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ORIGINAL: Bamilus

ORIGINAL: nukkxx5058

Where can I get info about dead/missing leaders?
I just noticed that Herr Guderian was missing !!!

Commanders Report - Leader Tab will show you status of KIA/MIA leaders. Might be a hidden column, but I think it's visible by default. Either way, the column will let you know if any of your leaders are KIA/MIA but it won't give any more detail other than that.

The main place to find the detail is in the Logistics Event log each turn in the Leaders section where it will document if a leader died. But that doesn't carry over from turn to turn so you'd have to go back to the turn where it happened to check the log and see.

Lastly, my condolences if you lost Guderian in your game. That's a huge blow!

Ahh I was searching in the oob screen ! Thank you.

And yes, Guderian is KIA !!!!!!! [X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][X(]

ORIGINAL: Bamilus

ORIGINAL: nukkxx5058

Where can I get info about dead/missing leaders?
I just noticed that Herr Guderian was missing !!!

Commanders Report - Leader Tab will show you status of KIA/MIA leaders. Might be a hidden column, but I think it's visible by default. Either way, the column will let you know if any of your leaders are KIA/MIA but it won't give any more detail other than that.

The main place to find the detail is in the Logistics Event log each turn in the Leaders section where it will document if a leader died. But that doesn't carry over from turn to turn so you'd have to go back to the turn where it happened to check the log and see.

Lastly, my condolences if you lost Guderian in your game. That's a huge blow!

26-OCT-41
R.I.P.

Brutal......I know someone in another AAR had Manstein die early, too.

Why don't my bombing missions work?

I am trying to set up strategic bombing missions for bombing railyards and ports. The strange thing is that it will bomb some cities just fine, but not others. The explanation is definitely not range, because some of the cities it will bomb are further away than some of the cities that it won't bomb. In particular, it won't bomb Pskov or Smolensk no matter what I do. However, it WILL bomb other cities which are further away such as Vitebsk/Riga/Tallinn.

The problem even persists if I delete all other air directives, so it is not an issue of it being a low priority mission or something like that. The planes being used were deployed in previous turns and should have plenty of supply (they have range, supply, etc needed to bomb Vitebsk for example, but not Smolensk!?!). The problem is not that the planes are too understrength to fly (many of the AOGs are full strength, and in addition in air doctrine I tried setting the percent to fly super low). The problem is not that the weather is too bad; it is the same weather in the cities it can bomb, and in any case I set the mission to fly in all weather. These cities I am trying to bomb were not just conquered the previous turn, in case that makes any difference. I tried selecting specific AOGs to do the mission, and leaving it on auto, neither work.


Here are the settings I am using for the mission (I have tried all sorts of settings, none of which will launch a bombing raid on certain cities):



Here is my air doctrine (similarly I have tried a variety of air doctrine settings, none of which will launch a bombing raid!:



Here is the (lack of a) result after going through the air phase:




I have a save, but I can't upload it via the forum file upload thing because it says the file is too large. Also the format is not supported for upload (though I could just rename it if the file were small enough). Compressing the save file using .zip/7z/rar/etc doesn't seem to make it any smaller. So here is an external link for the save.

https://easyupload.io/3h7xho

However, this is a multiplayer game, so if anyone can help but needs the save, PM me for the password to be able to open it and see.

This is almost comical. I set up a bombing mission in a 10 by 10 area to bomb the railyards rather than selecting the particular hex for bombing Smolensk. The result of that it bombs all sorts of railyards all over the place...

But not the Smolensk railyard!



My working theory is that Stalin must have issued a secret order to not bomb Smolensk (and also Pskov) out of humanitarian reasons. However, it is perfectly fine to bomb Vitebsk etc because that city is a hotbed of Trotskyism. And in fact, that proves their guilt. [:-]

It is plausible, right?

Speaking to the second post, if you set a 10 by 10 it's going to try and hit as many targets as it can within that box and based on strike number (# of sorties). So, it's not that surprising, honestly. If you want to bomb specific areas, set individual hex missions or make the box much smaller.

Surely one of those targets could be Smolensk though... It is, after all, the most important railyard in the area. And it also doesn't work when selected individually in a single 1x size bombing mission [&:]

What do you mean "it doesn't work". The mission runs and does nothing or you get No Fly indicators when trying to set the mission?

ORIGINAL: Bamilus

What do you mean "it doesn't work". The mission runs and does nothing or you get No Fly indicators when trying to set the mission?

the 3rd screenshot I posted is here: https://media.discordapp.net/attachment ... nknown.png

If you look at that, it shows 0 sorties were flown. This was after the air phase was executed. Likewise on the map no mission is flown. So simply nothing happens, no sortie, no bombing.

But if I set it to bomb another hex such as Vitebsk it will bomb it fine. Just not Smolensk (also Pskov, maybe some others too that I didn't try). And unfortunately, Pskov and Smolensk are pretty much the two most important railyards to bomb!

Perhaps it may not have been recon'ed enough. The mission won't hit a target it doesn't think exists, or thinks is already severely damaged.

Disband / merge questions.

1. Will Soviet disbanded / merged units be returned after X turns or will they disappear forever?
2. In particular, Soviet disbanded / merged TDs will be returned after X turns as TBRs or will they disappear forever?

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ORIGINAL: sil01

Disband / merge questions.

1. Will Soviet disbanded / merged units be returned after X turns or will they disappear forever?
2. In particular, Soviet disbanded / merged TDs will be returned after X turns as TBRs or will they disappear forever?

no - the return/conversion rules only apply if destroyed, so its a trade off

ORIGINAL: LiquidSky

Perhaps it may not have been recon'ed enough. The mission won't hit a target it doesn't think exists, or thinks is already severely damaged.

This seems to be the problem, thank you! It didn't occur to me that I would need to recon in order to be able to bomb, after all Soviets should know where their own railyards are... Also, I had been running recon missions, but they were 'just' tactical recon, not "strategic" recon.

There aren't actually any "automatic rail repair HQs". What people do though is just use all the R.A.D labor support units and place them in a corps HQ so they can roughly control where they go, which is within the command radius of the HQ (5 hexes). The same applies if you put R.A.D units in an army HQ, it repairs random railways within 15 hexes.

Just a question about how the rail system/logistic works. Do I have to create depots on level 2+ railyards in order to give SMP to freight or does the lvl 2+ railyards just need to be connected to the entire rail network?

ORIGINAL: Rosencrantus

Just a question about how the rail system/logistic works. Do I have to create depots on level 2+ railyards in order to give SMP to freight or does the lvl 2+ railyards just need to be connected to the entire rail network?

yes, just owning the (repaired) level 2 rail yard generates the 'trains', but then they are usually good spots for depots (unless a long way from the front) as they start with decent processing capacity (even before any HQ placements)

Ok, thanks for the quick response.

Hello everybody,

have seen some strange things with freight supply missions via germans Ju 52.

Im in turn 24, Germans, snow and blizzard are the weather conditions.
I wanted to supply my dugged in front troops with aditional fright via air supply.
I only let them fly to airbases near the front and on my side, some 10 hexes away from russian airbases. Everytime i do this, russian interceptors come over them and hit them badly.

1. Why can they intercept my Ju 52 s, that are staying many miles away from the front. Totally unhistorical and unlogical. Only the germans did „freie Jagd“ on russian side of the front, because of their big advantage at this time.
2. I dont understand, how to get escorts protecting them. I tried everything. Fighters on the target base, fighters all nearby the flight path, on the start base, long range Me 110 in range.
But nearly never a escort shows up. And the russians everytime like 50 fighters...in blizzard!!!

Have i missed something? Help needed.
Or is it a bug?

Will it also be correct to assume that you need to connect the oil and resource production hexes in the Baltics and the Ukraine to the rail network in order to get the additional production?