Processing Orders for Attached Transport Groups
In WISC, it is common for large groups of ships to sail together
with
identical orders. Instead of requiring players to submit the same
order
for each ship in such a group, ships may be attached to a leading
ship.
Orders send to the leading ship are copied to all the other ships
attached to that ship, so that the orders only need to be submitted
once. Attachment has no other
effect
on the game. It is solely a method of copying orders from one ship
to
another.
When transport groups are sailing together, however, they often need
to
send different orders because they are loading or unloading
different
units. Therefore, when a transport is attached to a leading ship,
orders for loading units and supplies (the ones on the "Transports
Only" line of the orders form) are not copied from the attached ship
to
the transport. Thus, you can send only these orders for each
transport,
then having the lead ships' other orders copied to the transport,
rather than have to submit them for each transport.
Example: US1TR is carrying US3IN, US2TR is carrying US1LA and 30
supplies, and both are attached to US1SL. The commander sends orders
for a change of base, no movement, Accept contact option, and load
10
stores for US1SL. All of these orders will be copied to US1TR and
US2TR. Then
the commander only need to send unloading orders for US1TR and
US2TR.
The rest of the order form can be left blank for those ships.