Moderators: wdolson, MOD_War-in-the-Pacific-Admirals-Edition
Any unit can repair runways (but engineers are best of course), but the Airfield Service component needs engineers.
Did you observe any increase to delivered supply from the aircraft? (don't know how it can be separated from normal supply unless the AF usually gets supply once or twice a week and you did the test in between deliveries.)
I cannot be sure, but I suspect that flying to another base that has an airfield makes the AI decide it is NOT a paradrop mission up front and then when the aircraft fly with normal load and find the airfield too damaged to land, they turn around and go back without delivering anything.ORIGINAL: LoBaron
1) Aviation support at destination base has no impact on TR ops. Think about it: How could it - except with massive abstraction? The repair phase is only after the mission is complete. Why should A/S at a base affect planes on a different base?
2) Runway damage on destination base will affect TR op losses (and as a result #of supplies/devices delivered).
3) TR planes flying to bases sufficiently damaged to close the runway should drop their supplies instead of 'landing' (Michael fixed a bug where TR planes landing on such bases resulted in massive op losses, I am not sure if they are actually dropping instead - never tested this).
In general I am pretty sure there is some small line of code increasing chances of op losses based on destination base rwy damage. Note that the transport missions are similar point2point calculations as bombing missions or paradrops. The TR do not actually land at the destination base, it is just an abstraction by the code.
I fall back on the first four words of that last post I made! [:D]ORIGINAL: Yaab
So instead of trying to intercept transports over the destination with LRCAP or leaking CAP, it is enough to keep the airfield damage at 100% and no supplies will get through, right?
ORIGINAL: Yaab
Aren't they supposed to lose some of the stuff on the drop?
ORIGINAL: Shark7
Well at least it seems that they are dropping supplies, even if no one informs you about it.
That also leads me to wonder...I remember in the vanilla WiTP (or was it PacWar), you would see the transports delivering supplies at the end of each turn, so you knew they were being delivered. I don't see that anymore. Granted I have my setting so that most of the phases are at 0.0 or 0.5 sec delay, so it could be my settings or just be going through it so fast I can't see it.
So as you point out, is the no message thing working as intended, a bug, or a possibly a result of our settings?
It is easy to miss the message - it flashes by briefly at the very end of the Afternoon Air Phase. It is not a combat so it will not show up under the delay setting for air combat, just the one for General Messages, I have mine set for .5 seconds and I often hit [ESC] to skip by all the recon messages so the air transport message scoots right by too.ORIGINAL: HansBolter
ORIGINAL: Shark7
Well at least it seems that they are dropping supplies, even if no one informs you about it.
That also leads me to wonder...I remember in the vanilla WiTP (or was it PacWar), you would see the transports delivering supplies at the end of each turn, so you knew they were being delivered. I don't see that anymore. Granted I have my setting so that most of the phases are at 0.0 or 0.5 sec delay, so it could be my settings or just be going through it so fast I can't see it.
So as you point out, is the no message thing working as intended, a bug, or a possibly a result of our settings?
Something HAS changed.
I used to see a text flash message for each and every air transport mission.
Recently I noticed that I am now only seeing one flash message per base, no matter how many squadrons at that base are flying the AT mission.
That is strange. I still see them but I am playing a stock GC. And I did not upgrade to Win 10. Who knows what Microsoft is doing with your transports!ORIGINAL: Yaab
I have had zero messages in both tests during AIR TRANSPORT PHASE.
If they landed at a field that is 100% damaged your op losses should be very high. But then again the game doesn't always model what we think should happen ....ORIGINAL: Yaab
LoBaron, you are golden!
OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR Dec 08, 41
Troops from 51st Nav Gd lost to accident during amphibious unloading from TF 15
Coastwatcher sighting: 10 Allied ships at 77,61 near Hong Kong , Speed unknown
9 x Ki-57-I Topsy transporting supplies to Ulleungdo
9 x Ki-57-I Topsy transporting supplies to Ulleungdo
9 x Ki-57-I Topsy transporting supplies to Ulleungdo
9 x Ki-57-I Topsy transporting supplies to Ulleungdo
Japanese forces CAPTURE Makin !!!
2nd Hikotai IMAF arrives at Changchun
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Still don't know if they landed to deliver the supplies or just dropped them.
