I dont see the start location on my map any more either.

How do we get back there to get the field radio?

Move troops via MAYOR discussions...
 

I got home late last night and didn't have the opportunity to check what I've saved. I'm 90% sure that the man in the red hat at the start of the game is now gone. So is access to a ton of the weapons with $100,000 to buy them with.

But I did forget to mention this last night, not only does one have to talk to the mayors to finance a location's defense force, but one can also order units from one sector to another. I haven't tested this dialogue out, for the simple reason that I didn't have any units yet. I did order a few up (which drained money from my pocket), and I'll see how it goes from there.

I'm guessing that the field radio is gone, and has been replaced by dialoguing with each region's mayor. Which is a sensible solution as well, although having a field radio that can do the same thing is also quite convincing. Ideally, it would be nice to have both options available.

If I'm wrong on any of this, let me know.

yes you can send troops to other sectors.. it is only a fraction of the troops that are available tho.. (with 30 militiamen in the radio hill sector i was able to send out a unit of 10 men from radio hill.. less on other sectors)

you can actually go to the sector you sent em to and wait for their arrival.
you can then fight alongside them or just watch your blue guys fight the enemy...

after dispatching a unit of men from a sector there seems to be a cooldown period until it works again. i have no idea how long it takes.
you don't have to be around for the battle to take place... but since the number of men you can send out is rather limited, and it's not really possible to combine the forces of several sectors... your chances to win will be quite small if you don't.

since i'm not up to date i'm not even sure if R@S has actually released a version with the radio publicly...

it requires the reloaded map pack to work.

This whole "field radio" discussion is getting a bit confusing.

I remember R@S exclusively releasing a version of it along with the Reloaded maps about a month back, but I never got far along enough into that build to test it.

Yet this latest build of BSM is not "exclusive," and it comes with the Reloaded maps, and the dialogues with the mayors reveal that after a locale has been conquered by the Player, that he/she will then have access to building up a defense militia, draft defense militia (1 person at a time, and directly at the Player's monetary expense), and then send them to different sectors.

Again, I have yet to test out sending troops from one locale to another, but I'm assuming that from what you wrote, the "mayoral" system matches up well with the "field radio" one that you experienced in an earlier build.

what the field radio does is its basically giving you access to the mayors dialogues from wherever you happen to be so you don't have to actually walk and talk to every single one of them to manage your sectors.

Alright, I finally got it MoreDread. Been doing a TON of real life work around here, and it must've made me light headed. Thanks for your patience. :)

Are you playing the latest build? If so, do you know where, or have a good guess, as to where the field radio might be?

quick side question? did anyone happen to read an answer about the training ground mission and the problem we have with said thingy from r@s?

seems he is on holliday or sumthin`...

I too wonder what happened to R@S.

I hope that whatever it is it isn't a crisis of some sort.

Hang in there man, if it is.

well, as our moding guru he is entiteld of a privat life. as much as it bothers us gamers and consumers of his brilliant art.

by the way: i solved the kansas city mission, the one where a man has to be killed on the training ground... just poison him via the means of this palinero chick. then leave the map in the süawn area... solved. after that...oh the things i could tell^^

but wont, cause of spoiling^^

r@s has done tremendous work for this game, it is truly awsome....

This level of teasing is evil, y'know that right?

Of course you do.

You're Vader.

And Vader knows bad better than Chuck Norris knows, well, anything.

;)