Halgar
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You *should* still be able to get the hovers if you don't go much farther in the story until you reach FE.
After I screwed up on advancing from PME story at the appropriate time, I decided to press forward anyway and just see what happened. I did keep doing the CE quests along the way though, not even considering that I should still try to pause the quests until I reached FE map.
By the time that I read your response, I was already on the last CE province and I was on a quest that required recruiting 5 or 6 current age troops or some previous aged troops. I didn't write down what that quest name was, so I'm not sure. But I just waited to pick up my Alcatraz until after I had made it to the future era map and took the first province.
I negotiated the first 4 provinces of CE, and then fought all the rest of the way through CE and TE except for the very last province of TE where I negotiated a bunch as my troops were tired and I was tired of spending diamonds to heal them! I had some anti aircraft troops that I picked up in CE side quest which helped a lot getting through the TE map, but the PME machine gun teams could fight through TE too. My attack was 424/195.
In TE, I got a couple side quests including the one where you get the surveillance nexus. I did not scout the 3 provinces that you show in the picture. In CE I did scout one of them when the quest asked for it. This was done prior to making it to the FE map as I hadn't read your response yet.
Once I got to FE, I negotiated the entire first Joy province.
Then I went back and completed the quest that wanted me to get troops (there were two requirements on that quest, but I had already done the other one and I don't recall what it was.. I just know that I was waiting on troops). After that quest came Dictator's Dungeon and Dictator's Dynamite. I'm not sure what quest came next. I wish I had taken notes! But it wasn't long before I got to Eye's Ahead on the FE questline!
I am currently on Desert Expedition waiting on someone to pick up my trade for water. I have some hope that I may still be getting hover tanks in PME since I' made it to the FE quests, despite my screw up. I'll update once I either get the hover tanks or get sent back to the CE questline.