ORIGINAL: Zoetermeer
ORIGINAL: dmaramba
Zoetermeer, I just looked at the Ship Type Carrying Ability Table in the manual and yes, it does say an AV can carry an air group as cargo. I just tried it in my game and it didn't work for me, either. I got the same "unable to allocate any load to any ships" message that you did. (FWIW, the table also says an AG cannot carry an air group.)
Anyway, don't use an aircraft tender (AV) to carry an air group. Any AP or AK type will do the job nicely, and you have plenty of these. Use a transport or cargo TF. Makes no difference.
The best way to transport an air group, IMO, is to use an air transport task force made up of AKVs. The groups will transport as cargo, but when they arrive they will be ready to fly.
Thanks, that is super helpful. I'll just stick to doing that where I can. I've read AAR's where people use their CV's to shuttle groups back and forth, for example from PH to Midway early in the war; but it seems like a misuse of CV's to do this.
It was reality, preferably transport aircraft for carrier. Several of US CVE had most of their existence transporting aircraft. Most Japanese CVE operated to transport aircraft and only at war end started to be employed for convoy ASW escort sometimes doing both missions.
Trouble of packing aircraft and dissemble several parts of them, not damaging them by dock workers etc are, this is one thing that the game doesn't not simulate very well.
Edit another is that squadrons never suffer heavy operational losses while transit big distances. Should have been more variety.
