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in a recent game which we have now restarted after the first 20 days (opponent's KB stranded itself out of fuel), I had a few issues I did not understand. I would appreciated any insight.
1) was seeking to evacuate a US Baseforce in the PP (Cebu?). After reassigning it to SWPac, some subs were able to load increments, others could not (lots of AvSup and Support there). Other than cargo capacity and some were Dutch KV, O classs, S class, and Fleet boats; is there a explanation why some could not load troops after changing mission from Patrol to Transport?
2) AVG/A in china was down to 9 planes but would not accept any of the available replacements. Failed in Changsa, then in Chungking, then in Ledo (HQ change to SEAsia). Once transferred yet again to Calcutta, then it added the 10 available replacements and pilots. Chungking and Calcutta had lots of supply (about 15k) but I spent 4 days or transfers in the unintended experiement, putting this group out of action.

Hi,

1) I would check the load cost of the bits and pieces that you did manage to load and compare with the cargo capacity of the subs. When I checked many (maybe even all) of the Dutch subs only had a capacity of 12 or 18 and Engineers and Support squads have a load cost of 20 for instance.
I suspect that this is the reason but there oculd be something else too which I'm not aware of.

2) Chapter 15.2 in the manual states what is required for automatic replacement of aircraft. Please note that you need a minimum of 20000 supply in a base to be able to get replacements.

One problem I see here though is that as far as I can tell this text handles automatic replacements and not manual. I have assumed that the same criteria should apply to manual replacements but I know that I've experienced situations where I thought that it wasn't possible to add aircraft to a unit but to my surprise I found that I could do it. Sometimes it's just confusing

In general I've learnt to live with that if I have 20000 supplies I can add replacements and quite often it's still possible if I have less because I'm in range of another base with 20000 and the owning HQ.

Not much help I'm afraid but at least it shows that others have similar problems

/BPRE