A2A combat result bug

[Courtenay]

Here is a picture of a large air combat. The key result is the 15 the Allies rolled in round 5. The combat is taking place in the Allied ground support step, over a German owned hex. The result was reported as DX PX, and the pop-up said that the pilot would survive if the battle is over friendly territory, which is correct. The battle was over friendly territory, but the Italian pilot was killed. This surprised me so much I went to an earlier save, and the Italian had no pilots killed for the turn, and after this battle, the Italians had one pilot killed. What is going on here? Am I making some horrible rules mistake, or did MWiF go berserk?

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[Joseignacio]

You are right.

It is so straightforward that it mkes you doubt whether there is something hidden, but IMO there is not. downed with an orange DX over a friendly (GE) hex is NOT DXPX but DX only. In fact the popup told you so.

IMO, bug. Maybe for some reason at that action the game didnt consider the GE hex friendly to IT.

[Centuur]

There is a very rare bug in the game, which when it occurs, you can't recreate. This bug makes it possible that the hex where the air combat takes place stays controlled by the wrong side, when you move into it. Can you check hex control?

[Courtenay]

Thank you, Centaur. It never occurred to me to look at hex ownership. The bug has now moved to a different place. I took a look at the hex ownership, and for some reason, despite the three German units sitting in the hex, the attacked hex is owned by the Americans. This is very strange, as the hex has been German for many, many turns, and the Americans have never been in the hex or have attacked the hex. They did bombard the hex with ART in the ground support step,

I went back to the autosaves, and at the start of the Land Combat Declaration step, the hex was owned by the Germans. At the start of Attacker's Shore Bombardment, the hex was owned by the US. How this happened I have no idea; I just attacked the hex using the unit menu "Attack hex with all adjacent units", like I have many times before.

I will just chalk this up to my mantra, "Computers are strange."