How to deploy boats

[dannybou]

Gents, in Market Garden and in Korsun there are rivers to cross and engineers with boats. How do we use these boats?

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

If I remember right you place the engineers next to the river. Your infantry have to be in travel mode stacked with the engineers and then the next turn they can move across the river. You don't actually deploy boats.

[Mini-Me]

Got this off the help file:

"Water Hex Ferrying

Some Engineer units can also ferry units across water hexes. Engineer units with this ability have the Has Boats flag in the current scenario. The Engineer unit must not be building or dismantling a bridge and must not be laying or clearing mines. In addition, the Engineer unit must not be Disrupted or Broken, must have full Movement allowance, and must not be in Travel or Rail Mode.

The requirements for a unit to be ferried across a water hex are:

· The unit being ferried must be of Foot movement class, or be of Ski, Bicycle, or Horse movement class and consist of men (right click in Unit Picture to see this information listed) or be a unit which is On Foot (see section on Movement).

· The unit being ferried must have full Movement Allowance, must be in Travel Mode, and must not be Disrupted or Broken.

There are three limitations to this movement:

· The Water hex being moved into must be adjacent to a hex containing an Engineer unit that can perform Water Hex Ferrying.

· The Water hex being moved into must not contain a bridge.

· At most one unit at a time can enter a single Water Hex using Ferrying."

So Mark is right. In Korsun, the intro scenario has boats. After beating my head against the wall for 20 minutes, I went to the manual. :argh: I should do that more often.

[dannybou]

Couldn't find anything in the help file. I was looking for boats though. Thanks Guys.