How to build aircraft?

[Mkha2023]

I've searched the manuals, and online....to no avail (probably my fault).

How do "i build" aircraft? I have 2 CV's that have no planes for 6 years now.....

I read its automatic, but no aircrafts show up.

Thx

[WLRoo]

Aircraft are built automatically - once you have a design.

Not all nations have the ability to design their own aircraft and have to license them from other countries.

When on the monthly view screen, the bottom button of the middle row "Aircraft Types" is the one you need to push.

The UK, USA, France, Germany, Russia and Japan definitely have a fully developed aircraft industry. Click the 'request proposals for a new aircraft' button and make your selections as appropriate.

If you are playing China, Spain or Austro-Hungary, you need to license a foreign design - use the drop down button 'Compare all aircraft of role' and select whichever type you want. To buy a license, right click on the chosen design and select 'buy a license'. As far as I know, you need an alliance to buy aircraft.

Once you have a design and it enters production, the computer handles all that for you.

[Mkha2023]

Aircraft are built automatically - once you have a design.

Not all nations have the ability to design their own aircraft and have to license them from other countries.

When on the monthly view screen, the bottom button of the middle row "Aircraft Types" is the one you need to push.

The UK, USA, France, Germany, Russia and Japan definitely have a fully developed aircraft industry. Click the 'request proposals for a new aircraft' button and make your selections as appropriate.

If you are playing China, Spain or Austro-Hungary, you need to license a foreign design - use the drop down button 'Compare all aircraft of role' and select whichever type you want. To buy a license, right click on the chosen design and select 'buy a license'. As far as I know, you need an alliance to buy aircraft.

Once you have a design and it enters production, the computer handles all that for you.

So if i want to fill my CV's and CVL's i have to order new Types of aicraft? The older types come in 1 batch and then stop arriving? And so on...

If that is the case i get it now.

Thx for the help!

[WLRoo]

Aircraft types are produced until you get a new design or an upgrade of an older design.

Sometimes you can get a Private Venture at the same time you are developing a requested design for the same type, at which point both can be produced in parallel.

I did forget to mention one other crucial point:

You need to assign squadrons to the Carriers and Air Bases. That is in the 'Air Groups' button immediately above the 'Aircraft Types' one.

Left click the asset (Carrier or Base) that you want to assign a unit to, then right click and find the 'Add Air Unit' button. Select a role and number of aircraft (e.g. Fighter 8), make sure if it's a carrier-based unit they have 'Carrier Trained' enabled and click OK.

A word of warning: You are limited on the number of carrier trained aircraft you can have at any one time, based on the total number of carrier based aircraft you can operate at full capacity.

With aircraft designs, the 'planes are built automatically.

The produced aircraft get assigned to appropriate squadrons automatically, though the complexity of designs can make this a slow process.

[Mkha2023]

You need to assign squadrons to the Carriers and Air Bases. That is in the 'Air Groups' button immediately above the 'Aircraft Types' one.

Left click the asset (Carrier or Base) that you want to assign a unit to, then right click and find the 'Add Air Unit' button. Select a role and number of aircraft (e.g. Fighter 8), make sure if it's a carrier-based unit they have 'Carrier Trained' enabled and click OK.

A word of warning: You are limited on the number of carrier trained aircraft you can have at any one time, based on the total number of carrier based aircraft you can operate at full capacity.

Ah! That was it: the addding directly to the carrier. Now i have planes....I'm USA and its 1940 and i had given up building carriers because no planes appeared.

Again, thx!

[WLRoo]

Yeah, I totally forgot to check you'd done that as well in the original answer, hence me making sure I added it.

Always happy to help people enjoy the game.

You may find this post helpful, most of it is unchanged for 3:

https://nws-online.proboards.com/thread ... g-aircraft

[Mkha2023]

Yeah, I totally forgot to check you'd done that as well in the original answer, hence me making sure I added it.

Always happy to help people enjoy the game.

You may find this post helpful, most of it is unchanged for 3:

https://nws-online.proboards.com/thread ... g-aircraft

Bookmarked it!
Again, thx!