First, I have never found a solution to this problem, and I have been using MB for a number of years.   So if you find the answer, I would appreciate a headsup.  This seems to be a limitation of the sim.  

A couple of things you can count on:

- Small vessels like the LCI and LCV, unlike larger ships, will only react to the first course command.  When they reach the first WP they just keep on truckin' on the same course, even if you have set several other WPs in MB.

- Once a ship of any kind is in motion, about the only way to stop her is to sink her, or end the mission.  I can't get a zero speed setting to work at a final WP, though the ships seem to follow all of them.

- Any non-warship(ship without a gun), and sometimes warships too, in close proximity to land will turn toward the landmass and plough right on through, regardless of courses you have set in MB.

The solution to your problem that I can suggest is to simply insert the landing vessels into the mission as stationary objects at various positions going to and from the beach.....and on it.

I really hope some whizzo out around the forum can show us both a way to make these vessels behave.  

I realize this is not what you wanted to hear, but it may save you a goodly amount of grief in the future.    

You can do it, here's how:

Set both the first and the last waypoint speeds of your landing craft to zero "0".  Even though the start speed is set at zero the landing craft will still move forward because they read their speed from the next waypoint, not the one they are at.  For landing craft approaching the beach you need to slow them down as they get close or they will over run the beach before stopping.  I usually set six waypoints with speeds such as: 0, 8, 5, 3, 1, 0.  The key is that waypoint #1 and waypoint #6 be set to zero.  

When the craft reach the last waypoint they will stop.  Over a 5 minute period or so they will gradually turn on their axis 180° and face back to waypoint #1 but they will not move after that.  It looks OK in the game and you really don't notice the boats turning around because of your speed and altitude.  

If you group the landing craft they will all stop when the primary one reaches the last waypoint.  That could mean some are stopping well off shore.  I find it better to run each landing craft up to the beach individually.

FiGHtA_PiLoT wrote on Feb 7^th, 2007 at 2:17pm:


Me too, Cody.   You need to do another tute on MB to cover all these little tidbits that were not included in the wonderful Missions and Campaigns papers you published.  You are the most knowledgeable guru on CFS2  MB, and we all could use the 'small' details like these.  I gave up on this one long ago.   

Ain't it the truth. Cody?   Folks keep wandering off to other sims, but always seem to return to CFS2.  I like to think it's because that, in spite of it's limitations, it is very versatile and we haven't quite pushed the envelope to the limit yet.

Be looking for your forthcoming tute/tips & tricks.