Escort carriers

[Badan]

Hello!

After about three weeks of UV-marriage, I feel great!!!!
I have played scenario 17 as an exercise to get familiar with the controls, and have come up with a question concerning escort carriers.
Don´t know,maybe this topic has already been discussed in some other thread,but here we go:

I add escort carriers to my most important transport TF´s(usually the amphibious asssault TF´s),but I´m not able to adjust the air group´s mission parameters????
Can they only be set in air combat TF´s?

This forum is a great way of sharing questions and opinions about our ´dear one´....

Badan

[mogami]

Hi, Just put the CVE into aircombat TF and have it follow the transport TF.

[bilbow]

Badan,
Correct, but be careful not to use the CVE that don't come with planes for this. They are good for transport only. Unless it's been corrected in 2.0, these bad boys have a way of making air groups disappear. Especially the Long Island.

[XPav]

Originally posted by bilbow
Badan,
Correct, but be careful not to use the CVE that don't come with planes for this. They are good for transport only. Unless it's been corrected in 2.0, these bad boys have a way of making air groups disappear. Especially the Long Island.

I've actually had no problem (other than fact that I think that the spacetime continum will swallow me whole due to my abuse of history) loading Marine F4Us and SBDs on the non-Long Island plane-less carriers.

I was playing against the AI, and I just COULDN'T get any real CVs from Pearl, so I just said, fine, I'm going with what I got.

[mogami]

Hi, currently in a PBEM game Long Island with a group of 9 SBD's is conducting ASW operation near Noumea. The group flys and has no problem.


EDIT: Yike I sent LI back to PH today when the SBD group vanished.

[XPav]

Mogami: "Yeah, it works fine, in fact, Lt Steve of the SBD group on Long Island was just around here.... and.... Steve? Steve? Where'd you go?"

You have entered....

THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

[Badan]

Greetings!!

Thanks for all the answers!
I have to check my escort carriers if they have ´lost´ any air groups!!!
Meanwhile, the scenario 17-game (playing IJN, about two weeks passed) has taken all of my freetime...Although i´m playing against the AI it still is a great feeling to be able to mastermind large fleet and ground unit operations...(even if they are torpedoed)
I can´t wait the moment I´ve gathered enough experience of the game interface to go PBEM!!!!


Badan

[Inigo Montoya]

Baden, since we both just started, when you are ready to start a PBEM game, please email me. We can learn the ropes playing one another. 8 )

Neifert@t-online.de

[Deathifier]

I've found that when I loaded an airgroup onto one of the CVE's without initial aircraft that airgroup didn't get replacement aircraft like normal. That may be a contributing factor to them vanishing...

- Deathifier

[SoulBlazer]

Well, I just got the Long Island in one of my PBEM games. I put two squadrons of Dauntless's on her, and joined it up with my carrier task force. The planes flew and took part of the big boy's strikes.

After the opearation is over, I plan to detach the LI, send her to dock in Noumea, put some fighters on it, and have it escort transport convoys to PM (staying behind the transports) for quite a while.

In my other game, the LI is due in a few days, which time I'll do the same thing but then use it to transport planes only.

I'll let you guys know what happens. (This is version 2.0)