noobe jap player question

[spilbuster]

Just a quickie, got some jap planes just bout to deploy from the redeployment pool (ie available 3 days etc) but am not currently building that series of aircraft so was wondering what will happen to them. will the pilots deploy/be released withou planes so that the aircraft can be upgraded/changed or do they just sit in the pool?

[m10bob]

Have you checked to see if you are also due to get new units which use those planes?

[Rafael Warsaw]

These groups wont appear as an organized air group (ie: on the board).
You will receive a msg from the air reinforcement screen that these groups are organizing.
It takes at least one air plane of a kind in a replacement pool to have them "on board".
They can "organize" themselves for ever and ever until You will find or produce at least 1 plane.

[AmiralLaurent]

In old versions such group will arrive only when you will have enough AC for 100% of its OOB, and will come with as much trained pilots/crews as AC.

Since one of the last patches, the unit is released on the planned day with the available number of AC... and still one trained pilot/crew per AC.

So if you have a Daitai size 48 arriving with A6M5 and you have only 20 A6M5 in stock, the unit is created with 20 A6M5 and 20 pilots.

I don't know what happens in the current version when you have zero aircraft of the desired type.

[Rafael Warsaw]

no planes: as above, its just "organizing"

[rogueusmc]

Is he talking about the Daitai that comes with the prototype planes?...

[tsimmonds]

Bottom linie, a reinforcement group will arrive with whatever aircraft you have in the pool. You will get only that many fully-trained pilots. If you have no aircraft of that type in the pool, the reinforcement unit will not arrive until you build some.

The pilot thing makes it crucial that you have aircraft waiting in the pool for every reinforcement air unit as it arrives; this is the only way to get fully-trained pilots for your new units without taking them one by one from the pilot pool.

If you do lots of disbands/withdrawals, it can get hard to tell the difference between reinforcements and the re-organized air units. I recommend breaking down all air units before disbanding them, then it is easy to tell them from the reinforcements which will all arrive combined.

Of course a better way is simply to never disband/withdraw units. There are a number of ways for patient players to create fragments of air units that can be disbanded, leaving the parent units on the map with a few good pilots to serve as a training cadre. This avoids the 90-day limbo of the reinforcement track for your training units.