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I designed a scenario and assigned the enemy fighters with an "air intercept mission" to intercept my aircraft which at the time were all aboard a carrier. Everything worked fine and the enemy planes did intercept my planes at the times I programmed in and once my planes were launched and I assume detected. With that confidence under my belt I designed a second scenario and once again, I assigned the enemy planes to intercept my planes with an "air intercept mission" and at the time, grounded planes. However, the enemy planes will not launch and therefore will not intercept my aircraft as instructed. I compared the two scenario airstrike missions ( one works & the other doesn't) and the settings all look the same to me. In consulting the manual under "Section 6.6.4 Strike Mission" on page 71 under the first paragraph titled "Air Intercept" it states " Units assigned to this mission will attempt to intercept and engage the selected air contacts". I don't see how to choose the "selected targets"( my planes) since they are grounded either at an air base or a carrier.
My goal is to have both sides planes grounded at the beginning of the scenario and have the enemy engage my aircraft when detected once launched. I have studied the scenarios that come with the game that have "air intercept "missions" that do exactly what I want to do in my scenario, but again I see no difference in the settings.
I have tried to be as specific as possible here to describe the situation and have spent hours going over the manual and searching the internet, including this forum for answers but have been unable to find one. As a work around until I can figure this out I adjusted my second scenario and have the enemy fighters assigned to "patrol missions" as a work around. They do launch to the point I selected at the designated times but once on station, all they is is patrol and will not engage my aircraft. Of course this is less that satisfying since the enemy planes are literally sitting ducks.
Once again I am reaching out to the community to help me solve this issue. Command, as was Harpoon is and was my favorite game of all time and this issue may be my last hurdle to do everything I want the scenario to do, but then again perhaps not. Anyway, can anyone help me with this and if I need to provide additional information, please let me know. Everyone has always been supportive here and all my past issues have been addressed.

Perhaps you can post the scenario for us to see and test ourselves?

Air Intercept mostly works under .8.1 (.9 is being backed out). I have not had any issues with Air Intercept missions not launching. Sometimes they go home earlier than I feel they should, but that seems to be something that isn't pinned down quite yet.

We understand that it may be a work in progress, but we'd like to see it, to
1) see the settings
2) see if we can duplicate your issue, or can fix it.

Your description only tells us you're having a problem...

Thanks for your reply, Please tell me how to post my scenario to you and I will send it, thanks

Put it in a zip and upload it in the thread.

Did this work, not familiar with how to do this, please advise & thanks

I can't actually load it till I get home, but looks like you have posted the save file.

That should let us test some things.

OK thank you & let me know, you guys are the best

What version of Command are you using? (Help->About should tell you.)
I did this in Build 1115.8.1.

First thing I did was load the save in the Editor. Your Venezuelan mission with the A-50 (See All) wasn't launching because it was set for 2 aircraft group, and the Enforce by flight size, etc box was checked.

So, I flipped over to the US side, and created an air intercept mission. I just picked 4 shrikes, left the other things default (pairs, etc), and got the usual warning that the air intercept mission couldn't launch because there were no contacts of the right type. Normal behavior, with no reds in the air.

A few minutes later, the A-50 launches, and, went to Air Ops on the Enterprise, and got this:



Looks like normal behavior, air intercept mission taking off. Of course, Air Intercept missions won't take off till there's yellow or red a/c in the air, that you can see by some means.

If your version is 1115.7 or earlier, you might try getting the 1115.8 update, and then the 1115.8.1 update, and try it again.

I couldn't duplicate the issue you were having.

Checked this out, the Venezuelan side does launch aircraft as interceptors when aircraft are detected, but with the current status of some units (like mavfin) points out it is unlikely that they detect aircraft.

Add more radars [:)]