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Scenario 6, got a whole lot of P1Y frances and Bettys at palue, I ordered them to attack US ground targets that are trying to take saipan during the night, but nothing is happening. It works ok during the day, but the CAP is too strong [X(]

Is this a bug? or is there somthing I dont know about?

Thanks

Keep in mind that the USN has some F6F night fighter squadrons available in that senario. Might be that or low moral.

thanks for letting me know about the night fighters, about moral, yes its pretty low, but thats because I had to change them from night to day to c if it worked during the day, and my planes got decipated by the CAP over saipan. But I've put them on night bombing mission again and nothing has happened for the past 5 turns now. Im still waiting.

What do you call low moral Billy? Above 50 and some should fly depending on weather, below 50 and there is a chance that they will not fly at all.

According to the manual airgroups must have a morale of at least 50 to fly at night.

Let me edit that---to fly an Offensive mission at night. [8D]

Night attacks also attack your own ships if they happen to be in the same hex as the enemy. I had a sub in the same hex with an enemy and when my plane made a night attack it attackedthe sub and then attacked the enemy ships:

ORIGINAL: Platoonist

According to the manual airgroups must have a morale of at least 50 to fly at night.

Let me edit that---to fly an Offensive mission at night. [8D]

You are correct. minimum of 6 aircraft and 50+ moral. I must have slipped into the next section. [8D]

Well, my planes are nearly all above 50% morale, and I knew that rule from UV but they still aint doing the night missions.
This is very similar to the lazy bombers bug in UV. No attacks all. Has anyone manage to lauch any night time ground attacks in this scenario?

In UV the airgroups on night attack need to be at least 70 experience or they won't fly. You screen shot show the unit at 49 EXP. Try a higher EXP unit.

so you would suggest higher experience to do night missions? Hmm
well regarding 70 + to fly night missions in UV, I disagree, because at the moment Im playing UV and all my bombers are below 70, and they doing night missions attacking the port at gili gili. No problems.
However as I mention above, there was a bug in UV, that bombers wouldnt do any missions, even with high morale, good experience. So I thought it could be the same bug in WitP.

Have you tried a night airfield or port attack? I think the 70% experince check mentioned for UV was for naval and ground attack.

I know that night naval attacks work with scenario 6 but haven't tried ground. Betty's, Frances and Emily's have all made multiple night naval attacks. Unsucessful, but then they never hit anything in the daylight either.