This process revealed the need for a new feature, #31 shown here.

My instruction has always been to Finish the entire OOB before creating any part of the Hierarchy or subordinating units, and creating all commanders before making any commander assigments. That is because adding units to the OOB may ...

Here is the Japanese Hierarchy after the Air Groups are subordinated to the Carriers. And here I show the Japanese Carriers after the changes. Air Groups are subordinated:

Here is the updated hierarchy with new formations that split the "First Strike'" and "Second Strike" into Carrier-specific formations that will allow air groups to be subordinated to their specific carriers. I then needed additional commanders for the new air group formations:

The Pearl Harbor 1941 scenario was more problematic because the Air Groups were combined in "First Strike" and "Second Strike" formations, not Carrier-specific formations, shown in these shots:

I had delayed completing the subordination of the Carrier Air Groups in my MIdway 1942 and Pearl Harbor 1941 scenarios that the Additional Feature #23 allowed because of the Hierarchy bug #52. I couldn't be sure that that bug was caused by a Scenario File bust, so making the mods to those scenarios ...

Here's a shot after the map problem was fixed. Note that Hills terrain is much better:

Now that this is fixed, time for a updated version (accessable by the playtesters only, of course). I'll try to get it out today.

Edit: New version was posted on the Development site.

Here's what the problem looked like before the fix: All clouds, battle explosions, exclusion zones, crossed swords, anchorages, peaks, impassable hexes, reconstitution hexes, and density lights are bogus. All bogus tiles were in Hills terrain. All introduced by my addition of the grey-colored path ...

I've fixed Hierarchy Bug #52. This bug caused all sorts of bogus tiles to be displayed on the map. It turns out that I mucked up tile graphics for Hills (and a few others) when I added the bitmap for the gray-color path graphic. That process was more complex than I realized. But, it's now fixed.

Thanks for your comments.

I hope the Emperor was satisfied with your performance.

The completion of the last two Additional Features has let me update the summary in post #1:

https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... 2#p5201782

I added items in 1.e.iii and 3.a.v.

Finally, here are the shots of the Japanese and American hierarchies after subordinating their air groups. Note that the air groups no longer appear under their formation, but under their carriers:

And here the Yorktown air groups prove that they can indeed use the Attack Popup (by being detached) to attack the Akagi:

Here I show that I've enabled the Yorktown air groups to be detached by the player. This places them back on top of the carrier unit, which will enable them to use the Attack Popup again.

Now here are the Yorktown, Enterprise, and Hornet units in game. Note that they can't use the Attack Popups because they are Not Ready for Orders (In Reserve). OK...this is a problem!

Perhaps I could find a solution that would allow "In Reserve" carriers to still allow their air groups to use the ...

This shows the Akagi using the Attack Popup against the Yorktown:

As can the Yorktown air groups:

This shows that, even though they have been internalized to their carrier, the Akagi air groups can still access the Deployment Popup:

And here was the Yorktown air group formation before subordination:

For comparison, here was the Akagi air group formation before subordination: