seaplane carriers

[shadowX]

how do i use them? just finished my first play through as cp. won by nov 15 with only france and russia knocked out. was hopeing it would last longer but thats fine it was a test play to get use to the game. anyway my seaplane carrier was never able to attack. the only mode it had was raider. the other 2 "icon modes" tabs that carriers had in sc ww2 were grayed out. i tried to attack before moving, moving then attack. i tried against land, sea and cities. i even tried to hit the russian sub thinking it only attacked subs but never could stay in the 3 hex range, again it would not attack after moving. the ai seaplanes attacked my subs several times but again i never could get mine to attack.

[stormbringer3]

Right click on the CVL and that will open up a menu where you see set mode and there you can change it to recon and bomb. For some reasom the set mode icon is greyed out but the right click works.

[Sugar]

Apparently you chose the wrong option: rightclick the carrier, choose "set mode" (not "set convoy mode"), choose "recon and bomb" instead of "recon".

You could move, attack or recon, and still move on if sufficient action points are availble, but the water has to be calm in both hexes; your launching hex and the target hex as well.

To launch a recon mission press the "shift" key.

The capability of those early carriers is very limited though (the range is limited to 3 hexes), it's valuable for recon purposes if long range is developed.

[shadowX]

thanks ill try that on my next play through.