

Was not at the maximum number of units and the only thing I could use prestige points for was to bring current units up to strength. In the purchase unit screen, it allowed me to pick and buy units, but would not offer them for deployment nor would it display them as reserves. Could it have been that campaign would not allow purchasing of new units? In the beginning of the new map, it would allow me to repair my existing units and buy new ones, but I did not have enough points to max out my core and once again, when I did get enough points in the battle, it would not allow me to deploy units that I purchased, took my points for purchasing them and then never offered them for use, even at the start of the next map. In other words, I was always fighting with under the number of core units allowed.

[cerberusiv]

I had a look at this myself. What you are describing is exactly what I found in the US Corps campaign. It allows you to purchase units and deducts the cost of them but they do not appear in your units list and are not available in the reserve list.

I do not understand this and will try and dig a little deeper.

[Fast Johnny]

Originally posted by cerberusiv:

I had a look at this myself. What you are describing is exactly what I found in the US Corps campaign. It allows you to purchase units and deducts the cost of them but they do not appear in your units list and are not available in the reserve list.

I do not understand this and will try and dig a little deeper.

Exactly, I was playing the one of the Grand Campaigns of the US Corp. The one with Casablanca and Kasserine Pass.

Darn HQ, taking my money and not sending me troops. Btw, Patton dismissed me cause I didn't have enough units to fight my way to where I was supposed to set up supply dumps.

[cerberusiv]

Well, I tried this in both Afrika Korps and the first 3 scenarios of US Corps 42. After a couple of turns of Afrika Korps I was able to purchase a recon unit and immediately it popped up with the available deployment hexes highlighted. So I played far enough into USC 42 to reach Oran, played a few turns in, long enough to assimilate a captured town, and bought a M10. Exactly the same, it popped up on screen immediately with the available deployment hexes highlighted.

I can only think that there is a restriction on some scenarios that prevents deploying additional core units. I've never noticed it before, but then I am usually able to deploy the maximum number of units allowed in the deployment phase.

So I don't know.

[Problem Solver]

Did you own a victory point? If i remember correctly you could only place reinforcements around victory points. Could also be the campaign; since US forces lost battle of Kasserine pass

[cerberusiv]

You can place ground units around any town/village (any built up area with small flag), not just an objective. Air units can be placed around any airfield.

[Heritec]

If I remember correctly, there is a mission in US Corps just befor battle of Kasserine where you are not allowed to deploy units until like turn 5 or so. Could it be that?

[Fast Johnny]

Originally posted by Heritec:

If I remember correctly, there is a mission in US Corps just befor battle of Kasserine where you are not allowed to deploy units until like turn 5 or so. Could it be that?

You are correct in that there is a mission where your core units are in reserve and are finally released a few turns later. That one wouldn't let me buy anything if I remember right, but the other battles after that (same campaign though), would let me spend my money but not deploy, even when core unit limit was way under the max.

Originally posted by cerberusiv:

Well, I tried this in both Afrika Korps and the first 3 scenarios of US Corps 42. After a couple of turns of Afrika Korps I was able to purchase a recon unit and immediately it popped up with the available deployment hexes highlighted. So I played far enough into USC 42 to reach Oran, played a few turns in, long enough to assimilate a captured town, and bought a M10. Exactly the same, it popped up on screen immediately with the available deployment hexes highlighted.

I can only think that there is a restriction on some scenarios that prevents deploying additional core units. I've never noticed it before, but then I am usually able to deploy the maximum number of units allowed in the deployment phase.

So I don't know.

Yeah, the Afrika Corps campaign allowed the purchases and deployments. It was the US 42 that was problematic. It is odd, I checked all my core units to make sure I wasn't over the limit, but then again it shouldn't let me buy new units if my core is full. Also, the number of units on the field was not maxed out either. Maybe it was just a bug that persisted in that campaign for some reason.

[Heritec]

If its a bug, I never encountered it befor, and I played the US campagin like 4 times. I did not see any updates of PC in the last weeks. So i cant imagin what the reason might be. Maybe try and reinstall the game?