BG Relieve Bug?

[Kanov]

Hi Steve,
Here I present to you a weird behaviour that has to do with the movement of the main and reserve battlegroup when there's two stacked BG's on the same map. I hope the image is clear enough, if not you can ask questions to clear doubts and others are encouraged to comment on this too.

Now, the main issue is not with the bizarre second movement arrow that appears out of nowhere and doesn't go away (which should warrant a fix too), but rather the why the reserve BG is limited to its "origin" map even though the deployment zone in the battlemap is continuous (and is not even the 1st nor the 2nd battle there for both BG's) and why when using the "relieve" option this limit is removed to the new "Top" BG and transferred to the new reserve BG.

The logical behaviour to me should be: if the deployment area is continuous after first battle, both battlegroups should be able to move to the same maps, regardless if one is main or reserve BG. Unless I'm missing something here.

I also attach the save-game in a zipped file. There are other examples in other maps on the same save-game but I choose the Veghel map because it appeared clearer to me.

Thanks for all the support after all these years.

[SteveMcClaire]

Hi Kanov - Thanks for the report.

I will need to look at the save file to say for certain, but at least part of the issue may be that the German BGs are not 'deployed' on the map. If they were you'd see a green downward arrow icon on the BG icon.

A BG isn't 'deployed' on a map until it fights a battle on the map (being the reserve BG doesn't count.) A BG that isn't deployed can only exit a contested map by going back the way it came. This is discussed in the manual addendum that is in the manual folder.

I will update you when I've had a chance to investigate.

[davidss]

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[SteveMcClaire]

I've made a fix for this -- the issue is that, after swapping BGs, you may see the wrong movement destinations and/or arrows if the two BGs have different possible destinations. In the case of this saved game, one BG is undeployed (the reserve) and one is deployed (the front line BG.) I've also fixed an issue with the 'undeployed' indicator not displaying on the BG icons after loading a game that was saved during the strategic movement phase.

The LSA update will now go back into the queue for distribution, so I wouldn't expect to see it released for a few weeks. I will post an update here if I have any additional info about the release timing.

[Kanov]

Great news!

Fantastic support.
Thanks Steve.

[Aetius2]

Indeed, great to see my favorite game getting even better.

[Tejszd]

Thank you for the continued support Steve!