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One thing that keeps biting me in the rear is JA2's tendancy to leave the turn-based mode without asking. And worse, deciding itself when to get back to it.

I haven't found a way to manually enter combat/turn-based mode. Or to stay in it. These sudden gameplay accelerations (that cease when the opponent decide it) have costed me a bit already. Is there a way to regain control on the time flow ?
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Telika: One thing that keeps biting me in the rear is JA2's tendancy to leave the turn-based mode without asking.
JA2 is played in Turn Based if the enemy is aware of you, and has seen you in the last 2 turns. If you spot an enemy, it will go in turn base mode, and if in that first turn you take him down silently, on end turn you'll go back to Real Time. If the kill isn't silent, but there ain't any enemy soldiers close enough, while they will be alerted, on their turn they'll move closer, on your turn you won't spot them, so if they don't spot you on their turn, it will go back to Real Time.
Only way to force turn based mode is by using the 1.13 mod, and if you aren't using it yet, what are you waiting for? Not sure exactly what the key combination for it is, I can try to find it if you want, though I haven't really used it.
Any other questions about JA2, feel free to ask.