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From: ben@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: conquer army problems
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Date: 24 Jul 89 19:16:24 GMT
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In article <1950@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, dalka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (kenneth.j.dalka) writes...
"I have had problems where if I have 10 or so armies in one sector
"(like in the beginning of the game) the "G" command will not allow
"me to get to all of them. It simply skips the last few and restarts
.
"the army (which it shouldn't) This allows a person to do a "MAG_ATT"
"on the army when you normally can not. Speaking of this, how is this
"supposed to work? Why can't you do a MAG_ATT on a general and if that's

This sounds very odd to me indeed.  Some things you should know and check.
1. The "G" command takes you to the next "UNIT" no the next army.
   Here I define unit as a general and all armies grouped to that general.
   so if "those last few" are grouped to the leader (general) then they will
   be skipped because they move with the general. (although you can use the 
    "p" command to select them individually and move them alone)

2. I've had a similar although not the same problem on the workstation here
    if my screen was 54,120 when I used the "G" command it would not select
    the appropriate unit (it would always default to the top general). But
    it happened so seldom it wasn't a bother.

3. In some types of combat my men get seperated from their general:
   This happens if I put the general into A mode (att/def) (all the men 
   seperate and go into that mode also) or if you redesignate the army
   as att/def they seperate from the general. Another is when the leader gets
   killed. If this happens, if you seperate your men from thier leader then
   they can be majiked. Right now it seems that it is difficult to magic
    a leader because all the men under him would also need to be majiked
    so That code has not been implemented as far as I can tell.

Hope this helps a little