Nightfall Mission Eight - Train Rules

[GranitePenguin]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I had disarmed it before it was was in range of the train or relevant rails, so I didn't see that. It did however drive its (still M2) Mark V alongside the train without ramming, and drove its Mark III completely over the tracks instead of stopping in front of the train.

I suspect that if the AI wasn't playing stupidly, this would be an unbeatable scenario.

Definitely not unbeatable. What I did would have worked with slight modification (cutting the road in the city section to slow movement, and stopping the Mark III a little earlier). I was one turn away from doing all of that without the weird AI things. I only saw the weird behavior on the last turn before the train left.

There is a note in the game's "how to play" notes that may shed some light on the non-ramming of the train, though.

"Units always default to 'off-tracks', so trains will never collide with enemy units"

That sounds like a fail in the scenario design that might make it impossible to ram the train. You should be able to park on the tracks (and it's kind important for winning/losing). I don't know what they think they were "solving" by changing that.