Buggy GA Railyard AD, planes don't take off for most Railyards

[Wiedrock]

Many times in the past I had it that GA Railyard did not take off. Since you mostly have no idea why planes do not fly I always assumed it was my ADs or the AGs failing.
But as you may see from this example, GA Railyard seems to be bugged (in some way) or require a certain combination to even be viable to be executed without that being made clear in the manual in some way (from how far I can tell).

• For some reason the bombing on Brest Litovsk takes place. And only there.
• Furthermore, compared to "Strat Bombing", the bombing does not stop when 100% damage of the Railyard is reached. You can test this with FoW off/on and you can disable the Recon missions. It never stops even when 100% are reached (reached as reported or reached as actual 100%). At least in several runs I looked at.

Saves before and after are attached.

[thek3mu]

just a guess ... (please, i know ... how should i know.) but let me guess first:

Rail Capacity?

[...] Railyard attacks will directly reduce the available rail capacity from that location. This has two primary effects. It reduces the rail capacity on that sector of the rail system increasing the costs of sending units or freight by rail (22.4.4). It also reduces the effectiveness of any depot in the same hex as depot capacity and efficiency is closely related to the size of the co-located railyard (25.7.1). [...]

Railyards represent the rolling stock available for moving units and freight. If the railyard size is greater than 1, then each undamaged railyard factory point, or level, produces 10k tons of rail capacity per turn with the exception that railyards located in the same hex as a national supply source (25.2.3) will produce 200k tons of capacity per level per turn. [...]

Brest Litovsk Railyard Size = 2

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dunno man ... but Brest Litovsk seems the only railyard worth bombing, not? at least i think that's what keeps the bombers from hitting the other railyards.

[Joel Billings]

Maybe it doesn't value level 1 railyards? Have you tried this in situations where there are more level 2+ railyards in the bombing area? As noted, those railyard 1 railyards don't generate rail capacity, so the only value is the depot freight. Not saying they shouldn't be included, but perhaps they are not, or they are so undervalued as not to be picked as targets.