Commanders Exceed Authority Now????

[Southerner]

After installing 1.10b my units are exceeding their authority and moving to places I never ordered them to go. At least it is beginning tio appear that this is the case.

What up with that?

True ,I have only played a few turns in a new game but already General Polk by moving well beyond the position I ordered him to occupy almost brought Kentucky into the war on the Union side. A stray calvary unit moving up from the South almost accompished the same thing.

Now I don't mind my commanders demonstrating iniative but this will present big problems for command and control...especially when the siuation develops into more complicated stages.

[arsan]

After installing 1.10b my units are exceeding their authority and moving to places I never ordered them to go. At least it is beginning tio appear that this is the case.

What up with that?

True ,I have only played a few turns in a new game but already General Polk by moving well beyond the position I ordered him to occupy almost brought Kentucky into the war on the Union side. A stray calvary unit moving up from the South almost accompished the same thing.

Now I don't mind my commanders demonstrating iniative but this will present big problems for command and control...especially when the siuation develops into more complicated stages.

Maybe you are having a bad day with your mouse ??
I have not noticed this...

[Southerner]

Maybe....maybe...but Polk taking a 90 degree left turn, crossing a wide river and occupying a completely different assigned objective city...I think not.

[arsan]

Maybe....maybe...but Polk taking a 90 degree left turn, crossing a wide river and occupying a completely different assigned objective city...I think not.

Hi
Was he attacked by a superior USA force?
Stacks can decide to retire (or try to) before battle on their own to an adjacent area if they feel he enemy is too strong to fight with... but not move or advance on his own
Never seen this, but i has only played 1 or 2 turns with 1.10b

[Franciscus]

I played last night 2 or 3 turns of an ongoing grand campaign as CSA, started in 1.10, now patched to 1.10b and have not noticed anything strange, either.

Could it be that when you gave your orders you targeted an enemy unit. In that case your unit will (try) to follow the enemy and may not end where they were before, if they also move...

[arsan]

Could it be that when you gave your orders you targeted an enemy unit. In that case your unit will (try) to follow the enemy and may not end where they were before, if they also move...

Yeas, that is a good point... sometimes you point on an enemy unit by mistake instead of an empty portion of an area.
This way you order to intercept/pursue the enemy unit and can end the turn deep on enemy territory
For this check you don't have a crossed red sable icon over the stack.
Regards

[GShock]

Careful with the movement, if u drop the stack into a region the general will move there but if in that region there are enemy forces and u mistakenly drop the general there, he will chase them wherever they go. Make sure about this when you see Polk u should see the crossed sabres on his stack, it's the intercept command, the one Arsan is telling you.

In any case when there's something wrong, u'd better post the saved turn, this will help any of us and the devs, to examine the problem and tell you exactly what happened. Might be a bug, or might be correct, or might be that u did something wrong without knowing what...as in this case probably happened.

[Coregonas]

Once in a PBEM seem I did send mistaken orders.

Yes some of my troops did somewhat chaotically as you say.

It was a mistake on my mouse sure, never did again happen to me.

You can check your LAST TURN .ORD file.

Try reviewing your old backup turn orders.

[Radditz68]

SS or it didn't happen!

[Jabberwock]

This could possibly explain something we've seen recently in the Grand Campaign.

[Coregonas]

no

[Jabberwock]

no

LOL - I don't think it's something you can see at the moment. I guess that means all your moves are well planned.

[Jabberwock]

After a careful review of the GC orders, the stacks in question were inadvertently targeted on another stack at the target location. That stack moved elsewhere, causing the odd movements.

[tagwyn]

Thanks for figuring this out guys!! apy:

[Gray_Lensman]

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