possible bug - Air Support

[Michael T]

I did a ground attack with Air Support set to Full Support for a Stuka Group. The Combat log showed that they took part in the attack. I noticed that Oil was decremented. But the Air Unit in question still shows as having 2 Op points available.
I have done similar attacks before and the op points did decrement. So not sure why they did not this time. The ground unit did shatter. I will see if it repeats or if a pattern emerges.

[Michael T]

Definitely some kind of problem here. Unless I misunderstand the rules. The air unit is the 1st Flieger. It says it attacked in the log, it is using fuel, but it is not decrementing op points or gaining in experience for the combat. Full Support Mode.

[AlvaroSousa]

C:\Users\"your user name"\AppData\LocalLow\Kraken Studios\WarPlan\output_log.txt

If you can PM me that file it would be great so I can look at it to make sure it isn't a code bug.

Just so I know you are ground striking a unit (left click right click attack) of a country you are at war with and no operation points are being removed but everything else is. Being in full support doesn't matter in this case. It just means you will ground support a land attack (add in tactical factors as land combat values).

OR

are you attacking with a land unit and the plane isn't using op pts and is in the battle?

[Michael T]

OR

are you attacking with a land unit and the plane isn't using op pts and is in the battle?

This is the case above. So are you saying an air unit in Full Support that is in the combat log for a ground attack will not use op points?

If so there is no bug, just my misunderstanding.

So to reiterate. I place the air unit in Full Support (triangle shown on counter), I conduct a ground attack with land units in range of the air unit. When I check the log for that battle it shows the air unit was involved. However that air unit still has all op points remaining.

Is that WAD?

[AlvaroSousa]

Ok so the computer will pick the BEST unit for the job. If you have other bombers around the area it might pick one of those.

Just keep the bombers you want to use as ground support in full support mode.

I just tested it and it worked correctly for me. We have never had this kind of error. Could it be there is a bomber that is accidentally named the same way?

[Michael T]

Could you tell for me what is actually meant to happen?

Is an Air Unit in Full Support that is used as Ground Support (according to the log) in a land battle meant to use op points or not?

I still don't know the answer to that.

[AlvaroSousa]

Yes it uses operation points when you set it. It should only fly twice.

What I did is ran up the 1940.
Set 1 bomber to full support
DOW on belgium
Attacked with land units
Air support used OPTs.
Attacked with land units
Air support used OPTs.
Attacked with land units
No air support

I'll take a look at the code in case something funky is happening. One of these weird rare events.

[Michael T]

Ok this is what I did.

39 Scenario.

Set 1 bomber (1st Flieger) and a fighter to Full Support.

Did a land battle in Poland in range of 1st Flieger. The log reported the 1st Flieger as taking part. Fuel was used for the Air Unit. However the 1st Flieger still had 2 op points available.

I repeated with another attack. Same thing happened.

I will try again later.

[Michael T]

Ok I did another test. First two attacks it worked fine. Then 3rd attack I got the weird result. Here is a pic. This time it's the 5th Flieger. See it is set to Full support. It flew in the battle according to the log. But see it still has 2 op points left.

[Michael T]

Ok I think I see the pattern. If the enemy intercept and there is air combat a op point is used. If there is no interception then no op point is used.

[AlvaroSousa]

I'll take a look at that specific thing. Thanks