You actually don't need a Common Event. In the troops tabs, there is space where you work. You can have many pages and have control of alot stuff here, for that one troop. It should work as if you had a Parallel Processing, if the Span is set to Battle (If I'm not mistaken). Where it would be helpful to use a common Event is if you are doing something that would be used OVER AND OVER. Then you'd make it in the Common Event and then call it in the Troop Tab. That way there is no copying and pasteing. Maybe if you tell us how you're using it, we could help you better. But it seems that we've covered just about everything.