[peabody]

Originally Posted by kevtherev

Have solved the problem by a little 'cheating' . Not knowing what the file 'strategicred.dds' was for I took the risk and copied a small
(1kbt) .dds file, renamed it strategicred.dds and placed it in the
data/menu/gui folder. Loaded Tmaru but once again got e failed load
this time with strategicblue.dds not being founf. Back to the drawing
board but this time copied the red.dds file and renamed it
strategicblue.dds. Loaded TMaru once more and this time everything went
just fine. As I said before, I have no idea what these two files are
for, maybe I shall find out somewhere along the line. I think after consideration that I will do a search again for the 'missing' file/s and correct the situation properly but in the meantime I will just plod on until I get the 'Gold' edition and TMar Update for the 1.5 patch.Many thanks to
those who have offered suggestions and help, consider, at least for me
that this thread can be considered closed.

Since you commented you are waiting for the 'Gold' edition, I assume you are using SH4 1.4? In SH4 1.5 the stratigicred.dds and stratigicblue.dds contain the flags for your bases. So if your bases are showing then apparently they are not used it 1.4. I don't know where the flags come from in 1.4, I don't have a copy of that installed.

Peabody