2 player board game tile logic

Have spent literally the past month trying to get the logic working for a 2 player board game using UNET (think Stratego).

What isn't working for me is the original board tiles don't remember their state( ie occupied or not) for the remote player.

I have gone thru hours of tutorials, tried every possible permutation with network Identity etc, but can't get it to work.

Right now the individual tiles for the board are prefabs and the board gets created at runtime. The Player Prefab is composed of this board (+game pieces) so each player gets his-her own version.

What happens is the the board and tiles get properly duplicated at runtime but the 'occupied' state of the individual tiles does not get transferred.

Any UNET experts out there that can suggest the best approach for setting this up?

 

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