ORIGINAL: vonSchnitter
since a thread I started in the war room on Jap AC production did not manage to solicit any "official" attention so far, let me condense the questions that have come up here, the proper place:
The thread:
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Well, you seem to have fun unriddling the riddle [:)]
...anyway you guys are constantly breaking my heart over there [:(]
ORIGINAL: vonSchnitter
a) Nomenclature between AE and Staff is not consistent.
Example: LB is short for Ligth Bomber in AE, while Staff uses the old Level Bomber notation.
'K. Would be an issue for Markus (Woos). Please report on his thread on the Tech subforum.
ORIGINAL: vonSchnitter
b) Some Air Groups are supposed to spawn, before their AC are in production. What is going to happen ?
e) what does this mean: "In scenarios with production set to On, all new air units (including reinforcements, reformed disbanded and withdrawn groups) must take planes from the replacement pool to fill out the air unit when it arrives. Note that reinforcement units will arrive with the number of planes specified in the editor. These planes are not drawn from the pool as they are deemed to have been supplied elsewhere." (e-book, page 256)
f) How about spawning airgroups if the aiframes apecified are not available. Will those spawn with:
Older airframes Newer airframes Will a fraction of the airfames required suffice to bring the group on the map ? If so which number ?
All new air units will arrive on their historical formation date with a few a/c of the specified type. This regardless of whether the player has any aircraft of that type in pool or indeed if it's even in production. However units which the player has volunterily withdrawn or disbanded is a different story.
Basically if the value of any of the "air group" editor fields "ready", "damaged" or "reserve" of a given unit is greater than 0, that unit will appear on the specified "delay" (arrival) date. If the value of all those fields equals 0, then the unit will require filling out from the replacement pool. Same as in WitP. This is what the manuel is saying in a less technical manner.
ORIGINAL: vonSchnitter
d) How about out of production airframes and engines. Can those be reintroduced ? How about upgrades.
Andrew will known, but I believe yes. Not sure what you mean with the second question.
ORIGINAL: vonSchnitter
c) As far as availability dates go, the H-6 radar is a little late. At least according to Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ja ... r_II_radar Since all other airborne radar availability dates correspond with the dates in wiki, why not the H-6, esp. since there is the later model Nell as a part of the upgrade path. The "do it yourself" approach of answering the content of an official scenario does not apply in this instant - to many issues involved.
To my ken the H-6 didn't come into use on other than an experimental basis until late '43 and not into general use until late '44. However this is based on a post-war USN report on Japanese ASW, so there's always that question mark, 'pose.
The first a/c that I know of to carry it as standard was the G4M2a (the one with the pointy extension on the nose) hence the 6/44 date. The trouble is that once the device becomes available it automatically appears on all a/c designated to carry that device - there's no way currently of gradually introducing a device. It's this sort of consideration that drives a/c and device availability dates in AE.
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Hi all,
I assume I'm right in saying some of the Allied rd planes will have 0 production/replacements since other currently producing factories are due to upgrade to them? Or are all rd factories still supposed to have a replacement/production value?
Regards
If it's an R&D a/c it should be greater than zero - I think - but it's one for Andrew again. Any particular R&D factory you've got in mind?
