bug? Air drop issue

[bwheatley]

The docs say to click the combat airborne unit to drop then hit F9.

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 select the combat unit to be transported for airdrop. Immediately select
 air transport mode (F9). The air base unit stacked in the hex with the unit to be transported for
 airdrop becomes the staging base and will be bordered in blue.
 

So if i hit the F9 Key don't get that. I have to physically click the F9 button to get what the instructions say will happen to happen.
Is this issue known already?

[bwheatley]

Actually even hitting the button (f9) it does highlight the airbase blue but then i shift-left click an area within the range of the planes and i don't get the 'Pick air units for mission' window.

Am i doing something wrong?

[2ndACR]

Never tried it, so cannot comment. Thought you wanted supply.

[bwheatley]

Oh sorry air transport air drop not supply air drop hehe.

Thanks for at least looking. In winter you get a few more airborne brigades. they would be helpful for isolating a few of my pesky opponents divisions. He is retreating them faster then i can encircle anything :/

[2ndACR]

Bah, Russians. LOL

[bwheatley]

ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

Bah, Russians. LOL

hehe actually with this game i will find myself playing both sides a lot. With WITP i stuck mostly to allies. In war plan orange though i loved playing the japs. I had an aar where i actually captured hawaii

[Joel Billings]

I recently did a test of this for some other reported problem. I followed the exact steps given in the manual and it worked ok. There were issues that caused some problems (like the air groups were set for night and the mission was a day mission, or the airborne wasn't experienced, so there were many things that can keep it from happening). I'd need a save to be able to see what the issue is in your case.

[PMCN]

I've performed 8 air drops they all worked exactly the way the manual says they will. 

[Redmarkus5]

I had huge problems with this until Joel posted an explanation for me. When I followed his advice to the letter, it worked just fine. Joel - I'm not sure where that post was. Do you remember your advice?

[bwheatley]

Yea i found out the issue was my planes didn't have the range.

Though still i don't know if i mentioned you have to click the ICON. If you click F9 the units do not highlight blue properly. Is this already known about?

[Mehring]

I haven't a clue why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Planes in range, average experience is hard to calculate, but in some cases it's it's obvious, movement ponts left over, blue outlined airfield. A mystery to me. Messages telling the player why the drop can't happen would be a real advance.

In passing, given that you can't land on an enemy occupied hex, isn't this a way of doing ilicit recce? Wouldn't it be better in FOW to be able to land on an enemy hex and fight for it? Tough if you get wiped out!

And talking of ilicit recce, shouldn't HQs and other units forbidden to move next to an enemy unit actually be allowed to, but get displaced when they do?

[bwheatley]

Yea i agree if you land on an enemy hex and die tough crap

But still if you don't click the icon that says F9 and merely click the F9 key the airbase doesn't highlight as the manual says. I just think they should fix that so it's not confusing. TOok me a bit to get that squared away myself.

[cookie monster]

ORIGINAL: bwheatley

Yea i agree if you land on an enemy hex and die tough crap

But still if you don't click the icon that says F9 and merely click the F9 key the airbase doesn't highlight as the manual says. I just think they should fix that so it's not confusing. TOok me a bit to get that squared away myself.

If your definite on that could you post a note on the airdrop para guide I posted on the wiki?

[bwheatley]

yea i posted it here though so they fix it