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Bomber Command Aircraft disappear - 3/19/2015 2:57:04 PM   
David Chandler

 

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Status: offline 		I'm well into a 1943-1945 Allied campaign with no significant problems when suddenly I've lost the ability to set up major raids with Bomber Command. When starting a new Bomb City directive in the planning screen only a fraction (about ten percent) of the bombers attached to BC are available. The missing squadrons don't even appear on the list so it is impossible to tell why they are unavailable. Yet when I switch back to a BC Bomb City directive that was planned earlier all 1,500 or so bombers are still listed, so I know that the computer recognizes that these groups belong to BC. I hope I'm explaining this properly: the older directive that is still in effect shows about 1500 aircraft attached to BC (most available, some not due to low fuel, excess miles, altitude restrictions, et cetera) but if I start any new Bomb City directives only 80 or 90 aircraft are shown as belonging to BC (again, most available but some not). I'm not sure if this happens if I try any other type of command instead of Bomb City. Has anyone else had this happen? I can still generate a lot of air raids from Bomber Command (for what they are worth, these night attacks are not very cost effective) by using the older directive and just expanding it in terms of area covered, target priorities, and what not; but I can no longer generate a second directive for bombing cities that includes most of the aircraft that should be available. I've attached an old save that should show the problem. Load the file, then try to set up a NEW Bomb City directive for bomber command. You shouldn't see more than 100 aircraft listed as available or unavailable for the mission. Yet if you click on the old mission, the first in the list, you'll see that there are actually hundreds of bombers that should be potentially available for assignment. Good luck and thanks for your patience.

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RE: Bomber Command Aircraft disappear - 3/19/2015 3:07:35 PM   
David Chandler

 

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Status: offline 		Did some more playing around, and what seems to be happening is that the "missing" bombers are being assigned to the first Directive and are not listed for any subsequent directive, even if the missions are on different days. Now I've played three full Allied campaigns since buying the game in December and this has never happened before. Previously I could set up a Bomb City directive (leaving the assignment of individual units to the computer) and then set up subsequent directives using the same aircraft. I have often listed as many as five Bomb City missions in one queue, all of which showed the full complement of Bomber Command (or the 8th AF or the 15th) as potentially available. My understanding was that the computer would fight it out as to which unit to assign to which mission, using variables like the day, fatigue, availability, and assigned priority. I don't understand why I am suddenly being restricted to one "main body" style directive.
Now that I understand the problem I should be able to work up a fix: I must have done something to place this restriction on myself.

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RE: Bomber Command Aircraft disappear - 3/19/2015 3:13:31 PM   
David Chandler

 

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Status: offline 		Figured it out. I inadvertently had somehow custom-assigned (hand-picked) the vast majority of BC for the first mission rather than let the computer do the work. That restricted my subsequent choices, obviously. Please ignore previous posts. I've been puzzling over this for two days: it's funny how as soon as you commit yourself in writing for the world to see the answer becomes glaringly obvious. The story of my life consists of one continuous expansion of the set of people who consider me an idiot. Mea culpa.

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RE: Bomber Command Aircraft disappear - 3/29/2015 10:33:36 PM   
morleron1225


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Status: offline 		Ah, not an issue of you being an idiot - rather, a path-finder. Now, I won't make the same mistake. I'll find a different one. ;)

Just my $0.02,
Ron

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