Flight group disapear

[soloje1]

In PBEM game, near the start of a campaign , 2nd time that I have a flight group which dissipear between 2 turns without any good reason. this groupplanes was not in air losses , no in reinforcement air group list , just disapear
first time we start again the same turn and the flight group was on map again Now it's just happening again with an other one, not the same group, but on nederlands isle of java again
rather boring to redo our turn each time

[Q-Ball]

Can you post more specifics or a screenshot? There are reasons you may not see the group anymore, but need more specifics to help. Pictures would be great.

Did you try to move it by rail?

[Ian R]

Can you give us screenshots of the airgroups' screens from the tune before it/they disappear?

[soloje1]

thank you for your answer
the 12 /16 /1941 situation the 100sqn is there at MADICEN


the 100sqd details


the turn after 17 december 41
no more squadron there

[soloje1]

and in th egroup list
on 16 december 41


100sqn is there

but on the 17 december


no any more group of wildebeest

[Yaab]

Which scenario are you playing? Which version of the game is this?

[Ian R]

OK, so No.100 Sqn RAF has no withdraw date in your scenario.

In the stock allied OOB it has a withdraw date of 421215, which would appear up on the top left hand corner of the airgroup screen. So what scenario is this?

One thing we can eliminate quickly - can you open the day-before screen at Madioen, bring up the list of airgroups on base, and hover your mouse pointer over the airgroup name.

The black info tab that comes up tells you if there was a name change due. I doubt that is the problem, but without opening the scenario file, it's the quickest way to rule it out.

[geofflambert]

His first screenshot has the mouseover

[RangerJoe]

Check the reinforcement queue, if you moved it by rail it will show up there and it will show up much later if you withdrew it and want it to return. If not there, then check the before and after Vildebeest numbers in your pool if you disbanded it or withdrew it without it coming back. I am not stating that you did so intentionally, but things do happen.

[jdsrae]

Standing down an Australian unit seems to be a risky play.
There might be an “under the hood” establishment nearby selling alcoholic beverages.

[RangerJoe]

Also, why are your Soviet air units training at only 40%? They should be training at 100%!

[soloje1]

thank you guys for all your answer

the game version is 1.8.11.26b
scenario is 001 full campaign, with no 1st historical turn and we add the modification made from a player regarding the stacking hexagone limit.
I had already the same issue few turns before with an other squadron( B17) placed also on a Java town, an other one anyway. we redid the turn and the group was again availaible

"One thing we can eliminate quickly - can you open the day-before screen at Madioen, bring up the list of airgroups on base, and hover your mouse pointer over the airgroup name."
as Goef said thats my first screen I guess, with mouse over the plane symbol .
Ihave checked the replacmement pool 60 days , no australian wildebeest there, only a Nz group coming but an other name.
in the wildebeest squadron on 17th there is one less than the 16th, can't upgrade planes at this level of the game [:)]

"Check the reinforcement queue, if you moved it by rail it will show up there and it will show up much later if you withdrew it and want it to return. If not there, then check the before and after Vildebeest numbers in your pool if you disbanded it or withdrew it without it coming back. I am not stating that you did so intentionally, but things do happen."
checked , no reinforcment planed in th elist , no wildbeest , except the Newzeland group given above.

is it possible to have a Matrix help to add again the group in my group list from a saved files?

[Yaab]

Make sure you both use game version is 1.8.11.26b

Also, scen001 had several updates. Maybe you and your oppenents use different versions of scen001?

[soloje1]

Yes we use both the same version.
He started the game so just use his saved email turn as we're playing PBEM . I think both are using the standard base scenario.
we did a game already under similar condition, except the stacking modification, and I didn' t notice any issue.

[forti22]

Hi,

Playing against Soloje(which is also my dad [:)]) on this PBEM, I may add some informations which might be helpful :
- we are playing the same game version
- we are playing with No withdrawals rules
- we are playing scen001

We did a previous PBEM with these settings and game install and reached July 42 without any issue (at which point the Allied High Command decided to accept Japanese territorial demands [:'(]).

In terms of settings, the only difference is that we use the size limit mod (you can see it active on the extreme top right of the screen while he's selecting Madioen base).
Practically, following the instructions, I replaced the pwhexe.dat, pwzlinz.dat and pwzone.dat by the "Stock Map Data with SL" available on DaBabesWitpae website (I did it on both computers my self)

May that be the reason? (still don't get how it can be? did you heard or experienced similar issue with this mod ?)

Thanks again for all your previous answers to Soloje (and potential new ones [;)])

[Maallon]

I am not entirely sure on this one but it may be the case that you can't use the DBB maps with Scen001, you need to play the DBB Scenarios in your Case DBB-A.

If this is the only thing you changed since your last game, try to start the game with the normal map files and see if your issue still persists.
Or alternatively try loading the DBB-A Scenario and see if the group still disappears.


Edit: I remember that I once accidentally loaded a Scen1 game while still having the DBB Extended Map installed and got a lot of weird behavior until I noticed what was going on.
Though it is obvious why the extended map is problematic I am not sure if the stock map with SL has also problems with stock scenarios.

[RangerJoe]

I do not see where the map files would change the database for the air group.

Did you check the replacement pool to see if the aircraft went there?

Did you check to "Operations Report" to see if the unit changed names? That does happen from time to time. Some air units also change the type of aircraft as well. That should also tell you if the unit withdrew or was disbanded.

On your screenshot of all of your air units, click on the air unit "Names" to sort them that way and see if you can find the group.

On your screenshot of all of your air units, right click on the "TB" selection and see if you can find the group.

The only other thing to suggest would be to have another person run the turn using the same setup and see what happens.

[Maallon]

I don't know the inner workings of WITPAE and how the database works, my thinking was that if the indexing of the hexes, in the new map, was changed that this could lead to unit placement errors, or something along those lines. Could this be a possible issue?

Also I just looked in my current game and in mid 42 the squadron has still the same name, though I am playing DBB-B.

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

His first screenshot has the mouseover

[soloje1]

"Did you check the replacement pool to see if the aircraft went there?"
yes 0 wildebest availaible there

"Did you check to "Operations Report" to see if the unit changed names? That does happen from time to time. Some air units also change the type of aircraft as well. That should also tell you if the unit withdrew or was disbanded."

Yes no any news about this group plane in OR , checked reinforcement , group list by name , by airplan types and TB filter, the Squadron number disapeared "
as I said this happened with an other group 2 turn before , we run again the save , I just modified the order of the group, and the air group was up again when we run again the turn.
the common point was I placed some no-dutch group on Java base.

Maalon , where could we find the scenario DBB-A? we could change the scenario even if the game is launched ?, or need to start a new game ?
thats not a main group but rather embarrassing if I lost ramdomly my air group during the game [:D]
I have checked these ones as I have planed some special action for them but perhaps others are missing too [&:]