Aircraft Carrier Air Unit Deployment Bug

[LOK_32MK]

This is a small bug/feature that was in COW and is still in TOAWIII.

If you have an aircraft carrier that has an empty slot (e.g. the carrier based unit has been destroyed) then any carrier-capable (naval) air unit will automatically deploy on the carrier no matter what the deployment hex is.
For example: Let's say you have a US Carrier in the Atlantic and an F18 or A7 unit is scheduled to deploy in hex x,y (e.g. Germany) on turn N, the F18 or A7 will deploy on the carrier in the Atlantic, if there is an empty slot.

I can see how this makes sense for the PO (you want your naval a/c deploying on carriers no matter where they are) but is there any way we can have an option to overwrite it?

The only way i found to overwrite it, is to have some other type of land based aircraft mixed in the unit, e.g. 14 F-16 with 12 F-18.
(I have not determined yet what exact rating is used to overwrite the carrier deployment but it is definately not the number of aircraft).

Not a big deal but it makes it impossible to have F18, F14, A7 etc. deployed on land.

[JAMiAM]

Haris,

This is a feature (see page 28 of the manual) but one that might be better tweaked. If we tweak it though, it may break it for others designs, who are using naval air type equipment in its primary (carrier-based) role. Maybe making the behavior based on a combination of icon AND equipment might solve the problem, but at the cost of necessitating rewrites of other scenarios. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't...

n the meantime, it doesn't necessarily make it impossible to deploy them on land however, as you can always move them to an appropriate airbase, after they've appeared. Until this works its way up the ladder of feature requests, bug fixes, and enhancements, you might want to just keep mixing equipment.

[LOK_32MK]

Yes i agree 100%. I undrestand why it is the way it is and in the grand scheme of things it really is insignificant.
There are 100 other things I'd rather see fixed/changed before we get to this.
May be in TOAWLXXX