peculiar unit behavior in Lemur's scenario

[Central Blue]

The 51st Aviation Regiment, which was in a transport convoy with the 51st Base Force, disappeared once the the task force got to Pago Pago.

I don't know if this is a bug in the system or a peculiarity in the scenario. So I thought I would report it here first. I'm playing with the latest patch and no user mods.

The first time through the scenario, a small fraction (CINC) of SOPAC jumped ship in Frisco, rendering the unit a rather large collection of tail under a Colonel without any command radius. The Admiral kept promising to show up, but he never did, which is why I restarted the game.

It was also in that game that some of the US plane groups and squadrons metastasized as they were being moved around. I haven't seen that this time around though I'm moving the same forces to the same places at more or less the same times, and in the same ways.

I haven't decided if I'm going to continue without that base force or not. It would be handy to have now, but I know I'll have them coming out my smoke stack by 1943.

I read elsewhere that there is a bug with the B-17's bombing accuracy from 35,000 feet. That might explain the havoc I'm wreaking on Rangoon and Rabaul.

I get the PI B-17's at Port Moresby by mid February, with the squadron suppressing the air base and the group working over the port; and it really puts a crimp in IJ's dreams of isolating Australia.

I remember that Gary did a flock of patches for PacWar. Maybe I should put this on the shelf for a while and start paying attention to important things like my family and pennant races.

[2ndACR]

The unit dissapearing is a bug. I have had it in both 1 Lemurs' and a stock Scen 15. That is in one game of each type. I got 2 games of each going at the moment. Only happened in 1 of each. So it is not just with Lemurs' scenario. It is in the main code somewhere.

The B17 bug is a carry over from BTR. May be a different system, but GG uses alot of the same code.

I lost the 6th Base Force at Tarawa after they had been completely unloaded for 2 days. Happened in both games. I have noticed in one of the games that the 16th Army HQ has also vanished. Damn bugs.

[Central Blue]

thanks for the reply. I guess I'll just have to struggle along without that unit.

What does BTR stand for?

I hope they fix the B-17 soon, because I almost feel sorry for IJ. They can't do much if they can't develope Rabaul for level bombers.

[2ndACR]

Sorry, BTR stands for GG's Bombing the Reich.

I also hope he quashes the B17 bug, took many years to kill that sucker in BTR.

[Herrbear]

My understanding is it affects all bombing results if you are over 30000 feet. What is happening is that the calculation loops into a negative number so it seems like you are hitting underneath the target which makes you extremely damaging.

[Central Blue]

Hasn't helped my Chinese bombers any. They haven't hit Hanoi in three months of trying.

[Twotribes]

Just dont fly over 30000 feet.

[Central Blue]

unless you're a B-17

All the rest of my bombers fly at 5000.

It does seem like there isn't much difference between 5 and 25 bombers for the B-17s unless they are from different units hitting different targets..

[dday]

My chiness bombers hits more than once in 2 weeks (at 15000 ft,Jan. 1942), trying to rename Hanoi to Holeoi.[:D] Ya, B-17 is kinda different, grrrrrrr [:@]