Somebody defend as axis on Village-Forest Attack 007

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Mingan

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Long time no PBEM... So will somebody accept this challenge.

This is for Red Thunder

Map: Village-Forest Attack 007

Battle type: attack
Battle size: medium
Length: 1 hour

Overcast dawn.

Attacker: soviet army mix (that's me)
Defender: german army mix

Rarity: strict

No force adjustment. Human purchase. No preview (because of the PBEM bug).

Difficulty: iron (we can change this to elite or warrior on request)

No pre-planned artillery or aircraft for defender.
 
Shorker said:
@Mingan: What is the "PBEM bug", please? Never heard of it before - can you explain it, please?
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Well last time I was playing there was often this bug that caused setup zones to be swapped = attacker started from defenders position and other way around. I don't think it was ever confirmed but someone thought that it might relate to the map preview feature.
 
I guess he refers to the reversed setup zones bug. The defender has to set up in the attackers setup zone and vice versa. As you can imagine this is suboptimal as the defender then just got the small setup zone. Unplayable. But there are 2 workarounds I know about.
1. Prior to load the email file in which the first person has to set up, start a "fake" QB in hotseat or single player modus with the same map. Force selection doesn't matter. After the map has loaded an you are about to make the setup just quit. Then load the real file and the reversed setup zone bug has gone.
2. Load the wanted QB map and edit the parameters to which side wants to attack and which side wants to defend (e.g. Axis attack...). "Repaint" the setup zones accordingly. Hit save and you are good to go.
The reason is the bug just appears if the QB map has the wrong parameters. Every QB map has a predefined attacker. In CMBN every Attack/probe/assault QB has the Allies predefined as attacker. Of now someone plays with Axis as attacker the bug may occur (not evey time the bug happens). So changing the parameters to the ones you want gets you rid of this bug.

I hope I could shed some light on this annoying "feature"...
 
Mingan said:
Well last time I was playing there was often this bug that caused setup zones to be swapped = attacker started from defenders position and other way around. I don't think it was ever confirmed but someone thought that it might relate to the map preview feature.
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First hand experience: no preview is not the solution. It also happened to me with preview off. My advice above should help you overcome this awkward game behavior. At least it worked for me in multiple occasions...
 
Strachwitz said:
First hand experience: no preview is not the solution. It also happened to me with preview off. My advice above should help you overcome this awkward game behavior. At least it worked for me in multiple occasions...
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Okay. Thanks for the info!
 
You are welcome. Just ask if you have more questions about this topic. I know my explanations are not the best sometimes ;-)
 
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