Tanked!!! help!

[Samro11]

First of Superb game!

I'm having some drama with tanking aircraft.

test environment

RAF Akrotiri
4 x Victor K.1 Tankers
1 x Victor B.2SR Loaded with 35 x 1000lb MK13's.

Target close to Tripoli, Libya just over 11000nm away.
Its on the limit of a B.2SR so I set the tankers to track back n forth in a support mission set to 1/3.
The B.2R hits the target grabbing fuel on the out bound leg only.
1 Tanker RTB's bingo fuel, a replacement takes off from Akrotiri and meets it...

then wieredness!!! the bingo fuel aircraft heads back on station..with the new tanker they keep swaping fuel between the, until one crashes..

I was going to try set up mulite refuel missions but im confused as clearly ive messed something up!
please advise me as to the error of my ways!!!

[Pergite!]

IIRC there is a refuel option when setting the doctrine for the support mission that you probably could use. Something that forbids air-refueling.

[Samro11]

just changed that and ran a few tests the B.2R seems to try and tank but just follows the tanker till it runs out of fuel... [never actually taking any on..]

[Samro11]

boom sorted hit a target 1400nm out with 2 refuels!
all about timing making shore the tankers have the fuel.. bit micro management compared to other parts of the game mind!

[Sykoticwit]

On the support mission turn off the in air refueling option, and then on the new tanker turn off the in air refueling option...if it's not assigned to a mission, it has it's own options menu. Tanker support is one of the hardest things about this game, and they made some nice changes to it a while back, but it's still a bit buggy.

If you change all the mission and unit preferences to no tanking, and it's still doing that, post a save file for the devs.