Annoying Courier Problems

[FJ_VF168]

Hello guys.

I am playing the game now for several month and i am really into it. Now trying to get into more realism style and tried the stupid idea of using couriers.

The idea sounds really good of it but i really seem to be too stupid to get these to work. I was trying around the various tips here from the forum but i am really unable to get ANYONE on the battlefield moving or doing anything from my commands. I was trying commands from various ranks to any type of unit and nothing works. No one moves, everyone is camping around

Can anyone help me out with this ?

Thanks in advance !

Patrick

[con20or]

Hi Patrick, welcome aboard.

You probably aren't using the correct order sequence.

Here's a very useful post.

http://www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/hits-h ... uide#39947

And there is a section devoted to courier play.

http://www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/hits-h ... the-saddle

[FJ_VF168]

Thanks for the fast answer !

I already tried both hints/advices. Tried them again now. But still nothing works. I can see my courier going but nothing happens. The guys stand around and camp. I cant even get them to lie down. Are there maybe any setting you must activate or deactive ? I already figured out that you at least have to active couriers in the options screen. But switching the individual levels does only affect that i cant command my units diretly. The commands are executed after the courier arrives. This works fine, but i am defenetively anable to command my subordiantes...

Greetings

Patrick

[con20or]

ok, theres a few things we can try.

1. First, will you please take a saved game and name it something that you wont forget and overwrite - do this BEFORE you try the fix I am about to recommend.
2. Do you have any mods installed?
3. What difficulty level are you playing at?
4. Follow the advice listed in the post i linked you to already, but go into the time section of the order, change the time to anything else in the list, then, without exiting out of the message, change it back to the current time.
5.Send the order again.

[Marching Thru Georgia]

How are you issuing orders, from the courier screen or the toolbar?

[FJ_VF168]

@MTG : I guess thats the courrier screen , thats where you compose those messages


@con20or :

1 did it (Sandbox Game , I am Doubleday , Gettysburg Map , Whole Army present)
2 nope , plain fresh Gettysburg with Pipe Creek and Antietam
3 Custom , Orders by Courier Brigade level
4/5 Did it , after the time thing it works . Hell is this a good thing ))

The first order of every scenarios need to be a time switch once and thats it ?

Greetings Patrick

[Saddletank]

PLeased you got it working.

FJ, if you'd like to try this online multi-player with us, just follow the link below to our forum.

[Marching Thru Georgia]

Yes, your problem sounds like the "time" bug. You just need to set the order time to the current time, (first one on the list), in an order. After that, the orders should work without having to set the time again.

[FJ_VF168]

I surely will , just need some more training with this right now . But shouldn't take that long

Was looking forward to that since good old Sid Meiers Gettysburg times !

Hell it rocks

Patrick

[con20or]

@MTG : I guess thats the courrier screen , thats where you compose those messages


@con20or :

1 did it (Sandbox Game , I am Doubleday , Gettysburg Map , Whole Army present)
2 nope , plain fresh Gettysburg with Pipe Creek and Antietam
3 Custom , Orders by Courier Brigade level
4/5 Did it , after the time thing it works . Hell is this a good thing ))

The first order of every scenarios need to be a time switch once and thats it ?

Greetings Patrick

Nope, just a bug that we are currently looking at. It shouldn't appear again though - glad you got it working.

Would you zip your saved game from before you applied the time fix and send it in to support@norbsoftware.com please? Stick 'courier time bug' in the subject box of the email.

Thanks!