Noob questions

[struckat]

I seem to be missing how to tow guns. How do you hook them to a truck ?
How can you tell which can be towed?

Mortars or machine guns, I tell them to move, but they wont. What am I missing?

I have been searching, but it seems my questions are too dumb.

[Don Banini]

The towing mechanic seem a little finicky. But there are steps you can take to make your life easier:

- place your gun on displacement mode or whatever its called.
- from your truck, click on the attach cargo icon and/or ,with your truck selected, click on the gun you're trying to tow.
- if nothing happen, try to move your truck closer to the rear of the gun
- repeat the last two operations once or thrice...

[✠19GaMoR83✠]

Originally posted by struckat:

I seem to be missing how to tow guns. How do you hook them to a truck ?
How can you tell which can be towed?

For MP / Skirmish you will see in the left down corner (of the unit cards in the call in menu) for trucks two ovals linked and one to three dots beneth that means a unit can tow and how heavy (1 - 3 dots). For the AT/Placed guns you will see the one to three dots in the same corner and a weightsymbol under them. That indicates how heavy they are. So if there 2 dots you need a truck 2+ for towing.

Originally posted by struckat:

Mortars or machine guns, I tell them to move, but they wont. What am I missing?

Use double klick or one klick but keep holding so you get the promt of the direction they should face (you will know what i mean if it happens ;) )

Originally posted by struckat:

I have been searching, but it seems my questions are too dumb.

There are too dumb questions but your are none of them.

For conquest and SP you have to try or transfer your knowledge from MP.

[Ch53dVet]

All you have to do is click on the weapons platform (AT gun, Artillery field gun, etc...) then hover your mouses cursor over a motorized vehicle if the cursor changes into a 2 link chain then that weapons platform can be towed, then move the truck or the weapon next to each other and right click when the chain link appears and they will snap together, if no chain link appears then either the vehicle can't tow at all or the weapon is too heavy for the truck or possibly that weapons platform can't be towed like an 81 mm Mortar can't be towed (carried by truck) however, an 120 mm (2 Man) wheeled Mortar can be hooked up to a tow vehicle. it can be towed behind that 2 man engineer tracked motorcycle like vehicle.

[Team Triss]

If I can hijack this topic to add other noob questions, is there a way to move mortar or MG teams or similar using transports instead of having the guys hoofing it on foot across the map?

[Ch53dVet]

Originally posted by Team Triss:

If I can hijack this topic to add other noob questions, is there a way to move mortar or MG teams or similar using transports instead of having the guys hoofing it on foot across the map?

Unfortunately, No. The German 120 MM Wheeled Mortar is the only one that I know of that can be towed, all tripod base weapons platforms have to be walked over the map.